Garden of Eden

I had to put my camera in the shop. Dropping my camera off at the UPS store with their promise that they would package it well was about the most stressful thing I’ve done this month.  But, it had to go in.  I have been having some problems with it, and since I have a...

Blue Gills and Happy Girls

Ever since we moved here the little girls have been eyeing our lake, silently hoping that their dad would help them go fishing.  Okay, not silently.  The opposite of silently.  Too bad for them mom has been keeping dad busy with projects around the house: helping me build a kitchen island, building a new bed...

Brian Head

We just got home from a most excellent weekend at Brian Head resort near Cedar City.  The snow was deep and perfect, and the weather was divine.  Our kids have been skiing with dad since early December up at Sundance, and this is the first time I’ve come to watch them since the very first...

Emerson Jewell 01.16.16

We have just been through the longest week of our lives over here at the Perry house.  My heart is full, and my feelings are still so tender, but I want to get things written down before they disappear from my memory, like so many things tend to do at my age. Parts of this...

Typical Perry Morning

Rae posted this time lapse video of their home-school morning today. Pretty much sums it up.  Teegan is asleep in a chair in the corner. Mom is asleep in her room.  No judging, I’m pregnant.