Outnumbered and Overjoyed

Eli and Maddux both had the opportunity of participating in Boosterthon this year, and boy were they excited. Eli moved into a new time ...

A little over a month ago, Eli and I saw a sign for a kids' triathlon at the end of August. Eli asked about the event and decided he wan...

As usually happens this time of year, I'm shocked at how quickly we got here. How quickly we went from diapers to baseball pants. How qu...

Instead of a birthday party, this year Eli opted to invite a few baseball-minded friends to join him at a weekend Braves game. He picked thr...

Maddux has only been in school for one week, but already it's been full of excitement! On the first day, Maddux came home and told us ...

At the last minute we were able to fly Grandma Cathie to Atlanta for a quick visit. As luck would have it, she flew in just in time for the ...

We're still moving through the training. Eli has not been training throughout the week, but he's hitting it hard on Saturdays when w...

Lehr and I went to open house at the kids' school tonight. Since we have two classes to learn about, we split up and each tackled one. L...

What a day! I would have loved to seen the first hour or so of each kids' class this morning; I know each kid had such excitement and wo...

The kids and I visited the Elementary School this afternoon (I can no longer call it "Eli's school"); students were time-slott...

WOW! Just when I think the kids aren't getting any of the responsibility/values/'stuff' Lehr and I are trying to teach them, the...

We are in the last two weeks of summer. It has been fun and awesome, but as usually happens at the end of something fun and awesome, we are ...

Eli just finished an amazing and exhausting week. For five days he attended WinShape camp at a nearby church from 8AM-5PM each day. Yes: nin...

Maddux has been working quite a bit this summer. We are very fortunate to have a few neighbors with dogs that are happy to 'share'. ...

I've mentioned before some frustration Lehr and I have had over Eli's seeming ambivalence towards his sister and in response to her ...

So we're a week into training, and so far-so good. Eli ran at the YMCA training this weekend - just about 10 minutes worth, broken up wi...

Eli is signed up for his first Triathlon. About a week ago I saw a flyer for a kids' Triathlon in the area, and the next day I saw that ...

Sunday afternoon, Eli competed in his first County Swim Meet. As I've posted before, Eli had a great swim season this summer. He rose to...

What a summer.....so many camps and other things the kids wanted to enjoy! "Tinker-Belle" camp is one that Maddux begged for. I re...

We celebrated Maddux's fifth birthday on the actual date, as usual. We planned to meet a few family friends at the pool for dinner and...