It's past that time, but oh well. I want to give thanks for the amazing couple of days we spent with our families. I had special permiss...

My friend Misti just sent this to me with her family in it and I just had to do it for ours. This is HILARIOUS! Please, do it for your famil...

Here's wishing our little pumpkin a Happy Half Birthday! One and a half years old! In a sense it seems like it's been longer than th...

During our "Family Worship" times we have been singing a hymn and also "Jesus Loves Me" as Taylor Joy's hymn. A...

I have *finally* finished the book Heaven by Randy Alcorn. I was really pumped about reading it in the beginning, but about halfway through...

Well, here's the newest tummy pic. As I mentioned in the last post, I have really "blossomed" lately, as you can tell! Even th...

After blogging for about a year now, we have hit 40,000! Wow! That seems really incredible to me! With the exception of my husband, who does...

Last night was Trunk or Treat and our little Raggedy Ann ran us ragged! She had so much fun running around from booth to booth and she kept...

The Bri-den-stines are com-ming to town!!! (imagine that I'm singing that to the tune of a famous Christmas song) The excitement is moun...

Well, come December we may be fully surprised at what pops out of me! I'm totally fine with that. Today at the doctor visit we did an ul...

Just wanted to say sorry for not updating our blog very often lately. I haven't necessarily been "busy", but just spending my ...

I didn't really think much of it until I started describing it to someone at church last night. And I laughed out loud picturing it in m...

Wednesday was a GREAT day! I MUST share! I didn't have time to get my thoughts together then, but I need to give credit where credit is ...

Yes, Taylor Joy is past her 16 months and I haven't really done a big update in awhile so here goes. Taylor Joy is SO full of FUN and AC...

Anytime I try something new that Allen RAVES over I just have to post it here. That usually means that all wives should be making this for t...

Just quickly wanted to let everyone know that it's for sure that we're having a BOY! Little Beckett seems to be doing great. My bell...

I was looking at some old footage of Taylor Joy and just had to reminisce with all of you. This was taken a year ago! She was 4 months old. ...

Me, Allen, Ryan and Cate at the Rehearsal Dinner The fo...

Let the guessing cease... I'm afraid no one fully guessed our little boy's name, but I must say you all DID come up with great names...