It's that time of the year! We're all SOOO excited for Christmas to come and are counting down the days! :-) We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with my family coming in from Kentucky and the day after Thanksgiving went on our annual tree hunt to find the perfect real tree. We used to go on a trip to a cool tree farm to cut our own tree and come home with an oddly shaped resemblance of a christmas tree. Nowadays Lowes & Home Depot are the extent of our tree hunting expedition lol

Well this summer kicked off with a big surprise in our backyard!! The boys came home from Bible School one evening to find a truck load of fun! :-) Superman was on Facebook Marketplace one day when this $1,100 play set was listed for FREE - we just had to go pick it up! Actually we discovered there are a lot of playgrounds listed for free if you're willing to pick them up and fix them up a little. We dropped the boys off at Bible School and my brother helped us take it apart

This just melts a mamas heart ❤️ my favorite photo of the year! So often these moments come, go and they're only captured in our hearts, we don't always get a photo to frame. We put in so many hours, days, weeks and it all gets so jumbled together it's difficult to separate the moments from the everyday madness! The reality is, there is so much magic happening around us. Whether we choose to see it or not is up to us - but it's always there! The pictures don't show you the cr