When Izzy was a few months old, I bought her lovey (as people here call it). It’s a little pink square blanket with a Pooh bear head stuck to it. I bought two so I could rotate them in and out of the washer. Izzy loves her bears. One she calls “shakey bear” (because it [...]
My little girl is getting bigger and older!! It’s hard to believe that it’s been 4 years since Isabelle joined our lives. On Izzy’s birthday, the intent was to fill her room with pink and purple balloons. Unfortunately she had a rough night so the balloons were outside her door when she woke up. I [...]
I was thinking about an easy and unique craft to do at Izzy’s birthday party. Here’s what I came up with. Click through the pictures to get a step by step for this fun craft. You can make it more “adult-ish” by using different figurines that you can find in the model train aisle of [...]
Last week we returned from our family vacation to Captiva Island, FL. We planned this trip with our friends the Knechts, who have three girls around Izzy and JoJo’s age. We stayed at the family friendly resort of South Seas. If you’re a parent with young kids, you’ll take note of this resort. It has [...]
This year we were home for the holidays. It was nice to not have to travel and fight the crowds. We just stayed home, went to the Christmas Eve service at church, made Christmas cookies and opened presents on Christmas morning. I’ll admit it was somewhat boring, but it was nice to have this Christmas [...]
Every year I make gifts for Izzy’s teachers/coaches. This year, time got away from me and it was only last week that I realized that I forgot to get that together! This year I needed to include JoJo’s teachers meaning double the number of gifts. So I threw some things together. I bought some cute [...]
This year I was determined to have a “homemade” Christmas. That meant that I was going to make all my Christmas decorations, make all my ornaments, and make all the stockings. Originally, I thought it was a good idea, however once November hit, I realized that I didn’t give myself enough time to get everything [...]
Well, Thanksgiving has come and gone again! This year we had Luke’s side of the family in town to experience a really American Thanksgiving. Grandma Knowles came into town over a week before Grandpa Knowles and GiGi came. We were glad to have her around helping with the girls while I tried to prep for [...]
A couple nights ago a random package arrived at our doorstep. There was a piece of paper stuck amongst the fun Halloween treats. On the paper was a poem:
The phantom ghost has come to town
To leave some goodies… I see you’ve found.
If you wish to make this a happier fall…
Continue this greeting, this phantom call.
In Colorado it seems like we go from summer straight to winter. Our “fall” lasts maybe a couple weeks, then all of a sudden it’s snowing. This week seems to be the first week that it seems like fall is really here. A couple weekends ago we headed to Colorado Springs to visit with my parents and pick some pumpkins. Izzy picked a perfectly sized pumpkin for herself. JoJo gravitated to the biggest pumpkins she could find. We had to convince her that a little pumpkin would be just her size.
