My Dad and Christy recently got back from a mission trip to Uganda, Africa.  My dad taught for several days at a pastor's conference, while others played with and loved on children, and met with pastor's wives.  I was enthralled by the stories, and moved and captivated by the pictures.  It's not my experience – but…

Every year I buy a water camera for us to throw in the swim bag.  I love to get pics of the kids underwater.  It started when Jacob was a toddler and was starting to go under – it was so fun to capture his sweet expression as he floated in trusting us to scoop him…

one of these very cute bikes, just by linking to them on my site.  Can't you see Samuel in that big ol' bucket?!

This is my second year serving as the PTA Membership Chair for our school.  Last year, my friends on the PTA Board begged recruited me to do it after the year had already started (the first day of school) which is a little late to have any control over the outcome.  We do NOT have…

I'm not much of a celeb fan-club kind of person.  I refuse to be ga-ga over people that I don't even know.  They're just PEOPLE – like you and me.  And I'm way too practical for that kind of stuff.  Although there are a few that I would love to sit down with over lunch. But…

In August of 2005 I started this here blog. Since then, there have been 45,012 page views or hits. I've published 834 posts. I've received 1096 comments. And I've documented the details and dailies of our lives. It is an outlet for me…a wonderful way to record my life. This is what I said on…

The boys, once again this summer, begged me to let them set up a lemonade stand.  We put it off, and put it off, and decided it was now or never last week.  I told them I would only pay for half of the lemonade this year (2 of the $4).  They went out in…

Because our first day at the lake wasn't enough 🙂 we decided to head down to the "beach" at Lake Ray Roberts with lots of moms from church.  It was a large group of friends and TONS of kids.  My neighbor, Lyn, went with me and I enjoyed getting to visit with her and all…

Every year our neighbors and friends schedule a weekday at the lake with rented "toys".  This year it was jet skis at Lake Lavon last Tuesday, Aug 18th.  And as always it was loads of fun!!  Jacob spends ALL of his time fishing with his buddy Jake.  I sometimes wish he would come play with…

In an effort to "refine" us a little I scheduled a field trip to the Nasher Sculpture Center downtown.  The first Saturday of every month is free (sponsored by Target) and they have lots of great activities for kids on those days (ex: they got to make their own visors).  We invited Nana to join…