We had a party this year for Thanksgiving, the first “real” party I think I’ve ever thrown. Thirty people plus kids packed into our little space, if I remember correctly, including new friends, old Montana friends, and Band friends. Being…
I see this random collection of photos and I wonder how they all fit together, as they sure don’t appear to tell a coherent story. But they do go together: They tell the story of my life right now.…
Again, you wanted to see something gross when you came here to see pretty pictures, right? Welcome to my world! I am sorry to startle you, but my reality is that I am mother to an imaginative, creative,…
I adore playing with taking pictures of eyelashes and hair blowing in the wind, especially when it comes to my beautiful, sweet, ever-so-patient-while-mama-gets-in-her-space muse (see here, here, here, here…). This time I also handed the camera over to Matt…
I thought this was pretty darn amazing. While we were camping with my dad and sitting at the table playing a card game, I pulled out my camera. At first I took a few photos, pictured above. The…
As I looked back recently on my blog posts from several years ago, I realized I actually like my posts from before I was trying to be an awesome photographer better than the ones after. When I started learning about…
… spending lots of time at the beach, especially now that the weather climbed to the upper 80’s this week. As I keep hearing and seeing photos of the cool, gray temps in Washington, where we are headed…
Sometimes they play together… really, really wonderfully. Sometimes they don’t. This solo parenting thing isn’t easy, finding ways to take care of myself, all the logistics, the dog, and each child, too. The days when they find things…
For Ashton’s 9th birthday, we had a party (after weeks of talking and planning and then another week of inviting, shopping and preparing) that included hula hoops, bubbles, kites, chalk, soccer balls, hyperdash, an easter egg hunt, and…
After probably a year of having them on my to-do list, my homemade hula hoops finally happened, with the help of my handy partner and motivator, Jean. They are really pretty easy to make, and we got a…
