Weather.com says that it feels like ninety-three degrees out right now.  You’d never know it was only May.  Nor would you know that it’s been raining for the past two weeks, nearly every day.  I guess we just roll with the punches here in Rochester and live with the extremes.  There isn’t much in between. […]

 We normally get together with friends on Memorial Day.  Last year we had a great Memorial Day celebrating with friends at a park. . . eating dinner and splashing around in the water with the kids.  But this year we laid low.  We spent time, just the four of us, at home. We ended up […]

This past February, I went on an amazing trip to Las Vegas to attend a photography conference.  If you didn’t read the post about it, click here. I learned many things.  I have taken a few ideas from the conference and put them to use already.  This past week, I am finally putting another idea […]

Pathetically, our driveway serves as our backyard.  This has been horrible for Carter, as he seems to fall constantly.  He has scrapes and bruises all over.  I feel like a terrible mom.  But our backyard is tiny–and in it is a big giant pool.  We barely have any grass.  And that is the biggest downfall […]

Brayden “graduated” from preschool today.  Things you don’t think will become a norm, do.  You aren’t ready for your child to start preschool, and then you certainly aren’t ready for the year to come to an end. That means he is just that much closer to growing up.  I’m not ready for growing up.   […]

Dirt don’t hurt.  Unless you are a little boy’s white t-shirt.  And unless the little boy’s silly mommy dressed that little boy in the white t-shirt and then the little boy went out and played  with dirt. Then dirt sure did hurt. But dirt don’t got anything on skin 🙂  Good old, God made, dirt […]

 . . . At least, that’s what we are pretending to be.  It’s FAR from the truth.   Remember last Sunday when I said that James and I were playing the “we don’t know what we are doing but we’d like to make our yard look a little nicer so we are going to rip […]

 Brayden loves playing dress up.  I found this brand new Woody costume at a consignment store and was planning on wrapping it up for Brayden’s birthday.  But I forgot to hide it, and he saw it.  That was the end of the birthday present.  I remember when I used to be able to shop for […]

 Have I told you lately how much I adore newborn sessions.  Sure, they are hard–and take a lot of time.  And patience.  And confidence.  And most of the time, I am very sweaty by the end.  But I love them.  There is nothing sweeter than a brand new baby. After swooning over Landon last week, and […]

Brayden is interested in so many different things in life.  Many things he could care less about, but other things he has always liked from when he could start liking things.  When he was a little toddler, he used to always want to read this book called Bear at Home.  At the end, there was […]