Pizza party
41 years on earth. An easy and relaxing day with family. Birthday wishes from near and far made me feel special. Thank you, friends, your love humbles me. A day to reflect and ponder where I’m at and where I’ve been and I find my life is rich in children and laughter and love. I […]
Yesterday was about as hard as it gets for a mother. About as hard as it gets for my boy, too. A day of rock bottoms and broken hearts that brought us to our knees—-which happens to be a most beautiful place. I tuned out the world I drove and I grieved and I prayed. As […]
Brother bird has flown away for good. He cocked his curious little head this way and that and then he sailed away into the great wide open. I thought perhaps he would come back again, but not this time. This bird happened into my life during a really hard summer and for a season he […]
Tonya getting ready to meet Mike on the beach for the “first look” (This girl was a newborn baby at our wedding)
Pops, Jessie Pearl & Levi Thursday morning, before the sun came up, we boarded a plane in Portland, Oregon and flew all the way across the country for Levi’s sister’s wedding on the beach in Charleston, South Carolina. With a 1 year old baby that doesn’t like to be restrained. I love this photo. Such […]
Aren’t the colors amazing? This image was captured by Jace outside my office window. A Lazuli Bunting.
My little brother, Isaiah, captured this image of a Swallow in the middle of a song.
a joyous uproar when my dad noticed the new calf that Dot the cow had with her Dot’s sister, Polka, is feeling left out. So we bought her a bull and named him Bullwinkle.









