Many thanks to Kelly from Life With Boys for giving me this blog award MONTHS ago. Sometimes it takes me FOREVER to get around to posting these types of things and it’s certainly not because I don’t appreciate them or want them listed on my blog. The problem up until …

Sometime after Christmas Nathan was asking if we could buy some more “egg milk.” We had NO IDEA what he was talking about. Finally, we figured out that he was talking about Egg Nog. He really likes it especially when I use it in place of milk for french toast. …

A few weeks ago several of the Christian radio stations were raising money for world hunger. Nathan had heard some of the broadcasts asking for people to send money for the children who go to bed hungry every night. One night Nathan asked if he could have a sandwich or …

Doesn’t the above look YUMMY? Sorry. I don’t have a recipe for these chicken fajitas my mom made for us. I’ve been meaning to post pictures of the meals she has made for us recently, but they are usually devoured before I have a chance to snap a picture. My …

Lately, it seems like we’ve had snow every other day. On the days when it’s warm and not snowing, the guys quickly head out back to work on the pad for the shop we’re building. They also had to build a new road to the back of our property. The …

While we were in Kauai, we found the CUTEST album which is shown above. The green part of the album is made of leaves presumably from the area. The turtle, front edge, and entire backside of the album are made from some sort of wood. The Kauai is embroidered onto …

Our poor sweet Em has been under the weather for a couple of weeks now. Last Friday, I took her to see our friend who is a Dr. and at that time she didn’t have strep throat or an ear infection or anything. He gave her a few things to …

Ok. That title is a slight exaggeration. We’re not really experiencing an “earthquake” but the earth is quaking out here! Many of you know that we are in the dirt excavation business which means we have lots of heavy equipment around. We’re building a shop out back this spring so …

I have enjoyed several Francine Rivers books over the years so when I saw The Scarlet Thread being passed around our co-op, I asked if I could borrow it as well. I loved the historical element where Francine compared/contrasted the present day struggles of the main character, Sierra Madrid, to …

Lisa at the Berry Patch is having a Spring Where You Are photo challenge. I think she should have had a Spring Where ARE You challenge because I’m not certain spring will ever arrive this year. I think we’ve had more moisture here so far this “spring” than we had …