At nearly 9 months old, Alethea’s first Christmas was an absolute dream. She really was the perfect age to be in wonder of it all. She loved looking at our Christmas tree each morning, and opening presents on Christmas day was incredibly exciting! Just wait until you see her face! We spent Christmas Eve morning […]

2019 has been a wonderful year. A few weeks ago, I sat down with the intention of writing up some of the highlights to create a “Christmas Letter” style post. What I ended up with was line after line of the amazing things we did this year; big and small. Rather than tell you every […]

While this post is a continuation of Alethea’s first year photos, it includes more of our family than anything! No worries! If you missed a few months, you can always go back and see more by clicking the “personal” category button on my main blog page. Our Christmas card photos last year were extremely last […]

(If you missed them, you can find Alethea’s birth photos here – And her 2-4 month photos here) Alethea’s 5-8 month photos are some of my favorites. Once she started eating real food, and learned how to sit up on her own, she became the happiest baby in the world! It was a beautiful change. […]

Time is a peculiar thing, if you can call it a thing. One moment, my baby girl was born and the next she grew up. (If you missed her birth story, you can read it here.) Her first few weeks were the most rough, in typical newborn fashion. She woke up every 2-3 hours to […]

I was 34 weeks along and went off to start the first of 5 appointments. Having gestational diabetes was absolutely horrible. As if they don’t make you have tons of appointments already in the third trimester, now I more than quadrupled my appointments each week. Between non stress tests, weekly ultrasounds, and my regular appointments, […]

It was May 5, 2017 – Cinco de Mayo. It seemed appropriate for us taco fanatics to have more than just tacos to celebrate this day. I can’t even tell you the excitement and rush of adrenaline when those two pink lines appeared after those excruciatingly long 3.5 minutes. It was REAL. It was HAPPENING! […]

So scared of getting older I’m only good at being young So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun Had a talk with my old man Said, “Help me understand.” He said, “Turn 68, you’ll renegotiate Don’t stop this train Don’t for a minute change the […]

As part of the female population, I can’t deny that I haven’t planned and replanned my dream wedding in my head repeatedly. Shades of pink and shimmering gold..strings of lights over an outdoor patio full of dancers…and of course having one of the greatest photographers in the world there to capture it all. I met […]

The day we met, we knew we’d become very good friends. We sat beside each other our very first day of college classes, knowing not what was to come. I, being the fearless risk taker, decided to introduce myself. “Hi! I’m Ellen.” “Hello. I’m Sarah.” “It’s nice to meet you Sarah!” “Nice to meet you […]