Heading Home...

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Well...just for the weekend.  We wouldn't think of missing the International Quilt Market being hosted in Salt Lake City, Utah this year.  Can't wait to feast my eyes on all the beautiful fabrics and get our next fantastic selections for the upcoming seasons!  Wish us luck!   

Itching for Summer {Free Spirit Foto}

We're itching for summer around here.  It's nearing the end of the school year which means end-of-year programs, award ceremonies, and gifts for teachers.  It also means a change of pace--{SUMMER!} which is time for togetherness, for imaginations to flow freely and for opportunities to make memories. 

We recieved these fabulous images from Sherina Welch with Free Spirit Foto in Houston, Texas and they're seeping with all the fantastic memories, senses, and feelings of what the summer months bring. 

I love the wonder, playfulness, the solitude, the togetherness, the discovery, and the honesty of these photos. 

And of course, I love that this sweet girl is wearing a Vintage Rose Wrap!  :)

Check out Free Spirit Foto.  This gal just might be able to catch these same feelings of summer for you.

Playful Innocence {Hannah Vickers Photography}

Playful Innocence. 

It's what we saw captured in these perfect photos by Hannah Vickers Photography of Abilene, Texas and we love them.  Please check out her fabulous site and amazing talent. 

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My sister/partner and I grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah at the base of the Wasatch Mountains.  We had a summer home in Midway--a quaint little European-like community just 45 minutes through the nearby canyon and up the mountains just a bit.  And though it was our "summer home" we went there almost every weekend--summer, fall, winter, or spring.  But in the summer, we would spend weeks and weeks there--running free and wild--and innocent.

It seems like today there is such a need to capture the beauty and innocence of childhood.  As I watch my children grow older and see them face challenges from an increasingly troubled world, I want to bottle up everything that is good so that I can give it to each of them. That's why we head there--each summer--to Midway.  To let our children run free, wild, and innocent.  So they can get a taste of their own "playful innocence"

And that's why we love these pictures.  Because it reminds of us everything that is good.