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Monthly Archives: August 2012

We’re home from our Utah trip.  It was jammed packed with good times.  We sure love visiting our Utah family! I’m feeling a little overwhelmed by the thousands of pictures I took.  I’ll probably need to document our trip in several posts.  Here is a preview – just one or two pictures from each day. […]

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We’re busily running errands, going to doctor’s appointments, cleaning, and packing in preparation for our trip to Utah.  Sadie starts preschool the day after we get home so I’ve also needed to go in to sign paperwork, get doctor’s forms, and shop for her school supplies. Yesterday we had wellness doctor’s appointments for both the […]

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A month and a half ago I asked my dad to trim Jax’s hair.  My instructions were to keep it long but just trim a tiny bit off the top and cut around the sides and the ears.  I like his hair long.  It’s so soft and smells so good.  Well, my dad used the […]

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BIRTHDAY MORNING Our birthday tradition with the kids is to decorate the house the night before so when they wake up on their birthday there is a special feel in the house.  For McKay we mostly hung balloons and streamers.  We probably blew up 50 balloons.  My lungs got a good workout.  It was worth […]

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We survived!  It was touch and go at times.  But, we survived.  A whole year.  During challenging times I always told myself, “Just get through the first year and then things will be more manageable.”  And here we sit.  I’m not sure things are any more manageable yet but I have false hope that things will […]

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