For Jill’s birthday party she wanted to have a day at the movies with her two best friends and dinner at our favorite mexican restaurant.  It was so much fun we all had to jump for joy! Along with Ellie and Kate we took Madison and Henry to go see ‘Hotel for Dogs’.  That was […]

We have had the crud moving slowly through our house since Christmas.  It started with Ellie and I thought we were home free for the rest of the family but Jill had a fever on and off for most of last week.  Kate then caught the croup so I dragged both girls into the doctor […]

As of 8pm last night I have a 10 year old.  I can’t be old enough for that, right?  Jill is 10.  Yikes! Let me tell you about what an amazing daughter I have.  She is a fantastic reader and a total morning person (up at 6:00 am reading every day).   She is not […]

I promised pictures from Jack’s first year photo session and here they are. I some great pictures of Joelle and Jack and I realized that I haven’t taken NEARLY enough pictures of Stephen with Jack.  He’s such a great dad, and quite photogenic.  Next time Stephen.  No hiding! It’s so strange around here.  I didn’t […]

A week and a half ago we adopted this furry guy.  We ADORE him!  We’d heard about him before Christmas, but with all of the travelling we did we knew we couldn’t even think about getting a dog until after we got back. We all prayed REALLY hard that he would be waiting for us […]

Can you believe it?  Jack is one today.  It’s little man’s birthday.  We went to Joelle and Stephen’s house yesterday for a fun little birthday party.  Ellie, Kate and I all had a blast watching Jack open his gifts and smash his first cake.  (Unfortunately Jill had a fever all weekend so Allen and Jill […]