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Here's the picture I mentioned of us all. Happy New Year!

Christmas Eve We decided to go to the earliest service at church (3:00!!) because last year we went at 4:30 and it was so packed that we bar...

We're home again, recovering from the hustle and bustle of the last week. I'm sad it's all over, but it was really, really fun. ...

Yesterday our house was overrun by gingerbread men! My mom came down to introduce Rachel to the story by making gingerbread men with her. I...

It's hard to believe it's less than 2 weeks until Christmas! Yesterday my husband took the day off because I had a doctor's appo...

So we made it! Weather didn't interfere, and though my cold was quite annoying and I couldn't be quite as helpful to Allecia as I w...

Yuck, yuck, yuck. I can't believe winter technically is not even here yet. I already despise it. Yes, the snow was really pretty the oth...

Yesterday I spent most of the morning putting up Christmas decorations around the house (all except the tree). Rachel was SO excited and ke...

Yesterday was a bad day. Nothing really bad....just lots of little annoying things happened, which, when built up, amounted to a frustrated...

Just in the last few days she's developed some new phrases.... *It's so cute, Mommy! (when talking about her baby dolls) *Yo-ah kidd...

Here are some pictures from our Thanksgiving day--before all of the sickness began. One of the toys my older nephew and niece enjoyed at Gr...

Two days later than planned, but we made it home this morning around 11:30. I'm feeling much better today after a miserable day yesterda...

Today I'll give you a recap of the last several days of our Thanksgiving "celebration. " Wednesday--Rachel and I left mid-morn...

We had planned on going home today, but that was before my husband woke up with some sort of stomach bug. So the poor guy has been laying o...

Going back home today. I'll write more tomorrow. And the most exciting news in my world isn't actually my news to tell, but since sh...

Are you going shopping today? I haven't figured out whether I'll be going or not... my husband likes to, but I hate the huge crowds....

...again! We were just at Grandma's, but we're going back today. Hooray! Oh, and here is another saying I just heard Rachel say yest...

Here are a few of the things she's been saying a lot lately. -Hey guys, whatcha doin' in here? -I need blanket make my warm. -I have...

While at my mom's last week Rachel discovered her cornucopia centerpiece. Grandma told her what it was called and they took out all of t...

While we were at my parents' house my mom and I set to work on that cape I was thinking about. The next morning when we showed her she w...