Happy spring, everyone! By happy, I mean terrifying.  I’ve lived in North Texas my entire life and have become very accustomed to the stormy spring.  I’m not above grabbing a bottle of wine and waiting it out in the bathtub.  Tornadoes and hail are our biggest threat, however despite countless tornado sirens, we’ve never come…

I’ll be honest. I saw this day coming from a mile away. How’s that for a near-sighted joke?! It seems I have passed along some pretty amazing genes to my kids. First the asthma and allergies, and now terrible eyesight!  I started wearing glasses at the age of six.  My mom and my sister’s eyesight…

We are celebrating a victory in our house tonight!  Oscar not only survived an egg challenge, but passed with flying colors.  If you’re wondering what an egg challenge is, read on! If you’re not wondering, you should read anyways 🙂 Several years ago, when Walt (yes, Walt) was merely 18 months old, we discovered he…

Another month has flown by. It was an especially insane month between moving, every sickness known to man, and just general adjustments. But, we can’t skip over Vivian’s 7-month milestones! Viv continues to be a pretty rockstar baby.  As it goes, her personality is shining every day. While she’s pretty laid back, she definitely enjoys…

We made it!! We managed to move our family of 5 into our beautiful new house. We are SO happy and blessed to finally be here, but God bless it — this was not an easy week. Luckily we had started the packing process when we staged.  This also means that we’ve been half packed…

Our baby sister is halfway through her first year of life. It sort of doesn’t seem possible. But, I also am having a hard time remembering life before her.  It was this week last year that we found out we were having a girl.  Of course we were excited, but I was so expecting her…

For the past several years, we’ve treated my dad to “experiences” rather than presents for his birthday and Father’s Day. However, he’s gotten sick almost every. single. time.  Not scary sick. But, sick enough that he can’t go. My sister, Kathy, and I were hesitant to buy yet some more tickets for his 74th birthday…

What a month for this little peanut! Our petite little one had a great month.She is absolutely thriving at daycare and her personality is really starting to flourish. Sleeping: She’s still a total stud in this department. Bottle or nurse at 6:30pm and not a peep until 7/7:30 am. She is still napping 3 times…

It’s been about a month since the last house update, but a lot has happened in the last month (despite the holidays).  It’s looking like we’ll close the first week or so of March, so we’re really just putting the finishing touches on at this point. We have landscaping! The exterior is nearly complete. Just…

It is wild to me that for one of our kids I’m giving monthly updates and this big boy is already six years old! It seems like yesterday that I was doing monthly updates for him.  I remember all that free time I used to have 🙂 Walt had a whole weekend full of birthday…