Family

Happy New Year from Scottsdale, Arizona. I hope your 2017 is full of beautiful, blessed memories. Thank you for reading, commenting, cheering, and the high fives! I appreciate you! Next year, I'm looking forward to adding a little boy to our crew, Julia getting closer...

“Tradition is a Lantern. The foolish hold on to it, the clever allow it to lead the way.” (George Bernard Shaw) I don't remember every Christmas present. I don't remember every Christmas dinner. I do remember my childhood traditions. My mom was big on traditions. I...

My little king. He was so handsome in his school play this year. I melted as he knelt down to give Baby Jesus his gift. We had decided to try and take Mary Alice to the school Christmas pageant, even though we were risking bedtime. Happy faces and snacks were...

My dearest oldest daughter, Today I sat in line as you filled out paperwork and received your driver's license. It was absolutely surreal playing patty cake with Mary Alice and handing over my credit card to pay for your driver's license. I walked behind you as you...

One of the most common questions I get is 'how do you get everyone to eat at the table together'? I feel like I never have a great answer for this. But sitting at lunch today, I thought of something I wanted to share with you. Getting everyone to eat at the table...

There is something about having little ones around at Christmas. There is magic. Less decorations. More snuggling. Less expectations. More scented candles. Less running around. More saying 'yes' to what they want to do. We sat down as a family and talked about what we...

This was Riley's first soccer season. It was pretty adorable watching a herd of kindergarteners conglomerate around the soccer ball every Saturday morning. I kind of love sports at this age. Julia was co-captain of the Volleyball team. We made awesome memories driving...