All of the photos in this post were taken by the lovely, sweet, and talented Missy Hill of Missy Hill Photography.
Dorothy Sue Key: Born November 23, 2017, her due date, at 8:47 a.m. She weighed 7 lbs. 8 0z., and was 20.5″ long.
On Wednesday, November 22, 2017, …
Well, we are nearing the end of January 2017, friends. I didn’t really have a chance to plan out my year like I have done in years past. I blame this one:
But! I did have to time to write down a word for the year, something I do every …
How do I teach you to not see color
when the same God who created YOU is the same Creator who made color?
Color is used to describe, to compare, to elicit feeling.
Color is both abstract and concrete. It is inanimate and yet somehow alive.
So perhaps teaching you …
The Freckled Key Photography is a Houston TX lifestyle photographer.
When you walked in through the back door, feeling both energized and a little tired after Sunday church, the warmth and smell of pot roast and monkey bread roasting and baking in the oven made your shoulders rise as you …
The Freckled Key Photography is a Houston lifestyle photographer
I heard it in the distance, that familiar chime growing in intensity and then fading slowly into the distance of our little neighborhood. Up one street, down the next. A reminder that it is mid afternoon, a few more hours until …
The Freckled Key Photography is a Houston family photographer in The Heights Houston, TX.
It’s 5:00 p.m. I’ve been mommy-ing (yes, “mommy” is also a verb) since 7:00 a.m. and I have exactly one hour and 15 minutes left (on a normal day) before Daddy comes home and can commence …
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Today is Friday, which means that yesterday was Thursday.
Thursdays. I texted a friend (Aly over at Raising Girl – go check her out!!) yesterday morning after Maxine had emptied my patience tank (which is already only at 25% capacity on Thursday) when she dumped over …
Maxine Gean Key. Named after my grandmothers, Maxine Jeanette and Caroline Gean. Born at 8:36 p.m. on a Tuesday, February 17, 2015. I labored for 13 hours and after 20 minutes of pushing, heart rate dips, and the use of forceps, out you came. You were whisked away quickly to …
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I don’t know if it’s my introverted soul.
Or because my parents always stepped in as my listening ears.
But, whatever the reason, it has taken me a very long time to be okay with opening up to others outside of my parents and my husband, …
Stop. Just — stop. The days go slow, but the weeks go fast and the months – even faster.
Our little Maxine Gean is half a year old. Six months. I’m fascinated by how much infants change in the first year. It wasn’t but 5 months ago that this little …