Vacation CA

Finally, it came! The kids waited so patiently for the day to come. Tail end of last week was taken up with cleaning and laundr, laundry, laundry. Thursday was bible study in the afternoon for me and I was so distracted I ran over a skateboard on the way out. So sad, it was brand [...]

God’s Love and Snow Cones

Last night, our family joined a group from church to witness during Austin’s First Thursday arts, crafts, music and food fair. That was a huge blessing! It’s not often that we are able to serve in ministry as a family. It was also awesome to see the boys in action. They were with a couple [...]

VBS

Last week, all week, was our church’s vacation bible school. What did that mean? That means we were tired but blessed. This year was a little different. NM was old enough to go to the junior high and high school camp but he had volunteered to help with VBS. We encouraged him to back up [...]

Wild Basin Preserve

Well, we were really supposed to try and find the Goat Cave Preserve. We tried and were attacked by the cave’s hordes of evil mosquito guardians. We ran back to the truck to put on a coat of bug spray. The bugs hovered behind us then, but mom lost the mental will to stay and [...]

Crafty Boys Strike Again!

We bought our materials yesterday and worked on them today. They were fun! So what if they cost more than those at Old Navy or Target. These are one-of-a-kind beauties! The stencil is made out of freezer paper. We printed the designs, cut out the parts where we wanted the paint to go, then ironed [...]

Fredricksburg

So two weekends ago we headed out to Fredricksburg to see if we could find some peaches to bring home. It would have been a waste of a few good hours to stay at home and sit in front of the computer, know what I mean? Texas Hill Country is just awash with wildflowers right [...]

Brotherly Love

No, it’s hardly the most technically accomplished photograph but the emotion speaks volumes to me. I’m kind of partial to these boys, you know. I hope they remember times like this when they’re older and we’re having hummus and chips at a family reunion. I hope they still like hummus and chips when they’re older. [...]

The Unexpected

The Lord often protects me from some of the more difficult facts of life because He knows how weak I really am. Weak? More like wimpy, wimpy, wimpy! Last Thursday, I was helping to set up and decorate for our church’s women’s retreat. This was my third in a row with CSA, second year helping [...]

Last weekend

Just a very brief update so Lola knows what’s happening. The soccer game: the boys lost again. However, the number of goals that they lose by has been shrinking noticeably. NM has been strongly commended at each game for doing a great job as goalie (wow I am proud) and even as striker. His confidence [...]

Town Lake Walk

Really, I had no idea how much I missed walking around Town Lake/Lady Bird Lake. We went yesterday afternoon and walked for several hours. Austin was wearing its Sunday best, the temps and humidity was perfect, the blooming flowers perfumed the air and it was just gorgeous. Just gorgeous! And I had the camera the [...]

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