There’s always a lot of excitement involved in a visit to Grandma Robbie’s house, and this visit was jam packed with all sorts of good things:  special cookies, dying Easter eggs, trips to the barn to see baby calves, very chilly and damp rides on the four wheeler in the…

Aaaaaahhh!  There’s just something so nice about watching your flesh and blood offspring toil doing the dishes at the very same sink and counter that you, yourself spent so many hours at doing dishes!  At our house loading and unloading the dishwasher largely falls into my own jurisdiction mostly because…

I’ve been terribly slow at editing all the pictures from our North Dakota trip.  One of the main reasons is that in addition to recovering from traveling (can we say laundry? suitcases to be unpacked? grouchy kids?) and getting everyone back into their school routine, I was gone for several…

The kidlets were very excited to visit Old Gramma.  They were particularly excited to walk over across the driveway from my parents’ house to Old Gramma’s house unsupervised.  In fact, they left and came back several times just because they could.  One afternoon my mom actually sent YaYa and The…

While we were in North Dakota, my friend Siri and I took a road trip north to visit my friend Rhonda, who recently had a baby.  It was a great trip.  Siri and I had so much fun chatting on the car ride, whieh involved quite a few detours because…

We had a super time visiting my nephew Jack and my brother and sister-in-law while we were in Bismarck.  To make things even more fun, my cousin Lisa, who lives just a few houses down the street from my brother came over too!  We ate pizza for supper and tried…

This last picture was supposed to be a “boy” picture but a couple of sneaky little sisters jumped in at the last minute!  We had a fantastic time staying overnight at the Penn home.  There were cookies, light saber battles, pancakes with syrup, bunk beds to sleep in (a very…

I have so many wonderful things to blog about our week in North Dakota visiting friends and family, but I’m actually going to start with the last part first, and get the traumatic part out of the way! Easter Sunday.  There was the usual drama of getting everyone ready.  There…

There is no picture available today, but here are some conversations heard in the van on our journey to Bismarck today: Mr. SP:  Dad!  My tooth is really, really loose!  Look! Me:  Wow!  That tooth IS really loose!  How did that happen so suddenly? Mr. SP: Oh, Hannah and I…

The kidlets have hired me to be their macro photographer.  The payment is hugs and kisses.  For quite some time, Mr. SP has been very taken with the blog Lego a Day.  In fact, we all are amused every time we visit the site.  It has spurred a greater interest…