October photos uploaded.

The kids had been counting down to Halloween for a couple of weeks. Costumes had been picked out for weeks, it was just waiting for THE day! A couple of days before Halloween, the kids gutted their pumpkins and decorated them. They had fun doing that, but they really wanted to get into their costumes….

This is a hard post to write, but one that must be written. It’s taken me awhile to get to the point where I can actually write this out. We found out on September 1st, that Tammy’s mom, Gloria Hemenway, passed away. She had been battling Type II Diabetes for a long time. I knew…

The kids have been waiting for Halloween since August. That is how long they’ve had their costumes sitting in our closet, just dying to wear them for the big day! They started their Halloween day early, being up at 6:30 in the morning. I don’t even get up until a little after 7..and when I…

We started this hike in July… but got a late start on it, and wasn’t prepared enough with enough water for all of us during the heat, so we didn’t get to finish this in July. We went back in November, much more prepared with cooler weather, and we were able to finish the whole…

March has been a busy month!  I definitely did not like having Easter in March, only a week away from St. Patrick’s Day.  It wouldn’t have been so bad if Saint Patrick’s Day was JUST St. Patrick’s Day…but this is also Brittany’s birthday.   So, two holidays in a week was a little hard to plan…

We loved Arches National Park..unfortunately, being June when we visited, it was very hot!  Over 100 degrees on the day we were here.  We couldn’t do a lot of the longer trails, because of the heat factor.  We managed to do some hiking, but we want to come back during a cooler month to do…