Finishing Our Bathroom Renovation at 7 Months Pregnant
It’s finally time to unveil our bathroom reno! We are not handy people, although we are slowly becoming so, and so this was a big...
Baby Journey
Jacey Noelle’s Birth Story || Hypnobabies Home Water Birth
“Next time though, I want a freaking home birth…” [the last sentence from Everly’s birth story]. I am SO excited to tell this birth story....
Everly’s Birth Story || Hypnobabies + Induction at 42 weeks
Everly’s birth story is equally beautiful and sad for me. It didn’t happen how I wanted, and I cried many many tears over it, but the...
Introducing Everly Jane || Newborn Photography
Meet my precious baby girl, Everly Jane. She was born on February 7th at 7:52am after quite a bit of convincing, weighing 9 lbs 11 oz and...
Our Baby Room || Gray and White Vintage Hot Air Balloons
This has been a long awaited blog, not just for me because I’ve been excited about it, but I’ve gotten so many requests from out-of-towners...
Our Foster Family Christmas || Tree Decorating
Last night we decorated our Christmas tree as a family. I’m not sure if you remember, but last January is when we started foster care...
Why I’m Not in a Hurry to Adopt
I’m not in a big hurry to adopt. It’s not because as new foster parents we have a home full of girls (3, if you haven’t heard the news. An...
My Dreams Are Coming True
Age four. That’s the earliest I can remember deciding that I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom. By then I had two or three sisters (depending...
Two Big Announcements (And How They Relate To One Another)
December is always the craziest month of the year for me. I get tons of last minute requests for photography, there’s 101 Christmas...
Negative (Pregnancy Tests and Emotions) || Month 17
This month was hard for me. Not the month of November specifically, but the 17th cycle month of Jason and I hoping for a baby. We are...
The Not-So-Lucky 15% || Baby Journey
Eighty-five percent of couples trying to get pregnant succeed in one year. We are officially in the not-so-lucky 15%. It’s not a rank I...
8 Months Is A Really Long Time || Baby Diaries 3
I know now that when you’re trying to have kids, it kind of becomes something of an obsession, and you think about it all the time. That...