The boys birthday cake was by far one of the most awesome cakes I’ve ever seen! I told Ms. Esther that one boy liked space and one liked dinosaurs and provided a few small figurines and she totally ran with it. I was expecting some round flat cakes decorated but when I picked the cake [...]

Z Man had his first flag football game this weekend. He hustled the whole game and made a few really good defensive plays. He played center for a bit but the concept of gently hiking the ball to his coach was a little lost on him. He would turn around and chunk it to his [...]

I’m 6 years old today. (2:16am)

I’m 5 years old today. (4:52pm)

It’s hard to believe that they are growing so fast. So individual and so unique. Z Man got an acoustic guitar and lessons for his birthday (he’s been asking for awhile for a real guitar) and Casey J got some smaller items and a action [...]

My Z Man sometimes seems wise beyond his years. Although I’m sure I’ve said that before he never ceases to amaze me. He brought home a creative writing paper last week and was at first embarrassed to let me read it. It was so simple yet carried a much bigger message. He brought it home [...]

Waiting to see where Ike is going to make landfall. Looks like it’ll be close to home and we’ll have visitors up here. It’s throwing a small wrench in the plans for the boys birthday party. My folks are boarding up the house tonight and have retrieved the camper from the coast….

Yesterday morning we had to turn the water off so that my dear Big C could dig a giant hole to figure out where our water leak was coming from. Z Man had his daily constitution after we got home from church and was panicked when it wouldn’t flush. I told him not to worry, [...]