The birthday season has started at our house. The first birthday was Sept. 29. We have a birthday about every two weeks after that all the way into January. Fudge celebrated her seventh birthday on Saturday. She baked and decorated her own cake (a beehive) and couldn’t wait to blow out the candles. This was […]

Love the 3 for $1 swirly lollipops! They provide some fun, cheap entertainment. Unless, of course, you only happen to pick up three and there are at least four littles at home fighting over them. =) What was I thinking? Thank goodness this one decided they didn’t taste all that great and gave hers to […]

I’m just squeaking in on this post before the deadline. Here’s Special Dark enjoying the puddles on the gravel….right after we got home from church, so he’s still in his church clothes. =) He has grown so much since this picture was taken about a year ago. {{sigh}} They grow up too fast! Visit I […]

This week’s theme was hard! Here’s the definition I ♥ Faces gave for contemplative: thoughtful observation; full or deep consideration; dreamily or wistfully thoughtful: a pensive mood; expressing or revealing thoughtfulness; quiet modes of apparent or real thought; can be marked by some sadness, but doesn’t have to be. I finally caught my second daughter […]

The Band-Aid Bandit This little guy just cracks me up. He begged for weeks for us to get him a cowboy hat. He’d go up to his dad and very sweetly and solemnly say, “You have a cowboy hat. Cousin David has a cowboy hat,” and then shaking his head slowly while looking very sad, […]