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Fort Collins, CO
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July 7, 2015

July Celebrations

July brings one of our favorite holidays.  I'm a real sucker for red, white, and blue, summer sun and simple celebrations of unity and promise, so I get super excited when the 4th of July roles around.  Just like last year, we joined No[...]

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Fort Collins, CO
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June 5, 2015

Some Random Things

I wrote a while back that I might use Thursdays as an opportunity to play catch up on all the things I never blogged, in honor of "Throwback Thursday" -- and then I proceeded to not blog at all...and apparently not take pictures off of my camer[...]

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Fort Collins, CO
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March 20, 2015

Hello 30

One year ago, I posted of a list of 30 things I wanted to do before today: Pay off my school loans Go to Wanderlust Colorado  Get Boudoir Photos Taken  Go to a Movie Alone Knit a Sweater Be Capable of Passing th[...]

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Fort Collins, CO
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January 30, 2015

Zara’s First Hair Cut

In honor of "Throwback Thursdays," I'm going to use Thursdays as a day to take a break from my new goal of writing substance and post all of the things from the last few months that I never got around to posting...like Zara getting[...]

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Austin, TX
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December 20, 2014

Thanksgiving Part 2

We're nearly at the end of December, so it seems like I ought to take the time to share photos from the second half of our trip to Austin, visiting with Chris' mom, step-dad, siblings and extended family. When w[...]

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Granger, TX
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December 16, 2014

Thanksgiving Part 1

Our little family went to Texas!  This Thanksgiving, Chris' family very, very generously offered to buy us plane tickets so that we could visit his hometown for the first time in more tha[...]

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Fort Collins, CO
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December 13, 2014

Post November Gratitude

Apparently, I needed a little blogging break and didn't even know it.  I'm not sure that I've every gone as long between posts as I did between now and and my previous post - a whole month - and I'm already feeling rusty from the absence o[...]

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Fort Collins, CO
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October 10, 2014

A Jaunt Through Old Town

I have been quite the slacker about photographing the girls and blogging during the past few weeks.  I've had a lot of client logos and websites eating up my time, and have also been in super preserva[...]

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Jan 10

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Zara made a #texassnowman - tiny, full of grass and leaves, but a legit snowman. 😂 We have the fastest snowflakes I've ever seen falling down here right now and could get up to 4 inches! The girls are over the moon.

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Jan 10

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We found a mountain in Texas! Chris gave me a hiking trip to @enchantedrockstatenaturalarea  for Christmas ( ♥️ experiences not things) and today I "cashed in" on my gift. We packed lunches, bundled up and drove about 1.5 hours, then spent the day hiking all around the mountain, through boulders, and up to the top. 

We ended up hiking about 9 miles and everyone had a great time. Chris gets a medal for hiking at least half of it with Addie on his back, but she walked a few really good stretches too. She did great until she fell into a prickly pear. 😫 Luckily that was at the end of the day. Here's a few shots from the day - I even managed to get is all into a selfie, though with 6 people it seems like we're just about in selfie-stick territory...

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Our 1,000 piece project and today the girlie on the right turned 8. 

 I was in and out of calls all day so was more than a little shocked by the ridiculousness in the Capitol when I finally saw the news at 4:55 pm. Sometimes life feels so surreal. It was a normal work day and it also wasn't a normal day at all. There was... an attempted coup? Out of control protests? Whatever we call it, at the least, it was a day that is likely to have long-lasting reverberations in our society (maybe not all positive) but it was also day of celebration and joy. Not just for our birthday girl but also for a friend and a cousin who both had babies today too.

It's hard to know how all these pieces fit together and what to make of life right now. Every day feels a bit like a roller coaster. It's crazy but I guess we just have to try to enjoy the ride and trust that eventually we'll be able to see the whole picture.

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I can post a #Christmas picture the day after New Years, right? Because that's totally where I am right now. Months behind on the socials from my work hard/play hard life during which I was either glued to my computer working to launch our new plugin or being a total luddite ignoring my phone. I  barely even took pictures of the kids. 😮 

So this is pretty much it from our Christmas and New Year's celebrations which were perfectly lovely, and now it's 2021! I'm proud of how much we managed to hold it all together through 2020 and I hope to someday say more about that when I don't feel like I'm being pulled in 50 different directions by kids and trying to keep a business afloat. Here's to a new year...hopefully better than the last.

#newyear #thowback #throwbackthursday #tbt

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Happy first birthday to my little Vivienne. There was no themed birthday party considering the times we're in, but that's alright. Probably, if we're being honest, for a baby, that's preferable. No weird things messing up her routine, just a nice day at home with the family, fun crawling around outside in the leaves, and then pumpkin cake after dinner.

At one, Vivi is such an incredible delight. She laughs so much more than any of the other girls did as babies - she'll even start laughing if she just hears the word "funny." She keeps us all smiling all day long. She's pulling herself up on things, but isn't doing too much stepping yet, so I expect we're going to have another late walker. She knows a handful of words, loves to quack at ducks and neigh at horses, crawls all around the house finding things to get into, dances when she hears music, and loves pretty much all food (making up for her early days). I think she looks like Zara.

It's been a whirlwind year, but I most certainly could not have asked for a better tiny human to share 2020 with or to be part of our family. ♥️
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