Wife to a great husband. Mother to two amazing girls. Native Texan and current Utah resident. Lover of cookies, pizza, and exercise.

I grew up in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas and moved to Salt Lake City, Utah a week before I turned 21. I was offered a job opportunity that was really too good to be true. Four months after I relocated the company I worked for ran out of money and shut down, leaving me with the decision to move back home to Texas or to stay where I was and make it work. I’m so glad I chose to remain in Utah.

The Boy

Just after my 22nd birthday I met a boy at church and he asked me if I wanted to spend Christmas with his family in Georgia. Let me paint this picture for you. This boy, with a Jack Sparrow-esque designer stubble on the most profound square jaw I’d ever seen put me on the back of his motorcycle and rode me up the canyon into the mountains at sunset and asked me to travel with him to Georgia so I can meet his mother at one of the most romantic holidays. Is there anyone that would have said no in that scenario? As (not very much) time passed our relationship blossomed enough that we decided we should plan to have our wedding two days after Christmas – that Christmas where I was to meet his family for the first time. And we did.

Spawns

Since that Christmas we have been blessed with two little firecrackers princesses. The oldest, Amelia, is a little mini-me. I don’t realize how much like me she is until I look back at family photos and she’s making the same face as me. Smart, funny, weird, sassy, sweet, a bit manipulative and the best surprise kid Billy and I could have gotten.

The other gremlin baby doll, Carolyn, has eyes that peer into your soul. They look just like her daddy’s. Sometimes when I come home and they’re both watching me pull the car into the garage it’s remarkable how much my husband and my daughter look like each other. She’s still learning how to be a human and not gag on her fingers.

Meanwhile we’re trying to remember how to do baby things. There is only a two year difference between the two kids but those two years seem like a lifetime considering how much they grow and change.

Why make a blog?

Like the title and tag line say I’m creating an online record of “a little bit of everything” from my life “for my posterity”. I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I was baptized and joined the church in April of 2014. The cornerstone of the church is of course the gospel of Jesus Christ. Another huge component of the church is the importance of family, which includes family history.

I’m using this blog as a digital diary so that as life goes on I can keep track of things that happen in an easily accessible form that will be available to any and everyone who wants to know about our family – mostly our family (my posterity). I also like to share things such as recipes, “how-to”s and tips with other people and a website seems like the easiest way to do that.

Thanks for reading the introduction

I’m aiming to make a weekly post and in each post I’ll {hopefully} have a recipe to share as well as some kind of feel-good wordy thing. The first few posts will probably be about my life leading up to this point because…posterity, ya know?