Giving Thanks.




When the calendar switched over the April last Friday it felt like a great big exhale. March was a rough one filled with lots of things tossed our way all at once. A was sick one week, we had bit of a dog scrap that landed us unexpectedly at the vet. Then my grandma was diagnosed…

It was the winter of 2006 I had the horse trailer packed with my belongings, our cat in the car and I was headed to Colorado to finally start a life with Ryan. It was ten months of long distance for us and we were thrilled to be in the same state and the same apartment….

To celebrate A’s birthday we decided it would be fun to take her to the zoo for the very first time. The 15th was Free Day at the Denver Zoo so we decided it would be a great time to go, and our friends were in town too – so we planned this for weeks…..

Midweek last week a business connection turned friend called me to see if I would be interested in a potential new business client. I was thrilled, referrals are the biggest compliment and that’s where I get most of my freelance work. She have me a small idea of what the gal was looking for and…

There is always that question…”So what do you do?” or “What does your wife do?” direct at Ryan. I constantly get the response depending on the answer I give. Sometimes I give one answer, sometimes I give the other. When “Stay At Home Mom” is the answer the responses usually include, “Oh… So you’re a…

On October 18, 2012, two days shy of a month before I had A, I had a conversation with my very dear friend Candy from Verte Photo. I told her how I couldn’t wait for A to finally be here, to hold her and have her in my arms. That’s when she told me something…