I want to give out a shoutout to an app I've been using quite a bit lately called "PlantNet." I use it on our hikes to identify the plants, especially the wildflowers, that we come across. In the past, I have often wanted to be able to identify those beautiful wildflowers but haven't known how to do it until this year. The way the app works is you take a picture in the app of the plant you want to identify, you specify how you want it to be identified (by foliage, flower, etc.), and then it gives you some options with varying levels of accuracy, trying to match the plant with your location. I've noticed it's not as accurate without the flowers. Yesterday we took a hike up Dry Canyon heading toward Little Baldy and we saw quite a few wildflowers that PlantNet identified. Here are a few. European wand loosestrife: Desert princesplume: Firecracker penstemon: Silky lupine: Three-cornered Leek: Sulphur-flower buckwheat: Tapertip hawksbeard: Woodland forget-me-not...

Happy birthday, Talmage! Here is all about our T-bone during his elementary school years--isn't he cute? German lederhosen--Talmage wasn't so excited about this outfit which we got from our German friend: He has been a good big brother to his little sisters. Talmage loved to build. He built Bionicles, with any kind of blocks including Legos, and K'nex. Turning 7: Our vegetable costumes year--maybe he was a cucumber? Talmage was baptized by his father in July 2010: We toured the Conference Center in Salt Lake City afterwards: Talmage was our only child to suck his thumb and he did it quite faithfully for many years. I kept trying to get him to stop but nothing worked. Once I bought a bunch of little prizes to encourage him to stop but when the prizes ran out, the thumb went back in. I tried putting gloves on his hands at night. I tried painting his thumb with something that made it taste bad but he just kept sucking until it all came off and his thumb tasted normal again. Fi...