Blog Resurrection

So I don't know if anyone out there has still subscribed to get notifications on this blog, but if you do, Hi! It's been a long time!

Since Heidi's last post in 2014, lots has happened in our family, as you likely already know. We are still living in Lehi, albeit in a different house. After Heidi's passing, Tonya joined our family in 2019. Austin is 14 and in the 8th grade, playing trumpet in the band. Ruth is 12, in 6th grade, and is part of a performing arts group. Summer, 9, is in the 4th grade and reading like crazy. Our family has somehow been able to recover from tragedy, and, I would say, is thriving again.

One thing Tonya and I have noticed is that the kids love going through memories. Some Sunday afternoons they'll go downstairs, turn on Plex, and go through all of our old videos, spending hours flipping through clip after clip, enjoying seeing themselves as toddlers. Also, after Heidi passed, I decided to take this blog as well as Heidi's cancer blog, and put them into books (at least, the parts of the blog that had not already been put into books). Now our living room has a basket full of coffee table books about our family. The kids will often cuddle up with one of these books and read about their youth through Heidi's voice.

While Tonya has been especially good about documenting our new adventures with pictures, I realize that there's great value in recording our impressions and thoughts beside those photos. So, with that in mind, here we are, posting here again. I'm going to attempt to resurrect this blog. While my primary intent for doing this is internal–so our kids will continue to have books they can cuddle up with and reminisce–you out there reading this are welcome to continue following this blog. I'll admit up front that I'm not as good as Heidi was at expressing myself, or at being consistent. Maybe this new initiative will fall flat. Nevertheless, we're going to give it a go.

Let the resurrection begin!