Remember this? Well, the day I’ve been alluding to for months on this blog has come and gone. My little brother Mark is married to an incredible woman and my family has grown by one. It has been a joyful month, with some bittersweet overtones as we celebrated their wedding and marriage and then sent […]
Everyone loves a good family picture. And everyone secretly loves the process of getting it. Enjoy a peak at what goes on while I set my exposure: Of course my family does multiple poses. Did you expect anything less? Last one. You can tell everyone is a little less enthused about this picture. Happy weekend […]
So much has happened lately. I have yet to blog about most of it. Excited to update you all soon! For now, though, imagine I am still on vacation, because that’s what I’m imagining. I’m still on the island, still doing this: My last post was an overview of my fantastic family vacation, but I […]
It’s time to do a little multi-functional talking about my family’s island. That is correct: my family has an island. This post will serve to both a) sing the praises of our beloved vacation spot in the land of maple leaves and lumberjacks, and b) put to an end the misconceptions you may have about […]
Would it stop raining, already, so I can a) get some sunshine on my poor, white-girl skin, AND b) spend some much needed time outside!?! I was really hoping to air out our tent and get to the campgrounds this weekend with a cooler of beer and brats. Mmm beer brats. Hy-Vee 10 for $10. […]
hower two of four took place this weekend and it was a super special one. My dear friend Bethany will be getting married in just a few short weeks and we had so much fun showering her with fun things for her home! And as you might have guessed, I had fun crafting for it. […]
That photo was taken almost a year ago, after I had begged David to let me use him as a model to play with some shooting techniques. We had reached a point in our photo session where somebody was getting a little restless. Oh well, he got cooperative husband points. 🙂 And he’ll get even […]
We sang this hymn a few weeks ago at church, and I’ve sung it many times before. This time, though, the word “cleft” really stood out to me. First off, it seems like a pretty old-school word that nobody in 2011 uses in their natural vocabulary. I mean, there are lots of old “hymnal-ish” words […]
Not to be confused with Creepy Love. Guess what I did last weekend? Took pictures of myself cooking! I have two magazines that I love. Real Simple and Taste of Home. I’m sure I could love others, but these are the two I know I can make the time to read. Taste of Home arrived […]
A list of significant things happening in my life: My friend who left the country for two years but then came back left the state for two weeks. I miss her again. I got my hair cut. Significant? Well, it hadn’t happened since around Christmas. I was all “Woah. I just chopped off all my […]
Yes please. Sign me up. My growing family has found, against all hope, a little slice of the summer during which we can all almost all be together and hit up our beloved and favorite vacation spot: the family island in Canada. (For those of you unfamiliar with this tradition in my family…don’t go thinking […]
I lied and made you wait an extra day for the final vacation post. This is the last day of pictures from our trip. If you are sick of them, there will be no more after this. If you wish there were more, you can call me and come over for coffee and I will […]
Welcome back to your online vacation! Before we hit the road again, I have what I thought would be some exciting news concerning this blog. As I am sure you know, if you bothered to wait for this page to load, my site is ridiculously slow. It has become increasingly frustrating to me, so this […]
Ready for installment number two of Rawson vacation? I am. To fairly warn you, I struggled to narrow these down. This was my favorite day of our trip. We said “Sianara” to the busy traffic of the city and took our time winding up the Pacific Coast Highway to Santa Barbara, the land of fairies […]
Last Friday, we got on a plane bound for California with high hopes for sunshine, warm weather, rest, and a little adventure. We got a little of everything, even though the temps turned out to be a little lower than we expected. It wasn’t quite the escape from winter I’d wanted, but I guess that’s […]
It has been an exciting week for my family. My brother Mark popped the question to his girlfriend, (and she said yes!) who is not only my future sister-in-law, but a friend of mine and my family’s for some time now. We kind of adore her. There were lots of crossed fingers as they started […]
Warning: No pictures today. Bummer, I know. It’s odd, but even though I am in a kind of oddball mood today (as in…cranky), I keep wanting to write on the ol’ blog. Doesn’t seem like those things correlate, but whatev. We’ll go with it. I promise to keep it short, since this combo of moods […]