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... )

On our trip earlier today, Londyn, who is nearly 1 1/2 years old, had a sucker that she was happily eating. We weren't paying attention to her b/c she was happy, but then she started crying really loud. I turned around, and her sucker was gone. I thought she had thrown it down (b/c this is what Londyn does. haha), so I'm looking around, but then ( Read more... )

I'm soooo ready to be home in my own bed again. Not that I'm not having a good time on this trip, but I am so behind on sleep... the snoring is terrible. and for some reason, both Evan and Lauren woke up multiple times crying last night. Oh, but funny thing, Andrew's dad was talking in his sleep last night. The only thing I understood was ( Read more... )