visitors

Ok I’m still trying to come up for breath over here after all those Christmas things mooshed together in the midst of all our family togetherness. Oh boy. I’m so glad for this little part of the Internet where I can come and make some semblance of all the strands…

How’s that for a long title? Ha! But I wanted to take a minute to talk about my very favorite part of Christmas every single year: children-gift-exchange on Christmas Eve. Can you see how excited Claire was to give this gift to Lucy years ago? Ok sorry had to include…

This was supposed to post this morning…I am late but here we go!I feel like the luckiest girl in the world when it comes to parents. The older I get, the more I parent, the more grateful I get. And I was already pretty grateful to begin with. Anyway, those…

There is something almost holy to me about having your whole family together after some have left. I don’t think you can ever explain it until you are in it, and even then, there are not words.  There is just love just filling up the air and oozing out of…

Lots of things happened over Labor Day weekend.  It was one for the record books. First, my brother and his family came to town from California.   They got here relatively late on Friday night but we still tucked the kids in bed and headed out on an adult dinner…

This is a post about both of those things up there…totally separate, yet intertwined this last weekend. When we lived in China there were some pretty great people who looked out for us. And helped us survive.  Yes that sounds dramatic, but seriously, for that first little while I started…

It was a gorgeous wedding under a canopy of trees.  Dave’s Dad officiated the ceremony.  Love those smiles.  (I missed them walking out, but I caught some smiles and clapping following them 🙂 The babies were across the isle from me…one brand new nephew and great-nephew. After the wedding there…

It’s so weird to me that we have nieces and nephews getting married. First we had my niece Brimley I talked about back HERE. Then we had my nephew Rob back HERE. So now it was time for Rob’s little brother Josh to tie the knot with his sweetheart Leah.…

It was pretty much a non-stop party while my brothers and sister and their families were in town for Max’s farewell.  I already talked about our late-night game-nights surrounding the farewell back HERE and the hike HERE, but oh boy, we packed a lot in with those guys and I…

My parents came to visit a month ago. When they come here in the winter they are of course excited to see us, I mean, they are my parents and all.  But I think deep under all that lovey dovey stuff they sure like to see the sun right along…