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This past weekend we celebrated Dad’s birthday. We are so lucky, not just us but our kids to have Dad… Granpa… in our lives. XOXO I truly feel lucky, I get to see my dad almost everyday because we work together. Its not always easy, but I truly love it and this opportunity has taught me a lot of valuable knowledge. Including an even closer relationship with my dad! So happy we got to celebrate you!

Saturday morning as the kids played happily in the back yard and I was sneaking around to various doors to get shots of them outside, it was snowing so much that I actually had a hard time to actually focus on them, between the snow flakes. Large, lush snow flakes and my happy kids playing in their backyard!

I LOVE Fall. I adore the season, the warm, gorgeous sun-filled days ending in cool evenings. Winter, snow is so cozy. Its Christmas. What is Christmas? Warmth, Family, Food and Fun!

The kids were SO excited for the first snowfall to build a snowman!!! I was just as excited to capture the fun they were having 🙂 It snowed SO much!

Love this view across the street from our home. A gorgeous field and with the beautiful snow falling, it was such a soft, cold and yet cozy feeling. A gorgeous fall, into winter, farmscaoe!

This past Saturday morning we woke up to a blanket of snow. I could have sworn it was Christmas! So beautiful, flakes of white snow falling gently. The kids and dog loved it! Outside before hockey building snowmen and playing to their hearts content, all while the snow was still falling! A little early for my liking, however just as beautiful! I was thankful to see the grass again today 😉

Our sweet babe’s are very much the perfect blend of my husband and I.

So perfect in fact that they have many qualities of some very special family members as well.

So many frustrating moments, I cannot help but laugh at what we put our parents through and how in years down the road, the stories that our kids tell us now of one day growing up and being parents just like mommy and daddy, that our kids will be thinking the same thing…

Kids can bring out your best, and sometimes, your worst qualities. Its much like looking in a tiny mirror while you watch your child folding their arms, sticking out their tongue and eye rolling, or waiting until you are at 2 3/4 hoping they just do what you’ve asked so you don’t have to remember they cannot do whatever the next day.

A perfect blend, of my husband and I. That continues to grow and develop over many more years to come… how somewhat scary that is and yet exciting all the same.

The perfect blend of us, two littles who gave our lire a whole new meaning and continue everyday to make us better people (and parents).

I love my husband, I love my family, siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins, friends, pets…

but most of all…

I love these two people the absolute, without a doubt, most.

Parenting isn’t easy, there are a lot of times I question myself, my choices and think I should do better. More times than I could count. For these little guys though it’s so worth it. I don’t deny I need my own time outs the odd days, ok some even ones too.

I know I’ll make more ‘mistakes’ as a mommy, but we’ll get through.

What truly matters is that we are all happy and healthy together.

Moments like these, enjoyed, lived and captured. Regardless of who is looking where, what we are wearing or where we are. Its real life.

It’s my life with these littles and I love every bit of them!!!

A fun evening with my littles and mom! A moment captured by mom… thanks! 🙂