Cruise to Bermuda
I’m going to wrap up a seven night cruise to Bermuda in one very photo filled post. I swear we have jobs and we aren’t always on vacation, but we’ve definitely been burning through PTO days like...
View ArticleHotel Room Chronicles
By now Adelaide has spent quite a bit of her life in a hotel room. It’s not terribly different from our everyday lives, except when I leave to run errands I get to come back to a clean room and a bed...
View ArticleBig Sur
The drive between Monterey and Santa Barbara was beyond gorgeous. And long. We do car trips pretty regularly, but this was one of the longest we’d been in the car at one time. We left during...
View ArticleHappiest of Holidays
Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season with a lot of nice (and maybe a little bit of naughty). Check in tomorrow for out takes and how it was done!
View ArticleBehind the Scenes 2014
I think this year’s card might just be my favorite one yet. We were a bit intimidated at the thought of trying to get a toddler and a dog to cooperate, but give them a cookie and some cream cheese...
View ArticleDisney
I’ve obviously been a little bit MIA from the blog world for a while (um, months?) and honestly just keep it alive because it’s the easiest way for me to document our lives for myself and my family....
View ArticleNew Zealand: Wellington Botanic Garden
In February Adelaide, my mom and I boarded a plane for New Zealand. And then we boarded two more. Twenty four hours, a trip across the International Dateline and into the Southern Hemisphere, and...
View ArticleNew Zealand: Lake Taupo
From Wellington, we drove four hours north to Lake Taupo. Adelaide and I spent our days by the lake while Jon, my mom and brother in law took a day to hike an active volcano. Good for them. The sand...
View ArticleHappy 4th of July!
Wishing you a wonderful holiday weekend. We’re excited to have Jon all to ourselves for three whole days with nothing on the calendar (except maybe some painting and potty training). And snuggling...
View ArticleNew Zealand: Marlborough {Part 2}
We did it! Today wraps up our month in New Zealand. Only five months later, but who’s counting? We spent three days in Marlborough and our general plan was wake up, make breakfast, get a winery or...
View ArticleGolden Gate
In May we took Adelaide on her third trip to San Francisco. While it’s one of our favorite cities, I think Adelaide and I won’t be back for a while. Travel has increasingly become less about...
View ArticleHank’s Pumpkintown
Oh hey! Remember me? We’ve spent the last however many months overloaded with house projects, potty training, playdates and beach trips. And watching the Mets make it to the World Series, of course....
View ArticleBehind the Card
{Press play.} It’s a Christmas miracle! We’ve had a busier than normal holiday season, so getting this video posted to the blog before Christmas was actually over is nothing short of miraculous. The...
View ArticleTale As Old As Time
I swear, holidays are a million times more exciting as a parent than they were as a kid. There’s just something about witnessing the joy of your child running gleefully from door to door for fun...
View ArticlePumpkin Patch
Bear with me while I post some photos that probably should have been posted…oh, two months ago. I use the blog as a space to document our lives, so I figured I might as well get these up since I’ve...
View ArticleFall Fun
I’m the first to admit that I’m not a fan of any season but summer. Fall has a few beautiful days and then it’s COLD. Or even worse, cold and rainy. But those few beautiful fall days we do get are...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes: 2016
This was the first year that Jon came up with the idea for our card completely on his own. Normally I toss out dozens of ideas that he shoots down until I find one he can live with. Actually, that’s...
View ArticleTree Farm
This past weekend we celebrated Christmas at home with Adelaide. We did the same thing last year, because we wanted to be able to have Santa come and spend the day just the three of us, before we...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Adelaide!
Adelaide, today you turn four. FOUR! I watched you on the monitor as you fell asleep last night and you were smiling from ear to ear while talking to yourself “I’m going to be older tomorrow! It’s my...
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