Tuesday is baking day!!! bread, pizzas, cookies, you name it! something about bread though… it’s the best! It’s such a mystery… anything can happen.. perhaps you forget an ingredient.. maybe you use a tad too much flour… it can make it or break it! … and usually it makes it… whew! such a science and … Read more

I just love love love an easy afternoon… a nice nap had by all.. wake about 4… grab some chalk, juice, lawn chairs, (a beer for Mamma) and hit the driveway… welcome home Pappa!!! well, hello there, little front yard grapefruit tree… can’t wait to taste you soon… do ya dig ’em..?… I really do! … Read more

this was such a treat… going to a puppet show… takes me back! nothing like it… love how it feels like the puppets are real… they dance, sing, play… such a cocktail for our imaginations! after the show the puppeteer showed the children how to make stick puppets… Grant showing the puppeteer his prize! ha! … Read more

love how this light was captured… I love sparkly glittery light… I love how her bottom lip curls and begins to quiver when she begins to cry… I sometimes just let the cry come out to see the lip… oh it’s just precious… sweet baby our girls crack us up constantly… they have so much … Read more

there is something about holidays that always take me back to my childhood… our traditions… the ways we did things and all of the fun it was to be a kid… then I look to my children and I let them create some memories with influences from both my memories and Pappas… and the cycle … Read more

some days actually most days… I really thank my stars… sometimes for being so lucky to have such an amazing husband which is the sweetest Pappa to our beautiful little girls which I am so lucky to have… sometimes for having such incredible friends that have such love for life just as we do… and … Read more

I could just photograph our meals entirely… I love how much love and passion goes into even breakfast… I love to set tables… it’s maybe my favorite thing. especially for parties… but even for family dinners we feel it’s important to present our meals beautifully! Pappa says it’s important to have things looking nice and … Read more

at least once a week we have pizza night! flying dough, flour fills the kitchen, olive oil licks, and decorating each and every bit of the pies! one of the times we went to Italy we became obsessed with their amazing pizzas! We tried to figure out the secret! The dough is so crisp.. the … Read more

if I could live on a farm I sure would… it would be just a small farm… full of rows and rows of lavender… a nice plot of veggies… tomatoes, zucchini, peppers, strawberries, raspberry bushes, some corn, and boxes and boxes of the freshest herbs on earth with so many bees buzzing that I get … Read more

such a special day… it was Graduation Day at preschool a bit ago… down the street from the school is our beautiful Sarasota Bay… perfect setting for a lovely ceremony! Even though it’s not time for Isabelle to move on to kindergarten… she still felt very proud to have finished a fun year… one more … Read more