Author Archives: genesiseve

 We got married. It was wonderful! Getting married requires a community. And over and over again, the community surrounds you, lifts you up and supports you into this beautiful new station. It is a communal feast of love and support. I’m trying to hold on to that love in a little book so we canContinue reading “A Wedding Post”

Nick is home from Scotland! He was there working for the Scottish Parliament. Last night, we gathered in Tremonton to enjoy a beautiful roast as a family. Jayson couldn’t make it because he is treating his employees to a trip to Vegas, but the rest of us gathered around the kitchen table we ate atContinue reading “A New Tradition”

Daniel is darling. He’s so cuddly and cute and I could squeeze his little cheeks for days! I’ve been working on keeping myself spiritually, mentally, and physically healthy so I can handle the stress of becoming a parent. I don’t get the 9 months of prep and the fun times when they’re a screaming baby.Continue reading “Learning How To Parent”

I read in a book that fat people know more about dieting than anyone else. So here’s a fat girl telling you the latest weight loss strategy I’m utilizing. But let me start at the beginning. Why do I want to lose some weight? Antonio loves me just the way I am. Even when IContinue reading “One Day Closer to Healthy”

Last Friday night, I took my dad to see a very funny play entitled 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche at the Sugar Space (616 Wilmington Ave, Salt Lake City–just off of 2100 South and 700 East). Produced by Silver Summit Theatre (http://silversummittheatre.org/) and directed by the dynamic duo Dave Hanson and Amy Allred of A-MusesContinue reading “5 Lesbians Is HILARIOUS”

Yesterday, my fiancee Antonio had a horrible, no good, awful day. We’re talking nuclear. Antonio is an incredibly strong, steady man. He gets up every morning at 4:30am to be to work at 5 am every day, but Tuesdays and Thursdays. On those days, he gets up at 7 am to go to classes whereContinue reading “Heart Attack Scare, Broken Down Car, and The Last Straw”

My little sister’s baby girl is in the hospital right now. She just had surgery to correct her cleft palate. She can’t leave the hospital until she drinks a bottle–and she just won’t drink that bottle. She’s such a cutie though. Look at this little girl. Healthy, strong, imprisoned by her refusal to drink theContinue reading “A Spiritual Sunday at the Hospital”

Yesterday was Easter. Antonio’s son and I drove to my friend Christi’s place to watch conference and have an Easter Egg hunt for Daniel and her daughter EL*. On the drive over, we talked about what Easter really meant.Me: Do you see how the grass is turning green and the blossoms are on the trees.D:Continue reading “Easter Sunday with The Little Boy”

A little over a year ago, I got a call to serve as the second counselor in the Relief Society presidency.A little over a year ago, I got a real kick out of God’s sense of humor. I love relief society. For me, it is the source of my strength as a Latter-Day Saint woman.Continue reading “The Miracles of Service”