I love to see Jacob's brain in action.  It works in mysterious and amazing ways. Tonight for Family Home Evening (family lesson and activity) we talked about the scripture in 1 Corinthians 3:16-17,  "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God…"  We talked about the gifts that our bodies are, and the importance…

Gourmet Club on Sat night was…well, heavenly.  Not only was that the theme of the evening, but also the perfect description.  It was wonderful!  We were asked by our hosts, Emily and Anne, to come dressed in all white.  The table was spectacular.   The food was scrumptious (the divine drink, cheese souffle, lamb, and kiwi/pomegranate…

ADULTS ONLY PLEASE With all of the teeth being lost around here (by Caleb), the tooth fairy is making frequent stops.  Today in the car Caleb was asking where the tooth fairy lives (in fairyland, of course!) and Jacob quietly chimed in… "I don't think the tooth fairy is real.  I think it's Mom and…

So last week wasn't great in the domesticity department around here.  Although I did do a whole lot of laundry, cooking meals for my family went out the window for some unknown reason.  Thus resulting in the now-infamous Taco Bell visit, coupled with a trip to Subway the following evening.  I finally got myself in…

After feeding all the animals we headed to Turner Falls – a beautiful camping spot in the Arbuckle Mountains (hills).  We walked by the stream and found the waterfall-fed pool.  Then Derek and the boys did some hiking and found a cave and an overlook of the falls.  We were only there for an hour…

With a four-day weekend we knew we needed to do something adventurous.  Our friend's, the Tolbert's, had recently gone on an adventure to Oklahoma, so we copied them step by step because that's what we do best – imitation at its finest.  So we set aside Monday as our adventure day.  First we drove the…

I, like most of the world today, watched the coverage of the Inauguration of Barack Obama (or as Caleb calls him innocently O'Rock Obama), our 44th president.  I taped all 7 hours of ABC's coverage, but have sinced watched all of it.  And I'm watching again tonight.  I've seen it all (at least everything that…

When Derek went to wake up the boys this morning for church… BTW, let it be stated that Sunday is the ONLY day my kids sleep in and then they complain thru church about how we woke them up too early.  Every other day of the week they're up at 7 and make sure we know…

I had the brilliant idea to take the family to Taco Bell tonight to avoid having to cook.  Remind me to NEVER do that again.  It might have been the most disgusting meal of my entire life.  I have become my mother.  She used to call McDonald's "McDoo-Doo's" (sorry, mom, you know it's true).  Cooking…

Derek likes to do projects with the kids and I love him for it.  He and Caleb looked up some plans on the Internet to make a birdhouse and they did it.  They worked side-by-side and Caleb got to pick the colors.  And now it hangs on the fence by our birdbath, and by the looks…