You know that we have this tradition of decorating our rooms each Christmas with our “roommates”, and then having a “showing” for the rest of the family to see…usually at night to show off the Christmas lights and candles 😉
My Flying Story Part 9: Dual Cross Country!
Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 || Part 6 || Part 7 || Part 8 My dual cross country trip has to be one of the highlights of my flight training…it
My Flying Story Part 7: Flying Solo & Oil Changes

Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 || Part 6 The evening after I soloed I texted Ted to see if I could go flying again 🙂 He got
My Flying Story Part 3: Ground School & The Written Test
Read Part 1 here. Read Part 2 here. Having Jim as a ground school instructor was a lot of fun 🙂 He’s flown in the Marines, corporate jets, the airlines, and at one of the classes he mentioned flying for
My Flying Story Part 2: Medicals & Flying Clubs
A few weeks after the retreat (read Part 1 here), I got a package from Lisa! She got our address from Mommy, of course, being in contact with her with T-Tapp 🙂 She not only sent me four
My Flying Story Part 1: A Dream Awakened
I’ve always wanted to learn how to fly an airplane…and this year that dream has become a reality! Last Saturday was my first solo ‘cross country’!!! I talked on the radios and landed at a towered airport…by myself! 😀 But
4H Judging Week: Day 6
Today was the animal check-in day…when we bring in the goats (and normally the chickens).  The llamas don’t come until tomorrow. Unfortunately…we got NO pictures of any of that 😀  BUT we did release some little frogs that
Washington D.C. Part 1
Earlier this year (February-ish) Cassia kept talking about how she wanted to do something big for her 21st birthday. Â Like skydiving. Â She asked me, “If I do something, will you do it with me?” Â My response? Of course! We do
A Summer Summary
Summer has flown by and we have SO many things we want to catch up on and show you on the blog 😀  Blog posts are coming…some sooner than others, and not all in order, but here’s a summary. Â
In Which We Go To Florida, Swim in the Great Gulf Waters, Climb A Mountain, and Meet Indians on Our Way Home
Hello everybody! We meant to do this post a long time ago, but sorting through the hundreds (maybe thousands) of pictures that we took while we were in Florida this past October seemed like such a daunting task 😀Â