Mike & Tonya Wedding Party

Mike & Tonya Wedding Party

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41

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 […]

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Hope

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 […]

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Free Bird

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 […]

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South Carolina Bride

Tonya getting ready to meet Mike on the beach for the “first look” (This girl was a newborn baby at our wedding)  

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Under the Pier

Mike & Tonya on their wedding day (Tonya is Levi’s baby sister)  

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Where I've Been

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 […]

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Lazuli Bunting

Aren’t the colors amazing? This image was captured by Jace outside my office window. A Lazuli Bunting.  

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Songbird

My little brother, Isaiah, captured this image of a Swallow in the middle of a song.  

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Spring Calf

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.  

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