“Beautiful as a flower to those who love it,terrible as a meteor to those who hate it,it is the symbol of the power and the gloryand the honor of the millions of Americans.” –Senator George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904)

Today is Flag Day! I know somewhere I have a bunch of pictures of the flagpole we have in front of our house, but I’ve not been able to find them quickly this morning (I feel another blog entry coming on regarding programs for sorting ditial pictures). I’m going to …

We were all in town all day New Year’s Eve doing year end shopping for the business. Sometime in the mid afternoon one of our friends, Kim, called on her way home from Denver to say she had talked to another one of our friends and they both decided to …

This year my brother came up with an idea for a float that his YMCA spinning class (as is cycling) could do to represent the local YMCA. He spent several days the week of Thanksgiving working on it as well as most of Thanksgiving Day. The day of the parade, …

Every Christmas morning the kids come down the stairs and head right to their stockings. We were SO GLAD that Amanda was able to stay at home on Christmas Eve so this tradition could continue with all of our kids for yet another year (and hopefully many more to come!) …

Every year my mom comes up with some creative way to give out her presents. This year was no exception. Here Josh is helping her figure out what needs to be done (LOL). This year everything was wrapped several times with the last couple of layers being wrapped in newspaper.After …

This is the 18th year that my dad has played Santa Claus. The kids have all grown up knowing the story of St. Nicholas and they have always known that Grandpa is Santa Claus. Below Tim and Nathan are watching for him to come. We have this down to quite …

I’m sorry I don’t know the name for this appetizer. I don’t even really have the recipe. Our pastor’s wife made this yummy appetizer one day last summer when they had us over for dinner. First. I started with a special plate! I received the CUTEST snowman serving dish from …

We like to stretch Christmas out for as long as we can (LOL)! A few years ago we started celebrating Christmas with Tim’s folks on the Sunday before Christmas since Christmas Eve became too hectic with both of us playing for so many services. This year I didn’t have to …

Emily with Tim’s mom, Grandma Jean (above). We played a few quick games of spoons and then some GOLF! FUN FUN! Below, Skyler is showing Nathan how to work the automatic card shuffler. Looks like they’re contemplating something (LOL). After Nathan got tired of playing cards he brought his play …