Recently Scott and I had a lunch date and we decided to visit the BYU Harris Fine Arts Center before it gets torn down.  This is the building otherwise known as the HFAC. Scott and I were both music majors at BYU and we spent many hours there studying music, making friends, and falling in love. (Aaaahhhh.) These days the building is starting to look pretty empty with the semester over and the dismantling beginning. In the olden days, we rehearsed together in E-250 with the BYU Philharmonic. OK, not so much together but in the same room with about 100 other people. Scott was on one side of the room with the trombones and I was on the other with the violins. Clyn Barrus was our conductor and he had a lot of passion for the music. We also attended our third semester of music theory with Dr. Michael Hicks in a classroom on the third floor. That was a smaller class of about 20 people. One Monday morning at the end of November in 1987, I walked into class with a huge cast on my arm after I

This week our son Jan is celebrating his big 30! Here's a look back at his toddler and preschool years. He was pretty cute! Jan's first Halloween costume. Scott was recovering from his ruptured appendix at that time so I was a single mom for a while. This was our Christmas letter from 1993. Jan was "Loveable and Large, which describe Jan, age 1, as he locomotes around our living quarters looking for amusement." A rare shot of Scott wearing glasses while acting out the nativity with David and Jan At the Arboretum in Madison: Here are David and Jan by our old bullet van, getting ready to drive back home after visiting my family in Utah. Getting ready to go to church: Jan loved all things summer:  popsicles, ice cream, and swimming. At about this time, I wrote about Jan, "Jan loves to read books and if I am sitting down he will bring me a book to read to him. Some of his favorites are Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever and Cars and Trucks and Things That Go.&q

Garrett is turning 28 this month! He was a fun-loving little boy and very busy exploring and learning. Here are some pictures from when he was a toddler and preschooler.  He loved to wear this Superman cape When Garrett was about 14 months, I wrote, Garrett is really good at keeping himself occupied if he is not hungry or tired. I can't spend much time holding him because he won't let me unless I am cooking at the same time or if I'm reading him animal books with lots of animal sounds. Keeping himself occupied means lots of dumping and messes. When I am sewing, he likes to cruise around the room opening the drawers of my sewing cabinet and clearing off the things next to my bed. He likes to open my thread case and get out all the thread and bobbins and make a big mess. Once I had a big bucket of flour out with the lid off. Garrett came along and couldn't resist putting his foot in it. He was a busy boy. About this same time, he started chattering a lot. It sounded like