Johanna – Here’s the Latest

I don’t even know where to start – and my sister, Erin, has already done a terrific job documenting all the significant events in our extended family – so…  I’ll try and talk about some of the things our family has done lately.  I took Andrew and Haley out to Utah a few weeks ago to help my mom with […]

Johanna – Back in School

It’s been awhile since I blogged.  We had a great time camping in Utah with Tom’s family.  But then it was back to school.  Spencer started high school (!) last week.  He isn’t really enjoying himself yet – too much to do.  He’s playing freshman football which takes all kinds of time.  Plus he just started seminary this week and […]

Johanna – Summer Trip to Utah

Well, we’re in Monroe, Utah for a quick visit with family.  We left Denver on Friday afternoon and pulled into town about 1am Saturday morning.  Mom had a nice room set up for Andrew & Haley to sleep in – but did they sleep?  Oh no — they stayed up all night long, dragging enough toys into the room to […]

Johanna – Random Stuff

First off, do you like our new look?  I had to browbeat Spencer to get him to do something new.  He’s not impressed because it only took him a few minutes to design it – if it doesn’t take four hours, it’s not worth it!!  We had a surprise visit from Mom & Dad Cottle this past weekend.  It was […]

Johanna -4th of July

We (well, really I, since Tom never does post) haven’t said much lately, so I guess it’s time to update again!  Yesterday (after sleeping in – yea!) Tom and I got busy getting ready to host a BBQ for Alex, Andrew & families.  Tom made a HUGE batch of his famous salsa.  I did a quick run-through of the house […]

Johanna – Quick Update

So, I still don’t have cool pictures to post – I probably never will!!  We’re down to the last week of school for the little kids (but they will be heading right back to school two weeks later!).  They are totally excited to be going to new grades.  Hope it meets their expectations!  Spencer is getting ready to go to […]

Johanna – Summer Weather

So, we spent our Saturday doing yard work.  We got the chain saw working and took down one of the dead limbs in our cottonwood – then borrowed our neighbors tree trimmer to take down all the smaller stuff.  It looks a lot better, but we spent most of the day working and I could hardly move by the time […]

Johanna – What’s New?

So, we’ve been home a week and what a week it has been.  Last Saturday we gathered together to see Andy get baptized.  I’m not sure what, if anything, he got out of the event – but we are hopeful!!  The younger kids are still punishing Tom & I for being gone a week.  They are all over the place […]

Spencer – New Layout (again)

Well the other one had so many issues that I couldn’t stop myself from making another one.  The layout is based heavily on the web monkey website http://www.webmonkey.com/ Anyways, i know that my website has been down a lot lately, well i will be switching hosting within the next 48 hours, so by then it should be stable (for those […]