- Juliette: 9 months -

Just an afternoon at the park with the most beautiful 9 MONTH OLD girl we know!  You are loved beyond measure, Juliette Thérèse!!! <3

Always stay small and sweet! 

 

xoxox

- Cousins make the BEST friends! -

First there was one...

...then two...

 

...and now three!

I love these sweet babies more than words can say!  They also served as pretty good props/lighting-testers in anticipation of shooting some cousin photos in the back yard!  Let the chaos ensue in 3...2...1... :)

Soooo happy that my kiddos get to do life with all of these fun cousins!  The photos say it all...this crew really has a blast together! <3

 

- T-giving 2020 -

It's Thanksgiving: COVID-19 STYLE!  Since we weren't going to be able see 3/4 of our Grammys and Papas on Turkey Day 2020, we spent Thanksgiving Eve in the kitchen whipping up some treats...

...and Cricut-ing/coloring some sentiments...

...and hitting the road to drop off all the goodies on everyone's doorsteps! Muffins and drawings were all made with love, and the grandparents were thrilled with their little surprises! #SUCCESS.

Then!  Thanksgiving morning was nothing short of our normal family tradition:  Black Friday ads, Starbucks, and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade! SIX YEARS IN and still rollin' strong. 

After Brian and I paged through ads, they reached the left end of the island where the kids cut them to shreds to create a custom Christmas wish list!  It came to my attention that Harper wants EVERYTHING Yoda [despite the fact that we've never watched Star Wars...]...who knew?!

 

After lunch and nap time, we dug our turkey roasting pan out of the basement [an unopened wedding gift still adorned with the gift receipt and all! 2020: moving onto bigger and better hosting duties!] and had my parents and Uncle Blake over for Thanksgiving dinner! It was definitely a weird holiday this year in some ways, but so laid back and more intimate in other ways.

 

What a year!  2020 may not have it all together; but together in 2020, we have it all!  We are certainly thankful, grateful, and blessed!

 

 

- Life's a BEACH: Family Photos -

Smelling the sea and feeling the sky...
Letting our souls and spirits fly! 

#live #love #beach  <3

- Picture Pefect {la seconda parte} -

Let me call it as I see it: I'm a grammar goddess of sorts when it comes to the English language, but I have a [not small] bag of baggage that I tote around under my belt in the form of a) two years of dubbed down high school-level Spanish class followed by b) one semester of intense college-level Italian class -- taken while living in Italy, at that -- and so! #itakebackeverythingisaidaboutmasteringtheenglishlanguage because #runonsentencedeluxe, but I'm the perfect recipe for a disaster called "is that phrase of Italian or Spanish or Ita-nish or ...heaven forbid... Eng-ita-nish?"  Only the Good Lord knows.

However! I'm 97% confident that the combination title above is one-half English and one-half Italian. 

And with that..........I digress.

Now, on with the show!  

Below are some of the fun/smiling/happy photos that we managed to capture during our not-fun session described before. I couldn't transfer them over to the external hard drive today without posting some of them here!  

¡Amo a mi familia!  ...Spanish or Italian?  

We'll never ever know.