"A house does not have to be perfect to be a home of joy, a child does not have to behave perfectly to love and be loved, and every moment of life does not have to be perfect to be of value. Too often, I realize, we fail to see the glorious reality of the simple joy that abounds in the seemingly mundane routine of day-to-day living. Instead, we tend to idolize the past, idealize the future, and devalue the present.... What better way to show our appreciation to Heavenly Father for what we have than to embrace our lives, albeit 'ordinary' and 'unexciting,' with joy?"

--Winnie Dalley; Ensign, March 1998

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Since I last posted:

We celebrated Chloe's 7th Birthday!
Piper turned three months old.
We quickly boxed up all of our belongings and moved out of the house we'd rented for the past three years.
We moved all those boxes into a new home.
We went out of town, to Utah, for 10 days.
We came home to all of our belongings, still in boxes.
We've spent hours slowly unpacking, organizing and purging.
Chloe started at a new school.
Cooper got registered for preschool in the fall.
Piper turned four months old.
We unpacked, organized, and purged some more.

Life is busy-- but life is good.

I've been avoiding blogging because I didn't even know where to start... but now I've gotten you all caught up. Maybe I'll even post some details about some specific events. In the mean time, here are a few pictures of our adventures:


All of the cousins on the Baron side

Did I mention that the weather was pretty cruddy for half of our trip? It snowed on Easter even.

Cheering on the Sounders at Rio Tinto Stadium in Salt Lake while they played the REAL.

Loooong car ride home from vacation.

3 comments:

Grossarths said...

Your kids are so cute! I'm sad that we didn't get to see you when we were all in Utah! That was my fault. Looks like you guys are doing well.

Carissalayla said...

yay the Baron's are back to blogging! Where is Coop going to preschool?

Grossarths said...

We did get a lot of Newborn diapers because they just happened to have a lot of them. So no announcement yet...but we'll let you know if there is! :)