Matt, Maddie, Mace and I went to Dairy Queen to get ice cream recently. Matt and I just get blizzards and then we share them with the girls (we are mean that way). This time Matt got vanilla with Heath bar [Show Full Post]

Our family had the best Fourth of July this year! It started with a ward pancake breakfast at the park. After the scouts presented the flag and one of the young women played the national anthem on the trumpet, our good [Show Full Post]

My brother Uncle Matt and his girlfriend Jess visited last week. It was a blast! We went to the Seattle Aquarium on Friday. We all had so much fun watching all the fishies [Show Full Post]

Hi everyone! We are still alive up here in Washington, I have just severely neglected my blog for a very long time. :) We planted a big garden this year and are so excited to get some veggies from it. We [Show Full Post]

Macy LOVES fruits and veggies! Maddie does too, but no one gets excited about "bewwies" like Mimi! We went blueberry picking a few weeks ago and she could not stop eating the blueberries. I have to limit the amount of fruit [Show Full Post]

Last Friday was Maddie's third birthday. We celebrated it on Saturday but on Friday night Matt and I took the girls to Jimmy Mac's for like the 4th weekend in a row--Matt is addicted to the prime rib and I cannot [Show Full Post]

The R-word has really been on my mind the last week or so with all of the controversy surrounding Tropic Thunder.  I can't believe that of all the people who worked on this movie, not one of them thought that there [Show Full Post]

Yesterday was Madison's last official visit from her Early Intervention therapist, since she will be turning three next week and thus moving on to preschool. Karen has been working with Maddie since shortly after we moved here to [Show Full Post]

Yesterday Matt and I celebrated eight crazy, fun-filled years together. We got a sitter for the girls and went to dinner at Ray's Boathouse, right on the water in Seattle. It was a beautiful evening and as we [Show Full Post]

Matt and I just finished watching the movie Waitress and I loved it! It is one of my new favorite movies. Keri Russell was brilliant in it. It has such a fun theme of crazy-named pies running through it, and it [Show Full Post]