This Is Us

  It’s been a very long time, but we did it! We had a date night away from home! Nicolas and I went to the movies (they just opened on Friday). The tickets were only $5 a piece and the snacks were discounted. We had to wear masks unless we were eating or drinking. We saw  Inception . Yes, it’s not a new movie. They were showing it for the 10th Anniversary. There wasn’t any other movie we wanted to see, but we wanted a date night. Plus we never saw it on the big screen, and it was great! When we picked our seats, they had every other row blocked off. We chose the top row right in the middle. Once we chose our seats, two seats on my side and two seats on Nick’s side were blocked out. We discussed how cool it would be to have the whole theater to ourselves... we walked inside and there wasn’t anyone there. We knew we were a little early and figured at least one other person would come. No one ever did. We had that whole theater to ourselves! It was great! I could laugh and jump w...

  Well, it’s that time of year again... First day of school! It’s so weird to have the house so quiet since the kids have been home 24/7 since March! Yes, it is different this year. They have to wear masks Some activities are different, or can’t be done. Our elementary closed and Zain, Lydia, and Tyler have to go to a new school. Brichette is driving her and Xander to school. But we are brave and strong! As long as we have each other, have Heavenly Father helping us, and we do our best, we can do hard things! These kids are so smart. They have such caring hearts and worry about each other. They are amazing and I am so blessed and honored to be their mom! I can’t wait to see the amazing wonderful things they do! Brichette is a senior this year! I can’t believe she’s graduating and will be an adult in January! Xander is a sophomore. He gets to drive this school year! Zain is in 5th grade. In January he gets the priesthood. Lydia is in 2nd grade. She gets to be baptized and is so exci...

  It’s a weird feeling to have as many masks for our kids, as they do underwear... These are our kid’s masks drying on top of the dryer.  I didn’t want any masks to get misplaced, or the clean ones getting mixed with the dirty ones (they are wearing a clean mask every day). So I bought a basket from  Target  for the laundry room so they can put their dirty masks in. I also bought hooks from  Target  to put in their rooms to hang up their clean masks. This year has been challenging, hard, different, exciting, and scary; but I’m grateful to Heavenly Father and Jesus for helping us through whatever comes our way and for blessing my life with a wonderful husband and kids! I don’t know what I’d do without them!