This past weekend, we checked-out one more home.  Another no.  The exterior/style of the home was beautiful, but the house was a dump!  The ...

Our annual mother-daughter activity was held in my backyard.  The girls & moms played get-to-know-you games, cooperation games, and enj...

Life is just insane sometimes.   We had our dinner party a couple weeks ago & the weather cooperated beautifully.  No rain until afte...

Wow! Can't believe it's already April 7th ... where is the year 2011 going?  Today it will have to be a short, but sweet post for me...

This week's French Fridays with Dorie recipe can be found on page #138 of Dorie Greenspan's cookbook, Around my French Table .  The ...

My Penguin has been inspired by her choir directors and spends a lot of time each afternoon writing and composing her own, original music.  ...

I'm a week late on this recipe and I'm doing it instead of the scallop recipe.  I've had scallops once in my life and it wasn...

About a week ago ... before spring had even officially started ... it was rather warm here ... it was actually pretty hot ... over 90*!  The...

So, after my lesson on Sunday, I was feeling like I wanted to do something fun Monday night.  Hubby worked out in I-don't-know-where ...

There are so many things that can be done with this lesson.  We hardly did any of the lesson and still ran out of time. I was ready to go w...

Yesterday I did something that I'd never done before ... I played my violin in a recording studio for an all-female country group, Firef...

I have to admit that when I read the ingredients for this week's recipe, I was a little leery.  At first I thought it might be like Fe...

One nice thing about living in AZ is that we can go for bike rides in December.  Not really in July, but December is do-able.  The kids each...

I'm trying to play catch-up with my life this week.  I know I should've baked this bread about a week ago and posted on it several...

I have some YW lessons to catch-up on, but here's something that is quick & easy to share.  I did not teach yesterday when lesson 8 ...

I know I'm a few days late, but I really wanted to try this cake and I have lots of good excuses for my late-ness.  Sick kids ALL mont...

Yesterday, Baby Addison turned one year old!  Can't believe I witnessed her coming into this world 12 quick months ago.  I actually too...

Three years ago ... I must've been crazy cause I flew across the country with three VERY small children all by myself.  I must've b...

CALLING ALL HIGHLAND HIGH SCHOOL GRADS!!  We are in need of your musical talents.  A benefit concert is being put together and Mr Bitter wil...

A Little Something for my Eastern European Friends & Family ...