…for your patience and votes the last two weeks as my little handmade stop motion short went from entrant to semi-finalist to finalist. So many of you blogged and tweeted and shared it and I am so grateful! It was thrilling. I won’t know until later this week if I was one [...]

This is the chaos in which I made my little film. I sat myself down one Saturday night and pressed my shutter button hundreds of times until I had every frame. I filmed the whole thing too- so later today I should be also posting a video of the making. =)

I’ve been [...]

Mr. Joshua is my younger brother, right next to me in a line of 6 kids. He is super smart and wildly creative. He and I have taken it upon ourselves to document our family and our lives on film and in photographs. Our combined creative to-do list could travel to the [...]

Oh Utah, how lovely it is!
Lat week we spent five days in Garth’s hometown. Our first full day in Salt Lake was the 24th of July, which is a state holiday in Utah. Sunshine. American flags. Funnel Cakes. We woke up early and made our way to the ridiculously crowded [...]

It’s definately not the quickest trip I’ve ever made (I once traveled to Chicago, then Las Vegas, then back to Chicago, then back home in one weekend!) but it sure seemed like it. I didn’t even get to visit with all of the people on my list! (Ashleigh, Anna, and the Plouzek clan, I’m [...]

My etsy shop will have a grand opening may 20th! (he he he…it’s open now, but I figure everything will look nice, and the corresponding website will be up by then). So, I’ve been spending lots of time on etsy, checking out the forums, and other shops- and it’s almost impossible to browse around without [...]

Abraham with his little sister, Miriam. Oh, the cuteness!

yay! This morning Miriam made her grand entrance into the world. Mom, Dad, brother, and baby are all doing well!
oodles of love to you Miriam!
xoxox
auntie laura. =)

I know, I know, it’s my third blog entry today (geek!), but Groundhog’s day is such a special day, and I just had to add one last thing….this is a painting (one of my all-time favorites!) of Julie. I took this photo on the morning of Groundhog’s day, a few weeks after Josh got [...]

I think that Josh and Julie are magic. Josh made this video of Abraham’s first week… how did he do that? He had a wife who’d just had surgery, a premie newborn, the start of a new semester, a belated Christmas to celebrate, and a new job to work extra hard at…where did [...]