Of Sledding and Snow Shakes

Sunday was a beautiful morning, with perfect conditions for sledding. Sunny, not too windy, and not so much snow that we couldn’t drive our minivan to the nearest bestest hill in our neighborhood. It took some effort to get all of the children into their snow gear and out the door, but finally, [...]

Here we snow again

Another snowfall has hit our area, so we are hunkered down in front of the fire.

Some of us are playing “Trouble”…

some of us are causing it …

and some of us are blogging about it :)

We’ve been working on some Valentine’s decorations, so I thought I would try and be arty and capture them and the [...]

A new Little Cabin in the Woods

I’ve mentioned before, that we typically go to a small cabin out near Front Royal over New Years with friends from college.  The good thing about the cabin was it was free, not too far away, and “rustic” enough that it was okay for everyone to bring their 17 dogs (I exaggerate, a tad).  The [...]

Look Who’s Two!

Our little Ash-man doubled his time on planet earth this weekend.

We didn’t have a big party, just celebrated with the friends we were with – since we happened to have planned a weekend away that overlapped with the birthday boy’s big day.     I made a yummy birthday dinner of brisket barbecue, coupled with yummy sides [...]

I’ve had all the bucket-filling I can handle

You may recall, about two weeks ago, Asher won a trip to the ER, courtesy of his busted head.   In addition to stitches, he apparently came home with germs.   ER on Saturday, then happy and healthy all day Saturday and Sunday … until around dinner time.  Just as I was trying to coax some peas [...]

Ringing in the New Year with a Fizz, Stomp and a Bang

Our New Years was completely boring.  We did not take our usual trip to the little cabin in the big woods and we did not make any plans at home.
Mike bought some sparkling cider for the kids and we let them have some in celebration, around 9pm.

Then he and I stayed up playing the Wii, [...]

Christmas Memories

We had a super duper Christmas.  And now that 2010 is bearing down on us, I figured I better get these memories chronicled.  Prepare for an overload of photos.
This is what the week before Christmas was like …
Sunday: we made decorated a gingerbread house.

It turned out pretty good!  It was fun to see the artistic [...]

Snow Much Fun

Unless you live under a rock, you probably heard the East Coast got a whopper of a snow storm.  Our area got up to 24″;  I estimate our house got closer to 15-17″ but it sure felt like more.   This is how we spent our snowy day.

By 11am, we had 8″ of snow.

This is what [...]

Thankful

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I’m behind again on my photog-o-blogging, but wanted to give thanks for a great weekend we had over Thanksgiving with my in-laws.
It started with a super easy getaway on Wednesday night.  Despite leaving during  prime rush hour [...]

F is for Fall, Foliage, and Fun

We’ve been enjoying a lovely fall.  I wanted to share some fall fotos that capture the beauty and the fun we’ve been up to:

I pass this big tree as I drive up our street.  It is huge, stately and turns a gorgeous shade of colors.  It makes me smile when I see it.

Silas had been [...]