Elle

It is incredible what strength weather has to wreak havoc on the world. I knew Hurricane Ian (category 4 hurricane that hit Florida back in September) was devastating. But sometimes it takes a FaceTime video with your daughter who is there to try to help out to understand the depth…

I remember it so well: the weight of overwhelm when we found out I was already eight weeks pregnant with baby number two when Max was six months old. Tears in my eyes watching that original baby sleep in his carseat in my backseat riding away from that doctor appointment…

All our original plans to celebrate Elle and Carson’s wedding were foiled due to covid. Over and over again. So the sealing provided a perfect opportunity to truly celebrate. Because we were celebrating a sealing, (and also a wedding, but a year late for that), Elle wanted to do something…

Of all the things going on over Thanksgiving break, this part was my very favorite. Elle and Carson were sealed for Time and All Eternity at the temple. I loved sitting in that temple with all those people I love…family and extended family, sunlight sparking through those towering windows, Elle…

It was a jam-packed Thanksgiving day, so bear with me on all these pictures to remember it all! You see, when you decide to have a sealing the day after Thanksgiving, people come. And you squish in a lot of things in a short amount of time because those days…

Last weekend Dave and I had the opportunity for a little trip to Elle and Carson’s neck of the woods for a pretty special experience: Elle’s first time through the temple. It was pretty happy I have to say. Elle had prepared herself quite beautifully. Among other things she had…

…and it’s her BIRTHDAY today. 23 years old. TWENTY-THREE. HOW CAN THAT BE!? I still remember when I could barely pull that hair of hers into puny ponytails. Oh I was so proud! This girl has never been afraid to make her own style: Has always been one to jump…

I cannot believe that it’s been one year since we were climbing over these red rocks to witness the marriage of these two. (SO many pictures and words about that day back HERE, and film pictures HERE.) What an incredible time to get married, and what a year it has…

Or Elle, as we know and love her here at home…it was so fun to have her HOME for the big day. I wrote about what I love about her back HERE, but here’s what we did to celebrate: Lucy, true to form, was very on top of the prep…

Yes two posts in a row about Wellesley, but we have a birthday girl today. I don’t know why I do this to myself…looking through old pictures of my children before their birthdays. In some ways it’s torturous to my mama heart to miss their little selves so much. Oh…