Closing out Twenty Fourteen

There’s been another string of busy weekends in the Baxter household since I last checked in. Since I last wrote, our house hosted the Baxter Thanksgiving and Christmas! I’ve been meaning to write for weeks, and so I’m hoping that I can remember what I meant to write about. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas my parents were once again able to… Read more →

Merry (belated) Christmas Letter 2014

Season’s Greetings!                                                                                                                           December 2014 Hello Friends, Steph here. I have been nominated to write this year’s Baxter Family Christmas letter. We have a very strict selection process. This year went something like this: Steph: “You know what time of year it is?” Jason: “I’ve been dreading you remembering since Halloween.” Steph: “That’s right! It’s time to write our Christmas… Read more →

Goodbye Summer…

We had one of the nicest summer/falls that I’ve witnessed in my 9 years in Utah, and I feel that it is finally over. Just last week we had temperatures in the 60’s and 70’s, even setting some record highs, but this week the high temperatures will not make it out of the 40’s (with some overnight lows in the… Read more →

Apologies World

You learn something new every day. Some days you learn more than a few things. Apologies world, today I learned it is possible I’ve been using this made-up word for an indeterminate part of my adult life: ‘assertation’ I now know this because spell-check told me so. Apparently assertion is a word, and ascertain is a word and ‘assertation’ is something that… Read more →

30 Thankful Things

A couple weeks ago my mother challenged me on Facebook to complete something called the ’10 Day Thankfulness Challenge”. The object of this exercise was to write down (ie post to FB) 3 things you were thankful for each day for 10 days. Now I know several things to be true: A) This activity is completely made up. B) Not everyone on… Read more →

Milestones

Life is definitely accelerated with two kids. The second half of August and first half of September have flown by! August was marked by Christopher’s first flight for a meet-and-greet in WI. Both boys were such troopers during our travel. There was barely any whining or crying through the airport and on the plane, and then the 2 1/2 hour car-ride… Read more →

Oven Door Dish Towels

A few years ago my sister-in-law made me some uber-cute oven door dish towels for Christmas. After daily use they were starting to yellow and show their age, so my mom and I set out to re-create them. Note: My sister-in-law is still sweet and talented, however she just had twins so I was not about to add a sewing project… Read more →

Ahhh Summer

Summer has been so nice here this year. Unlike last year in which we tried to set some absurd record for days with temperatures over 100, this summer has been quite pleasant. We’ve had some nice trips to the park or just shopping on my days off and it has been wonderful. We took a short hike around Silver Lake… Read more →

Werk’it

This month has been WORK. As they say when it rains it pours. We started July out with a visit from my parents. I wish I could say it was all for fun, but honestly we worked the heck out of them! They planned their trip around when our renters of 18 months would be vacating the rental house (our… Read more →