Josh has been taking drum lessons for 2 years now, but his progress has been hampered by not enough cymbals. REALLY? ACK! I was barely able to tolerate the noise level with only one cymbal and the rest of the drum kit. He was ready to start back to lessons …

For the non-homeschooling moms that read my blog, please don’t take offense, but I have to admit that I sometimes get a little jealous this time of the year when I’ve spent all summer catching up on things that didn’t get done during the school year, preparing for next year’s …

Earlier this summer, one of Nathan’s friends asked if he was going to play soccer this fall. We thought about it and decided he could even though NONE of our other kids have started any team sports this young – he’s only FIVE! The girls were in gymnastics when they …

This is more of a behind the scenes update, but I’ll go ahead and post about it incase it’s helpful to any of you. My blog skin uses the old blogger template. Because of that, when you scroll down to the end of a page you’ll notice there isn’t an …

Last July I posted a blogosphere Scrapbook Challenge as an incentive to help *me* get motivated to do some scrapbooking. I haven’t had much time for blogging lately because life keeps me pretty busy around here and then you add in a few church and co-op activities and well it …

On Tuesday night, I was at a Co-op meeting when I saw a call coming in from Amanda on my cell phone. She knew I was in a meeting. Knowing she knew that, I knew she wouldn’t call unless it was something important so before I even answered the phone …

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 …

Way back in April, Amanda bought a new bicycle. Not just any bicycle. An expensive light weight racing type bicycle. She is now officially in training for a ride she’s doing in September. 450 miles or so if I remember right. It’s a fund raiser for a program that benefits …

Last weekend Amanda and her bike-riding friend, Stacie, rode a 25 mile race in our state games. Here are a few random pictures of Amanda getting ready for the race. Attaching her Road ID to her ankle. It has my cell phone #, daddy’s cell phone #, our home phone …

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 …