I’m pretty sure this kid could have gotten from Pensacola to Honolulu all by himself. He is savvy.

You are 21 months old and I have totally slacked on these updates. You are a toddler now and your vocabulary is growing everyday (as is your hair, but I just can’t bring myself to cut it yet!)

You are a sweet big brother! You have a little doll that you take care of [...]

Our 2010 in photos. I can’t hardly believe that a year ago we were just finding out about baby #2 (who we now call Ginger) and Mr Jack was a young 9 months old.

Jack found out a new sibling was on the way in January. Mr. Garth turns 31.

Jack continued to be cute [...]

Oh it has been a marvelous holiday, my friends. Garth had 4 days off in a row and I tried my hardest not to wander into my studio (the living room) and work. Mostly we stayed in our pajamas ( we each got two sets this year!), watched movies, and drank hot chocolate. [...]

It has happened again. That million-things-to-do rush that leads up to Christmas has come to an end only because the days hours until Christmas are so short. Those items on my list that I just didn’t get around to (gosh, I say that so casually as if I haven’t been up until 2 [...]

Friday. We’d been working on our costumes for about a week and got them to a wearable state (a few hems remain unfinished- notice the strings hanging off the bottom of my dress) and packed up the car and headed for downtown. The businesses along Palafox Street were handing out candy and there were hundreds [...]

There were tons of gnome sightings this weekend in Pensacola. I’m in the process of sorting through the photos now and will post ‘em shortly. Happy Monday everyone.

It is hard to sit on Mom’s lap and be still.

There is so much to see and do elsewhere.

And it’s hard to take direction (“hold this sign”) from Mom when there’s a new way to answer “no” to practice (which looks like a referee calling a ball “safe”).

And it’s hard to hold a sign up [...]

So I’m a big believer in the magic of fair food. I mean, what is it about taking fresh cut curly fries, caramel apples, funnel cakes, and cotton candy into one place and charging a 500% markup on it makes it taste so darn delicious? I LOVE those fries. My mouth is [...]

We spent four days in the city where we fell in love. We went to a few (not nearly enough of) our old haunts (which were much harder to navigate with one wiggly squirmy toddler and one newborn). We spent much of out time hanging out with our dear friends and walking through [...]