Yesterday my Mom became a naturalized US Citizen. My Mom and Dad have been living in the states since before I was born…so about 50 years. Over the years they have had opinions about politics and such but they had no voice. Many years ago my Dad passed the test but decided against becoming a […]

Well we have finally made it to this point. The point where Ronan is too cool for me. Too cool to be the goofy little kid who would giggle. Fortunately he’s not too cool to let a natural smile or two slip out when I try out my dorkiest Mom jokes! We met at Lewis […]

What a great week for this kid! Farewells and graduation and parties, oh my. Graduation was Thursday night and the weather was just right. Our district holds graduation at T-Mobile park (the baseball stadium) and they rotate graduates and parents through for the graduation ceremonies for all three high schools in the district. Our graduation […]

This year I decided to try something new with some of my seniors. Taking cap and gown pictures at graduation is SO HARD! You have so many people in the background or it’s at night so the lighting stinks, or you have no time because the grad party starts right after the ceremony and there […]

To finish up Ellie’s ‘This is your life’ blog posts I am bringing it home with her later years. This is where this kid really came into her own well defined style. We’ve had so many fun adventures I can’t wait to see what is in store for this kid. I’m so happy that she […]

Today’s pictures are from Ellie’s middle years. This is when I was just getting into digital photography so there are MANY MANY pictures out there. And contrary to how it looks, I spent quite a bit of time cutting it down to just these. Ha! Buckle up. It’s going to be a fun ride!