Quick Successions: New Mexico Edition

Hannah went to see Inside/Out. She liked it. I didn't think it was aged right for her. She said her favorite character was ANGER. Here she is inside the theatre waiting to go in. No trace of anger anywhere.  There was also tornado scare this past week. You can see the tornado path if you expand the image. Hannah slept through the whole thing. The warning lasted about about 2 hours from midnight to 2 am or so. After that, it was just a severe thunder storm warning.  When it wasn't storming, it was hot, hot, hot. Hannah and Brian broke out the "puddling pool" as it is called. This is a very inspiring summery shot, I think.  Our wedding anniversary always falls between Father's Day and the Fourth of July. Each are cake baking occasions in their own right. This year, I decided to make a Fourth of July cake, but a week early. Hannah helped with the mixing and the frosting. She can read the back of the box to tell the ingredients (because...

Hannah is old enough to participate fully in Father's Day. So this year I let her help pick the gifts and supervised her making a card. She gave her dad a tie, tie tack from his mission, and a Star Wars children's book that they could read together. I even thought I would let her wrap the presents. She still needs some practice, but she did have fun. We wrapped the stuff on Saturday and I thought her little heart was going to burst over the next 18 hours. It took everything in her not to tell her dad that she had a present for him and what it was. Here is the card she made. She put four heart stickers and wrote her dad a note. She also put to great big Hs for Hannah. I was impressed. I didn't tell her to do this. Hopefully the rest of her name will come quickly. At church Hannah went up to sing the Father's Day song with the other children, but they tried to get her to stand in a crowd of people and she recoiled and so they stuck her on the very end i...

I prepare adjunct faculty and staff developers from five school districts to teach ESL endorsement courses at BYU. I have done this since 2006. When I went to graduate school I decided that I would try to keep coming back to BYU to do this so that I could be sure and get to Utah at least once a year. Last year we missed the plane and had trouble getting the rental car, but this year the trip was a lot smoother. Hannah was very good on the plane. She is too big to fly in a car seat though. Next trip we are going to let her sit in a regular seat. While on the plane she ate snacks and played with my iPad and read the in flight literature. Eventually she just sat back and took a nap. Hannah helped pack her own suitcase this year. She even schlepped it though the airport on her own, for the most part. She is good at going up the escalators, but getting on the moving walkway made her more than a little nervous. It took two or three times to dispel her anxiety. Now she is a pro. W...