The rain, the threatening thunderstorms, and the humidity tried to put a damper on our day – literally and figuratively – but it couldn’t. Oh…no….never.  Not when its time to celebrate such a beautiful, pivotal, exciting season. And especially not when Todd and Marcela are counting down the days until they can meet their Jacob….

Lance & Kristen are leaving the comfortable, headed for a grand adventure.  By grand adventure, I mean Louisiana.  By comfortable, I mean North Carolina. And by headed out, I mean leaving in a couple days. Only fitting, then, that we hung out in the middle of the hottest week of the year (I don’t think…

Zeke and Meagan created a sailboat out of a canoe.  I think that pretty much sums them up. Completely. The ability to take a good thing and make it better is grossly undervalued. The willingness to make the effort toward excellence is priceless. And necessary. They are moving to Papua New Guinea, hopefully soon, but…

Fifteen years ago (my, how time flies), Alex and I pulled the trunk of flowery, frilly, pink-and-pearl dress up clothes from the basement into my bedroom. (My walls, by the way, were bubble gum pink. No exaggeration.)  A couple hours later, my room was decorated in frilly outfits — and so were we (the cleanup…

Just over a year ago, I was hanging out with Jimmy and Alisha on their wedding day. We were laughing, the bridesmaids were maybealittlebitstressing, Jimmy was beaming, and Alisha was giggling.  But most importantly, they were vowing…they were getting married. And now look at them: they’ve had their one-year-anniversary, they’ve adopted a puppy (his name…

I’m around a lot of love. Engagements are full of love. Brides are full of love. Grooms are full of love. Weddings are full of love. But nothing — no, nothing — can surpass the joy in my heart when I see a mom and dad so.chock.full.of.love after whoknowshowmanyyears that they just can’t hold it…