Dear Jasper,

Today you are 8!  8 is such a “big kid” number. I think I thought the same thing last year when you turned 7, but now when I look back at your 7 year birthday image you look …

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Dear Sasha & Willow,

Today you are three!  I can’t believe three years have passed since you came into our lives –  the time has flown so fast and yet I can’t even remember life before we had our girls.…

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To my dear sweat boy, the one who made me a mom.   I simply cannot believe you are seven. Seven is like real “big kid” territory, only a few more years until you are a tween!   But for now, you …

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My dear, sweet baby girls.  I can’t believe today you turn two!  I cried several times yesterday realizing that it was your last day as one.  Even though you’ve been “toddling” for almost a whole year now, one is still …

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It’s been three months since your last “birthday” post which means I have a LOT of images to post from the last three months!  You have grown up so much this summer, speaking in complete sentences, suddenly I have two …

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Dear baby girls, so much has changed in the last few months. After the longest most depressing winter ever, spring is finally in the air (thank GOD!) and you both LOVE to go”ousside” and play on the deck in your …

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Dear girls, somehow another two months has flown by and you just turned 17 months, which means you are just a month shy of 1.5 years.  Something happened in the last two months and we’ve turned the corner into the …

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I am a week late for this AND I skipped two months. AND I never posted the girls 1 year photoshoot & cakesmash photos. So I’ll use those here because I haven’t taken any “real” images since (except for Christmas …

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My dear, sweet girls.. one year ago today, early in the morning – before dawn – your father and I drove nervously to the hospital. We didn’t know exactly what to expect except we both knew our lives were about …

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Dear Sasha & Willow,

This letter is late…20 days late to be exact!  And in 10 short days you will be ONE! I’m so unprepared, on every level.  We have parties to plan, apps to release, photoshoots to style and …

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