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  • Snow Day

    Totally snowed in, our surrounding towns are in a state or emergency, it all feels very exciting especially when you have a house full of kids who love it!When I was not outside helping Steve shovel us out I was baki…
  • Cloisters

    We are getting dumped on with snow--it is magical. I spent most of the day baking goodies in the kitchen with the kids so that we can have an "Olympics party" tonight. The rest of my time was spent putting on and taki…
  • Cloisters

    Steve and I were reading through this book and happened upon a description of The Cloisters museum and knew right away that it would be one that we would love to see.The more we go to NYC the more realize that we enjoy…
  • catching up

    Last week Chloe asked me if she could be the one to take the photo of the day and I asked her what she wanted to take pictures of. "Oh just pictures of the kitchen" was her quick reply, so these are shots taken from a…
  • Thursday

    The kids started karate tonight. They came home very excited and feeling like they already had black belts. They were trying to give me lessons. I hope they all continue to love it. When I was in highschool I had a…
  • Baby it's cold outside

    Do you see the photo of the tree branches up above and then the photo of the icicles directly below?The pictures were taken at the same exact location, same shot the only thing that changed is where my camera's ey…
  • I had an idea of having three wreaths and each one is made by one of the kids. Over Christmas break I gave them each a wreath to wrap in yarn.Ideas never work out quite like the expectation, Jeff and Coco wanted ever…
  • El Rampo De La Muerte

    We all had a day off today. The kids spent almost the entire day outside playing in the snow.Steve helped them build ramps in the back yard for the sleds. One of the ramps Steve named El Rampo De La Muerte. It is highe…
  • The ordinary business of living

    I love that tomorrow's page is blank and holds so many possibilities.Today a woman called and asked me what to do when the creativity is completely gone...all inspiration for art is gone.Just today I thanked the Lord th…
  • Joy

    Steve had the unique privilege of baptizing his sons this past Sunday.We spent the week leading up to it talking with them to make sure they understood what it meant. Steve talked about his own baptism in Niger, West A…
  • You gotta try this

    I laid down the picnic blanket, but I could not convince Chloe or Jeff to join me. Eti was my accomplice and he said "Let's lay long enough so that we are completely covered in snow!" And so we did. We each had an earbu…
  • The Princess of Rohan

    Her name is Éowyn.Éowyn is Jeff's dog, so he got to name her. He named her after a princess in The Lord of The Rings. He named her almost without hesitation--he knew right away.If Steve had his way he would have two d…
  • I must be out of my ever-lovin' mind

    As if our lives needed more craziness... Look who we went and adopted this weekend!
  • IF

    IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by wa…
  • Time capsule

    When we were young we would make time capsules. I know where my brother Joel hid his, it is under a huge rock at the park we went to growing up. He dug a deep hole in the front of the rock on the left side. I know wh…
  • postcards

    *Shot with my fisheye Lomo camera that I am in love with. I found Eti crawling on his stomach in the most dramatic fashion towards the water, as if it were a mirage and he had been stranded for days in the blazing heat…
  • Gift From The Sea

    I shot this picture at sunset on the way home. Steve and I were in the middle of talking and I realized I had not taken a picture that day. I mention that we were in the middle of talking because Steve is so used to…
  • Homesteaders

    A few months ago, Steve's sister Shelley told me that she and James were considering moving out of the big city and buying a farm and sent me the link to the real estate site listing. I was so excited for them! I call…

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