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How To Handle Life When Our Little People Have Big Dreams!

Our Christmas gift for little man came early this year. Yes Synthetic Ice!! Crazy right? This kid can actually practice his hockey skills in THE HOUSE! He pronounces it “pathetic ice.” It’s hilarious.  πŸ˜‚ Chris and I do a LOT of things wrong when it comes to parenting but one thing we are adamant about […]

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Conversations With Colton, Parenting

He’s 7 going on 17! He’s full of sarcasm and surprises!

My first “He’s 7 going on 17” moment occurred about a year ago, when my then 6 year old asked me to drop him off at the high school the football game. The specific verbiage used was “Hey mom can ya drop me off at the football game? I was invited by a senior.” πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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Conversations With Colton, Faith

Faith, Skydiving and Stories from a BAD A$$ chick-What a combo!

What does Faith, Skydiving and Stories from ME (I’m the bad a$$ chick πŸ˜‚) Have in common?  Honestly I don’t know πŸ˜‚ but what I do know is that faith and skydiving have a LOT in common and stories with Colton, told by ME (his mama) make for quite the combo! #conversationswithcolton Last week, Mom

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Conversations With Colton, Faith, Writing A Book

My WHY is a Miracle and loves Ice Hockey & Nascar!

This is Colton! He’s 7 and LOVES ice hockey. πŸ’Β  We are a BIG football loving 🏈 family so where this obsession with ice hockey came in…we have NO idea. Colton…the biggest “why” to my daily life!  Colton is our miracle child who has kept me on my toes since the first OB scan.  We

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Conversations With Colton, Faith

Do arts and crafts stress you out? It’s all about perspective!

Arts & Crafts should not be stressful πŸ˜‚ but what was happening here was a HOT MESS! πŸ˜‚Paint was clumpy and EVERYWHERE, but he didn’t care, because he was having fun and we were spending time together. I tried not to care buttttt I couldn’t shake how cute these sun catchers COULD be if he

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Conversations With Colton

There Is So Much GOOD To Be Thankful For!

First of ALL: HAPPY THANKSGIVING! πŸ¦ƒ 🍁 🍽  I really began thinking about all we have to be thankful for on Friday of last week!  I know-while the timing may be appropriate, I really need to be more intentional with gratitude every day of year. Let’s have a REAL TALK session-shall we? We had a

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Writing A Book

This Child Has Never Met A Stranger! Gosh I LOVE him!

This quote by Casey Huff speaks to me! She said: “More than I desire to raise the smart kid, or the successful kid, or the athletic kid-I dream of raising the kind kid. One who will look around and see the needs of others. One who will meet everyone with an open heart and open

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Conversations With Colton

Little Eyes Are Always Watching! πŸ‘€ You Need To Be Ready!

Colton and I were running errands today and our last stop was at a church. β›ͺ️ I was planning a super quick pop in to drop off some books πŸ“š  so I pulled up to the entrance and parallel parked so we could run in super quick. Colton-MOM you are illegally parked. Me-It’s fine we

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Conversations With Colton

Conversations With Colton-It was a beautiful day to shoot a cover

πŸ’œ We spent last Sunday touring downtown Oklahoma City..looking for the perfect spot!!!! We had outfit changes that were NOT planned, and at one point I lost Colton’s glasses πŸ‘“ …BUT we were able to shoot the BOOK COVER!!! πŸ’•  Bringing my VERY specific vision to life was no easy task, but I’m very excited

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Writing A Book

Are You Smarter Than A First Grader? I’m not-but I love this boy!

Colton’s new passion is “organizing.” Which is ironic because nothing in his room/play room appears to be organized…any who I digress….πŸ˜† Colton-Mom this idea is genius 😳Me-Are you saying I’m a genius? πŸ˜‚Colton-Well-before you get too excited it’s not necessarily a compliment. πŸ˜‚Me-what do you mean?Colton-Einstein was genius but he was crazy.Me-Why was he crazy?Colton-He

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Conversations With Colton
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