This is Maddie's third season playing volleyball. I am her team's coach.  You will hear both Katie & Maddie complain about m...

A few weeks ago Maddie comes home w/ a set of papers and instructions on making a project of an animal in their habitat.  She picked bottlen...

Mike went up to the cabin last weekend, to finish up the ... darn it.... I keep forgetting what it is he did.  I know it starts w/ an S.  I ...

Maddie cleaned the kitchen for me all weekend.  Without asking.  Emptying the dishwasher AND loading it.  Be still my heart.  I hope it cont...

Last week I visited a friend's house to pick a few things up.  Before I left, she gave me some fresh eggs from her chickens!  I...

As everyone knows... we live in San Antonio.  Home of the Alamo.  So naturally, the schools teach a lot about the Alamo to the kids, and ...

This morning I was sitting down at the table with Maddie eating breakfast.  I simply said "how's life?" She said ...

While we were at the cabin this past weekend, Mike's friend Shaun told me what poison oak looks like.  This is VERY important to me to ...

Last weekend we had a three day weekend (hello Fiesta!) -- so we took the girls plus Katie's BFF Madison to the cabin.  When we left ...

Miss Sabrina is graduating in May!  Here are a few samples of her graduation pictures for her announcement. For more of my natural ligh...