Newborn Photo Session

I knew that I wanted to do a newborn photo session and that we didn’t want to do them ourselves. We did my maternity photos and they turned out amazing and have done other photos but I just knew that it wouldn’t happen if we tried. So I started searching for local people and was having a hard time narrowing it down. I wanted lifestyle not studio and just wasn’t finding exactly what I wanted. Then we found out that our photography friends were moving back to Colorado and I got really excited. They moved back weeks before Juniper was born. Kerinsa has done other pictures for us so I knew that we would love them. Thanks Kerinsa for the amazing photos. You can more of here amazing photos here.

Photos taken by Kerinsa {kerinsa.com}

January 2020 {one second everyday}

It’s a Girl!

Welcome Juniper Paisley. We kept the gender a surprise and we were totally surprised. Everyone (well almost) thought we were having a boy. Neither Donny nor I had any preference and I really didn’t know what to think. We are loving every minute of having a girl these past four months.

teaching to mom life

Seems like “life, crafting and teaching” needed a little update to “life, crafting and mom life”so I made a little change.

Hello 2020

One month in already. Here’s some things that I have already done and some that I hope to do here in the coming months.

I cleaned out my closet and now it only has what I am currently wearing with the rest stored away. We put cabinets in where our coffee stand used to be in our kitchen/dining room. I have started on a 2020 project life album digitally and working on Juniper’s first year book.

We need to baby prof our house, I want to finish my pregnancy mini album, the 2018 and the 2019 daily December albums. I also want to organize and go through the closets and pantry. I hope to do more blogging.

5 months….what?

Well it’s been a bit. I would say a lot has happen around here and here’s a snippet of what has been going on the last five months. I’ll do some more detail post coming up on other events (hopefully).

August: yoga, school started, Boulder baby shower, boating maternity photos

 

September: boating, prepping for baby, wedding, it’s a girl

October: outing to Luckys, first snow, wedding, pumpkin patch, first Halloween

November: visit to daddy’s office, visit to mommy’s school, boat ride, cloth diapers, first Thanksgiving

December: Christmas tree getting, first Christmas, matching pajamas

Now hopefully it wont be so long this next time.

Summer Week Recap #5

I went to yoga! It was a sub teacher….happens often in the summer and it just wasn’t the same. But after I met Allison for lunch at Huckleberry!

Went to a doctors appointment. Now they are every two weeks instead of once a month.

Donny got everything in the boat put back together after replacing the starter and putting new boards/seats in around the motor so we went out and enjoyed the sunset!

I was piano moving supervisor for Robin and Justin because they are out of town and they couldn’t get the moving scheduled before the left but had to be done before the closing date. No one had been in the house for over a week and it was hot in there.

Another evening on the boat watching the sun set. We even enjoyed some time in the water.

We watched BeeGee for a few days.

Enjoyed sitting on the porch and walking up to Sweet Cow to get some ice cream.

Donny got a new to him drill press which promoted a clean up of the garage. Despite this picture looking crazy the garage is very tidy now.

12th Anniversary

We kept this anniversary low key. We didn’t plan much but being 31 weeks pregnant I was totally fine with that. Here’s what we did for the day

We went to breakfast. We ate outside and it was already quiet warm out. We talked about going out on the boat didn’t go mostly because we had been out the previous two evenings and knew it would be very busy on Saturday.

Donny got a new to him drill press and had to do some garage cleaning to make room for it. So we spent a bit of the afternoon tiding up the garage. We hung out and just enjoyed not having much planned.

We went to dinner at Blackbelly and had some very delicious food.

A s’mores inspired dessert which was so yummy. Somehow they made the caramel sauce smokey and the flavor reminded me of a campfire.

And for some photos from our wedding. This is one is still my favorite.

Summer Week Recap #4

Moved this plant to a new spot and it sprouted 3 new leaves.

Went and got a pedicure

We found the bed we wanted for the Nursery/Guest/Craft Room on Facebook market place. It’s a daybed from Ikea that can pull out to a king size bed. I just need to get a comforter for it.

Watched Nelson and we enjoyed a walk around the neighborhood. It was sunny and warm so we tried to stay in the shade.

I think I settled on a chair that I want in the nursery. We will see if I change my mind before we actually buy it.

We drove to Junction for a Family and Friends Baby BBQ Shower. Everything is still very green.

Baby BBQ Shower was lots of fun! Me at 30 weeks pregnant.

On the way home we had a little rain but the rainbow was super bright.

Horsetooth Boat Camping

Right before Fourth of July we went camping for two nights at Horsetooth reservoir with Sam and Deidre. Keith joined us for a night and Kevin came up for the day. Everyone (but me) enjoyed early morning skiing before the water got busy. We had lots of fun hanging out in the sun and enjoying the water.

For these campsites you boat into your site and you cannot access them by car.

The water level was very high and a lot of the campsite was under water. Our tents were set up on a bit of a slant which made sleeping a little challenging.

Our boat did decide to stop working while we were on our camping trip but all turned out well. We had left our campsite to go pick up Keith at the boat ramp and when we tried to leave the boat decided not to start again…turns out the started needed to be replaced. Thankfully we had two boats at this camping trip.