I think it’s starting to look like spring around here. 🙂 ~Mary Kate

We’ve being having unseasonably warm weather in the past week. I’m talking about temperatures in the 70s. Open windows, bare feet, t-shirts and spring flowers.  Joey just started squeezing his eyes shut when he smiles. It’s so cute!  Rose wanted pictures by the flowers. I didn’t think they would turn out too nice, but I […]

You decided to grace us on Thursday with your presence. You hardly ever show your face around here and it was a welcomed surprise. Sure you can be a nusiance when trying to drive but you let me take some amazing pictures and that totally overruns and hard feelings against you 🙂 I decided to […]

I came home from a weekend retreat  today (Sunday). The retreat was my youth group’s annual Lenten Retreat. We were in a lodge at a camp up in the mountains. Surrounded by woods, creeks and set apart from traffic noises. One of my favorite parts of this retreat happens on Saturday afternoon. For three hours […]

I’ve come to realize that the internet – although wonderfully amazing – is a little too addicting. Between blogging, reading blogs, pinterest, etsy, amazon, and the fact that I now have my own laptop I have been spending way too much time online.  Precious time that should have been spent outside, or playing with my […]

Two years ago we were in the midst of two blizzards, one after another. Record snow and upwards of 5ft drifts (maybe that doesn’t qualify as a blizzard for some of you but here that is definitely a blizzard :D). For the kids it was the best weekend ever. Right before the first blizzard hit […]

 I’ve been on the hunt for some really good digital software for awhile. I have always loved looking at  Kelle Hampton’s (Enjoying the Small Things) photo books that she puts together for each of her daughter’s birthdays and I’ve wanted to do the same. So when I say a giveaway (hosted by Johanna at Growing […]