instafriday

Belly update – I think I’m in denial until I see my profile. Yes, this baby is not that far away! We are in West Virginia visiting the newest member of our family, Samuel Pax (newborn baby to...

wiww–kid edition

Many blogs out there do a weekly Wednesday blog post with what they wore the previous week. It’s to encourage stay at home moms to get out of our sweatpants funk. I’m not too into it. I’m perfectly...

instaFriday

Here starts my instagram photo dump! Lately we’ve been… attending our first tea party Hiking (and getting lost) along the Appalachian Trail Getting hair cuts… Solomon’s first! The best part was...

a little update

Wow, I guess I’ve been away for a while! A lot of things have happened in the past two months since my last post. Things that have taken my time and attention away from my blog. Family things that...

halfway there

This pregnancy was timed perfectly, as exactly half of my pregnancy fell in 2012 while the other will fall in 2013. I reached 20 weeks on New Years Eve. Pretty cool, huh? Here’s my 20 week belly...

a day at the museum

In November we visited Jason’s parents in upstate NY. We had a great time at the local museum. The kids played hard for almost 5 hours and we still didn’t see every thing! Some of the highlights...

bump watch

I had all good intentions to take weekly pictures of this growing baby bump. But you know what they say about good intentions… I realized exactly how much I’ve let that get away from me when I...

instaFriday–Thank sgiving

Here are some pictures from our Thanksgiving holiday. I left my camera card at home, 4 hours away from all our festivities so these are the only pictures I have from the weekend. Thank goodness for...

13 weeks

Ok, here’s the first belly shot! 13 weeks and already popping out a bit. My regular clothes still fit, even my jeans! But I see the end of that coming very soon. I’m feeling better and only feel...

instadump :: Halloween style

Since I’m months behind on my instagram posts, I figured why not just go ahead and post them anyway. I will use the excuse of being sick last month. You know, from this little one quickly growing...

give thanks

a bushel and a peck

One of Solomon’s favorite (and most used) words is “apple”. Apple means juice, fruit, vegetable and food. Which means we hear apple a lot. So when we started our annual applesauce making...

three little pumpkins…

coming May 2013…

I love you through and through

This is to date one of my favorite posts. I love capturing the little personalities of my kids and using the words to the book, I Love You Through and Through by Bernadette Rossetti-Shustak helps...

up {and down} the mountain

Ok, after a week of blog issues {from a spam-induced header – sorry if you saw that, no we do not support those ads! – to an issue with our blog host, I’m finally ready to post the second part of...

instaFriday

So it’s been a while since I did this lovely Friday post. Things have been a little crazy. Since it’s been weeks, ahem, months since I’ve posted our weekly activities, I have quite the collection...

around the mountain

We always love our trips down to Atlanta to visit Jason’s sister and her husband. But this year, instead of going during Easter we went during Labor Day. What a difference! It was SO HOT! But we...

on the lake–part II

The second day we were in New York, we drove to Rochester to be tourists and drive around for a little. We spent a good amount of time over the Genesee River and even saw a deer smack in the middle...

green beans and ducks

Pin it Several weekends ago we decided to visit my sister and her husband in Bellefonte, PA. It was sort of last minute and it was the first time we were up to see them in their new current house...

glitter shoes

Pin itThis is a shoe story. Jason and I have such fond memories of visiting his sister and brother-in-law in their tiny Brooklyn apartment. We were glorified tourists and loved seeing every bit of...

a day in our life

Pin itI follow a bunch of blogs but my favorites are the ones of people I actually know, like relatives and friends. I got this post idea from one of those blogs and when I saw it on Charity’s blog...

on a break

Pin itSo…I decided that it’s too hard to blog and watch all my favorite Olympic sports. Tonight I tried to blog and ended up missing the Beach Volleyball match, and it was a good one! So I’m taking...

hot air balloon

Pin itLast weekend we were enjoying a cool summer evening with Jason’s parent’s and brother and his family, when we saw a hot air balloon off in the distance. It was headed in our direction and the...

instaFriday

Pin itHello Friday. I’m so happy you are here. We’ve had quite a few busy and difficult last couple of weeks. But here we are, almost at the weekend, and I’m ready to relax a little. Here is what...

stain be gone!

Pin itI saw this article online about the only stain remover you’d ever need. It claimed to get out old carpet stains and other clothing stains and the best part was it’s easy to make at home. I...

play date

Pin itAs I mentioned in Monday’s post, we’ve really been enjoying our weekly play dates with the kids from church. We really enjoyed the one week when we were at a house instead of the park. I...

fun in the park

Pin itThere are some things I really look forward to during these hot summer months. One of those is a weekly gathering of moms and kids from church. Each week we meet at a different local park for...

independence day

Pin itOtherwise known as :: Race Day I’m going to attempt to run. Yes, ATTEMPT. I went from doing great, running with good endurance and feeling good, to feeling tight, and out of sync, and having...

she’s three!

Pin itCecilia turned three on the 19th and we celebrated a little early with just little family cookout and two of her little friends and their families. We try not to make too big of a deal out of...

instaFriday

Pin itWelcome to our week! This is one of my favorite posts, one because it gets rid of all the pictures I have taking up space in my phone, and two because these pictures are usually quick, in the...