• Happy Birthday Mercy!

    Happy Birthday Mercy!

    Our sweet girl turned two this weekend. Taylor likes to make it fun for the girls when they wake up by decorating their rooms and surprising them- so here we are waking up the birthday girl on Saturday morning: It was a team effort: though there aren’t any pictures of it, Ted helped out by…

  • Weekend at Cicis, Big Love, and dirty desks

    Weekend at Cicis, Big Love, and dirty desks

    The first year of our marriage, Taylor and I lived in a big college house in Virginia that was a mix of graduate students/young professionals. Taylor lived in the house the year before, and rent would be dirt-cheap (to match our income at the time), for the complete basement of the house- with its own…

  • Lumberjacks, lazy afternoon, let’s go app!

    Lumberjacks, lazy afternoon, let’s go app!

    There is this pile of wood that has been sitting in the back of our yard since we moved in. One of our requests when buying the house was to remove this very large, dead tree that was in the back of our property, but the seller’s response was that the tree could be chopped…

  • Second grade, sweet Sadie, and seclusion

    Second grade, sweet Sadie, and seclusion

    Rosie is off to second grade! Summer was great in so many ways- we really had fun. However, I love routine (I never thought I would say that?), and getting Rosie back to school with our morning walk to school has been wonderful. She is at a little elementary school just a few blocks away,…