Earlier this summer we purchased a small, 18′, above ground pool from Costco. This is a trial run to see if we can really keep up a pool during our already busy summer months. So far so good. We are considering putting an inground pool in this fall or next …

Are you all wondering what we’ve been up to lately? We’ve been so busy I haven’t had time to blog much. Now that I have a minute to blog, I’m not sure what’s kept us so busy (LOL). I rarely get a picture of everyone together anymore so the above …

Nathan has been BUSY this summer. He loves playing with this little kitten that just showed up at our door one day. It’s tame. Ours are not since we have mostly barn cats. I’ll put the photo info in italics since it doesn’t really pertain to “Nathan”, but I don’t …

Three of our kids have June birthdays. Grandma Jean bright this birthday hat to every birthday celebration. Again, as you’ll see in other blog posts from earlier tonight further down aways, I’ve been working on trying to capture certain expressions. The sentiments expressed by each of the boys upon having …

A couple of weeks ago we met some friends at the park for Nathan’s birthday. We picked up our “other girls” from daycare so they could come along as well. The youngest one fell down and Nathan was right there to make sure she was ok – consoling and praying …

Nathan *LOVES* to sing! He sings ALL of the time. He has “worship team practice” here at the house several times a day. We have band practice a LOT and he tells each of us what to play, when to play, etc. During a slow part of the song he’ll …

Ok. I KNOW this is a little late, but it’s so cold and rainy here today that I decided to work on our ski pictures from this year using some really cute layouts from smilebox which I blogged about a few days ago. The “Winter Thrill” album is like a …

One day after co-op some of the other moms and I were standing around visiting and watching the kids out the window. They were wondering what Nathan was doing (LOL). I guess they had never seen anyone “snow plant” before >VBG>! Snow planting is where you shuffle your feet along …

In this picture, I was again trying to practice with the natural light coming in the window. I was trying to capture some of the water dripping from his hair, but you can’t really see it. I’m not sure I like how the light coming from behind lights up his …

One of the restaurants we like to eat at was having a drawing for a big Christmas stocking full of toys, candy, gift cards, and everything else you can imagine. While we were there eating one night the waitress gave each of the boys a card to fill out to …