It’s that time of year again: the time when we ask our friends to dress up in ridiculous costumes and come to our house to play games that cause them to lose all manner of dignity. In other words, our favorite night of the year. This year’s dress up theme: someone/thing from the Read More
Christmas Parties
Friday Favorites
Favorite picture We have another Grace on our hands. Tess walked around with these zebra ears (including an attached balloon) all day, every day for about a week. Favorite kid quote Grace, after hearing that all her friends were at school but she was home sick: “Well, isn’t this just a rotten day”. Read More
The Nutcracker
Last Saturday was Girl’s Day. We went out to lunch, stopped at Starbucks, and then watched the Nutcracker. Grace loved the ballerinas…especially the ones that came out in purple and pink tutus. And she has been twirling around our house ever since. We asked a teen girl to take our picture-aren’t they supposed Read More
Sunday School Christmas Program
We had our Sunday school Christmas program a couple weekends ago, and the kids did such a great job. Grace does not like being on the stage, but we practiced her song over and over and with the help of her teacher and a large poinsettia, she was able to pull it off. Max had a long, Read More





