The beginning of the year also means Danny’s birthday!  For the last two years, he’s had it at a local pool.  This year, all four of the kids went into the water.  Not because it made my life any easier, but because Thumper probably wasn’t going to sit in his Dad’s lap for an hour […]

LEGO is either a marketing genius or pure evil.  Or both. Tad really wanted the upcoming LEGO Batman 3 sets for Christmas.  He even put them on his Christmas list for Santa.  Small problem – those sets were going to be released January 1st.  Tad was not happy when I told him he’d have to […]

Maybe he just wants to follow in Daddy’s footsteps at church. Or maybe this just looks cool.

There’s been plenty of chilly temperatures lately, but no snow yet. So, here’s today’s flashback of the first time Thumper saw snow. He was so little that he wasn’t even walking in it! I really wish I could get some snow.  About six inches in the backyard would be perfect.  And only in the backyard. […]