a white thanksgiving

We woke up Thanksgiving morning to a blanket of snow.  On that morning I was thankful for the snow because I had no where to go.

ps.  try not to be jealous of our snow gear.  The things we find in Grandma's closet are amazing.  Remember these (click here)??

xo

a different view

Miss Mac is meant to be in the office.  But there isn't a wood stove in the office and, as you can see outside, there is snow on the ground, which means it's cold.  20 degrees cold.  My hands literally feel like they are going to fall off after sitting in the office for awhile, so miss Mac has a new home on the kitchen table.  It's temporary but I like it.  I like it so much I decided to blog about it.  Lucky you guys. :)  I feel like a part of the family now and my fingers are nice and warm.

In other news...  we had a crazy wind storm last night.  I'm not a fan of the wind.  It's really not my favorite.  It's loud and scary and makes things bump against the windows and makes big things called trees fall down.  Sean was called out on power outages starting at 5:30pm and he didn't get home until 5:30am!!  He's my hero.  I can't even imagine working outside in that cold, windy weather.  I barely can make it out to the garage to get a piece of wood and bring it back... brrrrr....  When I saw Sean this morning I told him I didn't sleep a wink last night, and he responded by saying "I know exactly how you feel." :)

Stay warm, friends and Happy Thanksgiving if I don't talk to you sooner.

xo

the reason for all the quiet

 8 out of 9 seniors (one isn't posted; I didn't get permission).  Cute girls, huh?

5 family sessions (seen here) plus 3 more to come and
2 maternity sessions; all in just 1 1/2 short months.
I've been busy.  You should see my house.

But I did get a new toy and she makes all this work a little nicer.  Me and her are getting along real good.

xo

more harvest'ness

The pirate 

She wanted to look like Jack Sparrow.  I told her she looked better.

Captain Rex

I bet you don't know who that is.  I didn't either.  He's a Star Wars guy and I guess he looks like this.

Hola!  I'm Dora

Dora really has some sweet, bouncy hair.  Ava loved it.

Who could turn down candy to them?  Apparently nobody could.  You should see the stash of candy we have sitting in this house.  It's doing nothing for my figure I tell you.  Nothing.

The carving of pumpkins...

We carved these babies yesterday.  That's just how it is at this house right now.  We're a little behind.  For one, I couldn't find any pumpkins on this island so we had to special order some from the grandparents who happened to be off-island.  We really should go into contests for pumpkin carvers.  I have a feeling we'd win. ;)  Ha!   While outside carving, cars were driving by on the driveway and then Stella says, "mom those people driving by are probably saying to themselves  - 'Don't those people know Halloween is over??!!  Those poor people, carving pumpkins on the wrong day'."  I laughed.  I like that Stella girl of mine.

I hope you all had a happy Harvest!

do do do do do Dora

Dora, I'm pretty sure you've never looked so cute.

Happy Harvest!

ch ch changes

Even though I'm swimming in a sea of photos to edit (notice I said swimming...not drowning...yet), I'm trying to make time to finish up the, what feels like, bazillion projects going on in the garage.  My husband is much for me making time to finish them.  And I mean very much for it.  He thinks cars are supposed to park in garages...psshtt...I feel garages make for great crafting areas. ;)

Awhile ago, miss Jamie Hill (designer extraordinaire) shared a photo for me because I expressed the desire to create an empty frame wall.  She found this photo for me and I couldn't have asked for a more beautiful inspiration photo.  It.Is.Perfect.  I love how they used different shades of frames... yep, I just love it a lot.  I'm hoping I can come kinda close to recreating it in my home.

image credit

This is my attempt.  I still have some work to do.  I'm looking for a good gold; haven't found it yet.  I found a yummy shade of yellow, called butter.  I think it will be a good choice against the blue walls, then I stained a couple of them dark and painted a couple cream.  We'll see... I'm not sure if I'll use them all.  I'll keep you posted.

Peace Out.

my camera likes him... a lot

And Caleb likes to eat leaves... a lot.  

We had big plans, while Tricia and Caleb were here, to get some photos of the two of them together.  For some reason it didn't work out.  And now I'm wondering why we didn't do it when I took these of just Caleb?  Weird.  Next time.  Anyway...  Caleb came back and visited me.  He missed me and I missed him.  He was looking cute in his fall sweater so we stuck him outside amongst the fall leaves.  Wow, he liked those leaves.  He wasn't feeling the smiles, he was just feeling the leaves....

He loves me.  Don't let this face fool you.  I may or may not have taken a leaf away from him... but he loves me more than those leaves.  He does.  Really.  Don't you, Caleb?  Can't wait to see you at Christmas my little friend.  xo

a first

While aunt Tricia was here, Jonah lost his first tooth.  Tricia was the one to pull it out.  She's a master tooth puller outer.  The tooth was ready and came out super easy.  Jonah didn't even flinch and wasn't even aware she had gotten it out.  But then he saw the tooth... and saw a little blood... and then he said his head was starting to hurt... and then it was his tummy... and then he turned pale.  Reeeeeeally pale.  I told him to go lay down.  The boy was looking like he was going to faint.  It was funny and the picture above shows it all.  I laugh every time I look at it. 

Tiny little tooth.  Almost as small as his little freckle on his thumb.

After laying down for a bit he came back for a picture.  He was a little more excited.  Had a little more color in his cheeks.  He started to get excited about the fact the tooth fairy was coming.  That crazy fairy didn't come 'till 6:30am.  Lazy fairy.

Jonah's new million dollar smile.  I like it.