11 Days before Christmas and I still didn’t have our Christmas cards out. Heck, I didn’t even have a picture for the card. The kids happened to have a music recital to dress up for so I took the opportunity to try to get a picture the perfect picture for our last-minute cards. Of course we...

This is my baby. She is 2. She is the littlest sister. Amelia really, really wants to learn to play the “biolin”. This is Briana, she is the biggest of the sisters. It’s a really, really good time to have a big sister. A big sister who just happens to know how to play the “biolin”. A...

We are finally on a much needed family vacation. We are in the gorgeous Smokey Mountains in Gatlinburg Tennessee. We usually come here every year for the annual lighted Christmas parade that they host. There are a couple of times every year when we want to just quit homeschooling, toss the books out...

This past weekend our friend Tom came down from college to visit us. We met Tom while in Uganda this past summer. His story is amazing. He is now in the states getting an education so that he may go back and help build up and better his home country. We took him for a drive in the countryside and I...

Today was a new adventure for us. I have been promising the kids since Payton turned 4 and eligible for a card of his own last April daily for about the past month that I would take them to the library. The weather has been crap. Cold, rainy, snowing… I haven’t gone anywhere I didn’t...

For Christmas our eldest daughter was presented with the one gift that she has wanted all year long. A new bicycle. She was so excited she couldn’t wait to get on. But before we let her take off, we took her Allanti, our favorite bicycle shop and had her fitted to her new ride. The guys there...

We actually got some real snow here for a change.Like the awesome Mom that I am, as soon as we could get bundled up we headed out doors. For some of you snow may be a normal winter happening. Well not here. So this is huge! We had a snowman building contest and talked trash to the neighbors.. The neighbor...