Thursday, February 28, 2013

[wpvideo tKHnwL6r]Devon at 10 months- wishing his Aunt MoMo a happy birthd...

An Article about Parenting

I came across this article the other day and found it really interesting. Give me your thoughts!!The link to the article can be found here: http://growingleaders.com/blog/3-mistakes-we-make-leading-kids/Three Huge Mistakes We Make Leading Kids…and How to Correct ThemFebruary 15, 2013 Recently, I read about a father, Paul Wallich, who built a camera-mounted drone helicopter to follow his grade-school-aged...

Monday, February 18, 2013

Turns out this guy is in the 95th percentile for height. Not even surprised in the slighte...

Growing up, I don’t think my parents even once had a pizza delivered to our home.  My mom never fried a chicken.  Candy rarely found its way into our house.  I was raised in a healthy home with parents who always encouraged us to be active.  My parents were not health nuts by any...

I realize that it is highly unlikely that this child will always sleep with his butt up in the air like this, but I hope it lasts for a while. It’s just so darned cu...

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Our challenge, our hope, and our peace over the past six mont...

Friday, February 15, 2013

The Deep South

While taking the dog and child on their walk this morning I began an inward debate about how I felt about the Deep South. It’s a complicated question. We have now lived in all three of the “true southern" states: Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana. I say true southern because that is how many people from here view it. A good friend of ours works on a rig just off the Louisiana coast. He is repeatedly...

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Monday, February 11, 2013

Mudding

The other day I took the little man outside to enjoy yet another glorious afternoon.  I put him down on “high ground" in the grass, but try as I might I could not keep the kid up there.  My son was determined to investigate the big puddles across the way.  So I relented, because he is,...

Big D at 9 months

I just thought I’d share some of these photos with you guys.  I took them a few weeks ago while we were hanging out at our favorite park here.  One of our all time favorite things about living in the deep south is the winter weather.  It’s pretty awesome.  Most days it is in the...

Saturday, February 2, 2013

An unexpected kiss

While at the zoo in Albuquerque we were able to get a little up close and personal with one of the giraffes.  A little too personal, perhaps.I think that in the summertime the zoo keepers allow people to feed the giraffes, but we were there on a cold day in December, which meant that not only were...