It Was Holly and it Was Jolly: Christmas 2014

In total, I think we hosted 16 people, other than our family, for the Christmas holidays. That’s a whole lotta crazy fun right there. Let’s start with the Nutcracker. For the fourth year, my mom took the girls and I to Ballet Austin’s Nutcracker. As usual, it was fabulous. We’ve managed to time it so…

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Somebody Smells Like Chrism

This past weekend, we trekked up to Dallas for the day for our nephew’s baptism. For my non-Texan readers, that equals about 7+ hours in the van. It would’ve been less, but some football game between OU and t.u. caused quite a bit of traffic ruckus. It might’ve been easier for the Longhorns to stay home.…

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QOTW: September 16, 2011

Me:  Do you like watching flag football?JP:  No.  I like playing it. “I don’t want a boy.” {insert tears here}Clare, when she found out Aunt Jennifer and Uncle Cory had a boy. “We don’t need to care what it is Clare, it’s just a baby.”Anna-Laura, trying her hand at empathy? “I knew it!”Will, when he…

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