Easton Brooks celebrated his half birthday yesterday. It may not have been the most delightful celebration. We started the day off waki...

I LOVE this book. I am not one to just swallow a book whole, but this one I did and will continue to. This is the ultimate parenting...

to the one who jumps vigorously... to the one who samples lots of concoctions... to the one who "catches" butterflies... ...

Taylor Joyisms used to be monthly feature here at the Duty Chronicles and since Easton was born, they are sadly down to a semi-annual basis....

This is Allen's post on the NL blog: By now, you have probably heard about the massive 7.3 earthquake that struck Haiti two days ago. ...

Now, for some of the crafts that I have been undertaking throughout November and December that I couldn't tell you about until after Chr...

We had a beautiful Christmas together. We started off the festivities in Sachse with my family on the 23rd. Spending time with their Nanny, ...

Giggles all around and lots of fun being had on our new trampoline. Thanks, Nanny and Papa!

Bible Reading Plans for the New Year! Allen and I read through one together last year and it blessed our socks off! Doing it together was fu...

From our family to yours... Thanks for reading updates of our family and joining us in this journey of life. We are blessed to walk through ...

A slideshow from my birthday boy's party... Make a Smilebox slideshow

Check out this photo taken of my family. Never has there been a sillier family photo. The bad and good news of it all: Bad news: Not one pic...

This must be the week for pictures...I have more coming from Beckett's little birthday get-together and also, the funniest family photo....

I am awed and astounded that my little boy is 2 years old today. Sweet Beckett, Two amazing years ago I had no idea what it would be like to...

Just a few pictures from the past couple of weeks... Taylor Joy and her G-pa (Allen's dad) a little sibling love... and Dinosaur Tales A...

I was done talking about Advent, I'm not. I wanted to share an Advent Calendar that my friend Sarah and I came up with to do with our MO...

Much to our surprise, we experienced SNOW on Friday. Not a ton (in the slightest), but flurries still make us happy. We played outside and t...

photo courtesy Arvind Balaraman Here is this years' Duty Chronicles Advent Calendar... Advent 2013 And in case you haven't...

I've been wanting to make a tutorial since so many people have asked me specifics about how I made this last year. Well, after getting...