Balent Times

My cousin Cheryl came for a weekend visit.  From the airport we went straight to the Catch the Leprechaun 5K race.     The next morni...

Aunt Carrie gave us a week without kids!  She took both kids down to Florida for a week to spend time with their grandparents, cousins, an...

Someone please open a window and let some of this damn love and laughter out! I'm choking on it for Christ's sake!

My cousin Cheryl came down from Massachusetts for a weekend visit to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.  The first evening she was here we r...

Rya and I took our first road trip with just the two of us.  On Wednesday, we drove up to Carrie's in Knoxville (about a six hour driv...

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...

Trent's sister bought some Greek bread in Tarpon Springs and cut the bread into equal parts for each of her siblings to take home.  Sh...

We spent New Years weekend in Tampa celebrating Trent's parent's 50th wedding anniversary.  With the whole family together, we ...

Aunt Carrie came for a weekend visit so she and I could go through some photographs and brainstorm for Mimi and Papi's upcoming 50th w...

Thirty years is a long time, but I remember every detail of that day like a broken Etch a Sketch which can't be erased. I was eight-...

The day I took Penny in as a foster (September 19th) I posted her picture on facebook asking if anyone was interested in adopting her.  M...

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