No one gets more excited for their birthday to arrive than this girl. She starts counting down about 3 months out. She decided she wanted a luau theme this year, for both her family party and her friends. Claire and Grace both crocheted her favorite animals. And the rest of the day we did Read More
Tessa’s Celebrations
The Rest of May
The beginning and end of the 2024/2025 school year. 😢 Tessa LOVED second grade. She, Grace, and Max all had Mrs. Hagen for 2nd grade and so enjoyed their years in her claas. Tessa cried coming out of school on the last day- she wasn’t ready for it to be over. Grace enjoyed 5th grade, Read More
Tessa is 9
How it started…. How it’s going… Tessa lives life to the absolute fullest. She is ready to try anything, she loves to be involved, and she loves to have fun. She loves animals (real or stuffed), She loves sleeping close to her momma, and she loves to laugh. And we love and are so thankful Read More
May
May started with a couple of birthdays. Ben turned 45 and my dad turned 70! My brother found him a trailer for his motorcycle from all us kids, and had it personalized for him. My brother showing up was even a surprise, but I managed to ruin it that day. 🤦🏽♀️ Tess wrapped up the Read More
Fifteen
Our wild and crazy, sports loving, deeply entertaining one and only son turned 15 on April 28. He joined the golf team this year and absolutely loved it. He golfs every single day, with friends or by himself. So we thought maybe this was the year we got a golf cart, and we surprised him Read More
Prom
I kinda can’t even believe I’m saying this, but a couple weeks ago Claire went to prom and loved it. My shorts and t-shirt wearing, no time for make up, sports loving, ponytail for days girl actually found a dress and accessories she loved. She got her nails done. She wore sparkly high heels. She Read More
More April Happenings
We did a lot of balloons in April. This one was for a Family Literacy Night at our elementary school, which was such a fun event! The girls made bookmarks, decorated rocks, planted seeds, wrote postcards, rode on a smoothie bike, did a cake pop walk, tested their strength, had cookie dough, and posed with Read More
April Happenings
And just like that, I’ve been MIA for another month. I’m alive and well, I promise. Am I constantly treading water just to keep my head afloat these days? Indeed I am. But still alive and well. April was a fun and busy, busy, busy month. We started spending a lot of time cheering on Read More
Arizona (Part Five)
The front of our Airbnb had a very extravagant entrance, perfect for a “wearing our Sunday best” photo op. We went to church and ran into old friends and met new ones. It was such a fun day! We grabbed some authentic, delicious Mexican food and headed back to swim and play. That evening Read More
