Beatrice sandwich! And some of the very best pizza we have ever eaten behind us 🍕@pizzeriabianco
These two are obsessed with “Fancy Like” and mostly obsessed with watching @walkerhayes dance to Fancy Like with his family 😎😎 It’s currently their top pick for the bedtime song🎶 and here’s a snippet of what went down last night! #fancylike
“Mama— take a picture of this face…” he says. And I’m grabbing my camera and trying to contain my laughter as I think to myself, “I’m just the absolute luckiest to know this kid.” 💛 Everyone needs a mister Conrad in their life.
When you convince (bribe?) the entire family to take a family photo with the real camera 📸 ps- spot the camera remote😂
Sometimes I raise my voice. Sometimes I beg. Sometimes I make ultimatums. Sometimes I hate bedtime to the freaking goodnight moon and back.
But then they’ll grab my chin and cheeks and lean in close to tell me they love me. And they’ll thank Heavenly Father for “no witches and no robbers” during their bedtime prayers. And insist on giving each other 17 silly hugs before the lights go out because “I’m gonna miss her so much when I sleep.”
I’ll take the 48 minutes of squatting between their beds for back scratches and the unexpected trip to the potty 12 minutes after the last potty trip if it means they keep this bond forever. Witnessing their complete love and sisterhood changes me. Even when I say I hate bedtime with my three-year-olds, I’m such a sucker for this stage of life with them.
A few photos from life lately over here - enjoying family time and life in Arizona. Thanks for being here while I’ve kind of been away for a little while… haven’t been doing well physically (some health issues) but that doesn’t mean I haven’t stopped taking one too many photos☺️
The game of “Who Can Stand on Mama’s Back and Wiggle Their Feet Around Without Falling Off!” …which is really just code for “mama would like a back massage” but they think it’s crazy fun and my back knots are screaming happy so everyone wins. #momhacks
One wall and pipe at a time, the home renovation is coming together. 💛 #renovation #homedecor #wallpaper (wallpaper is @riflepaperco🌸)
Just over here holding all my (not-so-little) babies close and stepping away from pretty much everything else. Trying to cuss less and write more. Often feel on the cusp of big breakthroughs I want from my life (yay!) while simultaneously giving too much power to my anxiety (ugh). Clinging to my evening prayers and favorite yoga class and busting out the Christmas music a season early. My footing might be terribly wobbly at the moment and who wants to hear the girl on the verge of nervous tears dish out any kind of life advice, but for anyone else in a similar rut (I’m so sorry) – might I suggest the biggest serving of strawberry shortcake as a remedy. Plus standing outside during a warm rain (Arizona, you healer with a perfectly timed monsoon season, how’d you know?)… and maybe put the phone down more. Or whatever version of these three things might float your boat. I’m sure chocolate soufflé with a dose of sunshine instead of shortcake and rain could also do the trick. The phone one I’m sticking by though. Sending you lots of love.
Bringing our summer along with us forever by way of new freckles scattered across most of our faces! ✨ …you can see B’s first sprinkle of itty bitty dots across her little nose and cheeks in the 2nd pic and even with all the lathering of sunscreen and my blessed daily nagging about sun hats, I’m nothing but proud in this moment!🥳 #summer #motherhood #magic
We are slowly making our way back to Arizona this week (my kids school year begins August 2nd😱) and we’ve never been more out of routine (definitely missing black out curtains right about now) BUT we’ve clocked in so many striking sunsets and got to hold and hug so many loved ones, it’s been everything.
I meant to share earlier this week that Amazon is running a promo on my book right now through the end of the month (until 7/31)— use the code 3YELLOW for $3 off your book purchase!
If you’ve been considering purchasing, it’d mean so much to have you do so! Thank you for supporting me and my book and I hope you find it worth your while and time.
For those of you who have already purchased and read— if there was a takeaway or something that resonated with you as you read, would you consider sharing in the comments below for new potential readers to see?
