Vacation Recap: Florida

If you’re just joining the vacation party, click on these links to read more about how we celebrate our faith on vacation, as well as the first two legs of our trip to Louisiana, parts one and two. We arrived in Florida late Wednesday and kept cousin Ava up way too late. My brother, Daniel,…

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Mother’s Day 2012

Last Sunday was beautiful!  We had a kah-razy Saturday, so we ended up going to Mass on Sunday morning.  Not our usual gig (we’re typically Saturday night attendees) but I really enjoyed starting our Sunday morning at Mass.  The kids actually wore what I asked them; only one child lodged a complaint.  Not bad odds.  We…

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Christmas Day!

Our morning didn’t begin quite as early as I thought it might.  We heard some “whispers” around 6:45am from the girls.  They had discovered their Santa stash.  The boys arrived shortly after, around 7am.  There was lots of excitement, lots of smiles and lots of happy Whitaker children.  My parents, brother, sister-in-law and niece came…

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Now for some good news

I thought sharing some fun pics from ALG’s 4th birthday might brighten the blog this week – and my day 🙂 Because of the pending move, we weren’t sure what state the house (and we!) would be in come Anna-Laura’s birthday. This one was all my mom’s idea and it was brilliant. Nana, Aunt Amanda,…

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