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Elayna had a fun birthday party! Next year we will likely try to incorporate a larger group of kiddos, but she is still at the age when a get together with family and close friends makes sense. Thankfully, good friends of ours (The Gustafsons) offered to let us use their beautiful home for the party.…

She’s been talking about this for a while now… and ever since she spotted the outdoor skating rink downtown, she has really been asking to try it. Repeatedly. She told Santa she wanted “To go skate” when he asked what she wanted for Christmas, and she even “practiced” by gliding around as if she were…

Three amazing years have gone by since the day Elayna came into our world. The time has gone a little too quickly for my taste, but it has been the sweetest three years I could ever imagine. I hope that she is always as loving a girl as she is now. 🙂 Some of her…

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! This year I am so thankful for my life. I am thankful for my beautiful, amazing daughter… and the sweet moments (like these) that she shares with me. I am thankful that someone so special and wonderful calls me ‘Mommy.’ I am thankful that she is smart and healthy and strong and…

Elayna loves playing her little guitar. I think its mostly just because she has so much fun dancing and singing to Jake’s guitar playing.  I love how she looks so serious about being a musician in these. She holds it with her fingers on the neck as though she is playing a chord… and she…