It was quite the exciting holiday season here in I&Y land. Just 1 week after my last post (and 1 day after Thanksgiving), we moved out of our house and into a…charming…little Eichler with lots of…the original finishes. Plywood walls are nice, right? This will be our home until our renovation is complete. But more on that later. I spent …
So I had a bit of a rude awakening when I got my new computer a few weeks ago. Apparently my iPhoto library was clocking in at 86 gigs and almost 16 thousand photos. I knew the vast majority of my photos were trash, but never bothered to clean them up. I don’t so much have that luxury anymore, though. …
Although Fall is not my favorite season (hello, shorter days and colder weather), some of my very favorite things happen to fall during Fall (see what I did there?). Particularly my very very favorite thing, Halloween. What’s not to love about costumes and candy? We’re having a party, and I can’t wait to go all out decorating. I’ve already started …
You may remember that at around this time last year, I attempted something called Project365. The idea was to document my life through one picture a day for a full year. I made it to early November. It was disappointing for a lot of reasons, but particularly because I do typically take at least one picture a day–usually several. The …
This kid. You guys. She will not sit still, which has made our weekly photo session an exercise in patience. I normally select the best picture each week, and have plans to make a collage and/or album at the end of her first year. But there was no best picture this week. Instead, I have a whole bunch of this: …
Well, not a craft so much as a series of pictures. But it was a lot less messy than the hand prints. I got a nice simple little desk frame and framed these for Jesse. Because if there’s one thing he loves to do, it’s adorn his cubicle with personal affects. (Note for those of you cringing over Allie having …