Adventures

Crusoe was due to join our family around September 6th. We've had babies as early as 9 days before their due date and as late as on their due date. But when my friends Bryanne and Alisha went a week over with their 4ths, I...

    Anna and Jeffrey, my out-of-state sister and bro-in-law, are the ones who finally got us on the Pumpkinvine Trail. (James and Anne said it's about time!) They celebrated their 4th year of marriage on an air mattress in our stuffy loft, but my, did we...

James celebrated his golden birthday a couple Sundays ago. 30 on the 30th. I told him this is the coolest one he'll ever have. It's all downhill from here. There are so many components to this surprise, I'll try pare it down. (Yeah, right.) Sunday, we ate the traditional bunny cake. Unfortunately,...

Corban scooters on the sidewalk in front of our house, with his neighborhood buddies, in several nice neighbors' driveways, and basically all over the neighborhood! He's learned to push, to glide, to veer, and to brake (none of which are technical scootering terms, mind you)....

What's the best way to ensure hundreds of maggots, a house without power, water shooting through a basement hole, and a grumpy-doesn't-even-begin-to-describe-him toddler? Have your husband leave for a week to attend a national design conference in San Francisco. But truly, and I mean truly, we have  much to be thankful...

I grew up between country air and towering trees Vibrant flowers and rolling landscapes But observing beauty in nature is not something teens do well And so going back as an adult slams my senses. Here's a little vision feast of a slice of my folks' property. ...

Taping, hiding, playing. Wondering, hogging, painting. [caption id="attachment_3558" align="aligncenter" width="614"] The hole that goes to nowhere.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3561" align="aligncenter" width="614"] Pretty sure he drank the gallon of apple juice by himself.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3559" align="aligncenter" width="408"] I can't express to you the awful floral pattern...

For James' Christmas gift this past Christmas, I pre-made/paid for 12 dates, one per month. While most of them were just for us, I did include a couple family dates, and May's date was one of those! So last weekend we packed up the car...

Janelle and I have this thing where we like to take our husbands on really super amazing double dates. Well, what better time to do that than when I'm on maternity leave and she's on Christmas Break? Here's how it went down: The Game: The boys didn't...

Well, folks, my apologies for it being so long in between updates. A lot has happened this past month and we plan to fill you in through a series of posts to get you caught up. First things first—we moved! Praise the Lord for our...