Raisin' 4

Do you ever catch yourself in the kitchen, hustling like a crazy person to finish supper before the evening activities begin, then turn arou...

I love this kid...

...and he's FOUR! Happy Birthday, darlin'!

It's 9:49pm and Tyler should be rolling in from work in the next few minutes. Darn those 1:30-10pm weekend shifts. Oh wait, I gave a k...

when you can just stop and eat the candy?! Still reflecting on Christ and His amazing gift to us!

Changing Chase. I can almost see the wheels spinning in this kid's mind some days. Sometimes he loves being silly with Tess, doing eve...

She has a will, and she'll find a way... ... she spots her motivation (in the form of chocolate )... ... and goes in for the attack. ...

So I walk in the door from work and Whitney grabs the camera to show me a picture she took earlier in the day. I'm expecting a cute sh...

Ok , not really. It's actually quite refreshing. Tyler switched our garage over from Winter to Spring yesterday, which meant storing t...

Tyler has been putting in some longer hours at work since the new hospital opened last week. Not as much as some dads have to put in on a ...

Ah, welcome March! For February being the month of love, we weren't exactly feelin ' it with a surgery, a week long flu and the insa...

We were getting a little too comfortable with all of this pink in our house. And then it happened... This babydoll might never be the sam...

We've been a little out of commission this week, due to a certain momma and one long overdue surgery. But thankfully, after birthing fo...

I was sorting through pictures tonight and ran across this one from Jack's 8 th birthday party. It made me stop in my tracks for some r...

Alright ya'll , I took the plunge. Again. At least momentarily. You know how I am with change and all. I took a little visit he...

Chase cannot wait for the big boys to get home from school so they can join him outside! My most common intervention phrase: "Not i...

How many boys can you count in this picture? Have I told you lately how much fun it is having boys?! The answer, and more snow pics to come...

Not sure how to start this post... so much in my head and on my heart with regards to the situation in Haiti. I can't do one thing thro...

When he's not making you laugh hysterically, he's making you plain tired. But his prayers are pretty sweet lately. Things like: P...

...about this girl. I thought you all deserved an update on Tess's health - since we kind of left you hanging and all. We really apprec...

... didn't get too many shots from Christmas this year. Not because we don't place recording memories for our children high on our ...

I'm back, but barely. We're still in catch-up mode around here after all of the holiday hoop-la. It was nuts this year, I'm gon...

A little late, but still merry, nonetheless! No funny (to you, definitely not to me, until much, much later) mishap stories on this post.....

I should know by now that life with four young children is anything but predictable. But we got a little too confident on this year's t...