Rhen – Page 2 – Gracious Rain

April 2, 2026April 29, 2026

A Little More Chosen

I’m sure you already know that a few of my kids were extras…

in the incredible series, The Chosen.

I think I may have shouted, “there he is!!” in the theater during THIS scene.

I didn’t mean to.

It just happened.

They had a wonderful time…

dressing up…

and immersing themselves in the biblical culture along with the TV world.

They met some of the actual actors…Mary the sister of Lazerus…various apostles….

and Shmuel–yes, “our Shmuel.” Haha.

If you’ve seen the show, you’ll probably get my joke. If not, just trust me…

it was hilarious. Heh, heh.

They even met the boss-man, The Chosen creator himself, Dallas Jenkins. That was a sweet moment. What a cool guy.

So, when one of my favorite Podcasts–Follow Him, had Dallas Jenkins on as a guest speaker for Easter…

Duuuuude. I struggled to keep my composure and not act like a ridiculous geeked out fan girl. It was tough. I had to keep rewinding it when I missed something important…because I was giggling. I couldn’t help it.

I may have watched the episode 6,348 times.

But I wasn’t exactly counting.

Hee hee.

February 5, 2026March 3, 2026

A Day Out With the Guy

This might not look like much to you–just a silly Zen Water from Fiiz.

And this might not look like much to you either–just that cute boy grabbing some yummy lunch.

But let me just tell you–this was a fun, big deal to me.

You seeeee—just before this guy got married, I said to him, “if you are ever in town, just running boring old errands, come and get me, and I’ll go with you.”

I figured, that way, we could visit and make the boring stuff a little more fun–not to mention give me something to do besides talk to my kitties all day. Haha. Sad commentary on MY life right now.

Good grief.

Most of time, of course, he has the love of his life to run errands with. But on those rare occassions when she is working and he’s in this neck of the woods doing something dull…

well, it’s nice to know that he still likes my company as a far distant second.

I’ll gladly take that…

any day.

November 13, 2025November 30, 2025

The Leaf Festival of 2025

Oh, my goodness! With a million Boxelder trees, a couple of maples, a peach, a pear, an apple and one HUGE walnut tree…

we have got a BUS LOAD of leaves!! Even Hobbes doesn’t know what to do. Not that he cares particularly…but still.

We’re being buried alive!

Enter my sweet boy Rhen who always says things like, “Mom–this will take 10 minutes!” That turns out to be true when HE does it.

Not so much for the rest of us though. This would have taken me a month!

My yard went from this…

to this in about 20 minutes.

Rhen…you’re my hero. Thank you so much!!

Even Hobbes is impressed.

June 23, 2025July 17, 2025

Pretty Quiet These Days

People keep asking…

“How’s it going, without Rhen there?”

I always say, “Oh, it’s fine. I’m good.

I just talk to the cats.”

That is…if they’d wake up.

Sheesh.

June 21, 2025July 16, 2025

Strawberry Days Esports Competition

Oh, yeaaaah–I’m pretty proud of these kids! They all entered the ESports competition for Strawberry Days in Pleasant Grove. Such brave souls. I was way too chicken–but I did come to watch.

Jillian, Lyndi and Rhen all entered the Dr. Mario tournament.

They played through the rounds and got pretty far. At one point there were people standing outside the school windows so that they could see the screens!

Some guy came over by me and started complaining about all the people that had beat him. I sheepishly said, “Yeah, that’s my daughter,” and “That’s my other daughter,” and “That’s my son.” All he said in return was, “Wow.”

I swear, I tried to keep a straight face. We will not discuss how well it worked.