13 years...

ago today, God gave our family a surprise blessing!
What a beautiful blessing she is!
Happy Birthday Leah!

Seeing lots of Orange!

This year's MS Walk is just days away, and I can hardly stand the excitement. There is already a sea of orange....and that's just sitting in my living room. What's that mean?, you say....Traci's Troops! t-shirt are done and ready! I think they look pretty good!


I decided to be a little bit more thrifty this year and NOT put the date on the shirts. This way they can be recycled and worn again next year. Another thing I changed from last year, was to put "Traci's Troops!" on the back of the shirt. While we were walking last year, it was hard to tell (in the sea of orange shirts) if the people ahead of us were "with" us or another group! This way we will know for sure!

So I'll be out and about the next few days, delivering as many shirts as I can before Sunday! I can't wait to see you all and keep your fingers crossed for a beautiful day!

Pump It Up!

We spent the long weekend in Iowa visiting friends while Andy was a hour away doing a 24-hour mountain bike race. Yes, you read the correctly, they rode their bikes from noon on Saturday till noon on Sunday. Doesn't that just sound like great fun?!

On Sunday, my girlfriend and I took the kiddos to Pump It Up! What a great place. Basically it's a building with great big bouncy houses inside. My kids were the perfect ages....I could see smaller kids getting bounced around too much, but her kids were able to hold their own too. They even let the adults jump. Andy would have loved the place.

The best thing about it was it totally got out tons of energy the kids had bottled up and it made them a tad bit tired, but oh so happy! Just look at these smiles!

Oh, and Andy's team won the race...and that made him tad bit tired, but oh so happy too!