love letter 2013

dear 2013: an open letter

if ever there was a year for growth and change and lessons that will knock you on your tail it was you. you were my mirror kind of year...my take a good look, turn 30 off the bat, live out some dreams then take a step back year. you made me a bit braver...feel smaller...be a touch more still.

you brought the fullness of family around in pinch-myself moments. sea legs and dancing feet and first birthdays to our phoebe...a whole wide world opening at her tips. to max you were trophies and music and wearing the same size shoe was mama...you were falling in love and learning hard-knocks and laughing every bit of the way.

you were filled to the brim with wedding planning and apple picking and vacations in all sorts of directions...hard working and kinfolking and a shop opening to boot. you were forget to get out of my pajama days and an extra 15 pounds...but here's the rub--your year taught me that everything is ok. it's ok! dropping balls and stepping back and ditching perfection. it's ok....if not better.

you weren't the flashiest year--at times you looked a bit peaked and drab. you didn't ask for much and in doing so gave us all sorts of goodness to take into the coming year....and for that i will remember you forever fondly!

xxoo

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sending best and best and blessings to you all this new year! i'm so excited for what's to come...more painting and new ventures and getting hitched to my guy already (may!)! i know things have slowed down around here and who knows what will happen next, but i thank you from the bottom of my heart for your kindness and love and support. we're lucky folks...

happy new year, friends!

love letter to our year

dear 2012, 

you were the best kind of life altering, show off kind of year! you were a growing and changing type year with starting anew and waiting it out kinds of days. you were heart mending...mind easing. you helped bring a sense of completion. you brought us our girl. 

you were growing belly...growing baby. you turned max 8 and made him a baseball all-star, a biggest brother, a 2nd grade little man. you were lemonade stands and road trips...modcloth and dollhouses and early birthdays and ice cream afternoons.  you were carnivals and leap days and midnight feedings to sunrise mornings...a new nephew and parties and a little more time with our mimi. you were the last year of my 20's filled to the brim!

throughout your days you gave us the gumption to face the new and the peace to let go of things past. you taught us perspective and patience. we're still learning. you got our little family ball rolling steady into the coming years. you put a ring on my finger. 

we will forever have the fondest memories of you. although, i think you came and went a little too quickly...

xoxo

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thank you all much and much for the sweet lovin' for matt and me...for our family! we're so excited to take a day to honor our commitment to each other! to be married! my fingers are all itchy to start planning..haha. 

we love you all and i can't begin to tell you how much your support has meant to us!

i hope you all have an amazing new years!

2013...ready or not.

our 2011 love note

dear 2011,

looking back, you were a planting our feet kind of year...365 days of finding our rhythm and getting into the swing of things. you gave our young start up family beach trips and first stitches...road trips and big cities and fresh garden vegetables...a 6 turned 7 year old and his first dog and first grade.

you were harry potter and fishing, 10 year reunions and carnival cotton candy....air plane rides in the clouds, brazil in our backyard, big birthdays, baseball games, drive ins, ice skating, picture taking. 

you were super moons, leaf collecting, bike riding, kinfolking, carrot hiding, air ballooning, baby-making! 

we are forever indebted to your kindness...and send you off with a million kisses!

yours, 

katie, matt, little max, and tiny tiny baby (just 1! i had an ultrasound today...no twins. although matt made the technician double check..haha)

i hope all of you have an amazing new years eve and the happiest new year! 

i feel so lucky to have had this little space grow so much this year...to have you all apart of our lives.

thank you for coming everyday...thank you for sharing! 

2012 or bust!

xoxo

tis the season

happy happy happy december, friends!

this year has been a good one to us.

we're going to live it up these next few weeks...sending the year out in style!

today is devoted to all things make paper snow flakes. 

and i have the scissor marks on my hand and white paper bits covering the floor to prove it!

xoxo

a love note

dear 2010, 

i will forever remember you as the year of a healing heart and a mended mind. you were a year of progress for the sake of sink of swim. move it or lose it! you kept us moving on down the road when we thought it might be easier to just lie down by the curb for a little while. i hate thinking of how much of you i wasted dragging my feet and taking little glances back at the years before you..although you didn't seem to mind.

you brought me love. oh my did you bring me love. love with a side of maturity, health, and stability.

you reminded me over and over who i'm supposed to be and you were my second chance kind of year. the most beautiful plan b.

to max you were first kisses, lost teeth, #6, new adventures hood rat'n and beat boxing and kindergartening and canoeing and shoe tying and reading real words.

you were parties for no good reason at all. kisses and smooching for days. new friends and new places to lay our head. you were life changing jobs and a brand new kind of faith.

you were not too shabby. 

not one bit.