Smithsonians

We are at the cabin! How fun to spend Christmas here. We figured that since we were in between houses, we would have our entire Christmas ...

Santa came to Mike's work today. They invited all the families for a little party. Milk, cookies and pictures with Santa were promised...

My dad called today and wanted to know when he could give the kids their Christmas presents. At the last minute, we decided to meet at Grand...

There is a ton of snow up here right now. That is great. The only problem is the Internet barely works. I'm guessing because of the s...

I really need to start taking pictures again. This blog is getting pretty boring. I miss my little camera. Mike's camera is great, bu...

Today started on a sad note. Maysen has been working on a story for a long time. She has spent many hours on this. Today it wouldn’t open. T...

Mike and I finished stripping out the wallpaper in our downstairs bathroom. Mike bought a steamer to help us with this project. While we w...

Jorja finished her first week of Chinese! She survived! Friday and Monday were pretty stressful for her, but the rest of the week wasn...

Last week Myrna, our real estate agent, told us that our water was turned off in our house in Georgia. Weird, we were current with our paym...

Jorja and I went to book club today at the library. We read 11 Birthdays. We finished it yesterday. Book club was pretty fun. The girls ...

I'm here at our new house, wishing we could move in already. Oh well, we will have plenty of time here, so I don't need to rush it....

Today was a great, great day for diving! Too bad Mike had to work late and I didn't bring the video camera. Jorja did a dive off of th...

When we were putting Maysen and Stockton to bed, Maysen was laughing and said, "Stockton wanted to talk about how people bug him."...

Stockton had his first diving competition today. The girls had no desire to compete. His competition was up in Park City. It was really f...

Jorja started her new school today. Third one this year. She is a trouper. Her teacher's name is Mrs. Meier. She teaches Jorja in th...

Today was Jorja's first day at her new school. But she was sick. She never missed a day last year, but this year it's a whole new ...

When I was in the boy's room putting away laundry, I heard birds. They were pretty loud. I was confused as to why they were so loud an...

Every once in awhile, Preston will say something like, "Before I was in the family I liked this cereal." That always gives me a ch...

We had waffles for dinner. Besides the regular syrup, I put hershey's syrup and whipped cream on the table. I thought Stockton would l...

Preston was being spotlighted in Primary at church today. He worked on his paper during the week and had it all ready in the red folder. I...

Mike spent the entire day at the new house. He has been working on the wiring, so hopefully we can get the sheetrock up next week. We have...

I got a call from the assistant principal at the school Jorja will be attending when we are at our new house. I had met with her before Than...

I have been so excited to go to the Festival of Trees this year. It was something I loved to do when I was growing up, and has been years si...

Still no luck finding Jorja's swimsuit. I decided I needed to get her a new one today. I couldn't stand the thought of making her wa...

Preston told me today that his name is Puppy. Preston is his optional name.

We had diving today. I had the swimsuit all clean and ready and by the door . . . or so I thought. Jorja's swim skirt was missing. W...

There is snow, snow, snow here! We knew there was no way the van would make it up the driveway, so we headed over to the new house after ch...

Three years ago, when Ange came to Georgia to help take care of me after my surgery, Ange made these awesome gingerbread houses. They were r...

Today seemed like a never-ending day. Maybe it is the tryptophan still doing its job. I meant to take the kids to Steve & Shannon...

Happy Thanksgiving! As soon as I woke up today, Stockton greeted me singing, "I win! I win!" For his birthday - way back in Januar...