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One of the reasons I was remembering my friend Laura yesterday is that our families met up this summer in Utah at Arches National Park! We did this one other time when we were traveling in the Pacific Northwest in 2008 (we like to call that summer Living the Dream). It’s so much fun. Our …
My sweet Aunt Jeanne gave my kids the children’s version of the wildly popular Jesus Calling for Christmas this year. Since school started, we’ve been using this devotion book in the mornings to connect for a minute with God and each other before we all run off in different directions. My mom uses this devotional …
While Taido was out of town last week, Mary Polly had a couple of girls spend the night. Usually our house is full of boys, so it’s always interesting when the hormone scale gets tipped the other way. The dynamics in the house shift. Nail polish fumes overpower the smell of sweaty socks. One Direction …
Colorado Wildflowers Mary Polly took a lot of pictures on our trip to Colorado this year. In fact, everyone took a few pictures of their own and it is fun as I go through them to see our adventures from different eyes. The boys take lots of pictures of rocks and sticks. Mary Polly took …
So as I’ve been going through pictures, I realized I never put up all the pictures from our trip to Colorado last summer. I even had the ones for the blog all picked out and in a folder. I know what happened. Every year, when our time is up in the Rockies, I drive home …
After a few glitches on the road trip out (flat tires and lost keys and such), we had a wonderful two weeks in Colorado and Utah. We saw new beauties and old favorites! Here are a few highlights of our first few days, which we spent in Aspen, Colorado at Difficult Campground. The Aspens and …
We really try to get out of the heat in Arkansas in the summertime. (It was 107 degrees today!) So we’re headed to Colorado this year again. Whitney took our pictures in Crested Butte, Colorado last year and we have them hanging in our living room, reminding us that soon we will be dancing among …
A Beauty To Unveil A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough. She knows in her quiet center where God dwells that He finds her beautiful, has deemed her worthy and in Him, she is enough. She exudes a sense …
NPR’s All Things Considered came to eStem Middle School to do one of their Backseat Book Clubs last month. Mary Polly and several other students got to meet local author Trenton Lee Stewart and ask him questions about his books. Mary Polly’s question was chosen for the program that aired this past Tuesday. (She …
Little Rock Zoo Days This past fall I joined the Little Rock Zoo on one of our days out of school. I realized I only had to come one other time to make it worth it to go ahead and join, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how much we’ve used it. Our favorite time …
I’m not gonna lie. Simon’s favorite part of Spring Break was unlimited access to Mario Cart and Toy Story 3 on the Nintendo DS in the Ski Lodge. But, he was also pretty fond of the Magic Carpet at Copper Mountain. We spent 2 1/2 hours riding this baby one afternoon. Then we went back …
So when I was going through backpacking pictures from Ben’s trip to Colorado, I realized that I have all these pictures of Cole’s trip in 2006. Since that pre-dates this blog, I decided to go ahead and post them this week. That way one day when my kids are looking for pictures of themselves, they …
Remember all those different blog posts about our trip to Colorado last summer? I guess I got a little burned out on mountain pictures, because I neglected to put these up from Ben’s inaugural backpacking trip. My dad, Taido and Bobby take the graduating seniors backpacking every summer before they head off to college. They …
I have a little Merry Christmas Eve gift for ya! We participated in the Joy Project again this year, which made us laugh a lot throughout December. For me, the laughing and dancing together as a family is the value of getting out and bringing the joy! We surprised people with our joyful flash mob …
I’ve said before that we love the mountains. We love to be in the mountains. We love to hike and bike in the summer. We love to ski in the winter. Snow skiing tends to be a little (or a lot) hard on the pocketbook, but it was a huge part of both mine and …
I’ve been in a bit of a funk this week. And I do not like to be down around Thanksgiving. It’s my most favorite holiday. All that food, giving thanks, jigsaw puzzles and family, family, family. But we don’t really get to choose when the uglies come calling for us, or at least I don’t, …
This week, Simon and I got to escape to Missouri for a couple of nights camping with my dad, my sister and her kids. Anna’s kids were out of school Monday and Tuesday, so we all left on Sunday and met about halfway between here and Chicago at St. Francois State Park. We’ve only camped …
So, I never finished putting up all my pictures from our trip to Colorado. These are all pictures from hikes we did in and around Aspen. Every day we spent in Aspen we found a new hike to go on. This trail actually left from our campground, Difficult Creek. The kids love to stop near …
We spent a lovely two days in the area of Rifle, Colorado, a place I had never even heard tell of before last week. Though we enjoyed our time there, we probably won’t go back since it is so far west in Colorado. Unless, of course, I take up rock climbing, which is about as …
We are escaping the Arkansas heat this week in one of our favorite spots in the whole world. Crested Butte, Colorado. We headed out this morning for our first real hike of the week. Judd Falls. We drove through the tiny settlement of Gothic, Colorado. Students of all ages were out in the fields studying, …