Less Ordinary Designs Giveaway!

GIVEAWAY OVER!
You know that I love Sara’s Less Ordinary Designs personalized cards…and I know that many of you love them too, as I’ve gotten some in the mail over the last year!
Sara’s graciously offered to partner up with me again so that I can give one of YOU a free Christmas card design (or birth [...]

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 [...]

So I Have This Blog Friend…

…and her name is Sara. You know, the one who makes the fabulous photo cards? We got to meet in real life last summer when our mutual friend Heather had us over for lunch while Sara and her family were in town visiting.
Well, Sara and her husband, Kyle, and their 2-year-old, Jack, just [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Flashback, 1995.

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

Eight Years

I don’t really feel like rehashing September 11 on the blog today…I did this post last year with my recollection of the day.
Instead, I’d like to ask you to pray for this family, the Nevils. Jeremy enlisted in the Army 3 years ago, and 2 months ago, he was deployed to Afghanistan (his unit was [...]

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 [...]

Applesauce Day!

Today is “applesauce day,” as I affectionately call it, where my friend Heather and I take about a bazillion apples (technically speaking, 4 bushels) and make applesauce to last throughout the year.
The process is described in last year’s post, We’re Either Crazy or Stupid which was fun for me to reread and see pictures from [...]

Current Events.

I used to call myself a Republican. Now I think I’ll just stick with “conservative” since that seems a better descriptor, lest someone think by “Republican” I mean “hypocritical, unfaithful spouse.”
Seriously, Republicans, can you please, please stop letting me down with all your righteous talk and subsequent infidelity? It’s getting embarrassing.
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Not sure if [...]

Surprise!

Last weekend, Matt and I got to be a part of a really cool surprise.
Our friend Sonya (I’ve known her since birth, remember?) invited us to come to their beautiful home in Indy to surprise Kirk for his 40th birthday. He knew that there was a party, but Sonya had several surprises for him [...]

Too Tired to Come up with a Catchy Title.

What a fun weekend – it involved a wedding, an overnight date (I know, can you believe it?), a baseball game, a trip to the pool, church, another baseball game, and a visit from an old (but younger than me!) friend.
On Friday night, Matt’s parents were gracious enough to come stay at our house while [...]