One of my hobbies, as some of you know, is baking. Cooking – meh. But, oh, how I love to bake! Especially cakes.
Even better than baking cakes, though, is baking cakes to celebrate friends. When asked to bake a cake for my friend, Kate’s, surprise birthday gathering I knew …
It has become an annual tradition to go strawberry picking in the spring at Froberg’s Farm in Alvin, TX. I was thrilled to bring a dear friend, Rebekah, along when she came down for a visit from Seattle!
Maxine was sporting her strawberry hat, of course.
Don’t worry, she didn’t …
This year is a year of many firsts. We had our first baby in February (shortly after my first pregnant Valentine’s Day), and with each month comes a new “first” to celebrate. This was Maxine’s first Easter.
No, Maxine did not up and start walking and grow hair – this …
During my late nights of breast feeding little Maxine, I have discovered a new (dangerous) hobby: online shopping. I have never been one to online shop – my guilt complex would kick in as soon as I hit “Put In Cart” and I would back out 99.9% of the time. …
She’s here.
After 13 hours of labor (only 20 minutes of which I was pushing – girl’s heart rate plummeted during pushing so they had to use forceps to help bring her into this world quickly!), Maxine Gean arrived at 8:36 p.m. on February 17, 2015, weighing 6 lbs. …
She’s almost here. We planned for her, we prayed for her, and now we are just weeks away from meeting our daughter, Maxine Gean.
We wonder what she will look like – will she have my dimpled chin? Will she have Scott’s nose? Will she have my freckles? Will she …
I have been putting off these Africa posts for far too long. My only excuse is that I wanted to adequately document my experience in Africa, to put all of my thoughts down into a perfectly composed blog post that allows you, reader, to step onto the African soil with …
I just cut back my hours as a speech-language pathologist. It was a tough call to make, but a necessary one. Working 40+ hours a week at work in combination with running the photography business on the weekends, putting in up to 25 additional hours a week (more if we …
Scott and I’s day-to-day life is pretty normal. We both leave for work at 7:00 a.m., come home at 7:00 p.m. We eat dinner together. We go to bed at 9:30. Then we wake up and do it all over again. We do it with smiles on our faces, we …
We drove to Austin a few weekends ago to celebrate the one-year birthday of our “nephew”(he isn’t really our nephew, but we are so close to his parents that we just call him that 🙂 ). We arrived late so he was already tucked away in his little crib, but …