I love that phones are accessible and are able to catch the moments where I don’t have my big camera in tow. Spring according to my phone looked like this: Crew finally overcame his fear of water thanks to his amazing swim teacher. We saw her twice a week all…
The camera in my back pocket captured some winter happenings I don’t want to forget. Let’s just pretend the quality of the photos is better. Even though it’s nice out all year round, the temperatures drop enough in January that if we look really hard, we can find signs of…
Exactly one week after Crew received his cast for his broken arm, we wound up in the hospital again. Finn was on his typical two week rotation of coughing and wheezing but I didn’t think much of it because he is sick more often than not. We amped up the…
We weren’t on our end of summer birthday high for long before reality hit. Crew started eliminating his nap over the summer but fell asleep often enough that I put him down most afternoons. He still slept in a crib. I figured the only way he might doze off was…
Life is swirling around me so quickly and often so chaotically that sitting down and recording memories helps me to sort it out and make sense of it all in a way that is meaningful. There are only a few days left in 2015 so I want to make sure…
We were having a normal Saturday, juggling everyone’s schedules, when everything headed south. Troy was off cleaning the church, I was grabbing some groceries and a last minute birthday party gift, Nash was attending a pirate pool party and Blake was beach hopping with our neighbors. We were planning on…
Finn didn’t exactly follow suit and arrive on a random holiday like his brothers that were born on Pearl Harbor Day, Groundhog Day and Tax Day. Unless you count International Chocolate Day as a holiday. It’s a good thing we have another tradition to officially initiate our children into our…
Staying in the hospital for 48 hours after delivery becomes a blur of spreading the news to family and friends, acquainting yourself with your tiny stranger and soaking up that new life, visitors coming and going to ooh and aah over your new arrival, lots of photos, pain medications around…
I jokingly predicted that our baby would arrive on Saturday, September 13th because we had five other things on the calendar that day. I was 38 weeks and had absolutely no signs of labor before that date. In fact, I saw my midwife the day before and scheduled my next…
