Super Rachel Zana's Spot

This is actually the costume I wore for Halloween in second grade!  My mom sewed it for me out of one of her old leotards and some material her cousin gave her.  Last year at Halloween my mom mailed this costume along with the pioneer costume Sarah wore for Halloween…

Do you feel like I post a lot of running pictures on this blog?  That's because my kids are running ALL the time.  They are constantly in motion.  On Halloween morning by courageous knight and his companion, the dancing chicken princess were burning off some energy before leaving for music…

I believe I've mentioned before how The Banana has her own ideas about wardrobe choice.  In our house, we use our Halloween costumes year round for dressing up.  At the beginning of fall I was rummaging around in the attic and came across Mr. Sneaky Pants' old chicken costume.  Because…

I'm hoping to catch up on a lot of posts regarding Halloween today.  Last Thursday Mr. Sneaky Pants was very excited to wear his knight costume to preschool.  This excitement was heightened by the fact that the Thursday before that his preschool hosted a Boo Ball fundraiser.  There was a…

We have season tickets to the symphony this year.  This is a very, very big deal for me.  For at least five years of my adolescence, I diligently asked my parents for tickets to go see the symphony in Bismarck.  Every year, it was at the top of my list.…

A few years ago my neighbor was having a garage sale and selling a really nice trumpet.  Of course I could not LEAVE the trumpet there!  Garage sales . . . musical instruments . . . I could not resist that lovely combination.  The trumpet was in excellent condition, but…

We haven't QUITE figured out how to attach the helmet!  When she found her brother's favorite motorcycle toy, though, The Banana knew that she needed a helmet to drive it around, even if it was just a little motorcycle.  She searched out Mr. Sneaky Pants' bike helmet to complete the…

I forgot to mention that amid our other houseguests, my mom and sister-in-law came to visit several days ago.  While my husband, The Banana and Mr. Sneaky Pants were taking an extended Sunday afternoon nap, the rest of us went on a beautiful fall hike, a quick drive down Seven…

We were excited to have our medical school friends who now live in The Cities come up for the day on Saturday.  After a very crazy lunch (seven kids and four grown ups is a lot for our dining room table!) we drove down to the rocky beach to scramble…

I've been waiting to blog about this for weeks, thinking that I'd take a picture to go with what I wanted to say.  I did take the perfect picture, but it accidentally got deleted from my camera!  Drat.   Over the past six weeks I've been working very hard in…