How to make a mom cry:
Send her kindergartner home on valentines wearing this...


It says: Special Delivery, There's a valentine standing at your door I'm one of a kind you can't buy me at the store. I have something for you that you won't want to miss. Just pick me up and give me a GREAT BIG KISS!




Have her husband baptize your 8 year old...





Bridger and Brandon January 30. I kind of hoped Brandon was going to drowned him. I think Bridger was getting out all of the Pi$$ and Vinegar the month before he was baptized...IT WAS A VERY LONG 30 DAYS!


take this picture at her 25 lb "babies" 10 month (I forgot they needed a 9 month? after 3 other kids who knew?) Dr. apt...




This is one of my favorite pictures, It is our favorite nurse, Nurse Vickie (my mom) at Dr. John Winn's office! Brody looks quite proud of the 16lb weight gain in a short 10 months, he is sitting on the scale.


Put your last baby in a "Big Kid" car seat...



I should have invented car seats, they charge an arm and a leg for these things, I sure miss the 80's, just hold that kid on your lap, or put him on the floor in the back or lay him in the back window next to the other 3 kids, or do as my mom did, on long car trips put them in a laundry basket. Hey, we all survived!




Find this picture of her 4 year old after she yells at him and his stinky sister for taking pictures with her camera...












Cut her babies "Goldy locks" off, and pretend like it will be okay...





This picture says it all, for both of us.

Dear Lehi Free Press,

So this is how your going out? Just slinking away? No big farewell edition, No apology for being such a lame excuse of a town paper these last few years? No replacement? What a joke! I have read you and loved you since 1985, the year I turned 10 and read an article by the late GREAT Betty Fowler. How I loved the old you; so full of real newsworthy articles, so full of wedding announcements, being full of real classified ads, full of a police beat that was about people that had lived here long enough that you knew who it was, so full of Lehi High School pride, listing the honor rolls for only lehi schools, being delivered on wonderful Wednesday instead of crappy Thursday.

I remember our happier times, when words weren't spelled wrong or repeated as they are now. I remember the wedding announcements that told you the bridesmaids, who gave the showers, where the honeymoon would take place, I remember birth announcements, actually listing parents, grandparents and siblings. What happened? Where did you go wrong?

I just hope that your happy where ever you end up, we had a great run and I have not been happy with this new you, the Lehi Liar, I called the Daily Herald and they confirmed that a refund would be on its way and for that I thank you. Once your biggest fan, now embarrassed to call you a Town paper, Doreen.