When the email from our daughter's lacrosse coach went out asking for volunteers to take photos at their lacrosse games, I immediately thought, "me please"! What an honor to take photos of these girls as they hustle every week against every team, leaving their hearts on the fields every week. It has been so much fun watching them grow as girls and as a team, and getting to see it all unfold on camera has been a blast. They all have such a special relationship with one another

“You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.” Dolly Parton Keep trying and being brave. Continue to go against the current, find your own way, and work hard. You have our support baby girl, always ❤️❤️! When our daughter asked us in August if she could try out for a new lacrosse club, we were kind of shocked, but then told her that we would support her wherever she wanted to go. Then the search began and HOLY COW there are approximately 872 lacrosse clubs i

"Be the kind of woman that makes other women want to up their game." THIS...this quote pretty much sums up this beautiful woman and her positive effect on everyone around her. She has been thrown so many bricks and, instead of allowing them to take her down, she caught those bricks, threw them back, and used them as stepping stones to learn and grow ;-). She is a Diamond with Young Living Essential Oils and is succeeding at a faster pace than we can all keep up. She is fierce

...are my babies :-). How are they so old already!?!?!

This has been a year of many lessons, some that I was okay with, some that I fought, and some that I was forced to accept. Lessons on humility; lessons on saying "no" (VERY difficult for me); lessons on accepting the fact that I can't do everything, and actually saying the words "I can't" (a phrase that I strongly dislike); lessons on faith and trust, and relying on God's timing and plan; lessons on relying on other people for help, which is extremely difficult for me to do;