I’m so excited to share the photo story of our family winter trip to New York!  And I know the grandparents and great-grandparents are even MORE excited to see it!  LOL! Each holiday season, we try to find a way to give our talent/time to a wonderful cause.  Last November, we hosted Family Portraits of […]

My dear friend, Kari, has started her own blog.  And I am LOVING it!  It’s called Mamabloo.  Some of you may recognize Kari from her funny comments on my blog posts, and then there was that incident where Oprah rebuilt her HOUSE!  (no, I’m not joking.) Kari has a down to earth style of writing […]

First of all, this is a long post. Consider yourself warned. 🙂 Not only long text, but I’ve got lots of images below too. What do you expect when I haven’t blogged in forever! 🙂 Second of all, I want to thank EVERY one of you who follow this blog. I know some of you […]

There are so many of you that I don’t have addresses for! So I thought I’d not only post the Christmas photo that beat the others, but I’d also share our 2006 letter with you! The spacing is a bit weird from I copied and pasted it. And since Christmas is here and gone, I’m […]

Once a year, I take about 45 minutes with my kids, and I become this biggest “Bribing Bartering Momma” you’ve ever seen. My mission: The Family Christmas Card Photo. My first decision, nix the “family” dynamic of the photo. Way too hard to get the kids, Brian and I all looking “naturally good” in one […]