Our leopard gecko, Joey, passed away in October. The kids held a special service for her outside. Maurice prepared a spot and we planted a flowering bush over her grave. […]

The kids love watching iCarly on Nickelodeon.  On the show Carly’s brother is always making spaghetti tacos.  We decided to try them out.  I just made regular spaghetti and put […]

Jordan decided to join his high school band this year to be on the drumline.  He was tired of the violin and wanted to do something different.  Unfortunately as a […]

The first day of school was pretty big this year.  Starting new schools and learning their way around new environments was pretty intimidating for the kids.  Why no pic of […]

After 2 full weeks of tryouts and watching 50 men get cut throughout Maurice was relieved and ecstatic to find out he had been selected to be on the All […]

I am involved in my jobs volunteer organization and Jordan recently started coming with me to help.  This is a picture of us sorting clothes for Metropolitan Ministries.  He also […]

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?videoUrl=http://redirector.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3Dcb68c7fe90b2beac%26itag%3D18%26source%3Dpicasa%26cmo%3Dsensitive_content%253Dyes%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1443045470%26sparams%3Did,itag,source,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D6B6BEF2CED96ECF1E4BFD6F06E79ABF9C16FEDEE.37A3958E0C96AFB2BD10C862615E83C41CE5F44%26key%3Dck2 I had an aha moment on Tori’s birthday this year.  I had asked her in the weeks prior what she wanted to do for her birthday.  Finally after a […]

The craziness of our day to day routines demand QUICK recipes.  Honestly, I don’t want to make dessert if I can’t do it in 3-5 steps or less.  This one is a […]

A smorgasbord of pool fun with all the people  we were blessed to make memories with! The device in Tres hand is a remote control.  He enjoyed chasing people with […]

Kobe was so excited to have his cousin’s here for his birthday.  He invited his best friend Jadyn’s family over and along w/ our family we had a big barbecue.  […]

A highlight for the kids was a trip down to the Bay to see some Japanese War ships that had come in and were docked for the day.

My mom, step dad Booker and their 3 boys Devon, Teshawn and Diondre along with my niece Aja drove from Kansas to visit us in our new home.  That is a 22 hour […]

Jordan has never been a big birthday party kid.  This year he had two of his good friends Christian and Jake come over and just hang out in the pool.  […]

In all the stories Tori told me about of her Mexico trip experiences one in particular stayed on my mind.  One of the missions students name is Jessica.  On a […]

Tori Lynn got back from her Mexico trip safe and sound.  She also came back with a huge smile on her face and a love in her heart for the […]