The Next Generation
Melissa | January 16, 2012
Melissa | January 16, 2012
Melissa | January 4, 2012
With my family here and his family there, we’ve always had to be intentional about how we split time for the holidays. Years ago we decided to do Thanksgiving in one state and Christmas in the other. Every year we switch which one we do where. Our families have been very gracious about “sharing” us [...]
Melissa | December 29, 2011
Christmas morning reactions are my favorite to catch on film. They are usually so indicitive of their personalities.
This year, the kids had the chance to shop and wrap completely independently of me thanks to this awesome homeschool Christmas bazaar in which we participated. It was so fun to see what they picked out for everyone.
To: [...]
Melissa | December 22, 2011
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Melissa | November 30, 2011
With so many
warm days this fall,
it would almost be a sin
not to do some
leaf jumping.
Did you jump this fall?
Melissa | November 1, 2011
It’s not often (okay, never) that I get to wish you all a Happy November and post a picture of a recent snow.
I was asking our friend who is a local meteorologist if there were any other weather events we could experience this year that could take down trees. So far we’ve had blizzards, hurricanes, [...]
Melissa | October 30, 2011
I cringe at formal pictures. Mostly because I hate paying for backdrops and pasted on smiles that get thrown in a box in our basement after they hit the blog.
But sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and pay for the pictures, post them on the blog, relegate them to the basement and move [...]
Melissa | October 24, 2011
Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.
I was NOT our family who had an off-hand conversation about getting a dog, decided we wanted one, found one, and adopted one into [...]
Melissa | October 20, 2011
Melissa | October 9, 2011
‘Tis the season for grape crushing (or stomping).
A vineyard not too far from us has an annual grape stomp festival. We’ve been wanting to go for a couple years now and our schedule and the weather finally cooperated this year.
Ironically, Ty opted out of the stomping competition because it was too messy.
They put in a [...]