Hexagon Happiness

Since my last post was in January you can tell I've been busy with other things.  The main consumer of my time has been setting up my ne...

It was suggested by a friend and fellow book lover that I post the titles of the books/series I read last year: The Kite Runner by Khaled ...

133 pairs of shoes.  2 33-gallon yard garbage bags and 12 storage bins of kids clothes (I still haven't tackled me and Trevor's clos...

Gabriella and her neighbor friend, Kyle, love to pile all of their animals on their beds and sleep with them.  you can't see some of the...

Michelle was student of the week (aka captain of her class) this week.  It was a fun trip down memory lane when searching for pictures (it...

Just over a year ago I added the shelfari.com bookshelf to my blog.  Even though I don't often update my blog posts I have been very fai...

My first post ever on this blog was November 7, 2008.  On that morning on an 8 mile run, I had passed my 1000th running mile.  This morning ...

 Caleb and his Legos  Michelle and her Easy Bake oven  Gabriella and her new clothes and Unicorn pillow pet  Megan and her Ladybug pillow...

Since a vast majority of people don't want to go to the dentist the few days leading up to Christmas, Trevor took this week off of work...

Our little Christmas Mouse is 4 years old! She brings such life into our family.  She's quite the picture poser and a fashion star who...

Along with the majority of Americans, this year has been financially difficult and stressful.  We've cut back on everything we could thi...

I'm half Dutch. My mom was born in Holland, then immigrated with her parents and two brothers when she was 18 months old.  When I was yo...

Last night I was talking with my mom about buying my dad some running equipment for Christmas.  She was complaining about how expensive a sp...

This year Caleb wanted to play tackle football.  Having watched 3 of my brothers play football from grade school through high school and ev...

Pre-dinner activity: reading Calvin and Hobbes with Dad and Grandpa Rains This year for Thanksgiving Dinner we had my parents and my Oma com...