It was! BUSY for sure but so great to have the time to rest and refocus after such a crazy time in our lives! Hope you had a wonderful holiday season too, Sarah! That tissue box idea– SO.FUN.RIGHT!! Last year we got a McDonald’s happy meal/french fries and replaced the french fries with narrowly folded dollar bills. The look on our other nephews face when he got a HAPPY MEAL!!! We love messing with them–but it’s way more of an exciting way to get money!!

Hope you’ll be back to visit– I love making new friends here 🙂

Thank you so SO MUCH, Stephanie! It’s funny, I’m constantly photographing other people’s families but when it comes to my own, I often lag. Something I need to work on A LOT more in 2017!

Hi Hanna! Thanks so much for your sweet words and for stopping by! Hope we can connect more in the future 🙂

YAY! Thanks for visiting– I hope this will give us opportunity to connect again in the future 🙂
And yes, my family… well they are our whole world! Thanks so much for the compliment on my photography too. It’s nice to bring my day job home with me sometimes, hehe!

thanks! With the decision to write more in 2017, I figured names to the faces would be good…but also just a way to cherish the here and now we are facing. Thanks for visiting–hope you’ll come back again soon 🙂

Hi LuAnn! Thanks for visiting! As a constant photographer, I don’t know what or how I would respond if we lost our 10.000+ photos…but I suppose it sheds light on the importance of cherishing these memories outside of the photos too!
Glad we could connect through the link-up! Hope we can again soon 🙂

So true! We have a lot in store coming up in this year ahead. We’re so thankful for the send off from 2016 🙂
Thanks for visiting! Looking forward to connecting again in the future!

a beautiful family that you helped to build too!! LOVE YOU!