On Christmas day, we hosted our annual Christmas brunch with DH’s family. The kids opened gifts and had some playtime with their Grandma, Pop-Pop, aunt, uncle, and cousins. Each year I make a breakfast casserole recipe given to me by a friend. I love recipes that have a person I care about attached to it. I’ll post it as well … Continue reading →

We were in the mood for a day trip, so we packed up the cooler with lunch and headed about two hours south to a State Park in our area with a great fishing pond. Armed with DD and DS’s little fishing rods and a tub of night crawlers (eww…) we actually managed to catch and release three fish, two … Continue reading →

After church, we headed over to our local park with the bikes and I gave my new camera another workout. Sweet hubby is finally showing up in our family photos! The highlight of the trip was a crazy spinning monkey bar thing that they recently added to the playground. Very cool!

I am now the happy owner of a Canon Powershot SX10 IS. My hubby is the official photographer in our home, but this neat little camera just might inspire me to take more photos. DD pulled me aside last night to show me her sidewalk chalk creations on the driveway. She had made each member of her family, drawn as … Continue reading →