FAMILY PORTRAITS
:: The Jansen Family, October 2008 :: Photography by Janelle Bradshaw One of our gifts to Mom for her 50th birthday was to update the family album, so to speak, by doing a family photo shoot. Â Janelle’s wonderful photos arrived…
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FALL FUN
It is a quiet Friday evening, and I am in my room watching a movie with Brett. Nothing like quality brother-sister time. We rarely see each other throughout the week, because we are both so busy…so by Friday night, when…
ORGANIZE AWAY
As the seasons change, so must our closets. At least, that is my motto. Today, I took my paid holiday (Thank you, Christopher Columbus, for sailing the ocean blue, in 1492), and used a few moments to clean out my…
wishin' and hopin' and dreamin'….
fall and a great hand-bag are like two peas in a pod. that is why i am entering this contest on Handbag Planet: www.handbagplanet.com
lovely
lovely. Â that is the word i would use to describe this morning how this weekend feels. Â i am sipping hot coffee on a crisp October morning. Â Brett is off to his SAT test, and Dad is upstairs reading his Bible…
Travelers, come on in…
Seven special people are coming into town this week and next. Â I never anticipated that all of them would come within the same 7 days, but the more the merrier! First up is BRITT McKenna, from Tucson. Â We’ve been friends…
A Story for my Phoenix Friends
Once upon a time, there was a girl named Emily who loved playing sports. Basketball, soccer, swimming, you name it. She would play it. Of course, except one sport that was too slow, too boring, too expensive. Yep, you guessed…
Sunlight
This is a tree from a natural forest reserve in Uganda. I was looking at this picture the other day and reminded of how amazing it was to stand next to it, look up, and feel like a puny ant…
Bachelorette Pad
As of October 6, I will have a new roomate. Timarie Lambros from Tucson, Arizona. Timarie is the younger sister of one of Nora’s best girlfriends from Gilbert: Becky Ross. This past March, when I found out that Timarie was…
swing dancing
There is nothing like having a good reason to throw on a fun party dress and sparkly earrings on a summer night. A group of friends and I went swing dancing till 2:30am yesterday evening on the Kennedy Center veranda…