The Manner of Happiness

Category: Family

  • Daily Affirmation

    This morning I heard this video playing in the back room. I think this little girl has a great attitude and outlook on life! Sometimes its important to have a positive outlook on life and on our ability to weather the storms that come into our lives. Sometimes we just need to decide that we […]

  • Going to the (Y) Ball

    Tonight we went on an awesome date. Some background though. Today was not-so fun. I got up really early and drove an hour to Salt Lake City to the Family History Library. One of my classes was meeting there. In addition, I had a project to finish up there that was due at 3pm. It […]

  • The Eagle’s Nest

    I know we haven’t blogged for a while but we’re going to try to play catch up for  a bit! This September my younger brother got his Eagle Scout award! We were so proud of him.  This makes 4 eagle scouts in my family with only one more to go.  There weren’t a lot of […]

  • A Trip to the “Crossroads of the West”

    In August we took a trip back to Utah, the “Crossroads of the West” to spend some quality time with our family! On our flight into Denver, where we had a layover, we saw an awesome lightning storm! We tried to capture it on video and hopefully you’ll enjoy what we were able to capture.  […]

  • Independence Weekend!

    Most people get a three-day weekend for Independence Day. Adam got a FIVE-day weekend. It was AWESOME. We went to Chuy’s for dinner that Friday. It was oh so tasty. There were a lot of colorful chairs and door frames and artwork. See? On Saturday night, we went and watched fireworks over “Lake” Austin. We […]

  • One month! (+two days)

    This post is a couple of days late, but oh well. Adam and I were married a month ago! Can you believe it?! It has been the best month. Here are just a few things we have done since getting married: Moved to Texas Moved into a nice apartment Adam started his internship Became part […]

  • San Antonio Temple

    Yesterday we went down to the San Antonio, Texas Temple for the first time.  Our stake had set up a stake “Temple Day of Service” and encouraged us to come on Friday and participate as a stake in serving in the temple. We called ahead last week and reserved a spot on the 6:30 session. […]

  • Protected: Our Austin Home

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  • Blog Passwords

    Ok friends . . . we’d like to share some things on here that we don’t want the whole world to see but we don’t have a great way of sending out a password to everyone. So . . . if you’d like to read posts from here on out that are password protected please […]