Knitted hats, lots of ornaments, and popcorn garlands are just a few of the holiday makings going on around here these days, thanks to our advent calendar. The ornaments pictured above are crystal ornaments, a feather angel, salt…
I LOVE having Matt home with us. It’s just plain awesome and fun and wonderful to be a family that has time to share together. One of our favorite things to do as a family is to play…
We went to see the Nutcracker for the 4th year in a row and had another magical time. It was so sweet to see them come home, put on their dress-up clothes, and run around outside being a…
An afternoon in the life of a sweet 4 year old boy. He is sometimes such a challenge for me with the occasional tantrum, whining, pestering of his sister, breaking things (really just checking out how they…
You might think they were more excited to have the iPad home than their dad upon his return after a week at sea, especially when the first words out of Cedar’s mouth were, “Dad, can I play the…
A few iphone photos of several of our latest Christmas activities: tree decorating, setting up nativity pieces, this year’s advent calendar (decorated envelopes strung on a ribbon with cards inside for daily Christmas activities), salt dough ornament making,…
We ventured out to find some woods recently and found that this definitely ain’t Montana, but there are woods to walk in and beautiful things to enjoy here in Jacksonville. We had a full day together of driving,…