Carter wants to sleep in his sleeping bag – on the floor – every single night lately.  I can't imagine it is that comfortable but he loves it.  Funny little guy.  

After contemplating many ideas for a family vacation this summer, we couldn't think of something everyone would enjoy more than a trip to our favorite campsite.  And we were right.     Nate had the fun idea to get a cool camping thing for each kid, and had them hold their hands out and close…

It was really great to go hang out at scout camp with Zach and the boys.  Great to watch them shoot arrows and BB guns and great to hike in the cool of the evening.      It was not so great to get pulled over on the way home.  (Although it was funny to…

The sponge fights were awesome.  (Seriously, super fun.  Even for me.  We laughed so hard.)  I do think the neighbors may have thought we were crazy… And we let Carter add his own parmesan cheese to his dinner… well, if you open the wrong side of the cap you get "parmesan cheese world".  Which was less…

Every once in a while, a FHE turns out great.  This one had us all laughing, Nate didn't fall asleep, and the kids talked about it for days.  (Did I mention it was planned during dinner and adapted mid-game?) That's the magic of Bamboozle… 

It always starts out leisurely enough… but usually ends with one or more of the parties thinking they are in the NBA finals.  

We got a too-good-to-pass-up invite to a lunchtime hot dog roast when my dad and brother were working at home one day… Carter was pretty excited to be roasting his own hot dog, but the fire at noon was pretty hot… 🙂 And then the next evening we headed up Milcreek Canyon for a spur-of-the-moment…

   Sent Zach off to Mill Hollow camp for 2 nights and 3 days.  Hard for a mom, but so exciting for him. Nate stopped by the school on his way to work with a bag of chocolate chips to help me through the drama, one of the sweetest gestures of our marriage (and a…

With Zach at Mill Hollow, I thought I'd take the younger kids to something they would enjoy more than he would… and while we were trying to come up with a fun plan, the cousins called to say they were headed to the farm.  Perfect!  We had a great (hot!) picnic lunch, tour of the…