Thanks to inspiration from my good friend, Sandy , I decided to try Walgreens again. ~ Tyler went with me (a date, you know) so we were abl...

we’re shrinking ~ I set the table yesterday evening for just our family; we’ve had guests for every sit-down meal since ‘the weddin’. (‘Set ...

Mr & Mrs. Luke H---- All throughout the planning and re-planning of the wedding we kept reminding ourselves of what was important:...

The flowers are here! We all pitched in to cut the stems and get them in water quickly. Lana had to run to Paul's to buy another bucket...

is finished! not quite the 'way ahead of time' that I was going for but it's done nonetheless. I'd do a happy dance but I ju...

I do not consider myself to be a writer. Oh, I dabble a little…. I once wrote an article for a little women’s magazine. Never did submit it…...

It's not nearly as important as THE dress but still for some reason the mother of the bride is supposed to have some really nice dress. ...

sailing the high seas at DTC's Family Corporate Day last Saturday. oddly enough we were the only family that dressed up wonder why?!

I am stressed. I can not even begin to describe how stressed I am. ~ I was standing by the sink straining a batch of Green Stuff - as diffic...

She doesn’t really cry; It’s barely even a fuss. Just enough noise to let me know she’s a tad hungry. I pull her warm sleepy body over and k...

I really struggled with having to have a c-section this time. With Jeremiah, it wasn’t quite so bad; I was just so thrilled to actually be h...

nothing is safe anymore ~ yesterday I found Lily in the dog crate and in the bathroom ~ and you can see she's quite troubled after shu...

I woke up thinking this is the day Finally! You’d think since the first one was 12 ½ weeks early the second one would at least be a week or ...

In my earliest memory of him he made me laugh. We worked together on Fridays. Usually I worked days He worked evenings but on Fridays I’d pu...

that I never managed to get posted... in no particular order... the boys with Grandpa yum! peeked out the window one day to see Jeremiah...

It had been a long week. For the past seven days I’d spent the majority of my time drugged slightly inverted in a hospital bed lying on my l...

Whew they're in the mail! I haven't been so relieved to finish a project in a long time. No that's not quite true; I was pretty ...

I just finished licking 173 envelopes I think my tongue is swollen ~ we still have a doz or so more invites to do but we ran out of the vel...

People keep asking, "Aren't ya'll having so much fun?" and when they say 'fun' their nose crinkles up & their ...

just in case there's any confusion as to what happened to all the strawberries yesterday... Lily ate them. And she's not a bit shy ...

pancakes for dinner YUM!! We haven't had pancakes in almost a year cause you know half of the batter is milk ~ Somehow we have an exce...

yet another sign that my baby girl is all growed up She tossed her words. all of them ~ One year for language the kids (Tj & Lana) had ...

curls!!! I'm darn near giddy with excitement! (I know - I don't get out much! and that's just the way we like it :-) how bless...

ordinarily when the boys get in the fridge and 'fix' their own snack I get a little irritated. but how could I complain when they c...

Lily and I had our first of what I suspect will be many tea parties. It was rather impromptu; she kept crawling to the cabinet & pullin...

I’ve been following Nate, Tricia, & baby Gwyneth’s story for about a month or so. I also check in fairly often with sweet, ornery baby A...

It's been one of those days. Actually, it's been one of those weeks. you know, the kind where not much of anything goes right... but...

6-7 years ago my (then) doctor recommended a hysterectomy. Apparently that was the only cure for my symptoms. I had a very large uterine fib...

He is risen indeed!