Eleven days after my birthday Zachary has his on the 12th.  How many boy’s would be this excited to get a pitch fork for their birthday?  Thank goodness he was easy to please.  It gets kind of hard trying to think of meaningful gifts that don’t cost an arm and a leg.  (Pitch forks only cost an arm.) Zachary, Your exuberance for life is something to behold.  You are a great example to your siblings and even me.  Keep walking with He who will lead you into paths of righteousness and everything will be alright.   Happy 17th Birthday! Copyright 2008 Treasuring the Moments

Since I’m quite behind in posting I’ll just give a quick round-up of some of the happenings in February. My niece got married and both Seth and Zachary were ushers.  They were not too keen on wearing pastel pink ties with little pink hankies but they made it through. Here Seth is surrounded by his cousins. We had enough snowfall that the kids were able to make a few snowmen. (Kinda looks like a polar bear to me.) A few families from Canada came to visit so we played tourist with them. Here we are at Devil’s Bridge in Sedona.  *Notice* I am not on the bridge but safely on the ground.  But my…

Yes, it is March 12 and I’m just now posting what we did for Valentine’s Day.  I had so much fun planning everything. The day before I made these cute cards I found on someone’s blog.  (Unfortunately, I can’t give credit since all of that info was saved on my Blogger dashboard that I cannot access.) Cupcakes and sugar cookies with messages written on the back. Everyone found these cards at breakfast time next to their plate. But the supper meal was where I was wanting to plan something unique for our family. I wanted it to be simple and I wanted to serve the meal in different rooms of our house…

  I’ve been mulling over what to do special for Valentine’s Day, which will be on Friday for us, and I think I’ve finally figured out what we’re doing. I usually only do something special in the morning time at breakfast. We’ll still do that. I have some gifts I bought at one of the big wholesale warehouses after Christmas. They were on clearance and I snatched them up. For hubby he gets chocolate covered nuts. For the children, mugs filled with a variety of candy (we do NOT need any more candy – this has really got to stop!), wrapped in cellophane and tied with a bow. They were…

One of my reasons for blogging was to record little moments (and big) of my children. I’m just now getting to writing about Audrey (3yo) who made me smile a few months ago when I came into the room and found her with my camera. Sometimes I find the strangest pictures on the camera card. Pictures of the side of a head, a leg, a portion of the piano – multiple shots of each object. This day when I walked in she said, "Mom! I’m going to take a smile of you." Another day, she brought in a bunch of parsley from the garden and presented it to me. I…