WHAT A SWEET TREAT! What did we do to deserve this special treatment? The sweetest thing happened on Friday morning when I received a phone call from a church friend and fellow scrapbooker, Susan. She asked if she could bring something out to our house. Fortunately, our house was STILL …

FAMILY NIGHT: I’m guessing most families don’t pick a week night to have their “family night” activities. We do. Our “family night” this year is going to have to be Tuesday night because it’s the only night that we are all able to commit to being home. We are all …

SCHOOL DAYS – Amanda I can’t believe that another school year has already started. And, more than that, I can’t believe that Amanda is a Senior this year! WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE? It seems like just yesterday I was trying to chose between 5 math programs for her kindergarten …

GOOD HUNTING!I bet you think this is going to be a post about hunting, right? NOT! The phrase “Good Hunting” is a jungle greeting we learned in theater camp this week! Yep. Every year the kids and I participate in 2 MCT plays – one in the fall and one …

DRILLING This week Josh worked on a scooter that one of his friends gave him. It needed a hole drilled and a new bolt put attached. I caught these pictures of him out in the garage helping his dad this morning and I’m hoping he wasn’t using this big drill …

THE BOYS AND GRANDPA WORK ON THEIR HOBBY!TRAINS:Every spare minute the boys are asking to go to grandpa’s house to work on their train hobby. Josh is in charge of working on the Christmas table. Here is the start. It looks like he has a long way to go. I’ll …

RAIN AND CARHARTS!Josh is checking out the weather and discussing it with his grandpa. Josh has been wanting a carhart work outfit for a couple of years, but I never think about it until later in the winter season when I can’t find any in his size. We were in …

WHAT DOES YOUR NAME MEAN? This little quiz struck me as SO FUNNY because of a conversation our worship team had the Friday night before I took the quiz. We were all talking about how there is a nerd and a something else that makes up each couple… sorry I …

ASH IN THE AIR! You can’t really tell in this picture HOW RED the sun is… but it is blood red and has a huge glow around it presumably from the smoke in the air. The first picture is from here at our house and the 2nd picture is 30 …

BREADMAKING! Two weeks ago I got up one morning and decided I would make some bread… not sure what got into me because I had PLENTY to do that day without adding one more thing to my very long list. I made several loaves with the above one being the …