phew. this past month has flown by. and it has dragged on endlessly. all at the same time. hazel is one month old. we really like her. she looks like a perfect mix between isaac and anna. it’s crazy. i just want to smoosh her little face. i think i’ve kissed her one million times […]
babies on quilts, mostly.
i started this blog post about 3 days ago. i hope to finish in the next 5 minutes. it’s 1045am on wednesday. here we go. some photo updates. the barrier girls made a trip out to meet hazel… we are trying to work in some one on one time with the older two kids. last […]
january 5th resolutions.
when i was up, in the middle of the night last night, i looked back in my blog to old new years resolutions/goals. and began to think about this year. and what i want to change in my life. and all that new yearsy type stuff. firstly, my social media cutbacks. two years ago, i […]
the last bit of randomness from 2013.
warning. lots of cute pics on the way. but, first. some brutal honesty. things have been difficult around here. we have been having a really hard time with isaac and anna for the last few months. we hoped that it was just some tension because the baby was on the way. and we had hoped […]
new york grands come to town.
at 2am, on the day after christmas, my mom, stepdad and brother rolled into town. my mom quickly scooped up hazel and crashed on the couch. and the whirlwind crazy week began… (and i took way too few pictures. thankfully, derek took some.) jake was quickly enlisted by isaac to help with lego construction. a […]
christmas day. 2013.
(note: this is the first of a bunch of posts i plan on making today.) this christmas was a little bit crazy. we have a newborn. so we kept it all low key. but first things first. the presents. pics aren’t that great. we need a fancy sports lens to get all the fast paced […]
gingerbread houses.
on christmas eve eve day (december 23rd), i sent derek out to run a few errands. and decided we needed to do gingerbread houses with the kids. he scored them on superduper clearance, which was awesome. anna picked out a hello kitty house. and ike picked a willy wonka house with a ridiculous amount of […]
hazel’s photo shoot.
my pal kristin boone takes amazing pictures. she came over to meet hazel and snapped a few pics of her when she was about a week old. and, like always. they are awesome. my family is in town right now. crazytown. they leave tomorrow. and then, thursday, i’m officially on my own, with three little […]
oh you know, just some random pics…
when we found ourselves with an extra weekend before hazel arrived, we tried to do some fun things with the kids… like christmas shaped pancakes with some sprinkles… check out anna’s sweet pigtails… the wink of approval… after the appointment where we scheduled the induction of a super late hazel, i returned home to find […]
cookie mayhem. 2013 edition.
ok. so, knowing hazel was making an early december arrival, i knew i wouldn’t be making a bunch of christmas cookies, as i have in years past. but, i definitely wanted to make cut out cookies with the kids, because that’s super fun, and i didn’t want hazel to steal all of the christmas thunder… […]