Michelle leaves

The best dessert I've ever had in my life. Chocolate mouse torte cake from Beyond Bread. Oh man, I'm in love.


Michelle was not familiar with dead weighting. She told me she never tried/failed to carry someone so heavy. I thought it was pretty funny.


We always try to look our best for self-taken portraits.

Since the end of September, we've been lucky enough to have my sister Michelle living with us. Last week she left for BYU Idaho, and we sure are sad to see her go. While she was here we did tons of fun crafts, she drew countless race tracks on our driveway with sidewalk chalk, she made wayyyy too many desserts, I got to take naps, we had more tears than I've ever seen (I am definitely not the emotinal type, so this was new for me), we had tons of free babysitting, we met several of the male single population in Tucson, we discovered what it was like to have a teenager staying out all hours of the night, and we shared many, many laughs and jokes.

On her last night here, I made Michelle skip institute and she and I went to Beyond Bread for the best dessert ever and than she helped me buy make-up. She knows all the ins and outs of that stuff and I don't know very much, and now that she's not here to do my make-up for me, I figured I better learn. So Mike has often commented that Michelle brings out the goofy side of me, and this night I was particularly sleepy and so I ended up quite slap-happy and goofy. It was a great way to end her stay with us. We're so glad she's in school and getting to start that new, exciting chapter of her life. Best of luck Michelle!