family

Simple Things

by beth November 2, 2011

Grate­ful for the time to take in the silence of the trees being rus­tled by the wind.  For the light com­ing through branches.  For the days that become shorter before they grow in length again. For the trails of laugh­ter as kids jump into piles of crunchy leaves. For warm cider, long talks and cuddling […]

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It Was Spooktacular!

by beth November 1, 2011

We had a won­der­ful Hal­loween. We spent the day learn­ing about the his­tory of Hal­loween, hav­ing a mini-Halloween party, watch­ing The Night­mare Before Christ­mas {one of our favorites here at casa de con­fu­sion!} and then the kids got all ready in their cos­tumes. On a side note our nin­jas changed their minds on the day […]

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She’s Official Now!

by beth October 31, 2011

On Sun­day the Lit­tle Miss was Bap­tized. It was a beau­ti­ful day. We were dou­bly blessed in hav­ing Mike’s Uncle as our Dea­con for the Sacra­ment. His par­ents are her God­par­ents and both of our fam­i­lies were present to wel­come her into the Church. She also did great dur­ing the Bap­tism itself. She had smiles […]

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Off the Face

by beth October 28, 2011

She hates to wear almost any­thing in her hair.  Usu­ally her hair hangs across her face & we are con­stantly telling her to push it out of her eyes/mouth/face.  Until she dis­cov­ered she has a love of head­bands.  Not any head­bands though. Any old head­band will be tossed aside.  Only ones with flow­ers or other […]

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