We enjoyed Thanksgiving with the Rands this year again.  Another year of successfully enjoying lots of great food, fabulous company and fun games!

We started putting up the decorations the day after Thanksgiving this year.  Due to my extremely late Thanksgiving night coupled with a touch of morning sickness, I sat out on the 3 am [...]

Amber and I did the Turkey Trot again this year the morning of Thanksgiving.  Will missed snapping our photo finish, but the guys were present to be our witnesses.  I love that the guys give us so much love and support!  I chalk Will’s confusion up to the fact that we were able to shave [...]

Hudson is finally 5!  We are so excited for him.  We celebrated the day with a carnival in the backyard and a few of his friends.  Hot dogs, kettle corn, face painting, balloon animals…we tried to keep them all busy!

We tried out some old school carnival games  and I think the kids enjoyed them.

Will did [...]

I find that I struggle whenever it comes to making big announcements.   Parties, galas, radio announcements, proposals on the Jumbo Tron, the list is endless when it comes to proclaiming good tidings to the world.  Break out the banner flying airplane because, “We’re going to Brazil!”(Just kidding, we aren’t really leaving the country.  I [...]

We had our first round of family pictures this year.  Really it was a recipe for disaster, but everything turned out great.
What made me think, pictures will go great during dinner time-the kids can wait.  They don’t look that hungry. As I wonder to myself, why are my children running up and down the stairs?  [...]