Before and After

We celebrated Rusty’s 29th bday yesterday. It was so fun to have Grandma and Grandpa here to join in the festivities. It turned out to be a Blogfrog themed bday. Sharon and Alan found these cute little Frog shirts for Halle and Josh in Cabo San Lucas while they were at Kristin’s wedding. And then…

  Blake Sleeps at breakfast on the cruise ship     Blake Sleeps at the BolderBoulder 10k     Blake Sleeps while coloring pictures      Blake sleeps on the Esplanade in Boston     Blake wakes up      Blake Sleeps on the ferry coming home from Harbor Islands     Blake sleeps in…

Dear Blake, This is the second birthday letter I am typing today because you deleted the first one while you were playing computer games 🙂 Happy 6th birthday to my fun, energetic, creative, imaginative boy.  I love you so very much.  You are the best snuggler, and if I am out for a run when…

Sept 4, 2015: I have only a paper copy of the sporadic journal I kept when Halle was a baby. I am adding it to the front of our family blog for two reasons.  1. So that all our family history can be in one place.  2. So I can stop worrying something might happen…

I love adult night out when we have visitors. It’s a chance to leave the kiddos behind and relax and actually get to catch up and talk.  We didn’t want to overwhelm Rachel with 5 kids, so she brought along a friend.  One NYC babysitter is expensive—two NYC babysitters about break the bank 🙂 We…

Josh was very unsure that he wanted to ski on Christmas Eve.  I floated the idea of him taking a lesson, and after MUCH coaxing, Rusty agreed to give it a try.  We showed Josh some videos of lessons and of the magic carpet on YouTube and pretty soon he agreed to go.  After we…