This year we celebrated the 4th of July in Gowrie, Iowa (where Jake’s grandma, Ruth lives). It was very much what you might imagine for a smalltown celebration, and it was amazing!  We started the day with Elayna’s very first parade. She LOVED it. She was so excited while we waited for the parade to […]

It’s officially been a year since we moved to Iowa. A year since I chose to leave the place and people that I grew up with behind. It doesn’t seem like it was so long ago already. Time is sneaky like that. This last week has been a little sentimental. I think things like, “It’s […]

So, being that I was thinking about the big move that we made a year ago, I (finally!) edited a few shots from our roadtrip from Oregon to Iowa and thought I would share. I have to add that Elayna was a perfect angel for this 30 hours car trip (over 10 hours a day […]