“I don’t want diamond sunbursts or marble halls… I just want you.” | anne with an “e” | ~Through Christ’s Love ♥

If you were to travel southwest of Paris, out of pure curiosity to see the landscape or just to take a leisurely drive you may soon come across a sign that looks like this: This may get you thinking and it might make you remember this post or perhaps even this post about a certain baby […]

That beautiful season… Summer… Filled is the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | {Hope you are in the mood to tarry for a bit…this may be on the lengthy-ish side but sure to make you smile. […]

First birthday parties are always so fun, aren’t they? Do you know of any other particular occasion where we go to such great lengths to decorate, celebrate, and encourage babies to stuff their faces with brightly colored sugary icing and fluffy white cake just because they look adorable once it’s smeared on every inch of their darling […]

Hey everyone! Atlas Elizabeth here. I have grown a bunch since you saw me last! I’ve gained a whole pound since I was born so now I tip the scales at a hefty 3lb. 14 oz and I got  a bunch of those icky tubes and masks off my face!  Now all I have is […]

Every person has a skill. Some people are good at cooking and some people are good at sports. Some people excel in writing and then there are a blessed few that can make sense out of mathematics. Usually when we think of someone being skillful at something we think of how efficient or creative they are. How […]

“Babies are such a nice way to start people!”  |Don Herrold| There is something magical about seeing a baby that is only a few hours old. Knowing that only the day before they were tucked safely away in their mother’s abdomen….growing….. And months before that, they were still developing…fingers and toes being defined, eyes being able to […]

You are worried about seeing her spend her early years in doing nothing.   What!  Is it nothing to be happy?   Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long?   Never in her life will she be so busy again.   |Jean-Jacques Rousseau| This is Sarah (They call her Izzie.) Sarah Elizabeth Hope {I […]

NOTE: Please read the title “strAW-bu-ree picking” in a British sort of way…it makes me happy to hear it said this way. 😉 Think of Friedrich from Sound of Music in this scene. 🙂 Anyways…moving on… This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal…. We respond to strawberry fields […]

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for. ~Author Unknown~ I had the privilege the other day to take pictures of this gorgeous baby girl named Noelle Kristen. (See her newborn pics I took here) Her mommy and daddy (David and […]