Akin family

I am so happy I am wearing the happy hat and doing the happy dance.  See? OK, OK I confess; this is an old picture and not the best qu...

Since we have moved to Alabama we have been surprised at how often it snows.  Of course, the snows we have and get all excited about make ou...

Please pray this week for Catherine, a 4 1/2 month old baby who will be having major heart surgery on Wednesday.  Pray for her healing, for ...

Yes, this is back up and running.  In the last month I have learned how to find statistics for who is accessing the blog how often.  I stumb...

Where have I been since August 16th? Getting my guys back to work, a trip, company, canning, another trip, more company, more canning, an i...

Isn't it interesting how you can be thinking about something and then within days hear a sermon about that topic? Sometimes the sermon ...

Last week was a crazy week with us out running errands from Friday, July 31 through Saturday, August 8 (with church thrown into the middle o...

Monday morning is starting early today. The temperatures here are getting a little closer to normal for August ~ we had been running much c...

It is only Friday night and already the weekend is getting too long. Sad to be so old, isn't it? I am not going to try and go to the Ve...

Just a couple of quick updates; I'll post pictures of my treasures from the sale later today. First, we did not make it all the way to C...

It's gonna be a huge weekend around here, folks, and I am excited!! Here's the game plan. Thursday begins the World's Longest Y...

So the clothesline picture was not the greatest shot in the world of the clothesline (it was hot and I was lazy...and a little worried about...

OK, if you are a Georgia Tech fan, don't get too upset about that title there. I like Georgia Tech. Not as much as I love my Vols, but...

Here is a neat picture that I thought you might enjoy tonight (or this morning). This is the gift Marvelous Mark and I gave each other for...

Please pray for Layla Grace. Layla is not quite two years old and was diagnosed this spring with an aggressive form of neuroblastoma. Her ...

If you ever call me on my cell phone and I don't answer, send the rescue crews to my house. The pumpkins will have gotten us! These t...

Marvelous Mark strikes again! This wonderful man really can fix anything. My "new" sewing machine (it's only 21 years old) b...

I can not believe what just happened; Marvelous Mark, Dan and myself just got a glimpse of the space station passing over our home! What a ...

Mark and I went to the library today to pick up some books we had on hold. As a side note, isn't putting things on hold at the library ...

What am I supposed to do? I went to the zoo and the babies were so cute, the big kids were so cute, the animals and the flowers made for so...