We celebrated a great season of Sooner football with our great teammates and their families in early December at a restaurant called Prairie House.  After all the time visiting during practices and cheering our boys on together, it was good to celebrate one more time and say goodbye.  Some of these boys have been together for years,…

Our ward had a Christmas breakfast for its party this year.  The highlight was the many musical numbers (8 or so) by the youth, including the Primary children singing "Silent Night".  Valerie Sauter and Amy Lebaron worked hard with these groups to help them learn their music and be ready to perform.  Our bishop also…

The Circle Ten Council of Boy Scouts sent out a notice in September that they were re-districting in our area and they were having a contest to see what the name of the new district should be.  Any boys within the new district were eligible to enter.  Derek and I both decided to throw our…

Jacob and I dropped Sam off with a friend (to take him to preschool) and headed off to the Frisco Family Services holiday store set-up to serve a 3-hour shift this morning.  When I started homeschooling, this is one of the things I envisioned for us…more opportunities to involve ourselves with serving in the community. …

When I finally got the tree decorated (with the boys help, after it sat in the living room bare for a week), we let Jacob finally put the star on (the boys take turns each year).  Love this pic of J on D's shoulders.  I also love this picture of us reading a Christmas story…

Fun at the park (and a run for me) – the guys played in a pick-up football game Great food! Football games on tv And a relaxing day with the family.

I love our visits to the Farm.  And the boys think it is absolute heaven.  With fishing out as an option for fun, the big boys spent HOURS walking around with their bb guns – shooting at things that moved, things that didn't, things that …well, they shot at everything they were allowed to shoot…

I have felt the drought of this year in Dallas, as we are under severe water restrictions and felt every day of the 100-degree record setting heat this summer.  But it wasn't until I saw our family "farm" yesterday that I realized what they meant by the term "severe drought".  Yikes!  I've never seen it…

On Sunday night, Mom had everyone over for a Thanksgiving celebration before we all left to go out of town (M&O to Oklahoma, M&A to Bermuda, and Smith's to Austin).  We had glorious mess and lots of yummy desserts.  And plenty of baby time.  We  missed Derek who was bishop-ing.

Samuel is such a goof-ball lately and he loves the attention he gets from it.  He LOVES school and asks every day if it's a school day.  His Dalamation class teachers (Ms Tami and Ms Jennifer) report that he's a great addition to the classroom and very "on-target" with all developmental things.  They did say…