I am absolutely over the moon that today is Christmas Eve.
Jared and I both have to work today, but tonight we’ll go to church with the kids and Hilly.  After church, we’ll come home to have chilli and appetizers, just like we do every year on Christmas Eve.  Of course, this is the first time [...]

I spent several hours yesterday uploading 500 pictures – and I’m still not done.
I then proceeded to spend several more hours painting the front entry and hallway of my house – because that totally makes sense to do right after you come home from vacation and should be getting ready for work.
What that means [...]

YAY! Christmas Pictures!
Excuse me? What’s that?
What do you mean it’s been two weeks since Christmas? What is this jibber jabber about every other blogger in the world already having completed their “Christmas review”? What’s that you say? Looking at random pictures of someone else’s kids opening presents is like Blogger [...]

Last night when I got home from work, I noticed something was… different.

Oooh! It’s a box! And look…

Whatever could it be?
Let’s open it and find out!

And in the box there was

No, really.

And inside the card… we have…

Awwww. Cards for everyone!
So, let’s get back to ME. It didn’t say “Miss Britt and [...]

Doesn’t “photo essay” sound so grown up?
ANYway, we celebrated a magnificent Thanksgiving with our friends Deanna and Lee. And while I could have been all sad that I was spending my first Thanksgiving without family, surrounded by a bunch of people who normally give thanks in October – I was too busy being overwhelmed [...]

… and all through the house
not a creature was stirring,
except for Miss Claus – who was busy stuffing stockings, and taking bites out of cookies to leave a trail of evidence, and writing notes about good little boys and girls, and hiding the really good presents although she knew it would be years [...]