Big things

Goodbye Big Red: with the coming and going of adult children, we have been shuffling and purging closets. The spring cleaning is working its way to the kitchen cabinets. I finally threw away the big red soup pot. This was the first kitchenware that was replaced after our fire (shout out katie Gulbransen for looting the Sam’s Club associates sample table for us!) and when I had half a brain to start cooking again in our rental, I cooked everything from soup to scrambled eggs in this bad boy. 2 years ago it earned the dent when it was accidentally launched it off the countertop by a friend. The kids hated that it didn’t fit in the dishwasher. Not sure if big red will be missed, but it’s a significant thing to see it go. 

Big day: My Sunday school seniors graduated this morning. Big things ahead for all of them. Esme and Corbin went with me to the ceremony and I got great big lineman tackle hugged after on the field. I love them SO big. Congrats to Madilyn, Bethany, Hyrum, Neal, Davey, Bryce, and Ammon! 

Esme got the Big Three Award at Cooper Roundup yesterday! 

Big A has stayed over at our house with Corbin a few nights this week. Late night NBA semi finals watching, chips and Chuys ranch, driveway ball with Logan, an ice cream run, garage weight lifting, and non stop tomfoolery. Yes they still were up at 1am binge watching The Summer I Turned Pretty. No, Corbin did not wake up in time to make it to his first period class either day 🤦🏻‍♀️. Senior year will be an adventure for sure. 

Big Announcements: attended two more mission call openings for young friends. 

Big Brother: logan is filling the big bro role quite nicely. We realized we do not have any photos together, so we have epic plans to correct that with our own Brogan photo series over summer vacation 😂 but here’s the selfie we took right away because we just cannot have no photos together. Logan will get his own son in law tribute post soon. He’s fitting in just great. Big appresh for this guy.

Twinning with Mary. Love her big. 

Big Growth: Soren came with me to watch Esme get an award yesterday and saw his kindergarten teacher Mrs Hamrick. She was shocked over how tall he had gotten. 

Big L: the Lakers sold hard to OKC Thunder, season is over and some Willardson are more sad than others. 

Big Upgrade: I put up wallpaper for my friend Angie in her home office on Tuesday. I love the way it turned out, and visiting with my friend for 2 hours totally filled my cup. 

Taking myself on a weekly date to the temple has been such a nice practice for me. 

I’m applying for a passport for Corbin after 6 months of it being on my to do list. We want to take a mom and son trip this summer and might end up having to postpone because I didn’t get my act together soon enough, but hopefully it will have a super fast turnaround and we can make some big  international memories together. 

Esme is making progress in violin lessons! I’m so proud of her. I bought her a cd to listen to the Suzuki recordings and she is catching the suzuki bug. Something big has clicked and we have motion!