Our Christmas Eve was a little different for us, because this year our church had a candlelight Christmas Eve service. It was fantastic and the…

Picture overload coming up! The week before Christmas, my parents gave us a Christmas gift of a family trip to the Polar Express. This is…

The week before Christmas, Karsten had her very last preschool Christmas program. It is hard to believe that next year both of my girls will…

I’m doing a bit of catch-up on the ole blog. Get ready, because here comes our entire December in just a few days! 🙂 Right…

This year we celebrated Thanksgiving at my parent’s house, and lots of family was able to make the trip and get together. It was a…

Last weekend, we celebrated World Adoption Day as a family, with our annual smiley face hand pictures (along with thousands of other people)! What a…

Last Tuesday, Kate started THIRD grade. I hear that this is a hard school year. Is that true? I mean I remember third grade being…

Surely my girls aren’t the only kids begging for crazy hair colors? Karsten has seriously been BEGGING for months to get hair chalk. I was…

About 2 months of blog posts coming up soon. I am determined to catch up!

Today was Kate’s last day of second grade. The year has breezed past us, and it sure has been a great one. Here is my…