Outnumbered and Overjoyed

Long before we had the kids, Lehr and I spent plenty of time on the mountain bike trails. Unfortunately we don't get out there much anym...

Christmas was great this year. The kids and I discussed it was an odd pairing of excitement (over next year with the baby) and a slight sadn...

The kids have loved the book for years, and last year I heard about a train in North Carolina that replicated most of the trip taken in the ...

So the news is out now: we are expecting another baby in June 2013. We held off on telling the kids until we were about three months around ...

This clip doesn't show the full extent of it (and it was taken over the weekend), but every morning Lehr gets to see the polar opposite ...

What a busy Saturday! After the Kids' JAM yesterday, we grabbed a quick lunch and drove to our favorite local tree farm. Maddux was SO e...

Eli had the MOST fun today. Our church pulled together some of the 'older' musicians to help teach and mentor some of the more up-an...

It's been another growing season for Eli. Not physically (the boy is still on the small side), but in so many ways related to maturity. ...

Maddux learned to read FAST. For real! I promise this is not just a case of parental amnesia. You know, where you forget how it was the fi...

Eli has been preparing for a few weeks for a class Thanksgiving play. He was chosen to play the part of Chief Massasoit, meaning he got to i...

Eli lost two teeth last year, but nothing so much as a wiggle since then. During recess on Friday, Eli spiked the football and ended up wi...

Because we like to keep our life complicated and full and always 'in progress', we started a backyard renovation last spring. Just b...

At the end of the first nine-weeks, our elementary school has parent-teacher conferences for all students. We've been through it twice w...

My gym rats...Eli and Maddux are still LOVING their once/week gymnastics class. Maddux is a monkey out there, she can walk the beam, forward...

Hurricane Sandy blew up the east coast this week, leaving us with really windy and cold weather. Luckily, it was starting to die down by Hal...

Maddux had her last soccer game this weekend. She and her team came really far and had a great last game, complete with one goal by Mad Do...

So the kids and I did some extra driving last week as we went on our 'field trips'. As always, I told the kids to bring a book in t...

What a fun week! The kids had early release all week to accommodate parent-teacher conferences. That means they got home just after noon, al...

So the other night we had an Eliason standard of 'summer' vegetables sauteed with potatoes and chicken sausage. As usual, at least o...

It's a tradition for us: the weekend a full week before Halloween we get dressed up and head down to L5P for some over-the-top Halloween...