My little guy will be three on December 23rd.  Time flies!
Because of the busyness of Christmas and my nephew’s birthday soon after Christmas, we always celebrate Eli’s birthday just a tad early.  Three year olds have FUN partying!

Our church celebrates Jesus’ birth a tad early, too.  Last night was the annual Christmas pageant.  My sweet [...]

My 87-year-old Granny isn’t well.  She lives in Alabama with my aunt and uncle who are doing a wonderful job caring for her.  We were so blessed to be able to visit, along with most of the rest of my extended family, for a Thanksgiving reunion.

We took the opportunity on the way home to take [...]

Have you ever heard of redneck paintball?  I hadn’t either!  Our preacher’s wife was in charge of the family event at church this month and her brilliant idea was redneck paintball.  The kids had a BLAST!  And, as you can see from the pictures above, my husband did, too!
The weapons are mustard or ketchup covered [...]

A family in our church owns a pumpkin patch/ corn maze, and they generously host the families of our church each year for a cookout, hayride and free pumpkins for the kids.  It’s always GREAT fun – and this year was no exception!

The rule was each child could take home any pumpkin they wanted as [...]

Before bed, Eli asks for a tractor story every night.  From the picture above, I guess you can tell where his passions lie right now.  The other night, he told me a tractor story – his first ever story by the way…
“Mommy, I tell you tacter tory tonight!  Once pon time, Ewi ride tacter and [...]