So I have a 9 year old. That makes me feel weird. I totally remember being 9 myself. My family returned from three years of living in Englan...

Life is getting so much better now that I've got some patterns and systems in place. Actually DOING simple things that I've always ...

Last week both Jared and Ashton were featured in newspaper stories - Jared for winning this big "Concept to Company" contest for s...

Oliver and Silas are FOUR! We celebrated with a big pancake breakfast, Joy School combined with a birthday party at our house, mini go-cart...

Silas and Oliver 4 years ago getting ready to go home from the hospital Oliver and Silas today - wow do those little preemie outfits look sm...

The MASSIVE tree at my parents' new house We had a great post-Christmas time up at my parents' new place - lots of playing in the sn...

I'm so grateful for the chance to start off this new year fresh. Last year was a hard year in many ways - emotional roller coaster ride...

We all agreed that this was the best Christmas yet. All the kids were at the perfect ages to really understand and get excited about Christ...

I'll let the pictures do most of the talking here - this was the first time we've let the twins stay up and participate and they wer...

We did our gingerbread house on the Monday before Christmas. The kids had been begging to get going on their gingerbread house since Thanks...