Giveaway!

Stephanie at
Houghton Happening's is hosting her first giveaway. Go check it out!!!

Thoughtless Thursday

I am joining the awesome Katie at Life in the Fulmer Lane and playing along this Thoughtless Thursday!

Peyton & Parker had early release at school yesterday, they got out at 12. So after their dad picked them up they came home and he took them out to the back of our house. We have large field behind us with a small pond (which is almost dry cause we've had no rain). They were able to catch a turtle. Peyton loved it. He wanted to keep it but we have no place for turtle, ha!

Arent they adorable?

Mr. Turtle up close

After Peyton released him. That is all he talked about all night. He wants to go back and get him lol

Presley's 1st Birthday

This is a post with a lot of pictures. Enjoy!

The Birthday Girl :)


Her shirt was made by Fancy Shmancy
Her shoes ;)

Sign made by Blissful Nest Studios

Lollipop Tree

Cupcake toppers from
Tomkat Studio

Marshmellow Pops

Cake was made by Tara Murphy

Photography by Carissa York Photography

WELCOME TO HOLLAND

I read this today and thought it was said so perfectly and I knew I had to post it here.

WELCOME TO HOLLAND
by
Emily Perl Kingsley.

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this......

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.

After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland."

"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."

But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.

The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.

So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.

It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."

And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.

But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.

Halloween/Thanksgiving

Some of the new stuff I am working on. They are not yet available in my etsy shop but they are on my facebook page.