Early Celebration Our New Year's Eve celebration wrapped up a little earlier than most people… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Countdown To 2007 Gracie, Garren and I are watching the HeeHaw marathon on CMT, the two of them a… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Gracie's Important Phone Call This had me laughing so hard! I had to share, and I hope it brings a smile to … Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
The Mighty View Master Gracie and her View Master are practically inseparable these days, which is fun… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Empathy There have been a lot of tears in this house lately, evenly divided between Gra… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
The Same Old Thing! I don't know about the rest of you, but it seems like our family is in a &q… Written By Shipley Mommy 1 Comment Edit
Family Picture Well we didn't get to attend the Christmas Eve service, but I was bound and… Written By Shipley Mommy 1 Comment Edit
Merry Christmas (email) From email send 12-25-06 Family & Friends: We hope all of you are ha… Written By Shipley Mommy 1 Comment Edit
Christmas Morning Fun Gracie, Garren and I got a late start to Christmas morning thanks to an anxious… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Twas The Night Before Christmas... ...and all through the house Gracie was getting ready for bed louder than a jin… Written By Shipley Mommy 1 Comment Edit
Cookies For Santa Santa will get an assortment of delicious treats tonight as he visits good lit… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Missing Something I would like to blog today about all of the wonderfully Christmasy things our f… Written By Shipley Mommy 2 Comments Edit
Merry Christmas From our family to yours...have a blessed Christmas day. Share the spirit of t… Written By Shipley Mommy 3 Comments Edit
I Forgot Tonight I suddenly remembered why it was that Garren and I don't go out to … Written By Shipley Mommy 1 Comment Edit
Story Time Mallory and mom Colette came over for lunch today to try and eat some of the ma… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Happy Birthday Mariah! Happy Birthday Mariah, today you turn the big "9"! We hope you have a… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
High Tech Christmas I came across a comic strip in our local paper the other day. It was a little … Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Gracie's Wish List Now that I finished all that rambling, I do want to re-iterate that emailing Sa… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
All Wrapped Up And No Where To Go My Grandma Anna (Gracie's great-grandma Anna) came by to pay us a little vi… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Air Mail! Gracie has some fun in the box that arrived at our apartment this afternoon fro… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Is It Really December? I am not sure what is with the spring weather out there, but I for one, am not … Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Thank You Papaw Charles Dear Papaw Charles: Thank you for sending me Christmas money. I found a nea… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Thank You Dear Grandma & Grandpa: Thank you so much for the fun gifts you gave me… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Christmas At Grandma & Grandpa's Garren, Gracie and I are in Lynchburg this weekend as we celebrate an early Chr… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Toys Before Christmas?! Gracie and I wanted out of this house today! We had been cooped up for far too… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Gracie's Happy Feet We just can't get enough of "Happy Feet" in this house! Gracie… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Second Sunday Of Advent Tonight we also lit our second candle of Advent. (Actually, we lit the first a… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Trimming The Tree The Christmas tree is up and it smells great! It had all night to fill out, Ga… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Find The Perfect Tree Garren, Gracie and I set out on out quest this afternoon: to find the perfect C… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Fun Store! In addition to searching for a Christmas tree today (read more above), we made … Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Christmas Tea Party I think that this afternoon's tea party was the most fun of all the ones we… Written By Shipley Mommy 1 Comment Edit
Teacher Appreciation Day! My best wishes and heartfelt thanks to all the teachers out there who have chos… Written By Shipley Mommy 1 Comment Edit
"I Do It Myself!" Gracie has been quite the independent spirit for a while now, but these past fe… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
The Best Of Intentions I am sure my mother is chuckling as I write this post, as she always seems to f… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Something New It's about time this family got on a schedule...I just hope we can keep it … Written By Shipley Mommy 3 Comments Edit
Deck The Halls I guess the Yuletide spirit has hit our home, that or I really needed to organi… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Happy Birthday Aunt Heather! Wishing a very Happy Birthday to you Aunt Heather! We hope that you have a wond… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Town Christmas Parade & Tree Lighting The nice weather decided to hang around for another day, but so did Garren'… Written By Shipley Mommy 1 Comment Edit
Wind Advisory While Aunt Heather, Uncle Kenny & the boys spent the day playing in the sno… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
A Better Way To Do Pictures Last night I finally realized that all those pictures I have been trying to sha… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Happy First Birthday Luke! Happy 1st Birthday Luke! I hope you have a fun day with lots of cake and tons o… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Fall Pictures Are Back Gracie and I went to Winchester today and picked up her JC Penney portraits. Yo… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Tennessee Trip Garren, Gracie and I had a wonderful trip (vacation) to Tennessee this past wee… Written By Shipley Mommy 1 Comment Edit
Orange Hajj Having been away from Tennessee for three years, Luke decided it was time for h… Written By G. Shipley 1 Comment Edit
Have A Blessed Thanksgiving Day! Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours! Written By Shipley Mommy 3 Comments Edit
Please Make Time This Thanksgiving we each are so thankful for family and friends, new technolog… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Gracie's First Theater Experience Garren and I took Gracie to see her first big screen movie today in Johnson Cit… Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Gracie's Fall Fun From Email 11-18-06 Family & Friends: It has been a while since I last … Written By Shipley Mommy Add Comment Edit
Giving Thanks Gracie, Garren and I are looking forward to another family Thanksgiving togethe… Written By Shipley Mommy 14 Comments Edit