Balent Times

The kids and I went peach picking this afternoon. A first for all three of us. Now we're trying to decide what to do with all these pe...

This was the first year we went to the Boone Hall Plantation Strawberry Festival and I'm so glad we did because it was SO MUCH FUN!

We took the kids ice skating for the first time today.  Considering Trent and I haven't been skating in over 25 years, we all did surp...

Per Rya's request we rented a little log cabin on a lake at the camp site down the street from our house. We took the dogs and...

The whole family, including dogs and dragon, spent Labor Day Weekend camping in our backyard.  It was hot, sweaty, crowded and annoyin...

We curbed some of the summertime boredom with weekly trips to the library.    By the end of the summer the kids earned reading meda...

  It's been an extremely rainy summer but we grab beach time at the Isle of Palms whenever we can. 

To kick off the summer I bought the kids a Slip'n Slide.  After about two or three runs the kids asked why they weren't having as ...

  On Friday we drove up to Myrtle Beach for the weekend to celebrate Currier's 7th birthday.  Our first order of business was appet...

Once again I kicked this four-year-old's ass at Candyland. Nana nana boo boo stick your head in doo doo... What a sore loser!

Our first pool day of the season and Rya D. and I had it all to ourselves.  I love days like this! 

For Currier's spring break we did a staycation.  The week was filled with crafts at home, playdates at the park, mornings of sleeping ...

Trent often takes the kids to Pitt Street Bridge and they search in the marsh for seashells and shark teeth.  While they do this I workout...

We arrived Friday evening for the Disney Marathon Weekend.   My Aunt Joanie works for Disney so she was able to get us a great discount a...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Gingerbread houses will turn your kids into cracked out assholes.  But oh what fun! ...

We met Rya's best friend, Riley, and her mom and baby brother at the Boone Hall Plantation Pumpkin Patch this afternoon.  The kids climb...

The neighbors, Lisa and Gary, were kind enough (and brave enough) to invite us all out on their boat for the day.  They took us to Ca...

We rented a log cabin in the Tennessee Smokey Mountains to celebrate our 15 year anniversary.  We brought the kids and dogs along because...