Well, besides the cold, crazy weather, spring is here and the flowers are blooming everywhere.  This the tree in our front yard.  It doesn't have quite as many flowers on it right now since we had a crazy wind storm a few days ago, but it sure is beautiful!!Since Tom...

I haven't felt much like blogging lately, so I need to get caught up . . . first about the pig . . .A few weeks ago, Tom and his friend Marcus orered a whole pig from one of their suppliers at work and on their day off, cut it up for us to eat.  They did it at our...

After a week of horrible bedtimes with Sage, we started up a "going to bed" sticker chart again to try and help her stay in her bed.  So this morning we had a tea party with one of her friends as her reward for completing the sticker chart.  (This past week was much...

I know you're wondering why I'm taking a picture of this huge barrel . . . but if you would have been at our house for dinner last night you would know by the taste of the YUMMY burgers.  Tom built a smoker out of an old storage barrel.  Crazy!  So far this week we've...

The girls and I started some seeds in some egg cartons but were not getting much growth.  So Tom set up a little greenhouse in our basement.  He bought a few full spectrum light bulbs and some trays and seed starter.  He set a little heater to 70 degrees and 6 days...

Easter morning started off at church - 7 a.m. for me and then I came back and got everone else after I sang in the first service.  After church, we came home, had lunch and found Easter Baskets and then rested.  We then headed over to Aunt Patti and Uncle Chuck's...

As always, we did a few things to get ready for Easter.  We opened a Resurrection Egg each morning and learned about the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ during the month of March.  Then last weekend, we dyed eggs, made egg salad for lunch afterwards and then...

Last week, we headed down to Tacoma for a while.  We froze!  But other than that had fun.  We stopped by the greenhouse at Wright Park and took a few pictures . . .Molly chasing the ducksSage loves flowers!Ashley is finally sitting up pretty well on her own.  (But my...

There are many times I miss my Mom. This morning was one of them. I'm sure she could relate to how my morning was going because I'm sure she had many of them when I was 5. Oh what a morning! I wish I could apologize to you Mom!! Trying to discipline a child out of...

Now that spring is here, we are ready to start gardening again. Last year Tom spent hours just getting the junk pile in the back turned into a garden. This year, we were able to borrow a rototiller and somehow, I was able to rotatill the garden and all the flower beds...