SHARING THE GOOD THINGS IN LIFE
Our church held it's annual 'Trunk-or-Treat' on Sunday. This forced us to have the costume situation in-check a few days before Halloween! For the first year ever, Emerson was pretty opinionated about what he wanted to be. (Mama wanted him to be a little Kentucky Fried Chicken Colonel Sanders, but I was veto-ed!!!) We set [...]
Every year we look forward to visiting a little pumpkin patch in the middle of our town. The opening weekend is the first weekend in October. We've had the hottest, longest summer/early fall. Literally high 90's for months, y'all! It was 99 two days ago and then a cold front came in and Saturday was [...]
I am no cook, but year after year I always pull out my trusty two-ingredient pumpkin spice bread recipe. I figure that I should make it permanent and create an actual blog post for it. This recipe is a winner all-around. My kids love it and it makes great gifts for teachers or friends. When [...]
ONE We took our kiddos to our town's Honeybee Festival last Saturday. It was a hot day, per the usual for August in North Carolina, but we got to the festival right when it opened at 10 a.m. They rode the ponies (both my kids love it!). Emerson rode the ferris wheel twice with both [...]
Our big boy, Emerson starts in his new preschool class today! He's at the same school, just moving up to the next class. Giraffe's class is a combo of two and three year old's (He had to be potty trained to move up!) We all went to the Open House on Friday to see his [...]
Stephen and I took a trip to Las Vegas two weeks ago which was a mix of business (me) and play. It was long-over due, as we haven't done more than an overnight away from our kids in three years. LOTS of preparation went into leaving for a week, but it was totally worth it. [...]
