Last Saturday, June 6, we were able to attend Daniel's best friend Wei and his new wife Keeley's wedding! Daniel and Wei have been friends for a long time, and it was wonderful to see them both so happy! Keeley looked beautiful in her dress, and despite some weather mishaps, everything turned out great. Their ceremony was at Kiwanis park in Pleasant Grove, and their reception was at an LDS church down the street. All the colors were so bright and happy, and everything had a touch of Keeley and Wei's fun personalities. I think my favorite part was the skittles on the tables at the reception! Let's just say that our table was quickly wiped out of them...Daniel and I also had fun decorating TWO of Wei's several cars. We weren't sure which one he was going to drive away in, so we figured we should cover all our bases. The coolest thing was that Wei's dad and stepmom came all the way from China for the wedding! Wei and Keeley are planning on going to China at the end of the summer for a Chinese celebration and open house, so to speak. I think they're using that as their actual honeymoon, which is awesome! Anyway, Daniel and I are so happy for them, and we wish them a marriage as happy as ours!
A warning in advance--this is really long and detailed, so if you don't want to read a detailed birth story (with pictures), then stop now! This was an important record for me to make and I didn't want to spare any details. :) Technically the story of my labor begins on Riley’s due date: July 24, 2013. Because I have to go back to school as a teacher very soon (my first meeting is August 14), I was desperate to see if I could use some “natural” methods to get the labor going. So, on Wednesday, July 24 around ten in the morning I took about 1.5 ounces of castor oil, which is known to get labor kick started occasionally by basically freaking out your bowels so you have the runs—lovely. I waited for a few hours but nothing happened at all. Bummer. My mother and sister came to Salt Lake and we celebrated Pioneer Day by going to temple square and having lunch at the Lion House. After lunch I started to have some horrible pains in my stomach. They didn’t feel l
Yup, that's just a dang fancy phrase for "chore chart." I decided this needed to happen. I am so tired at the end of the day from working a full time teaching job plus three part-time theatre jobs that the LAST thing I want to do is clean. So, I end up letting everything pile up until I literally dread coming home. This results in a totally massive, totally random meltdown that usually ends with me scrubbing the whole apartment clean for hours. I'm then in a MUCH better mood for a couple weeks until the cycle repeats itself. This had to stop. So, I created the Faulk Family Task List. It lists the basic chores that need to be done around the house. Some need to be done just once a week while others need to be done every day. That's why I LOVE this cute chore chart template I found through Microsoft Office Online. You can download the template HERE . After I personalized it for what worked for our family, it looked like this: I love how this temp
In our church, it is common practice for a baby to be be given a name and a blessing in church during their first few months of life. This blessing is usually done by the baby's father. (For more info on what a baby blessing entails, click HERE ). Cedar Jane Faulk was blessed by her father on July 1, 2018. We wanted her to be blessed when my parents could be there (my dad flew in from Shanghai), and as an added bonus, Daniel's parents were given permission to come home from their LDS mission in Orlando for a long weekend to attend the blessing! It was very special for her to have both sets of grandparents there, as well as most of my aunts and uncles, sisters, and other friends. I will admit that Daniel and I felt a little bit of added pressure over this blessing as compared to our other kids' blessings. It is common to hear babies blessed with things like health, marrying in the temple, etc. For Cedar, all the "normal" things like that suddenly felt i
Last Saturday, June 6, we were able to attend Daniel's best friend Wei and his new wife Keeley's wedding! Daniel and Wei have been friends for a long time, and it was wonderful to see them both so happy! Keeley looked beautiful in her dress, and despite some weather mishaps, everything turned out great. Their ceremony was at Kiwanis park in Pleasant Grove, and their 
reception was at an LDS church down the street. All the colors were so bright and happy, and everything had a touch of Keeley and Wei's fun personalities. I think my favorite part was the skittles on the tables at the reception! Let's just say that our table was quickly wiped out of them...Daniel and I also had fun decorating TWO of Wei's several cars. We weren't sure which one he was going to drive away in, so we figured we should cover all our bases. The coolest thing was that Wei's dad and stepmom came all the way from China for the 
wedding! Wei and Keeley are planning on going to China at the end of the summer for a Chinese celebration and open house, so to speak. I think they're using that as their actual honeymoon, which is awesome! Anyway, Daniel and I are so happy for them, and we wish them a marriage as happy as ours!
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