Thank you everyone who sent me birthday greetings!
And happy birthday again to my handsome 7 year old son today! Thanks dad and mom for taking him to Sea World today!!

Evan and Ella went ice-skating for the first time ever at Kids Club a few weeks ago. They had a blast!
Here are a couple of pics I scored. Not sure who to thank for the photography (Linda? Nikki?), but thank you Nina for sending them to me, and thank you Michelle for taking Evan and […]

Evan decided that he wanted a hamburger this year for his birthday instead of cake. He also picked popsicles as a substitute for the traditional ice-cream. So we had a BBQ for his birthday party. He cousins and friends came over. The played a basketball game in the driveway, had a pinata, and lots of other fun play.
Evan […]

We were able to get the kids passes to Sea World for their birthday presents this year. Thankfully they were having a special deal on them so it worked out a lot cheaper than we were expecting to pay. We’re really excited that we’ll have something fun to do on Family days this year. We took […]

Evan drew plans on his whiteboard for a new “rocket bed” that he’s designed. He put all the measurements in and everything.  

Ella at school time. She’s your dream student: focused, always telling you what she needs to work on next, and wanting to finish her work quickly. (on her good days

 Evan, the math wiz, at work.

Our […]

We’re off to Sea World today with the kids. It’s an exciting day. We’re going to be getting one year passes as presents for the kids’ birthdays. This will be the third year in a row that we will be at meetings on Evan’s birthday. But God is good and He’s blessing Evan with three […]

We just got back from 5 days away at board meetings.
Michelle took such good care of our children for us while we were away and nursed them back to health. They were pretty sick when we left and that was hard, but Michelle went the extra mile giving them care, vitamins on the hour, keeping […]

Several days ago I lost my wedding ring when I took it off to work out and put it somewhere “obvious” –no doubt. I’ve been pretty disturbed about it and tonight I started the search once again after whining for Darren’s help he got in on the search.
“I THINK I tossed it into one of […]

(Thank you Crystal, for sending this to me today!)  

Being a Mom 

We are sitting at lunch one day when my daughter casually mentions that she and her husband are thinking of “starting a family.”  “We’re taking a survey,” she says half-joking, “Do you think I should have a baby?” “It will change your life,” I […]