I am back from my 9 day trip to TX and CA.   And now I am finally writing about our beach vacation!   Last year when we came to this area we fell in love with the beach.  And the lady, Maria, who rented us these beach chairs for the day. Her kindness (and prices) left an...

Where to start!  We had such a great time! We decided to take a return trip (from last summer) to the area of Benalmadena, Spain, which is located in southeast Spain on the Costa del Sol (Coast of Sun) in the region of Andalucia.  Lots of hills and sea!  It is such a gorgeous area! ...

It's been over a week ago since our two, 5 year old's party, but thought I'd get these pictures up knowing the grandparents will want to see them. I have a lot of fun decorating cakes.  I do find myself getting lazy though.  You can tell by the base on the dalmatian cake.  It could have...

 This morning as my twinks are turning 5,  I began to think about the morning of June 6, 2006.  I had been up in the wee hours of the morning due to insomnia.  I was 37 weeks, 6 days.  Somehow I managed to climb back in bed and get a bit more sleep.  When I woke...

 We showed up late to the field day activities, not knowing we could be there.  So we didn't get to see our kids race.  Oh well!  We got to see the medal ceremony though. My big girl won out of all the 5/6 year old girls!!  She told us later that she didn't even run as fast...

In Spain, the month of September and the month of June the kids only go half days, until 1:30.  Brennan & Reegan's birthday is next week and normally birthday parties are done in the afternoon.  So, their teacher asked if we could do it this past Tuesday, May 31st with one of the other...

I've been toying with the idea of changing the name of my blog for some time.  I called on my Held peeps for some ideas and they helped me out.  I waited a long time for the title of "mom," but at the same time there are SO many other things in my life that define me.  So I went looking...