Spottings of unidentified foreign objects falling from the sky have been reported in our area.  It is the first of these spottings in months, possible years…no one can recall because their eyeballs are fried from the recent intense heat and sunlight.  The objects are falling from strange dark grey creatures that seem to be floating. …

This is what we spent yesterday doing: Trying out mattresses!  After 4 stores we finally decided on one and it is, we’re proud to say, used as the Westin Heavenly Bed.  We’re hoping it will be heavenly for us.  I’m embarassed to admit it in public, but Derek and I have been sleeping in different…

WE made it! We’re 1/2 way there. 1/2 way done. 1/2 way to seeing our new son. I should say it’s bittersweet…that I’m sad that the first 20 weeks of what will probably be my last pregnancy are over.  But I’m not!  I hated all 20 of them! But I’m happy now.  I’m feeling better. …

So, Derek got invited to a marketing yuppity-yup dinner last night. At Maggiano’s (an Italian place that I happen to really enjoy). I had Minute Rice and Ranch Style beans from the can (lovely, I know…still struggling getting motivated with the whole cooking thing). He came home with a free iPod nano…a little gift they…

Hard to believe it’s been a year since I wrote those sad Kindergarten posts!  Here we are again…1st day of school in the big 1st grade.  He’s taller and more confident.  But had nightmares last night about sharks attacking him…hmmm…what could that mean?  And it came on the heels of him being worried about the…

Ok…so here it comes, another fun year of school.  Jacob’s thrilled and I’m ready for him to have some more structure.  This summer has been hard on all of us and it feels good to be putting it behind us. Tonight we’ll go to Meet the Teacher Night.  There will be sign-up sheets galore that…

Let me start out by saying that I won’t be able to post any pictures for a little while.  I was hoping to do this post with a scanned picture of our ultrasound pictures, but my computer monitor is on the fritz and my repair man (Derek) is in Vancouver on a business trip, so…

I don’t have much to report from our trip to Austin…I laid around most of the time, which was nice.  But the boys went with Derek to our family farm, they went to Vacation Bible School, they swam everyday, they went to a minor league baseball game (I went too) and they had an overall…

Well, today marks the one-year anniversary of this blog.  Pretty sure it hasn’t been any kind of eye opening experience for anyone.  I haven’t said much that is of serious value or worth, to anyone except me maybe.  But it’s been a great way for me to record the everyday blessings of daily life…the little…

Derek has fond memories of childhood toys.  We still have all of the Hot Wheels he played with as a kid…and he remembers stories about each one.  ("This one was great in the dirt"…you get the idea).  We also have his Darth Vader carrying case full of all of the original Star Wars action figures. …