A couple of weekends ago, we rented a cabin in our local mountains. Rich and I had decided that this family of ours deserved a break from all the sports and other social commitments that keeps us all so busy. So we cleared our calendar and unplugged our devices and headed up to the mountains […]
JUST DIRT & RUBBLE
I know a lot of you are wondering about our pool construction. We should be swimming in our new pool right about now, right? Well, our pool construction hasn’t even started yet due to the city permits. We are still waiting on the city permits. The “soils report” to be exact. Everything passed except the […]
New York
This summer my husband took our twelve-year-old son, Alex, to New York. Just the two of them. They were gone six days. That was some serious Father/Son time! Rich was born and raised in New York, so he had a lot of things to show Alex. These are the photos that I got from […]
San Francisco
You’ll never guess where I’ve been.Well, I guess you might since I just titled this postSAN FRANCISCO– duh –which ruined the surprise, didn’t it?(Don’t you just hate when your kids say the word duh? I thought I’d just throw it in there to annoy you!) Anyway…. last week I spent four days in San Francisco with […]
snow & sand
I feel I have to apologize in advance for all the photos in this post. It’s photo overload. Major photo overload. But I couldn’t help myself. That being said… Here is what we have been up to! We went up to the snow on Friday! It was so pretty up there, and I must have snapped […]
the toys
When we get the chance to get away for a weekend, one of the things we love to do as a family is to go camping with the toys. And when I say the toys I’m talking about …………… …………. ……….. ……… ……. ….. … .. . .. … …. ….. …… ……. …….. ……… ………. […]
Sunday Update
Today I woke up at 6:00am and drove Afton to the church to catch her bus for camp. Just like last year, she will be away at a Christian Camp for one week. One week without my Afton? I miss her already! Funny thing happened — well, not so funny, actually — but when […]
Vegas, baby
Family. You just gotta love ’em. And we love ours…enough to drive 5 hours in a cramped van just to attend a birthday party. Well, to be honest, it was a very special birthday party. Rich’s mom turned 65 last week, and we drove out to Las Vegas, Nevada, to join in the celebration. Her […]
a quick get-away
It’s September already! The summer is ending and school will be starting up in less than a week for us. We have exciting things coming up: Avery and Alex will be going to “real” school for the first time, in 4th and 5th grades. A.J. will be going into second grade. Aislynn will be starting […]
Lake Mead 2010
We had an absolute blast on our vacation in Lake Mead. It couldn’t have gone any better. The weather was perfect: nice and HOT with clear, blue skies. It was awesome. At our campsite. Check out the view we had — so pretty! We got the best campsite! It was a river view and there […]
How I cured a mild ear ache naturally
Avery (age 9) has been swimming a lot lately. Both her best friends have pools, and we visit our community pools all the time, too. So she’s been in the water quite a bit this summer. And the other day, she came to me complaining that her ear hurt. I didn’t think too much of […]
Beach Bums
What’s better than a sand-covered baby? c Or a seven-year-old catching his first wave? or digging for sand crabs…. or getting buried in sand? What’s better than a day at the beach with your family — watching your kids enjoy the sand, the water, and each other? For me…it doesn’t get much better than this! Aria loved getting […]