Growing up ...

:)

It's officially Autumn

I feel so fortunate for my family...

Did you know...

Did you know I take a photo a day of my babies? Yep. That's 4.5 years for Jane and 1.5 years for Luke. That's a lot of clicking. I use all sorts of cameras too, from the Holga to my Nikon. It's a wonderful archive of looking back on their lives.

Recents...

I realized I am not the best at consistencies - especially with updating this site. I apologize... We've had lots of snow, lots and lots and lots of snow; but it's fun. (At least that's what we pretend anyway...)
Here are quite a few recent pics to update you:

Ride 'em Cowboy!

Lucas turned ONE last week. Yes. ONE! We are in awe of his sweet character and his silly ways. He has started to "walk" with assistance of a chair being slid across the room, or his little vintage walker we bought for Jane and kept. We are so blessed to have 2 amazing kids, every day I think of this.

For his birthday we went ahead with a Cowboy theme. Not totally gangbusters, like everything being bandanna pattern and country music galore. Not at all. It was an easy going theme, perfect for our wee little one....

Yes, there is a theme this year...

... and Snow White is it.

For Jane's 4th birthday we hired the REAL Snow White. It was pretty neat because she sounded, acted, danced and played JUST like you think she would. I know she's an impersonator, but this is as close as you can get to the real-deal, and she was wonderful...

Here's how Jane's day unfolded:

7:00 a.m. Jane woke up to a room FULL of pink and white balloons to celebrate her 4th year.
8:00 a.m. A breakfast for champions including her candlelit toast.
10:00 a.m. A little bed jumping and family wide dance party.
11:00 a.m. I arranged for a private 1 on 1 play-date with Snow White at our home. And, as expected Jane was in her total glory. (See movie.)
11:30 a.m. A playground extravaganza with 11 of her best girlfriends (No boys allowed she said!) and the magical Princess of Whiteness.
12:00 p.m. Snow White took over and transformed the girls into princesses with sparkly make-up, lip gloss, magical wands and of course, song and a birthday cake. (Provided of course.)
1:00 p.m. A fashion show on a doily red carpet with a private escort from Snow White herself.
1:15 p.m. A rumpus of bike riding, cake eating and playground swinging.
2:00 p.m. Goodbye dear friends!
3:00 p.m. A nice long relaxing 2 hour nap.

Ahhhh. The life of a 4 year old.

Halloween happiness....

Even though it took us much longer than we anticipated to get out of the house all dolled up - we had a blast touring the neighborhood, ooohing and awwwing at all the passer-byes and even passing out candy of our own on the front stoop. We ended up freezing a handful of our candy, and gave most of it (back) away to the many door knockers....