Launi

October 8, 2026October 8, 2026

Face Your Fears

I was invited to go with Rhen to the American Fork Symphony’s Halloween concert to hear our Jessica play.

The flyer was spooky…

the tickets were spooky…

and the program was even spooky.

Lucky for me, the music was a fun list of music designed to go along with different—mostly crazy–phobias that some people, somewhere may have.

The fear of lightning, the fear of darkness, the fear of sharks, the fear of heights…

were all reasonable enough.

The fear of Phantoms, the fear of spiders, fear of the night, fear of the cold, fear of clowns and…

fear of chickens. Chickens?

Yeaaaah it was pretty much all covered here with a lot of really beautiful music.

But the best part…

was getting to hear Jessica play!!

We love you Jessica!

The gelato afterwards was pretty great too.

Heh, heh.

October 7, 2026October 8, 2026

Things To Love…

this week…

One of my new favorite books given to me for my birthday–thanks Lyndi! Written so beautifully. Seriously an unforgettable tragic, powerful love story.

It is an incredible book.

Rows and rows and rows of more lovely books–that makes my soul happy just to look at them.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Sourdough bread that fills the house with a heavenly Autumn scent everytime I toast a slice. Yummmmo.

Getting allllll the the doTERRA Convention Kits in the mail in one giant box! Wahooo!

Listening to General Conference…always my favorite thing to do.

Fried eggs on toast with frozen fruit for breakfast.

My wild calico kitty key chain that hangs on my purse. I get a lot of questions about this little cutie.

Scrambled eggs, ham and sourdough toast for breakfast. Yum, again.

Finding the perfect place for my awesome oils–keeping them right where I can grab them in a second.

Conference crepes…and bacon…and hash browns…and scrambled eggs.

Oh myyyy.

So much fun stuff to love and be happy about.

What about you? What are YOU grateful for?

October 6, 2026October 10, 2026

We had big plans for my birthday–we were going up to the canyon, like we do this time of year. But then, all THIS happened. Now, honestly, you will never catch me praying that it will stop raining…ever. But it did make rearranging our canyon picnic–non-negotiable.

Kindly, sweetly April offered to corral the party and have it at her house.

She even made molasses cookies for all the kids to decorate. We used to do that when my kids were little…and when I was little too.

Then we got to play my favorite game in all the world. It’s fun getting to boss everyone around. Heh, heh.

No matter what you think that score card says– of course, I won the game…

because it’s my birthday. That, my friends, is how it works.

So ha.

Everybody had fun decorating the cookies according to their own personality–as you can plainly see.

Heh, heh.

What a lovely birthday.

What a lovely bunch of kids.

What a lovely life.

I’m so grateful.

October 5, 2026October 5, 2026

Sweet Tangled Arms

Forteen years ago while we were watching General Conference, I caught this adorable picture of Lily, Miss Chomp and Beckham. Such sweet friends with their tangle of arms and smushed heads.

Since it will be a few years until these three will all be together again during conference, what with Lily leaving in February and Beckham going a month or so after–I asked them if they could recreate the picture for me.