Call me Halloween Scrooge, but I really don’t like carving pumpkins! The smell is nice for a bit, but then coupled with the texture of the pumpkin innards and the GIANT mess it makes?? No thanks! Not to mention the fact that my kids would just want to poke their pumpkin incessantly until it collapsed [Read more…]
Life with Kids
Trick-or-Treating 2017
Have I mentioned before how much I LOVE this little town we live in?? It’s a beautiful area with incredible places to hike and things to see, but then there’s this wonderful community and I just can’t handle how perfect it is for our little family right now! The main street in town gets closed [Read more…]
Halloween 2017 A Firefighter and his Dalmatian
Halloween 2017, we’re ready for you! Carter decided he wanted to be a firefighter for Halloween 2 months ago. He has been so excited for trick or treating, counting down the sleeps! I felt it was only appropriate for Zellie to go as Carter the firefighter’s little Dalmatian puppy 🙂 They make the cutest pair! [Read more…]
Summer Days Got Me in the Pool
Remember last winter when we experienced crazy low temperatures and crazy amounts of snow here in Hood River, OR and it was not at all expected? Well, hello summer. You guessed it, crazy high temperatures and crazy lack of rain that was not at all expected. Where does that leave us? In weather that is [Read more…]
Backyard Camping
Sometimes life gets crazy, and no matter how hard we try to plan and execute our plans they just don’t work out. Recently our family schedule has been super crazy and Scott and I have felt overwhelmed with the idea of planning out a camping trip for the family. Any time we tried putting something [Read more…]