you know that feeling, when you know you are dreaming, the best dream & you can feel yourself beginning to wake & you don’t want to have to leave this beautiful dream. you close your eyes real tight & try to will yourself back into that time & place of your dream. yep, that one. usually those dreams I am with people that are…
little bits & huge moments in our lives. sometimes I want to write it all down, other times all I can do is just try to keep up with life. looking back now, there are so many little & big moments missing from this blog, from the record of our daily lives. this space, it holds everything I hold close in my heart &…
I know. it is august, but back in April our beautiful girl turned 17. 17!!!!! a few nights before her birthday we set out for our annual “birthday photo shoot” I don’t know if we can ever top ’16’, those balloons & those gorgeous trees but this year, I think we did pretty good too. party hats, 17, epic skies & silhouettes… we left,…
you at five… how do I even begin? you are sunshine. spunk. wonder. amazement. innocence. growth. inquisitive. hysterical. sincere. sweet. loving. thoughtful. you are one of a kind little girl. you love your family, to pieces. you listen to every word, all of it, I watch you take it all in & you remember EVERYTHING. you will tell me a story about something that…
Mikayla & I had decided a few weeks before her birthday that we weren’t going to have a party. we figured, she is turning 17, that might be too old to have a big slumber party with your friends. a few days later I realized how sad I was about that. it would be the first year that we didn’t have a big celebration…
this was our first year with our new tree Wilbur. poor little Fred was our tree for 10 years & this year, he didn’t make it. we are looking up tips on how to take care of Wilbur & see that he thrives. he is such a pretty little tree… grammy got Sophia a special little tree to have in her room. seeing…
2015, in 7 minutes. just one week left of 2015 & I am ready to close the door & open a new one. the years keep passing. minutes flying bye. we grow, we laugh, we cry. I’m just so thankful we get to do it all together…
it is hard to believe that this year, 2015, our oldest turned 19 & our youngest 4. a little 4 year old photo shoot… she saw the ice cream truck.. our 4 year old, little miss personality… I don’t post many of the outtake pictures. a lot of my shots are of her back, while she is running away from me. or her face,…
wow. seriously, 16? a few days before her birthday we took these photos. I love them. I love her & we had so much fun this day… on her birthday Sophia & I did a little chalking in the driveway to welcome her sister home from school & grammy mary got to come over to help us celebrate her big day… later we were…
I know. I write this every year after Easter… & I will write it over & over again I am sure…. Easter is my jam. Easter means so much to me. Easter means happy memories. traditions & laughter & family & good times. Easter means the belief in new life. the belief in resurrection. the belief that we all have a purpose whether we know…