With baby Kimble’s surgery a success, the cousins have gone to spend the holidays in Seattle with their parents, leaving the rest of us without our sweet buddies for Christmas. So we had a pre-Christmas party before they…
It was cold, snowy and icy, we only had a little bit of light before dark, and we lost the other group we went with. It cost $5, about 2 hours, some gas and some shivers. But we…
She’s growing up. She got her ears pierced; went for it even though she knew it would hurt. She now knows how to swim and how to read, she’s smart and kind and capable, she can hang with…
Our family has been a state of crisis for the past several weeks, as Matt’s sister’s 6 week old baby has been at a children’s hospital in Seattle with a rare heart condition. Baby Kimble is awaiting heart…
Occasionally, very occasionally (like maybe once a week, sometimes not that often), we get some sunshine these days here in Kalispell. On this lovely sunny morning (or perhaps it was just a sunny moment), I went after my camera…
Thanks to the loving kindness, talent, and awesomeness of Matt’s photographer sister and brother-in-law Jeremy and Alicia Brown, we have some super cute kid photos now. I love them and am so happy to have these to frame,…
It’s been such a blessing to have the opportunity to spend so much time with these creative, engaged, kind and fun children while we are home in Montana. I love having a niece and nephews (4 boys in…
These are a few favorite photographs from our visit to California last month. We had a relaxing time of visiting with my parents, my bio-dad, and my sister and her little family. Ashton fell in love (again) with…
We are now just over halfway through Matt’s deployment, which is a really amazing thing to be able to say. Although I miss him terribly, I feel grateful to know we’ve made it this far and that each…