Month: July 2011

Technically Andy did turn 40 before Josie’s birthday, but because we had such a huge bash we celebrated it a couple of weeks late. Because Andy graduated in 1989 I figured it would be appropriate to have an 80’s party. And that we did. We had tons of people there, lots of food, amazing desserts, […]

Yep, doesn’t seem possible, but it’s true. She just turned three, but she has the personality of a twelve-year-old. She is adorable and sweet and she knows exactly what she wants. She is determined to do things by herself now which includes wearing a minimum of three outfits per day. She celebrated her birthday on […]

I’m not sure there has been a dull moment yet this summer, although I’m sure the kids would disagree since they had to spend one whole painful day of being grounded from technology. It was rough…maybe worse on me. But after about a week of recovering from DC we had a visit from my brother, […]

Bright and early the morning after the kids got out of school and Charlie had a piano recital, we headed to the airport for a trip to DC with all of the Hirschman’s. I learned quite a bit about our country, our history, walking many blocks daily, riding the subway, and sweating profusely. We had […]

I can’t really be old enough to say that I have a jr higher. I actually remember my parents speaking these very words. But Charlie went and turned 11, going into 6th grade, actually sits in jr high youth group at church. He was very happy to celebrate with his cousin Lucy who turned 10 […]

My brother and his family came to visit from Tennessee. If you have read any past posts, you’ve heard about and seen these five before. I adore them. There was a time when my brother and I would have liked to rip each other’s throats out, but he makes me laugh to the point of […]