We braved the 26 degree weather Friday night and went shopping for our Christmas tree. You know, because nothing says holiday cheer like frostbite… We came home, had hot chocolate, put the kids to bed and strung the lights, then Saturday morning let them help us put up the ornaments. One of the ornaments we […]
[Continue reading...]Christmas Past
December 4, 2008 by
A few pictures from Christmases past. This is not an original idea – I stole it from Tiffany. But I thought it would be fun to walk down the holiday memory lane. Enjoy! Christmas 2003 Sloan is five months old and quite the brute. Christmas 2004Sloan at 17 months old and quite the ham. Christmas […]
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Maybe we need to show him Star Wars
December 3, 2008 by
The other day, Sloan came walking into the living room, Tia trailing quick at his heels. He grasped in his hand his new Light Saber, which he got as an early Christmas gift from his cousins over Thanksgiving. For some reason he is obsessively into Star Wars, which is a mystery to me because he’s […]
[Continue reading...]It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
December 1, 2008 by
The kids are at my mom’s house today. I have Christmas music blaring and I’m putting up all our decorations. There’s a dusting of snow on the ground and I think I’ll make some hot chocolate! I’m finished with my shopping. We’ll get our tree this Saturday and I’ll put the wrapped gifts out. I […]
[Continue reading...]Sloan Sayings – The Thanksgiving Edition
November 28, 2008 by
We’re in Arkansas this weekend visitng family. We had a great, relaxing Thanksgiving yesterday and today the cousins come in so the kids are giddy with excitement. Sloan has had a couple of real gems the last couple of days. I thought I’d record them for future reference. We were driving home the other night […]
[Continue reading...]Just like that, I was in 7th grade again…
November 25, 2008 by
I went shopping today. I still have quite a bit of Christmas shopping to do, but I’m proud to say I finished most of it this afternoon. Thanks to my mom for making that possible by keeping the kids for me! While I was at a local store, I came across a small bottle of […]
[Continue reading...]The Pilgrims have landed! A Brief History…
November 21, 2008 by
When I was fifteen years old, I went on my first mission trip to the former Soviet Union. We spent two weeks in Belarus and Moscow. Part of our program was to go to different schools and show pictures of our every day lives and explain what life was like for us as American teenagers. […]
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