This afternoon, we drove down to a State Park close to our house for a BBQ with some friends that will be moving soon. We had hot dogs and hamburgers, chips and soda, pasta salad and cookies. Apple left a bench-full of vanilla sandwich cookies stripped of their frosting middles… After dinner, we played at [...]

One of my good friends, Safire, invited us to go to a near-by beach for the day. We had so much fun! It was really hard to pull the kids away. Taco built mountains and moats in the sand all day long.Nerds, on the other hand, was in the water (which was surprisingly pleasant) all [...]

My sister, Andrea, and her daughter, Vanessa, came up for some sisterly and cousinly bonding time. We like to pack in lots of fun when we get together! It’s pretty funny to put the two of us together…..we are snapping pictures constantly! My kids are so much more willing to pose when Andrea’s around! (Thanks, [...]

Yesterday was a perfect day for the pool. Vanessa and Andrea joined us for some splash time.It sure helps to go swimming with another adult, especially one who knows her way around with a camera!Vanessa was curious about all of the silly things her cousins were doing.She decided that the pool water tasted yummy, and [...]

A group of us from church met at a kiddie pool with all of the pre-schoolers. While we were baking in the heat and trying to stay cool in the pool, we were talking about the older kids getting out of school for the summer later this week….and I realized that I was the only [...]

When we got to Peanut Butter’s company picnic this afternoon at 4:00, the outside temperature was fluctuating between 97 and 100 degrees. It was HOT. Poor Taco had a really hard time adjusting to the heat. His head was immediately sweaty.Apple, on the other hand, had already had a full and tiring day, and so [...]