Last year for Christmas we celebrated in Chattanooga since I was 9 months pregnant with Sierra. My family came up from Fort Lauderdale and we had some special time with both sides of our family! It was a particularly exciting Christmas Day, because we had a White Christmas! It hadn’t snowed on Christmas Day in...
WOW. I mean, seriously, wow. I cannot believe it’s been nearly two months since I last blogged. That MUST be a new record! I don’t think I’ve gone two months without blogging since the inception of my blog in October of 2005. It’s been busy, to say the least. After my last blog post (from...
Another activity that is quickly becoming a tradition is a quick evening trip to the beach to document our growing/changing family. We made our trip this time with my mom so that she could grab a few images of all four of us. The weather (all week) was incredibly gorgeous. It was warm and sunny with...
As has become tradition since Alana was 1, we had breakfast one morning at the Jet Runway Cafe at the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport. We LOVE this place…great food, great service, and best of all, the private jets take off and land RIGHT outside the windows! Alana loved it just as much as always, and...
So for me, no family vacation ever really feels complete until I blog about it. It’s always therapeutic for me since I hate leaving my family and I always miss them so much. It’s closure for me to write about our times together, and this time is no exception. In some ways, it becomes harder...
These first few weeks have been good! And getting better all the time as my post-pregnancy hormones wear off I am so incredibly thankful for many things, including the time that my mom spent here, friends and family bringing dinner (HUGE, HUGE blessing!!!), and already being on a very predictable schedule with Sierra. I wanted...
I’m blogging a bit out of order because, well, because I had a baby. I blogged family photos from our wonderful winter wonderland on Christmas Day, but failed to blog our fun times from the day AFTER Christmas, because things got pretty crazy with family fun, and then, on the 28th, I went into labor...
Yesterday was perfect. Well, except for the fact that my dad was not able to come up in time for Christmas Day, and Nick (Amber’s hubby) had to leave at 11 am for a work shift at the children’s E.R. where he works. But we all woke up to a WHITE CHRISTMAS!!! It really could...
My sweet sister-in-law Susan threw me a baby shower on Saturday, and it was wonderful. She is of the opinion that every baby needs to be celebrated, even if the new baby is the same gender of a previous child. So, even though we have much of what we need because this is another little...
This past Friday was just perfection. On Friday morning, Rich, Alana and I were spending time together, running errands, getting things done, and enjoying each other’s company. Rich suggested – after accomplishing several business related tasks – that we go celebrate the beautiful day by grabbing a nice lunch together at Abuelo’s. I never refuse...