Tag Just Life

Gratituesday: My Top Three

My sad attempt at a self-family picture 🙂  My Lord. His sacrifice and love for me. Unconditional Love! My husband. His love and support. I am learning more each day about this wonderful man God gave me! My Children. Oh,…

VanderPloeg Family Christmas 2009

View Full Album Christmas Eve we had dinner at my parents. We ate too much, caroled too little and opened our Christmas Eve presents – which turned out to be matching PJ’s 🙂 Hurray! Ever since I can remember, we…

The Perfect Un-Perfect Christmas

View Full Album (The second photo and last photo in the series is of our Jesse tree) Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and I am sitting here typing and mulling over how I have failed to accomplish everything I had hoped.…

Santa Clause is Coming…

I won a Capture the Magic photo from Tara’s View of the World. Thank you! I think Chloe is going to be excited on Christmas morning to see this photo “Santa” left her. I did have a tough time trying…

The New Year is Coming: Set Your 2010 Goals!

 A Google search of ‘Tune Up’ revealed the following definition: An Adjustment for Better Functioning A search of ‘Adjustment’ revealed the following: A Small Change, A Minor Correction, A Modification What is Tune-Up Tuesday? Find out more HERE! ————————————————————————————————————— Antoine…

We Love Ice Cream!

  View Full Album Daddy had coupons for free ice-cream at McDonalds! View Full Album This post links to Two of a Kind and Wordless Wednesday

The First Day of Frost

I don’t think Chloe remembers snow from last year. It wasn’t even 8:00am and she was dressed and outside exploring the frost and exclaiming, “Snow! Snow!” She was so excited 🙂 Shortly there after she was back inside informing me…

December 1: The Good, Bad and Ugly

View Full Album How cool that I caught a picture of them in the process of falling. Maybe I should have tried to grab the tray instead of getting the picture. LOL. I always look forward to December 1st. My…

Saying Goodbye to Jaiden

In Fall of 2008, I began watching Jaiden, a little girl from church, a couple days a week. Chloe and Jaiden are only 2 months apart. When Jaiden first started coming, her and Chloe weren’t even two yet. They were…