Last Friday the girls’ school had a Rockin’ Red Social to celebrate Valentine’s Day.  Their school has a pretty strict no party policy so the PTSA (that includes me!) put on this dance to celebrate this friendship day and get all the community families together.  Let me tell ya, with more than 900 kids in […]

Kylie’s go the Powa.  That was the mantra of the most amazing boy.  Two years ago he was diagnosed with rare brain stem tumor.  Last Saturday Kyle lost his mighty battle and yesterday more than 500 people came to celebrate his life. What an amazing service and what an amazing (though way to short) life.  […]

Since I don’t usually do posts on the weekend I will wish you all a Happy Valentine’s Day now. The Love project, above, was a creative collaboration between Ellie and I.  I couldn’t talk her into using this for her valentines so I stole it for my blog. Happy Weekend!

Last weekend I got away for a glorious girls weekend.  Every year I meet a group of college girlfriends for a weekend for relaxing and remembering.  This year we had a small group up to a ‘cabin’  (Yeah right!) in beautiful Ronald Washington.  Never heard of it?  Neither had I!  Now I want to go […]

A snowy surprise in the morning.  We weren’t supposed to get snow on Monday but surprise surprise we had a nice blanket of 2-3 inches.  Cooper could hardly wait to get out back to make his doggy snow angels and eat his ballcicles.   (I’m talking about a tennis ball, folks!)

For Christmas Allen and I gave Ellie and Kate some suede boots (Jill got a down vest).  Aside from the cool fashion factor, this gift was actually a bit self serving.  Kate NEVER has socks on which always caused delay in getting out the door to school.  Now all she has to do is slip […]