• Adventures

    Merry Christmas 2025

    It’s Baby Henry’s first Christmas!! We’re ecstatic to have him home for the 2nd week and to celebrate as a family. We were gifted a nativity advent, and opened them all up and…

  • Kids,  Personal

    Portraits of Newborn

    I’m getting so much practice in capturing these tender moments of our sweet Henry. We are all taken in with his charms. It’s not all a bed of roses here; the hard moments…

  • Adventures,  Kids,  Personal

    Home with Baby

    These first few days at home with Baby have been a sleepless trial by fire. There’s a learning curve and getting into a rhythm again. Baby didn’t sleep or eat well the first…

  • Adventures,  Kids

    NICU Diaries: Graduation

    It’s Week 17! Baby is 44 weeks corrected gestational age. Read about last week: Week 16! Day 113: Discharge Day Lily picked out Henry’s “going home outfit”, a footie pajama with snowmen on…

  • Kids

    Creative Kids… Back In My Day

    Fletcher has this icebreaker idea at the dinner table where we pretend we are old folks. In a silly almost Southern accent he says things like, “Back in my day, we didn’t have…

  • Adventures,  Kids

    NICU Diaries: Week 16

    Baby is 43 weeks corrected gestational age. Read about last week: Week 15! Day 106: Decided I love my Baby. He fell asleep on me skin to skin after he took a full…

  • Adventures,  Kids

    NICU Diaries: Week 15

    Baby is 42 weeks corrected gestational age. Read about last week: Week 14! Day 99: Tough Season He was too sleepy and tired to do well breastfeeding today, already upset from taking his…

  • Adventures,  Kids

    Oh What Fun Christmas Trees

    Our Day-After-Thanksgiving tradition of looking for our Christmas tree continues! Peterson Trees in Salem is our favorite to experience the holiday season with the kids. We splurged on Dutch hot cocoa with all…

  • Adventures

    Thanksgiving 2025

    During Thanksgiving weekend we spent time with two of Jer’s brothers Grant and Travis and their families. They watched a football game on tv and we played games and caught up on the…