Emerald Isle

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!We had our yearly family trip to Emerald Isle, NC a few weeks ago.  The 18 of us have definitely outgrown my parents’ house so now they also rent a house on the sound.  We beach, we eat Big Oak Drive-in BBQ and shrimp burgers, we sail, we walk, we read and we do a whole lot of hanging out.  This year cousin Morgan was old...

I am back — finally!

I’ve been away much, much longer than I ever intended.  I intended to get going on the new blog just after Christmas.  Funny how having a baby while simultaneously finishing your basement can screw up palns like that.  Throw in a “fabulous” day of skiing for the husband when the baby is just three weeks old (resulting in both ACL replacement & shoulder surgery) and you can get even more bogged...

August Updates

This summer has been so crazy for us that I’ve just had to accept there was no way to keep up on the blog along with everything else.  If you haven’t yet received the news, there will NOT be an August kit.  We are relocating to Colorado and we came to the conclusion that it was better to not issue a kit rather than not issue it well.  This week that decision has seem even wiser than I originally thought. ...

I guess it’s for real now…

I’m almost 13 weeks pregnant and some days still can’t believe we are going for baby number 3!   Both kids will be in school full time in the fall, it’s easy to travel with them, it’s easy to do things with them.  We can go out to dinner without food flying all over and children screaming (ok, most of the time).  They can both get themselves dressed (still working on that shoe tying thing) and make their...

A new car on the horizon

Hard to believe that my husband is actually going to part with his 16 year old Mazda 626 Basically it’s that with a few more scratches and dings.  Today we are off to Portland to pick up his new Subaru Outback.  I am so excited that we’ll no longer have manual transmission!  I’m also amazed that my frugal husband actually went for a new car! And… on the scrapbook front.  We received a huge...