Category Archives: Phillip
Phillip’s Poetry Videos
As a fun new project Phillip has written two poems set to video. The one about horses he did for school and enjoyed it so much he decided to make another one. He asked me for some of my sunset … Continue reading
The last of the birthdays…
Memorial Day weekend always brings birthday celebrations. Loren and Phillip turned 28 on May 28th and Tess turned 25 on June 3rd. Phillip flew in from Oregon to spend the weekend with us. It was a great weekend…Elliot gave his … Continue reading
Phillip moves to Corvallis, Oregon
Phillip is now a graduate student at Oregon State University, where he will be working towards a masters degree in creative writing and also teaching an undergraduate English class. He loaded up his car and he and I did the … Continue reading
Phillip’s new car…
As part of getting ready to move to Oregon to attend graduate school at Oregon State this fall, Phillip decided it was finally time to buy his own car. His good-looking Kia Forte has now joined our car family! How … Continue reading
Finishing up the family birthdays…
Tess joined Loren and Phillip on their birthday and we had one big party for them all…well okay, it was just dinner on the deck with the grandparents, but hey, with 3 birthdayees, there were plenty of gifts being handed … Continue reading
Collegiate art…
Take a quick peek at some of the design work Phillip (the company’s new design director) and his team have been working on everyday. Go to collegiatepride.net. I like to look at the BYU stuff!
Happy New Year!
As per our New Year’s Eve tradition, we enjoyed gathering around 3 fondue pots. Our three favorites are: cheese, meat and chocolate. Because we ate too much (as per tradition) and all went into what Madeleine calls a “food coma”, … Continue reading
Merry Christmas…
It always surprises me that Christmas actually comes…I guess just because we talk about it so far in advance! As always, our family had a really nice Christmas. Actually every year we have 2 Christmas Days…one with Alan’s parents the … Continue reading
Phillip’s graphic design coming to a billboard near you.
A good friend of Phillip’s, Ashley Mae Christensen, a BYU grad student, came up with the idea while driving down the freeway a year ago, looking at billboards. “My heart felt heavy and manipulated as we whizzed past billboards flaunting … Continue reading
Balloon Festival
New tradition in our family…get up early on a beautiful summer morning in August, head down to the nearby park and watch 15 hot air balloons inflate and take off! Oh, and then head a little further down the street … Continue reading