A BIG Happy Birthday shout out this week to Brandon, Lance, Julie and Jim! It was a very big birthday week! This year for Dad’s 61st birthday the family and I bought dad a pair of camouflage boxers reading “Grill Sergeant” and a portable camping potty. He was thrilled with both.     If you […]

My cousin Stephanie got married a couple of weeks ago. It was a beautiful ceremony and the first wedding that the girls had ever attended that they can remember (they attended Aunt Heather’s wedding, but were too young to recall). Since I rarely see this side of the family I wanted to make sure that […]

Welcome to the brand new…and much improved Bright Girls Blog!  Note the new url for any bookmarks or links you have to us.  www.thebrightgirls.com This blog is the product of one terribly long night nursing Tatie through a stomach bug which has spread through her third grade class like wild fire.  Infact the bug is so […]

My little sister Holly has started her very own blog!  So welcome her to the online family happenings by commenting on her blog.  And don’t forget to add her to your RSS reader or check back often because it won’t email you and tell you there has been an update other wise.  (If you have […]

Thank you all for the well wishes.  School is out for the third day here because there is no power at the school.  I think they will be up and running tomorrow though. *crosses fingers* At this rate we won’t be out of school till June!  And its not even winter yet… On that note […]

I just wanted to let everyone know that we survived the wind storm.  With gusts of 81 miles and hour the damage around here is substantial.  But we were very blessed.  Unlike most neighborhoods in our area we still have power.  School was called for today and tomorrow (so the kids are happy).  But we […]

I was reminded this morning as “God bless the USA” played unexpectedly on the local pop radio station of the date.  Today is September 11th.  Its been seven years since the landscape of New York city changed forever.  I spent a few moments reminding myself of the events of that day.  I watched old news […]

We had a wonderful Labor Day holiday weekend.  We went camping for 4 days at Deam Lake in Indiana.  The girls had never swam in a lake before and were not thrilled with the prospect of swimming with the fishes!  But as soon as they got on to that beach we couldn’t keep them out […]

Heather started up a blog for the OTHER Utah Walker family.  😀  Now you can keep up with the happenings of Emily, Nora, Adam, and Heather at: http://coolwalkers.wordpress.com/ Just a note on Heather and Julie’s family blogs.   They do not have the same email subscriber feature that automatically sends out alerts when I make an […]