Lemonade Through a Clean Lens

I was searching for an email last night + up came three lemonade posts from last summer.
I’m a believer in tender mercies. This being one of them.
I love beautiful pictures + I love the memories behind them even more.
A photo has a magical way of taking you back to a specific place in time.
The smells, the songs, the tone of voice, the way the weather shaped up, etc.
I’m not sure where I lost my faith in social media, but somehow, along my way, I did.
But as I read through our memories + scrolled the play by play of each week
my cheeks burned from the tears. THIS! This is what I have been missing.
Not to mention Jon had been working to back up the 23,743 pictures on my iphone
for three nights straight. Where did the drive to document responsibly go?!
That’s what I wanna know. (19 covered eye emoji in a row)
The boys might a foot taller, my hair thinner + Jon cooler, but one thing is still the same —
I love pictures. I love my family + I love documenting our big + little moments spent together.

So without further adieu, our first Weekly Lemonade post for 2016.
Just one day shy of March 1st. #leapyeahhhhhh

SWEETS: turning 27 | first road trip in the mini | surprise birthday party weekend with my favorite people | jon parrish for planning every little detail just for me | thursday night ward basketball | jonah getting to go back to school | sleepover with grandma, ky + milo | birthday friend dinner at sawadee | circle of love | lotion from the owner (it was frozen from her car) | mafia until 3 am | letting the boys ride their power wheel to the library | discovering annie’s now makes soup: #breakfast #lunch #dinner | jonah making his bed without being asked | facetime with grandpa | birthday time with grammy + morg: JOY, spaghetti factory + ice castles | new fireplace | pinterest | grandma’s banana bread | jonah’s birthday card that he found + hid in his suitcase himself | car wash membership | living in my little giraffe bathrobe | sporadic snowflake catching in the target parking lot | completed chore charts

now, the sours. because I think they are important to document + just as fun to look back on. 

SOURS: jonah missing school all last week with a brutal cough | making a murder | instagram | writing the year for the first time at the DR, but not being sure which year it was — awkward st st stutter | reptile day at preschool #chickenmom | devastating news about sweet family in arizona who lost their 4 year old daughter the day before their son was born | rigg opening the door at the stop light on 3rd west | double back flip fail | not enough time in the day to finish everything | fuzzy blog pictures | lost wallet round 3 | dirty baseboards