Raisin' 4

We packed light, earned enough flight miles for five free (ahem, I mean earned ) airline tickets (squeezing in Tess for free right before h...

It's Father's Day, and I get the gift of being married to this guy. If you could only live in this house for a day, you would know ...

...everybody will want to take a family picture just as much as I do. I just know it.

Before we talk Florida, I must let you in on a little secret. We conned these guys into going with us! Hali and Cameron have been a part o...

...to say that I have NO time to blog today. It's a crazy VBS / baseball week around here. But I promise to get Florida pictures up so...

We're home from an incredible week in Florida. And I'm not just saying that. It was one of our best vacations ever. And we neede...

Our bags are packed, and our family of six (plus the coolest babysitter couple in the world!!) is ready to hop on an airplane tomorrow to ...

This is how we looked... the last time we were in Florida... our family not quite yet complete. One week and counting...

So I installed this counter on my blog two days ago to see if, in fact, anyone actually reads this thing. A busy mom has to have some sort ...

I just left these two, after way too much giggling and way past their bedtime. It's Friday night, and they were deep in a new handshake...

Laundry that just looks like Spring. I know, I'm easily amused.

(My niece Emma, my mom, Tess and Aunt Patty... some of my very favorite girls ever) ...it's Mother's Day, and it's midnight, a...

.... this is mine from the hammock. So much for cuddling up just the two of us. :)

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...