On November 5-7 Rachel performed in her school's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. It is the first play of Shakespeare's that I read (waaay back in sixth grade) and it is still one of my favorites. She worked really hard and had a great time....

Last Tuesday my Caleb turned 9. Wow, how time flies! It seems like just last week when I held my little boy for the first time at the hospital and cried because of the love I felt for him. Now he's one year away from being in double digits. The...

Caleb's Halloween Costume Pretty cool, if I do say so myself. Now you can see why he didn't want to wear his costume to the piano recital earlier that day. He originally wanted to be Indiana Jones this year but we couldn't pull off a costume that...

On Halloween morning, Caleb had a piano recital. It wasn't your regular recital however. All of the songs that were played had a decidedly Halloween theme to them and most wore their costumes. Caleb didn't wear a costume and you will see why in a later...

Road trip. Sometimes that is the only way to get from here to there. This last weekend, we packed up our car and headed west to California. It was fall break for the kids so we decided (kind of on the spur of the moment) to go and visit the Tripletts...