Tuesday, September 22, 2026

June 2026 Randoms

 

How cool is this!?


A younger David at his family's lake house in Montana. 😍
He was more around my age when this picture was taken.

I was tasked with decorating the summer reading sign-up table at the library. I think I did a pretty good job, EXCEPT that I put the flowers thing on backward, which you can see if you look closely below. Aargh!

We went to a good pizza place to celebrate my sister Jennifer's birthday. I got a Mexican street corn pizza, and it was delicious!
The other half of the pizza was David's, and I think it was cheeseburger (or something like that).


David and I shared a strawberry shortcake dessert.

It was really special to see Elder Bednar in person. He gave an awesome and memorable talk. That's an actual Apostle of the Lord right there, and likely a future prophet of His church.


The drugstore in my town is gone and is being replaced by this:
I miss the drugstore; I went there for decades.

I love a good cupcake, and this one was good! Cream cheese frosting, yes, yes, yes.

David's pictures of the temple:


Speaking of which, the late sunset sky was pretty on our drive home from the temple.


I believe this, all of it.

Funny descriptions of different types of bees...

I want to have chickens someday, but only with David's help, so this was fitting.

😆

Look at how cute and young John, Jennifer, and I were! We were on Martha's Vineyard.
That was my last good year of hair before it stopped growing normally and crapped out on me.

Choose optimism!

Healthy life advice from a book I read, condensed into a few lines:

I wanted to document my clear and glowing skin because I'm vain like that. Though my hair has special needs, my skin does not.

Thursday, September 17, 2026

Books of June 2026

I had these three books checked out from the library. The Giver of Stars was for my book club, and I liked it a lot.

Sam is good at solving mysteries, so I got him a more challenging one to read. Agatha Christie is one of my favorite authors, and And Then There Were None is one of her trickiest mysteries.


I saw this at the library and snapped a pic. Good for this guy for writing this!

This was a good book I came across in the Children's room for my display about America's 250th. 

I want to get this cookbook. Trader Joe's is a personal favorite of mine.

Ambitions, ambitions! I can say now as I'm writing in September that I only ended up reading three of the books on this list I made at the beginning of summer. The rest will just have to carry over to next summer's list!

As an editor, I should read this, so I snapped a pic to remind myself. (I'm procrastinating reading it. 😆)

I was in charge of the big book display in front of the director's office for July, which I put together at the end of June. As I mentioned, the theme I chose was America's 250th, so it was books about America's founding or the Revolutionary War period. I got non-fiction, novels, YA books, children's books, and a few DVDs for it. These displays are fun to put together! It's one of my favorite things about working in the library.

I've learned how to use Canva because of the displays, too!


I also put together my endcap display for July, which was "Book Your Summer With Books Set in Summer." Clever, I know. 😄


My summer was indeed booked! Even if I only read three of the books on my list. 😆 But I did read over ten books this summer, so I did pretty well overall. 😚📚

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Around the Apartment in June (2026)

I was loving the pretty scenes on YouTube!



An English cottage in the countryside? Yes please!

Cheerful, happy sunflowers make me feel...cheerful and happy. 😄

I decorated for the Fourth of July and summer. Here are some of them:




I burned this special commemorative Yankee Candle all summer long. The scent was "Liberty Bloom," a nice, light, rosy scent.

Monday, September 14, 2026

Sam in June 2026 (and John, too)

 In addition to Florida and Cape trips, here's what else Sam was up to in June.

But first, a mission pic from John. One of the last!


This was a fun memory from ten years ago that popped up.

Sam conked out before a special stake conference with Elder Bednar got started. He apparently hadn't slept the night before. 🙄💤😴


He got his first job! 👏

I was proud of him. He's a good worker.


Last day of 10th grade. Sophomore year is my favorite year of high school, and I'm a little sad that it's over for him now.

Here he is at an outdoor ropes course with his good friend Colton from church. This was the first day of Youth Conference. He only went to this activity because we went straight from there to the airport to go to Florida for the Ye concert.

Needless to say, it was a good month for Sam!