As I promised, here are my pictures from the big day.  If you thought there were a lot of pictures yesterday then you might just want to get TWO cups of coffee for this one! It’s not often that we get gussied up so the girls and I had a good time this summer finding […]

This year our big family summer vacation was out to Hood Canal for a long weekend for my cousin Lauren’s wedding.  We had family come in from far and wide.  (Toronto, San Francisco, North Carolina, Kirkland…)  The set up at this resort was perfect.  There were cottages that many of us stayed in and also […]

Jill has finally gotten to the point where she has stopped growing.  Which means she that a lot of the clothes she got last year still fit.  Weird!  We went from Jill needing the most clothes every year to needing the least. We started out with a quick dinner at Azteca for our favorite mexican […]

It’s all the rage these days and I was kind of hoping this trend might just pass me by.  Nope.  Susan Wais challenged me to the ice bucket challenge for ALS yesterday and I am not one to back down from a dare!  BUT, since I am a still photographer I decided to do this […]

Next up for school shopping was Kate.  Before we could start our adventure, though, Kate attended a special karate class.  She has been going since the beginning of the summer but this class was taught by a national instructor.  Pretty cool! Next we stopped for dinner and to plot out our stops.  We had to […]

It hardly seems like it is time for school shopping.  That always signals the impending end of summer and I can’t believe it is time already!  We started the annual school shopping nights with Ellie this year. Our evening began with dinner and a quick stop for PE shoes.  Let’s get the boring stuff out […]