Today is officially the two year anniversary of the day our lives were changed. I still remember it like it happened this past Monday though. It was 4:00 in the morning and I was awoken to the sound of breaking glass. I thought someone was breaking into our house until I sat up and saw …
Five Years…
Five years…. It simultaneously seems like a really long and a really short time. In the grand scheme of life five years really isn’t that long, but at the same time, I can’t really recall a time Ryan wasn’t a part of my life… nor can I imagine my life without him in it. Five …
Our Home Update
It’s been a little while since I’ve given an update on our home progress, and I started working on compiling photos yesterday so I thought today would be a great day to kind of recap what happened and where we are. For those of you who are new to the Green Tree Media family or …
A Little Life Update
Things have been so busy the past couple weeks… who am I kidding – the past couple months! I still haven’t really had a meltdown over the house fire yet – so I’m kind of thinking there isn’t going to be one. … huh… guess I handle stress and loss better than I thought. (haha) …
The Next Chapter
A week ago today, I officially turned another year older. Over the years – I’ve always tried to share something on my birthday… but honestly this year I didn’t know what to say. It’s been a hard week for me in a variety of ways and that’s okay. I realize that a lot of what …
4th of July 2018
I hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July. Growing up Ryan and I both had fun celebrating this holiday with family. For me, our family got together down in Pana and watched their fireworks and spent the evening hanging out playing with sparklers and stuff. We still enjoyed celebrating the festivities as the …
The Your Story Project: The Girl Trapped by Worry
I still may not have had the ability to shoot a new fine art piece, so I’m continuing to share some old ones! Before the creation of my self portrait series (The Journey) I was working on another series for others called the Your Story Project. This series was designed as a collaborative art expression. …
4th of July Considerations
Well this year is the first 4th of July we have a baby in our home, and I’m discovering that the sounds of fireworks that once didn’t really bother me – now provide me with a concern of waking my sleeping infant. These feelings got me thinking about how grateful I am to have a …
9 Years of Strength & Love
My dearest Ryan, Earlier this month, I was doing laundry and you came over to give me a kiss. We had yet another emotionally challenging week and for some reason you felt the need to apologize… “I’m so sorry this has been so hard.” I remember looking up at you and saying “It’s okay honey.” …
Baby Journey Update: Getting the Basics
Since I last posted, we’ve hit some major milestones in our adoption journey. I’ve been sharing updates as they happen on a facebook page I created just for our adoption process. You can follow along if you like here: https://www.facebook.com/ryanandstephanieadopt/. But to sum up, we’ve met our caseworker and completed our homestudy. To do this …