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Merry Christmas from all of us over here at Mer Mag! I hope you had a most lovely holiday and are gearing up for a great new year. This year has been incredibly good to us and we feel blessed to have shared it with all of you. We have so much fun in store …
This year, because of our sweet new little babe, Halloween in our home has been on the back burner a bit. So when mid Oct. rolled around, A asked “Mom, when are we going to decorate for Halloween?!” So after promising them in the morning that I would indeed pull out the Halloween decor, at …
Last month Jon and I celebrated our 11th year anniversary. Crazy. I sometimes feel like we are the same young rock-a-billy kids who fell for each other so many years ago. I mean just look at that pompadour on Jon. How could I resist this cutie? I’m not sure what was going on with my …
My Little O started preschool today. I can’t believe he’s old enough. I feel like A just went to his first day of preschool yesterday! A starts first grade tomorrow and we are equal parts thrilled and a touch melancholy that he’s growing so fast. I love back-to-school though. it has long been one of …
(First off, a big Thank You to all of you fabulous readers who were able to retrieve my lost post via Google Reader! I can’t tell you how happy this makes me! xoxo.) We are back from our annual 4th of July reunion in Colorado. We had an excellent time but are very happy to …
Our family spent the weekend working, working, working! We’ve been rearranging our little home to better suit our current and future needs as a family and the boys were right there with us the entire time (OK, we did have to send them out to the back yard a couple of times and did put …
Jon and I had noticed that our boys behavior had been especially out of sorts in recent months. We noticed a significant increase in the drama department early on in the beginning of the year when we returned home from our holiday travels. They weren’t being creative, they didn’t really play with their toys and …
As we’ve been unpacking and trying to get settled in to our new place I’ve been having a few nostalgic pangs while remembering our previous place of residence. Mostly because it was already in order (there are few things in life more stressful than moving!) and in the two short years we lived there, many …
My talented little sister managed to squeeze in some digital processing between morning sickness, birthdays and the usual busy mom schedule so that I could show you all the rest of these photos she took of our little family. Thanks LJ! ***for those of you who asked-I used the Project Runway Simplicity pattern 2725 for …