Texas

With the start of school, I forgot to take a 9 month picture of Vivienne but these were only a couple of days early so I’m going to call them good. She had a check up today and was 17lbs and solidly 30th percentile for both length and weight, so her tiny days are far…

I don’t have a good caption for this photo, but I it. My little family (maybe not so little anymore) makes me feel so happy and thankful. We finally had family photos taken since Vivi was born and I think the photographer did such a great job. She’s not on Instagram or I would tag…

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been working on my own online presence in addition to client work. Last week I somewhat sneakily launched a new website for myself, which I’m sure no one noticed considering I haven’t blogged in nearly 2 years. Yesterday, I published a blog post! With the crazy-pants year that we’re…

First day of school photo for Addie + a peek into what Montessori at home looks like. Chris and I made the tough decision to withdraw Addie from school this year. We don’t think that she will engage well with any sort of remote learning and don’t think that she’ll do well with having to…

My Zara Bee and the #russiannestingdolls #quilt my mom made her. ♥️

This week is a huge first for us…we let Chris’ little sister take Nora to her house in Fort Worth for a week of girl time. We’ve been getting photo dispatches from both Nora and her aunt, and I’m surprisingly holding it together. I still can’t believe that I’m about to have a sixth grader.…

We visited Longhorn Cavern State park yesterday, climbed the observation tower to look above the treetops and then went on a cave tour 135 feet below the ground. The last time we tried to go in the cave about a year ago, Addie was too scared so only half of us went. This time she…

Dipping our toes in the lake before bedtime. Mostly our vacation has been , except for the 30 minutes during which Chris and I were trying to get a rock out of Addie’s nose this evening and debating if this was emergency room territory. Oh, three year olds. I’d post a laugh emoji except that…

So much baby chub Also I loooove babies in cloth diapers. It’s just too cute. We got lucky and I had not yet gotten rid of our diapers (when I went through our baby stuff purge post Addie, when I thought she would be our last). So I didn’t have to buy any diapers for…

Celebrating a week off work with the most epic milkshakes ever @theyardmilkshakebar. Yes, we splurged and let the big girls get their own, no they didn’t finish them. Nora got a coffee milkshake with a donut. Zara’s chocolate chip cookie had a giant scoop of edible dough. Chris loaded up on all the artificial colors…

Once upon a time, a girl named Amber kept bumping into a boy named Chris at parties and one night asked him if he wanted to go out for a 2 am egg sandwich before going home. 16 years, 6 states, 4 kids, 1 business, and countless egg sandwiches later, I’m so glad he said…