We're raising a monarch!

Oh my, oh my.  IT IS HAPPENING.

We found a monarch egg and are raising it to a butterfly! 

I began monitoring an egg outside on a nearby milkweed plant on Sunday July 21st.  I googled (of course) to confirm as best that I could and checked on it each day. 

We came home from summer camp last night and IT HAD HATCHED!!

We carefully snipped off the tip of the plant with several other leaves, and have made him a temporary home until we can find a butterfly net (or wait for Amazon to deliver one if we can't find it locally).

He is VERY tiny, probably just a few millimeters right now, and looks mostly green, but you can see tiny black bands beginning to show up.  We can even see his tiny antennae!

We are so excited for this journey to metamorphosis! 

TODDLER'S FIRST TIME SNOWBOARDING!

Onyx Reads Moo, Baa, La La La

Two years old, and he's memorized his first book.

This kid takes after his mama, for sure!

Reading Moo, Baa, La la la by Sandra Boynton

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Ice Storm 2013

The last time we had an ice storm like this was in 1998...I remember being 16 and going to the mall with my best friend thinking we were so badass braving the ice storm.  I'm thankful this time around that my husband could do the driving for me when we wanted to go out (because we NEEDED to see Anchorman 2, damn it!) and that we only lost power a couple times for only a couple hours at most.  Here are a few photos I snapped while sliding around the front yard. 

 

photos by Jenny Brown 2013

Wedding: James & Arielle

In August, we traveled to Negril, Jamaica and while we were there, I had the pleasure of photographing our friends James and Arielle's wedding!

It was an afternoon beach wedding.  We had a little scare when it started pouring about half an hour before the ceremony was to start.  However, it's famous in Jamaica that the rain doesn't usually last too long, so we opened a bottle of champagne and we waited it out.  Luck was on our side, because not more than 20 or so minutes later the sky cleared and the sun came out.  It was a wonderful day!

 

Thanksgiving

A little glimpse at our Thanksgiving.  In the six years that Kyle and I have been together, it was the first year that we had both families together for Thanksgiving.  Much laughter and good food.