A Weekend in August

Wow is it hot! Though I’m already dreading winter, we are in a heat wave over here right now. Whatever the temp, though, I’m always ready for the weekend. We started ours off with dinner at Outback Steakhouse — I’m such a sucker for good old...

Hiking, Fishing & Pregnant Workouts

We had a fun weekend exploring our surroundings. It’s nice living in a place where there are multiple new trails and places to try, even when you have lived here for 9 years! First, I will tell you how my pregnancy workouts have been going. All in all —...

Cherishing Every Moment — Even Now

*No, that’s NOT me 🙂 Leave it to a great song to get you in the mood to write about something. Of course I spend many hours a day lately thinking about this baby growing. This baby that doesn’t actually seem real yet but I know is real because he squirms...

The Tough Part About Announcing Pregnancy

If you’ve read me before, you may have heard me say that I have wanted to be a Mom since I was about 16. I always had this longing to be pregnant…so I wanted to get married early and be “a young mom!” Well, things don’t always work out as...

Alaska Cruise 2: Sitka, Ketchikan, Juneau

*Part I of Alaska Cruise Adventures  So, where did we leave off? I was about halfway through this thing when I stopped you mid-cruise but here we are to finish the job! That excursion on the boat in Juneau to see whales was one of the prettiest days I had, with some...

Why You NEED to Use Emoticons

I have fun with all those fun little emoticon dudes on my iphone sometimes, but mostly I think they are overkill. Unless… There is an appropriate time and place for emoticons and punctuation and a “ha ha” here and there. I’ll tell you where....