Category: Alabama

  • Happy and a Cookie

    First, the happy: ROOOOOLLLL TIDE ROLL! If you and I are facebook friends, then I hope you weren’t too put off by my ridiculous amount of status updating during the championship game. I thought we would win the game, but I wasn’t sure how close it would be. I was prepared for another nail-biter. When,…

  • Roll Tide

  • Looking at Lights

    One of our Christmas traditions is to take one evening to drive through various neighborhoods to see all of the decorations. The kids grab their favorite blankets, and we all pile into the van. When it’s really cold out, Karl opens the moon roof, cracks the windows (to simulate a sleigh ride), and turns the…

  • Playing in the rain

    A few weeks ago we had a rainy day unaccompanied by thunder or lightening. On those rainy days, I encourage my kids to do the same thing my mother encouraged me and my little brother to do: get out there and run around in it! Our backyard turns into a small lake when it rains…

  • Photos from another camping trip

    I am home from another camping trip and have a few pictures to share. Camping has quickly become one of my favorite things. A thick layer of leaves covered the ground. Friday night, I enjoyed a cloudless sky. I opened my tent Saturday morning to this sunrise. I have an opportunity to backpack one weekend…