Jill is our cautious kid.  That’s actually an understatement!  This kid gets all caught up in her own mind and can talk herself out of doing things way more efficiently than we can! It feels like we’ve really turned a corner in our family this year.  Not only has Kate made it to a stage […]

WARNING – World’s longest post coming up.  I have way too many pictures and we had way too much fun to make this short.  I have started writing this post three times because I don’t know where to start! The whole philosophy behind Young Life camps is that they want kids to have ‘The best […]

This is how we get ready for spring soccer.  We hose off our boots from fall soccer, check the camping chairs for mold (just in case we put them away too quickly last fall) and we check our cleats for toe room.  We’ve actually been quite lucky this season.  A few rainy days and no […]

The last time I asked that I was in Australia.  This time I am in a place that is not nearly exotic.  We are on a way back from Antelope, Oregon.  Never heard of it?  Nope, neither had I before we started going to Family Camp. That picture above is from Family Camp last year.  […]

I’m really not much of a Neil Diamond fan, but it does make a nice title for a blog post, doesn’t it?  Here are the fun baby pictures I promised.  Mark and Sabath claim Miss Caroline doesn’t know how to sit, but look how great she did?  I think my studio has magical powers because […]

Sabath and Mark brought their girlies for pictures last weekend and I felt like I was transported backwards about four years.  Their three girls have just about the same age range as my three girls and it was so fun to see them all interact.  There is the somewhat serious firstborn who takes responsibility for […]