A fresh school year, a season of gratitude We’ve been back to school now for a couple of weeks and this year is already a momentous one. Jude began fifth grade and Archer began 3 year old preschool. So you can imagine all the feelings swirling about as I dropped off Jude first (who requested […]

It’s the last week of summer here, and we just got home from our family trip to Southern California. Every summer we try to run away with the boys somewhere fun (last year was this trip to Watersound) and I’ll admit that I was a little bit reticent to go to LA with Archer being […]

This post is a little bit belated but there was too much good stuff to forgo it.  Weekend after last was an absolute whirlwind of a weekend in Dallas for a family wedding. Remember how Jude was at Kamp? Simon drove from OKC to Branson on Friday to pick him up at the closing ceremony […]

The big event of the summer for Jude is going to Kanakuk and since attending last summer for the first time, he’s been gung-ho to return for round 2.  While there was much anxiety last summer when getting on the big bus to ride several hours up to Missouri, this year he barely looked back […]