Grandpa Streams Family pics
This is my Grandma Mona as a little girl: Mona ForgeyMy Grandpa Donald W. Stream as a young man.Grandma MonaMy Great Grandma Alice and Great Grandpa Ike (Grandma Mona's parents)Grandpa DonMy dad...
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The following is part of Brityn's "Eat Butterfinger not Butter" campaign ;)This note (along with 2 samples) was found on our bedroom door last night. In case you can't decipher, it reads:"If you have...
View Article2012 Tour of Champions
It was so awesome and Brit even got a high five from Gabby Douglas! She was on cloud nine!! It was an amazing night!- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
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This year Kevin is making these for the kids for Christmas. It's actually an app on your phone!! He's going to have them printed up and framed. I loved the idea!!!
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Hard to believe, but these sweet little faces can cause mass chaos in this house. Especially, when they are all asked to do work together to clean. Corbin tries to make them all: do it, do it right,...
View ArticleWhat I Want
Even days after hearing about the horrible events that unfolded in Newton, Connecticut, and all those precious lives that were taken, tears are close to the surface. The teacher that hid her kids, and...
View ArticleOnce upon a time
If you are lucky, you will have hard things to endure. You will have to dig deep, and throw all your pettiness, and self gratification out the window. You will have to, out of necessity, strip...
View ArticleNew Year vs. New Every Day
Does anyone else consider New Year resolutions a complete fallacy? Why in the world do we build up the beginning of January as the ideal time to change, begin, quit, plan, and achieve? It would...
View ArticleChristmas Eve 2012
Christmas Eve for us begins with putting all the wrapped presents under the tree. The kids march like little ants with their arms full of gifts, out of our room, down the stairs and into the living...
View ArticleStay on your own trail
As a mother, wife, and well just a human, I fight a battle every once in awhile. I find myself picking out all the ways I'm not perfect. And, the more I concentrate on trying to become perfect, the...
View ArticleLift me up
Love is giving it all you've got to hoist someone twice your size and weight, to the silver and white genre on the top shelf.....and then NOT being irritated when they pick the red one perfectly within...
View ArticleATTENTION!
So this is one of around 927 pictures I snapped the morning of 5th grade graduation. My Sweet Pea is off to middle school. That is not, however, the reason I marched this sweetie pie (decked out in...
View ArticleSay what now?
Officially 13. One inch to go before he's taller than his momma. What. in the world. They never tell you when you have these sweet little babies in the hospital that they are going to grow up quicker...
View ArticleBoston Swim Team 2013
Most mornings started out like this, but he actually did REALLY well for his first year on swim team!
View ArticleSchooled
Every once in awhile, you get a bad egg. And, I don't mean bad in a way you would expect. New playdates that seem to be a great fit, take a dark turn about 20 minutes in, and you realize it is going...
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