Piano lessons

Today was our first day of piano lessons at home.  So far, so good!

Family fun

For family night we made caramel apples.  So much fun!

New furniture

Last year I sold our bedroom furniture (except the bed) because it was so bulky and it didn't make sense to move it across the country again.  So for my birthday this year Ryan let me re-do the bedroom.  (Yes, my birthday was weeks ago.  It takes a girl a long time to commit!) We have been using the most pathetic collection of dressers and cabinets for our bedroom - it was so lovely to get a new dresser and two new nightstands delivered.  It feels like a read bedroom again!

Halloween costumes

I do have a tendency to go overboard at Halloween...

The White House

Sausalito

Supermoon

When Rachael and I drove to Utah, we had a chance to see the "super moon." It did actually look larger and brighter than average, although the picture doesn't really show that.  We stopped at a rest area somewhere across the salt flats to take this picture.

Family

Lorie came down to see Rachael in her 2nd grade musical.  It's so great to have a little family close for fun things like this!

Shoes

In this picture, you can see Rachael's favorite pink shoes.  We bought them last October to go with her Pinkalicious costume.

And here they are today, slightly worn.  She was genuinely disappointed when I told her they were no longer suitable for wearing.

2013

Dear little gratitude blog...

I didn't mean to be so long in posting.  You have been in my mind since July - like when we drove across the country and stopped at Mt Rushmore, when I took my last sunrise picture in Kentucky, when I took way too many baptism pictures of Rachael, two weeks ago in Yosemite, and anytime I take a quick picture of something that strikes me.  (Usually with my camera phone these days.)

So I have a new purpose for you, little blog.  Last year a got a sweet new MacBook Air and it is awesome.  Except I have used PCs my whole life.  Which is a long, long era in computer time.  Anyway, I need to figure out importing, organizing, editing and posting my pictures with my MacBook (and only my MacBook) so you are just the blog to do it.  Because now I can freely admit I have posted a lot on the family blog from my old laptop.  Ryan is rather embarrassed for us. But I'm determined to learn this system.

Let's start with a picture of Yosemite. It's currently the lock screen on my iPhone.

And I'll be back, gratitude blog.  I'm going to try to fill in one or two posts since last July.  I know there are plenty of pictures.

love,
me.