Category Archives: Family

Show Hope

Guess what we got in the mail earlier this week?  Yohannes is featured on the front cover of Show Hope’s 2011 Miracles Book!  I knew they were using the chalk photo I took of him, and it was really fun to see it in print! They also used our Christmas card picture from last year...

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{home away from home: the barn}

We were able to travel to Alabama to spend Thanksgiving with family, and as usual we stayed at “the barn.”  It’s not truly a barn, but it’s painted like one.  It’s a wonderful little cabin that my dad built years ago, and it’s a special place to me for many reasons.  My dad built it...

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Happy 5th Birthday Yohannes!

We celebrated Yohannes’s 5th birthday yesterday with a little party at the neighborhood playground.  He was SO excited and asked about when he could open his “prizes” (aka “presents”) all morning!  I’m trying to catch up on editing and photography orders for a couple of clients before the Thanksgiving holiday, but I threw this little...

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{my little model}

I’m working on relaunching my photography business, and I needed a model last week so I could brush up on my skills.  Yohannes jumped at the opportunity to help his mama got bribed into the deal, and we ended up with some really cute images!  He’ll be five next month (what?!?!), so I was glad...

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The bicycle is a curious vehicle…..

……Its passenger is its engine.  ~John Howard This was Yohannes learning to ride his bike without training wheels on Saturday….. By the afternoon he had improved quite a bit….. And this was him this morning before heading to preschool!….. If there’s one thing I can say about this boy, it’s that he’s DETERMINED! When he...

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