San Francisco is such an interesting city to visit. I love all the different cultures, sites and great food, but I am always ready to come home after our visit. When we went last year, we did a lot of the big tourist things – Alcatraz, a bus tour of the city, Pier 39, a …

A couple of my husband’s friends wanted to have a drag race to see whose car was faster. A local track, Kansas City International Raceway, has a night where anyone can bring their cars out to race. After a few reschedules, a grudge match was finally on. The first car:A red 1967 RS Camaro convertible …

She usually doesn't like having her photo taken. She would much rather be making faces for the camera or acting like I'm torturing her. This day, however, she was a very willing participant. Here are two of my favorite photos from the day:

We went for a walk this weekend and I noticed that the leaves are finally starting to turn colors. I can't wait for the rest of them to start turning! And a few others from our walk:

They don’t get to see each other very often, but when they do they seem to have so much fun together. These photos were taken earlier this month at a park near their grandparent’s house. And this one just makes me laugh.

I can’t believe she’s a third grader already! She met her teacher earlier this week and is excited to have some of her closest friends in her class this year. This morning she got up early so that we could flip her hair out and didn’t mind at all about missing TV – this is …

We had made plans to go camping this past weekend several weeks ago. Up until this month, it has been one of those summers where the temperatures have been nice and not too hot and the humidity has been tolerable. That all changed with the month of August and this past weekend was the hottest …

Last night we had fun checking out the new walking trails of a subdivision near us. There are waterfalls, bridges and lots of landscaping everywhere you go. With all of the work they have done on it this spring, I'm excited to see how it will look in the next few years. It's also a …

I am a little behind in going through my photos from the 4th! Our 4th is always a little low key – we usually have some sparklers and some small fireworks that we do ourselves and then we sit back and watch the multiple shows that people around us put on. My oldest daughter wore …