Happy Birthday Chippy!
Chippy has been in our family for one year! We celebrated with a banana cake covered in sunflower seeds 🙂 She loved it!


Chippy has been in our family for one year! We celebrated with a banana cake covered in sunflower seeds 🙂 She loved it!


“New York City, here we come! Yeehaw!!!” –Blake, as we left our house in Erie. We made it safe and sound to our new humble digs on W86th and Columbus Ave, NY, NY! We had quite the adventure getting here! As you can imagine, packing up a family of 5 for an entire summer requires…
Our little Halle girl turned 6. Wow–6 seems like such a big kid. We had a fun day with presents, playtime, wearing the school Birthday Glasses, and going to Chic-fil-a for dinner. For our Quarterly Relief Society Enrichment last month we did a Service Aution (SO FUN–if you want details, email me). I won a…
Dec. 9, 2004 Halle is now 13 months old! Her Birthday, Nov. 9, was not such a good day for her. She was really ornery and mad. But, she got a new book and the baby Einstein duck puppet, which she absolutely loves! We threw her a birthday party a few weekends later down…
On Friday one of Halle’s good friends, Kaite, threw an “End of the Preschool year” party at Lollilocks kids salon. Holy cow–those little girls were in heaven. They got to get their nails painted, have pedicures (where they put their feet in the little spas, and then got lotion and a foot massage), wear spa…
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…
Apologies in advance for all the selfie’s in this post. And lots of Photo credit to Meredith. If the pic is good, it’s probably hers. I know this post isn’t going to do our girls’ trip justice. We had so much fun. We were all so sad when Jill moved her family to Seattle after…
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