This is a very real picture of my girls. Jane is smiling for the camera, Brooklyn is crying and looking at me to hold her, and Maurie is quietly sucking her thumb and reaching for Brookyln’s hair to hold, as she always does. This, my friends, is the my life. Hello I have written probably […]

Today the idea to bring Light to the World was to share a scripture on social media. Instead of searching for my favorite scripture, I wanted to read about Christ’s birth. As I began reading in Matthew, I was quickly reminded of the other key figures during this season, Mary and Joseph. “And Jacob begat […]

“Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities.” –The Family: A Proclamation to the World I have two weeks before my oldest daughter will be done with school. I am looking forward to having my children home because I have […]

Brooklyn Jo is Home Bowman is here. She was born March 7, 2016. I was terribly anxious to have her come, but she had different plans. Here is her birth story. On Sunday morning my water broke or at least I thought it had. (I thought my water had broken two weeks earlier and it […]

Hello! Feeling pregnant! countdown and projects I am celebrating 38 weeks of pregnancy. I am kind of joking about celebrating…heartburn and being generally uncomfortable 24/7 is not much to celebrate, but I am very close to having a sweet new baby in the house and that is worth celebrating. We had a false alarm the […]

Traveling Flying with Small Children is a challenge! I wanted to share some of the things that I learned on our journey. My daughters are four and one years old. My oldest had her own seat on the plane, but I had my second on my lap. On the way to SLC I had to […]