family

  • Happy Anniversary!

  • Good Friends, Good Food, Good Fun!

    Yesterday we hosted a rather impromptu cookout with some friends & their kiddos. Just the day before, Ronnie had mentioned wanting to get the smoker out and put it to use, so we called a few friends and invited them over, hoping they didn’t already have big weekend plans. And, it happened to workout! Ronnie…

  • Happy Thoughts

    I finally have my house back. Minus one broken window pane – I mean I guess the boy couldn’t just move out without first doing some damage to the room we let him stay in for the last 22 months. It’s not that long of a story but I’m a little too irate to go…

  • Annual Mother’s Day Picnic

    Every year on Mother’s Day we head to Antioch Park for a picnic. Some years we’ve done breakfast, but most year, we grill out hamburgers & hot dogs. This year was especially fun now that Skyler could run around and play. She is obsessed with “outsee”, so the park was a total hit. We didn’t…

  • Making messes & whatnot

    Last weekend Ronnie & his mom’s boyfriend replaced our kitchen window with a sliding glass door. We even got the kind with mini-blinds between the glass panels, so it stays nice and clean and detangled. But they made a big mess first, which we are still cleaning up – saw dust gets everywhere! I forgot…

  • Easter Bunny no-show

    Skyler didn’t get to go Easter-egg hunting this year. Part of me feels a bit guilty about it since it could’ve been fun for all of us and started a fun tradition, but another part of me just doesn’t really care. My family never made a big deal out of Easter. I should rephrase: my…

  • Amends

    Ronnie reads the blog regularly. Last night he didn’t outright say he read the last post, but throughout the evening he randomly quoted my sarcasm as it was written. Things like “I should get some new socks; mine are getting kind of holey” and “Don’t talk to me while I’m watching this. Ok, it’s a…

  • Battles

    Why do Ronnie and I get in a fight over every other meal as we try to decide what to eat? It has something to do with the dilemma of eating healthy versus eating conveniently and who will do the cooking versus who will go pick it up. And for some reason Ronnie always leaves…

  • Walker Texas Ranger

    That’s what we call Skyler now! Here I caught her walking around the living room. She ran right into me, and then discovered the camera was running. I love the look she gives the camera at the end!

  • “I can’t remember the last thing that I don’t remember”

    Quoted by my brother, Matt, yesterday, while in recovery after getting his spleen removed. Obviously he was on some drugs, but the rest of us got quite a laugh out of that comment! So yes, yesterday was a little exciting for our family, as my brother went to the ER yesterday morning for terrible pain…