Or "Try, Try Again"
Posted in Family, Family Home Evening, Family Home Evening, Gluten Free, Holidays on Apr 17th, 2011
Colin’s mother’s family has started holding their annual family reunion on Easter weekend. I really like the idea of helping the holiday to be special by getting together and connecting as a family. This year we’ve got fancy dinners and traditional Cuban food and an easter egg hunt and all kinds of fun planned. I’ve [...]
Isn’t giving everyone the day off of work a funny way to celebrate the amazing work ethic of the average American? And I swear that when I was a kid I was confused by the name of the holiday and wasn’t totally sure we weren’t celebrating a second Mother’s Day. Degen asked me yesterday when [...]
Posted in Holidays on Jun 21st, 2009
Posted in Family on Dec 12th, 2008
Our host disappered with all our sites a couple of months ago, but Colin’s got us back up again. Yay Colin! I’m missing a ton of posts from July through October, but at least we have everything from before July this time around. Yay backups! So, what’s been going on here? Hmmmm… Thanksgiving in Arizona [...]
Image by hint of plum via Flickr To all of you moms out there, happy Mother’s Day! My mother is definitely one of the best mothers ever, and I dare anyone to try to top her efforts or results. Really, try it, you’ll be happier for it. My mom is a great teacher and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 28th, 2008
We got back from a very fun trip to visit my sister and brother-in-law in Dallas a couple of days ago and I’m finally getting back on the computer. It’s soooo nice to have Colin on Spring Break this week and I can hardly stand it that the week is almost over. We had a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 28th, 2008
We got back from a very fun trip to visit my sister and brother-in-law in Dallas a couple of days ago and I’m finally getting back on the computer. It’s soooo nice to have Colin on Spring Break this week and I can hardly stand it that the week is almost over. We had a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 21st, 2008
We’re going to Texas today to spend the Easter weekend with my sister and her husband. Yay! We’re going to have tons of fun hanging out and catching up and celebrating. She had her wisdom teeth extracted this week and is still recovering, so I get to help take care of her, too. Poor Phoebe… [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 21st, 2008
We’re going to Texas today to spend the Easter weekend with my sister and her husband. Yay! We’re going to have tons of fun hanging out and catching up and celebrating. She had her wisdom teeth extracted this week and is still recovering, so I get to help take care of her, too. Poor Phoebe… [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 16th, 2008
I was thinking about how to do a St. Patrick’s Day Family Home Evening and here’s what I’ve come up with… We’re not Catholic (obviously), but I think it’s fun to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. I was thinking about having a treasure hunt and explaining about the pot of gold at the end of the [...]