I have been so blessed by so many of my friendships lately.  There are so many beautiful women in my life–talented, loving, amazing hearts.  I am surrounded by truly wonderful ladies.  We all have incredibly busy lives, but we have been getting together for nine months now, once a month to have our crafts, coffee […]

255 | 111 We have a very small street–I think there are about twenty houses on it.  I find it a very interesting street.  The mix of people is terribly fascinating.  Right next door to us there is a older fellow from Germany who lives by himself and works in his yard about six hours […]

254 | 112 It’s amazing what a rainy day does.  It kind of makes me lazy.  And want to sleep.  Yesterday I was full of energy. . . I wanted to weed and plant and clean things up.  I wanted to make things pretty. But it’s hard to want to make things pretty when it’s […]

Last week, I photographed a gorgeous newborn.  She traveled all the way from Buffalo to see me, with her mom and her auntie, who was an incredible assistant for me during the session.  With four newborn session scheduled for next month, I’m really starting to get into a newborn groove.  It’s challenging work, but I […]

256 | 110 A morning.  In pictures.

257 | 109 God gave James and I similar personalities in many areas.  Yes, we have our major differences.  But we’re on the same page about tons of things.  See this post for an example.  Right from the beginning of our marriage, we’ve always loved having people over.  We love opening up our home and […]

258 | 108 We broke a weather record yesterday.  It got past eighty-five.  And I don’t remember ever seeing a sky quite so blue in awhile.  Brayden was thrilled when I told him he could play with the hose. It amazing how it can feel like eighty-six one day and then twenty-four hours later it’s […]

259 | 107 I woke up this morning without a husband.  It took me a minute to realize that break was over and he was already on his way to work.  Bummer.  Having him home for a week is like a tease.  So, we resumed all normal mommy is home and daddy is not, let’s […]

260 | 106 Whoops.  Missed instagram Saturday.  Never fear. . . it’s instagram Sunday.  While posting all of my images today I realized that I generally use the same filter for all of my images that come from my phone.  I suppose that’s why all of my images look like they are from 1970. If […]

261 | 105 We are big fans of the kids workshops they run at Home Depot and Lowe’s.  I really like the Lowe’s ones, since they have these adorable badges to take home and iron on to your apron after you’ve completed the project.  In the past, you had to sew them on–so, you can […]