Thank you again for your support! This has been such a vulnerable and thrilling and challenging and exciting and scary endeavor and I’ve really appreciated the support. 💛
Just trying to keep up with these three on the mountain and ignore how sore my butt is from my saddle😅
On a boat! With a lot of laughs! And a few tears. Plus a whole lotta sunscreen and a couple of epic tube flips 🚤
Our summer adventures are getting a little jumbled when it comes to me sharing anything in chronological order (a part of my brain is freaking out right now but another part of my brain is feeling a little bit more free.) Sparklers are our family’s happy place so we continued our 4th of July celebrating tonight with a few on the deck. Of all the summer activities so far, a box of sparklers a few days post holiday was Samson’s favorite. He hugged me so tightly at bedtime as he told me for maybe the 18th time how much fun he had tonight. Somehow I forget anything else I loved this summer… his enthusiasm for an evening of sparklers brought sparklers to the top of my favorite summer activities list, too. 🧨
The BEST time learning all about bees 🐝 with the bee expert herself @mckayjo in Salt Lake City. We haven’t stopped talking about all the impressive things those hard working bees do each day and somehow honey has made its way into more of our meals this week 😋 Thank you for having us, @mckayjo!
Awesome giveaway- what beautiful photographs!! If I could have one for myself, it would be 'The Aloof'. Fingers crossed!
My sister Camryn and I LOVE the "rain" print! We hope we win:)
thanks!
Oh how I need artwork in my home! Married 6 years and still nada! Time for some change I say! Thanks!
well i'm not sure if i dropped a comment here.. so if i haven't yet, here it is :)
please count me either..
cause i really love Monica's blog and photography and i love her header so i guess i'll be choosing the Shadows of Ourselves print :)
love.xo
Oh. I love these all!
so beautiful!
I am decorating my bedroom with a picture from each city i want to discover–the brooklyn bridge would be perfect!!
They are all so lovely, choosing just one would be difficult!
Beautiful. I'd love one!
so hard to choose, but i'd love the chance! please enter me :)
thanks!
mm these are fantastic!
Holy Smokes, I would love one!
great photos! I especially love the bokeh and rain photo.
Oh we're so spoiled! I would LOVE one!
Yay! Something pretty to look at during the gloomy days.
amazing prints!~fingers crossed~
these are beautiful.
i love the winter one.. it's brilliant!
These are fabulous! You are fabulous! I love fine art photography and my little NYC apartment is in need of some TLC for the walls. Shadows of Ourselves is just how I feel walking the streets some days. I love how the light plays around building corners, and pedestrians, through the trees in Central Park, and streaming through my window on a bright new morning. Aaah, that sounds so cheesy, but Monica really does capture the city, and other parts of the world, so well, in tiny little moments. xoxo, w. (ps – our hubbies know each other! josh is the one who told us about the blog and I just love it!)
I love ALL the photos! It would be hard to pick just one, but I fell in love with "Paris Vintage" as soon as I saw it.
Fingers crossed! xx
oh me! choose me! :) ciao chessa has such incredible art! i. love. it.
http://www.the-italian-hippie.blogspot.com :)
So thankful for beautiful art!! I'm a photography major myself; I absolutely love her stuff!!!!!
Wow these are really beautiful. I love how some are really vintage and others are so modern. (:
I love the rain print. its so beautiful
yay! i'm so excited you extended the giveaway! this will be a wonderful addition to my little home!
Love the photos. Adore the attention to detail. Would look great in my home!
beautiful.
Love them all …hard to choose but I always love water scenes like "Feeling Alive". Thank you!
I love how photography takes everyday things and glorifies them!
What talent! And what an eye for finding beauty in everything.
Absoloutely fabulous!!!!
OH! OH! OHHHH!!!!! These are simply radiant!! I especially love the clothes line one. What a talent she is! My, oh, my. PICK ME!!! :)
wow. i love her artwork. perfect christmas gift.
her prints are so fun! i'd love to have one :)
Hooray! You haven't chosen the winner yet – I would love an early Christmas present in the form of one of those darling prints!
I absolutely love these photographs! I would love one even more hanging in my apartment!
Love the picts! Hope I win…our blank walls are beginning to bother. =]
one of these would make a great gift!
So pretttty!!!
One would fit OH so lovely, in my Brooklyn apt.
:)
One of these pictures would look beautiful on my bare walls!
These pictures are amazing!! they would look super sweet in my apt!!
I need to fill the bare walls in my apartment! beautious photos!
Those are incredible!
amazing!
and I love them :)
i hope it's still legal for me to enter! first i have to say that the ferris wheel series is breath taking!
i'd have to choose the hanging laundry post above though, i just have to . i love it!