Category: Our Life

I received a Gold Star Blog Award from Nani at the Chronicles of Nani. Nani was one of my fellow contestants at Stone Accents Studio’s Design contest and all of us came to know...

Hey everyone, I have thought long and hard on it, and have decided to create a new blog in order that I may focus more closely on scrapbooking on one blog and our personal...

I have been meaning to post pictures of our new deck. We are thrilled to have it and are so thankful that it is in the shade most of the day, thanks to a...

Greg and I have been doing a lot of talking about how great it would be to live in a community that was less car-focused. A community that was sustainable and where the important...

So now I have TWO itsy bitsy spiders, both hanging from my monitor. Maybe I need to rethink my ‘live and let live’ policy. And move my computer desk to another part of the...

I picked Adrianna up from childcare right after she awoke from her afternoon nap. Janette and I were praising her for the great nap she had just taken (she doesn’t always take a nap...

One of the previews before Wall-E was for Madagascar 2. It must have stuck with Adrianna, because tonight I overheard her singing in the bathroom, “I like to move it, move it. I like...

On Wednesday night, we took Adrianna to her first movie at a movie theatre. After hearing lots of positive things from friends about the movie and checking online reviews to make sure it wouldn’t...

This is a conversation I overheard as Adrianna and I walked up the stairs. All voices were done by Adrianna. Adrianna: Let’s bring the cracker upstairs and eat it. Cracker, in a high, squeeky...

Last weekend when we were driving up to Wyoming to visit my family, Adrianna saw a windmill out on the open prairie. She asked us, “Is that a fan in the grass?”

As I sit here, I am watching a little baby spider explore my monitor. He alternates between hanging on a web to just walking around. I don’t have the heart to do anything about...