As many of you know – today is Memorial Day. It means that many of you are enjoying an extended weekend, cookouts, barbeques, and time with family and friends. And maybe it’s just me – but sometimes I feel like the meaning of this holiday gets lost in the fun of an extra day off …
The Reality of Mothers Day
I’ve been sitting with this post for a while… trying to decide what to write and how much to share. It would be really easy for me to just focus on the happy side of this holiday – celebrating the mothers in my life. It would be really easy for me to keep my feelings …
Baby Journey: The Friend I Haven’t Met
For a while now I’ve been following Barn Own Primitives on Instagram. I love these cute handpainted signs Kristi makes. One day while I was flipping through my feed, I saw a sign she shared I hadn’t seen before: It was like seeing something I’d been feeling for so long encapsulated in this one beautiful …
Seven Years
7 years. To some that may seem like a small number and yet to others that might seem like an incredibly long time. These days, to say you’ve been married for seven years is quite a statement. And I know that I am incredibly blessed for this man I get to call mine. I had …
Baby Journey: A Special Necklace
(BE SURE TO READ ALL THE WAY TO THE BOTTOM FOR A SPECIAL DISCOUNT!) This journey has been a long one and it’s far from over. Four years in and we’re still waiting for our miracle baby. Some days the journey is easier than others. Some days it completely blindsides me and I’m overwhelmed with …
Easter 2015
So this year, is the first year in several years that Ryan and I have been attached to a church. And this year we find ourselves more than attached but involved, connected, family. It’s a wonderful feeling to have a church family – a group of people you connect with, who have the same beliefs …
Behind the Scenes: Ryan’s Your Story Project Shoot
You may recall recently that I shared an exciting new project I’m working on, and I’m thrilled to be giving my senior models the chance to take part in this project. The project is called The Your Story Project, and it is a collaborative creative project where we work together to create an art piece …
Baby Journey: Touching Surprises & Hope
It’s been a few months ago now, I got a letter in the mail from my Grandma. My Grandma is a sweet lady and sends cards to all her grand-kids for birthdays and anniversaries. (How she keeps track of it all amazes me!) This particular card didn’t land on a birthday, anniversary or holiday, so …
Baby Journey Update: Waiting…
I realize I haven’t written anything about our Baby Journey in a while. It’s hard to share when there’s really nothing new to report. And it is one of the hardest parts of this whole process… the waiting… Always the waiting. When you’re not waiting to actually be pregnant, you’re waiting in doctors’ offices, waiting …
Some Winter Photo Fun
So I haven’t shared any of my personal photography in a while. And with all this snow we’ve been having – of course I took my fur babies out and let them play. And like any good (dog) mom – I had to take some pictures of them playing and the beautiful winter snowscapes that …