Early Celebration

Our New Year's Eve celebration wrapped up a little earlier than most people…

Countdown To 2007

Gracie, Garren and I are watching the HeeHaw marathon on CMT, the two of them a…

Gracie's Important Phone Call

This had me laughing so hard! I had to share, and I hope it brings a smile to …

The Mighty View Master

Gracie and her View Master are practically inseparable these days, which is fun…

Empathy

There have been a lot of tears in this house lately, evenly divided between Gra…

The Same Old Thing!

I don't know about the rest of you, but it seems like our family is in a &q…

Family Picture

Well we didn't get to attend the Christmas Eve service, but I was bound and…

Merry Christmas (email)

From email send 12-25-06 Family & Friends: We hope all of you are ha…

Christmas Morning Fun

Gracie, Garren and I got a late start to Christmas morning thanks to an anxious…

Cookies For Santa

Santa will get an assortment of delicious treats tonight as he visits good lit…

Missing Something

I would like to blog today about all of the wonderfully Christmasy things our f…

Merry Christmas

From our family to yours...have a blessed Christmas day. Share the spirit of t…

I Forgot

Tonight I suddenly remembered why it was that Garren and I don't go out to …

Story Time

Mallory and mom Colette came over for lunch today to try and eat some of the ma…

Happy Birthday Mariah!

Happy Birthday Mariah, today you turn the big "9"! We hope you have a…

High Tech Christmas

I came across a comic strip in our local paper the other day. It was a little …

Gracie's Wish List

Now that I finished all that rambling, I do want to re-iterate that emailing Sa…

Air Mail!

Gracie has some fun in the box that arrived at our apartment this afternoon fro…

Is It Really December?

I am not sure what is with the spring weather out there, but I for one, am not …

Thank You Papaw Charles

Dear Papaw Charles: Thank you for sending me Christmas money. I found a nea…

Thank You

Dear Grandma & Grandpa: Thank you so much for the fun gifts you gave me…

Toys Before Christmas?!

Gracie and I wanted out of this house today! We had been cooped up for far too…

Gracie's Happy Feet

We just can't get enough of "Happy Feet" in this house! Gracie…

Second Sunday Of Advent

Tonight we also lit our second candle of Advent. (Actually, we lit the first a…

Trimming The Tree

The Christmas tree is up and it smells great! It had all night to fill out, Ga…

Find The Perfect Tree

Garren, Gracie and I set out on out quest this afternoon: to find the perfect C…

Fun Store!

In addition to searching for a Christmas tree today (read more above), we made …

Christmas Tea Party

I think that this afternoon's tea party was the most fun of all the ones we…

Teacher Appreciation Day!

My best wishes and heartfelt thanks to all the teachers out there who have chos…

"I Do It Myself!"

Gracie has been quite the independent spirit for a while now, but these past fe…

The Best Of Intentions

I am sure my mother is chuckling as I write this post, as she always seems to f…

Something New

It's about time this family got on a schedule...I just hope we can keep it …

Deck The Halls

I guess the Yuletide spirit has hit our home, that or I really needed to organi…

Happy Birthday Aunt Heather!

Wishing a very Happy Birthday to you Aunt Heather! We hope that you have a wond…

Wind Advisory

While Aunt Heather, Uncle Kenny & the boys spent the day playing in the sno…

A Better Way To Do Pictures

Last night I finally realized that all those pictures I have been trying to sha…

Happy First Birthday Luke!

Happy 1st Birthday Luke! I hope you have a fun day with lots of cake and tons o…

Fall Pictures Are Back

Gracie and I went to Winchester today and picked up her JC Penney portraits. Yo…

Tennessee Trip

Garren, Gracie and I had a wonderful trip (vacation) to Tennessee this past wee…

Orange Hajj

Having been away from Tennessee for three years, Luke decided it was time for h…

Please Make Time

This Thanksgiving we each are so thankful for family and friends, new technolog…

Gracie's Fall Fun

From Email 11-18-06 Family & Friends: It has been a while since I last …

Giving Thanks

Gracie, Garren and I are looking forward to another family Thanksgiving togethe…