My Nephew is Cooler Than Your Nephew

My brother just emailed me this picture of my nephew Will a couple of days ago with the following message:
Michael Scott, this one’s for you…

Are they the coolest parents ever or what?

Happiness Is…

…a long drive by yourself. With three kids, uninterrupted time alone in the car has become precious to me, so you’ll understand why I so enjoyed this weekend!
On Friday night, I set off for Effingham for my SIL Andrea’s baby shower (pictures later in this post!). I sadly kissed my kids and husband [...]

Trick or Treat! The 2009 Edition.

What a fun night! Halloween* has become one of the nights of the year I most look forward to with our kids…it’s just such a fun evening for all of us, and we get to enjoy it with neighbors and my family, too.
The night started off like this:
But it got much, much better.
We had [...]

Apples. 19.5 Pounds of Them, To Be Exact.

Yes, you read that right. We picked nearly 20 pounds of apples today at Eckert’s. I’m feeling a bit like Forrest Gump thinking of all the things I can make with apples over the next couple of weeks…
Though it was chilly, it was a great day to be at the orchard! It [...]

All Right, All Right

I won’t get rid of the wedding dress! Sheesh! I really anticipated that there would be more people out there who felt like I did, but you’re right…I should just tape the box back up and put it into storage. Since we aren’t Catholic, I highly doubt that it will be made [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Flashback, 1995.

Ya’ll know I can’t actually be wordless, don’t you? 1995. It was a good year.

Girl!

I got a fun phone call this week…my sister-in-law, Andrea, called to tell us that she’d just had her ultrasound, and yes, my first niece is on her way, due January 14th!!
I was at the mall today and couldn’t help but glance at the other side of the Gymboree store…can you believe how cute this [...]

WFMW: My Mom Would Be So Proud!

This week’s WFMW theme is “Back to School.” I had already written up a lot of this post, and just decided to turn it into a WFMW since I haven’t participated in a while!
There are so many things that I miss being able to tell my mom, even dumb little things, and this is [...]

Heidi & Jeff’s Wedding Weekend Recap

Because it would take me a whole day to write about the story of the wedding weekend (and I’m already feeling so behind, since it’s already Tuesday afternoon), I’m going to mainly tell about it through pictures, which is more fun anyway. I’m always bummed after an event like this, though, because I start [...]

The Bachelorette.

No, not the show, silly…my cute SIL Heidi is the bachelorette, and Saturday night was her big night!
Here was my itinerary:
Friday, 11pm: Try to fall asleep despite kid-at-Christmas anticipation.
Saturday, 3am: Awakened by Bennett, who needed something random in the middle of the night; contemplate just getting up for the day. Change my mind.
4:30am: Wake [...]