Happy 14th, Bodie!

My sweet Peach is fourteen years old today. How can this be? This was just yesterday… I snapped this photo the night before his first birthday and I remember this moment vividly. He looked like an angel! He’s not quite as angelic these days, but he’s still a pretty sweet kid. Per usual, all he […]

Bodie is 11

Bodie turned ELEVEN last week and all he wanted for his birthday was a trip to Steamboat for some skiing. We have IKON passes and a place to stay, so the airfare was the biggest expense. Unfortunately, that turned out to be on the high side (it was President’s Day weekend, so it was expected), […]

Back to School

We’ve been back in school for several weeks and I am loving being back on a regular schedule again. The last few weeks of summer were a little rough; swim team and vacations were behind us and the lack of structure coupled with boredom resulted in a lot of sibling fighting. I think we all […]

Living Room Redo

After being in kid and puppy mode for ages, I finally have an adult family room! Our living room is open to our kitchen and well loved/abused. For years I’ve had a giant Pottery Barn sectional and an Ikea coffee table as the only furniture in that room and they’d definitely seen better days. No […]

A Decade of Bodie

This week is an emotional one for me: my little Peach is double digits. I can’t believe my baby is ten. And Emery turns thirteen this summer. Oy. I am NOT ready for this. Thanks to the extra week of NFL football this season, the Super Bowl fell just two days before Bodie’s birthday. He […]

Snow Day (Week)!

Two weeks ago our local meteorologists all started calling for snow in our area. And not just a dusting, either! I really didn’t believe we would get snow, but I am happy to admit that I was VERY wrong. Winter Storm Izzy delivered and the forecasts were correct. I think we probably got between 6-8″ […]