Our weekend in Napa…

Mike and I celebrated our 15th anniversary in Napa a few weekends ago. (We used to go there a lot before we had the kids, but hadn’t been in a while.)…

A great week with friends

My friend Jen and her kids were here this week, visiting from the East Coast. We had the best time. (I just took them to the airport today and I’m…

Wedding memories (and puffy hair)…

Mike and I celebrated our 15th anniversary on the 22nd (it’s hard to believe how fast time flies). We watched our wedding video and reminisced about our wedding day… (and…

That guilty face

We try not to give Bailey any table scraps when we eat. But somehow, she manages to find things to chew on anyway… (That would be her with paper towel…

Photographs into sketches…

I was walking down our hallway the other day when the pictures on the wall caught my eye for the first time in a long time.  Actually, they aren’t pictures…

A frog or two. Or fifty.

When our kids went to Grandma and Grandpa’s house in the country a couple of weeks ago, they caught a few frogs:   It brought back memories of the cricket episode we had in our house last year….

It ended with a bang

We had a great time at our annual 4th of July celebration in our court this past weekend–swimming, playing games, and eating a whole bunch of delicious food. My daughter made and decorated the cupcakes……

A fun way to spend the day at Lake Tahoe

A few weeks ago, my friends and I spent a girls’ weekend at Lake Tahoe. (We all live in different cities and it’s a tradition we have to get together every year.) It was so fun…