My Evan is growing up on me. He turned 11 on the 4th. Tonight he is on his first ever Boy Scout campout, and this is the first time he's ever been away from me and not been with family. I hugged him and teared up when we were packing his bags ( Read more... )

2 years ago on October 1st, we were blessed with my little angel baby Brooklyn. She was sweet and calm and happy. She would let me hold her and snuggle her when I was feeling overwhelmed with taking care of things while Andrew was away working, and we were in the process of moving. She was just the sweetest little baby ( Read more... )

Waaay back in April, Owen turned the big 4. He had been pretty excited about turning 4. He asked for a cake with Kirby on it. So I complied.


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My Evan turned 10 on November 4th. It's hard to believe he's in the double digits. I remember his first birthday. He was so cute and doing "muscles" the whole time. (A silly trick we had taught him.) He was trying to make us laugh. He's still like that to this day. He doesn't do the muscles trick anymore, though ( Read more... )

Yes, I realize Owen's birthday was in April. Yes, I realize it's October 5th. Yes, I realize I should be sleeping. BUT I literally just thought about it before I was about to go to bed, and now I feel terrible and can't sleep until I update about poor Owen's birthday that was MONTHS AGO ( Read more... )

I had a goal to post about Lauren's birthday before the end of the month, and luckily, it's leap year, so I have an extra day! Wahoo ( Read more... )

Today's the last day of November, and I'm determined to get the posts about Evan's birthday and Brooklyn's blessing done before it's actually December, so here we go. I'm just going to combine the two b/c they were about the same time. Hopefully, they won't resent me one day when they realize they didn't get their own entries ( Read more... )

In a couple of days it will be July, and I'm just now posting about my poor son's birthday that was in April. Poor 3rd kid ( Read more... )

Lauren turned six 10 days ago, and I'm FINALLY getting a chance to post about it. I've told my kids that we're only going to do big birthday parties for big birthday numbers like 5 (starting school), 8 (getting baptized), 12 (move into the youth program at church), 16 (drive), & 18 (adult!), so she already knew that it was going to be just a small ( Read more... )

So nearly a month ago, my little boy turned 8 years old. 8 years old is a big deal if you're a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints b/c that's when you're old enough to get baptized. Evan had been excited to get baptized all year, and I was excited for him, too. I told him since it was a BIG birthday, he could have a BIG ( Read more... )