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Blue Bear Mountain Campground
This past weekend, we ventured to Todd, NC to stay at Blue Bear Mountain Campground. We usually stay at state parks, but when I went online to look for a last minute site, everything was booked. Some friends of ours had recently been to BBMC, so I figured why not call up the number and see if there was anything left. To give you some background on our camping experiences, Joe and I both grew up camping. Joe did more…
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Images from Emerald Isle
We spent last week at Emerald Isle with family, and these are some of my favorite images from the trip. The windy air was humid and salty, so I was struggling to keep the lens clean, but the weather was absolutely gorgeous. Huge thanks go out to Joe’s mom for hosting us! Biggest shells: the very end of the island at low tide Best meal out: The Trading Post Loudest noise: the cannon at Fort Macon Most beautiful view: the…
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The Twelfth Fourth
Joe and I have now been married 12 years. That’s quite a chunk of time. We still like each other, we still laugh together, and we are still each other’s favorite. We’ve also now had kids for 75% of our marriage, so it’s no wonder the image of “us” gets overshadowed by the loudness of, struggle in parenting, and exhaustion from “them”. We love and enjoy our kids, but let’s face it — kids are constantly trying to be their…
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The Stuff of my Heart
It’s been exactly two weeks since my son’s birthday celebration, and this afternoon I realized that I’d never set aside a gift card that was in note from one of his friends. The note was in a gift bag from another present, and the gift bag is no more. I can only assume that the bag with the tissue paper and note with the gift card were thrown out with the trash. I didn’t do it, because I rarely throw…
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Creekin’
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Morning Garden Walk with Cameras and Kids
It is the day before the first day of school, and we’ve had a summer full on sunshine, friends, light saber battles, and swimming. It also seems to be ending just in time. Earlier in the week, the boys followed me out to the garden and begged to take pictures, so I let them. The baby indiscriminately snapped shots of everything along his path. The big boy was more deliberate. They both wanted to take shots of me. I wondered…
