Lito & Lace?

Some of you may wonder where the title "Lito & Lace" came from. When growing up, the branch we attended had a part hispanic sister and she had given me the nickname 'Miguelito' which literally translated means, 'Little Michael'. Well, I went on my mission to Argentina and when I came back to college afterwards, I had friends that I would converse with in spanish. It came up at one point that I liked the nickname Miguelito, so my friend Julie Brown, extracted 'Lito' from that. Lo and behold, it stuck. Every time Lacey sends me an email, she address me as Lito, and my dear friend Jared Smart calls me Lito all the time.

As for Lace... well Lacey may have something more to say about it, but one of the reasons is that from a semantic perspective it makes sense. I mean, how would it look if the title was, "Lito & the-most-amazing-woman-ever"? While just, it's slightly off-balanced. Lace it is.

The Parable of the Fern

We don't have many plants at our house, but on the kitchen table there is a fern. The other day, Lacey notices that the soil was getting a little bit moldy, though we had not watered it lately. So today when I was in the kitchen, Lacey mentioned that the fern looked sad. I looked over and about 3/4 of it had been trimmed off! Lacey had a slightly sad look on her face and said, "I hope that my trimming it turns into one of the good conference stories, where we trim of the unnecessary and the plant then flourishes." I thought it was hilarious, and thought to myself, "How many stories came close to being conference-worthy, but then failed. We don't hear those often."