At the Thresheree

As I posted on Facebook yesterday, I could hardly believe I was saying it, but I was going to the Rock River Thresheree again. I hadn't been there since I was a newlywed (guess they figured once the ring was on it was safe to start breaking me in). Now we have kids clocking in …

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I guess I blinked

Awww… my babies are so adorable. Can I keep calling them my babies when they are third graders and fifth graders? They just insist on growing, and there's not a blessed thing I can do about it except take pictures. Today I got to take my traditional front-porch-steps first-day-of-school pictures. Our foliage has mostly recovered …

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From the bottom of my heart

Had the occasion to send out quite alot of thank you cards this week, but they couldn't be the kind I just dashed off on any old card at hand. You see, we left our church on Sunday, our home for the entire 15 years of our marriage, and it was incredibly heart-wrenching. Michael was …

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Revenge of the Princesses

What do you get when you cross the two passions of the pint-sized in our house? Why, Sith Lords from Star Wars meet the entire troop of Disney Princesses, of course! Only my eight-year-old could have created this (she's obviously both talented and disturbed). Take a moment to full appreciate what all is included here. …

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Founder’s Circle 2012!!

Yayayayayayayay I made it!! Thank you so much to my fabulous customer friends and team members who have made this and all my other Stampin' dreams possible.

Random vacation photos

I posted some pictures of Mike and I's Las Vegas week, but here's some photos of what the rest of the family was up to during our getaway! Grandpa and Grandma took the kids up the mountain for hiking and s'mores. Good thing they did it then, because the next day a complete burn-ban went …

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