Exactly three times tonight, Lilly made fake crying sounds from the bedroom with hopes of an adult rescuing her. From sleep, I guess. Act I:...

"Thanks, babe. Is this shirt for me or my boyfriend?" Coming from the guy who is borrowing a 62 year-old's robe for the week....

We have done a LOT of those activities. In fact, throw in video games and I have just summarized our entire Christmas experience. This lapto...

Jackson and I spent some time bonding the past few days. Looking into each other's eyes, sharing our hearts, working through a ropes cou...

It's true. Papa stood in line at Target for some ungodly morning hours to bring home the 2007 version of the Cabbage Patch Kid (for whic...

At the Christmas Eve service, I watched one of those magical moments between my kids that I wish I could have captured to see over and over ...

Seems like there's a bloggy tradition out there that when you get to your 100th post, the blogger posts 100 things about herself. Anythi...

Although it was early in the morning, the family was hauling through the airport to make our flight. Brad slugged through on two hours of sl...

Let me set the scene for you. Lilly was horsing around the kitchen, acting ridiculously silly and super-charged like that time I stupidly le...

Brad and I have a long history of celebrating our children's birthday milestones in wildly different emotional states. He is way more in...

A local church sponsored "A Night in Bethlehem" which basically meant that they transformed the church building into a village of ...

So the other night, I tore back the covers to my perfectly heated bed (thanks to the mattress pad warmer that every house in America should...

Some sweet friends came over for movie night and all-you-can eat cookies on Friday. Needless to say, we had a great time eating pizza, cooki...

This morning the tempture was about half-past freezing, so I thought it might be perfect for an early run. Shocking, I know, because I am th...

Life right this very second is pretty amazing...huge, beautiful snowflakes are falling outside our very large window, the kids are napping (...

I really feel this hat embodies everything I am about. For starters it nicely covers dark roots, which I am known to sport about 80% of the ...

In case you were unclear, our family OWNS a digital camera, we are just not good at remembering to bring it places or actually using it. So ...

"BRAD! WHAT IN THE HECK ARE YOU DOING?" "You claim to be the "Colorado Runner Mom" so I thought I'd get some pi...