Christmas Card 2016




This year brought our entire family (minus Cole, who had to work) to Colorado for Thanksgiving. We had the absolute best time, and I don’t even know where to begin describing all the fun. Everyone arrived on Wed evening and we had pizza, had fun running around with cousins and participating in our annual Banks…
Yep—it’s official. Rusty’s 20’s are behind him. Read his thoughts here. The kids and I threw him an awesome birthday party at a park near our house. I baked about 100 cupcakes (no exaggeration) and we played kickball. I think everyone had a fun time! Rust—we love you so much and know your 30’s will…
We had a Christmas Miracle this year—no one got sick on our trip to Utah! I don’t think that has happened since Halle was born. Because we were all healthy we had such a fun time! Who knew Christmas could be so easy? I usually come home so exhausted from traveling and taking care of…
I’d like to thank Rusty for this contribution to the blog. Even if he doesn’t use complete sentences. Or puncuation. 😉 Tara and I are on a plane home from Newport. Sans kids. We left our kids in the LAX airport which is quite an interesting feeling. We planned on our flights leaving about the…
Be forewarned—there are entirely too many pics in this post. But you know me—I can never just choose a few! We had an amazing trip to San Diego last week, despite the fact that the sun decided to go into hiding while we were there. We started off with a magical day at Disneyland. Brett…
I think I’ve blogged about this before, but one of our favorite family traditions is “kid dates.” Each month one child gets an alone date, and the other two get a shared date. We do lots of fun things, and the kids enjoy that special one on one time with Mom and Dad. This month,…
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