catching up: Jackson's preschool graduation.

Last week Jackson graduated from preschool. 
In other words, Jackson is growing up too fast- TOO FAST, I tell you for my heart to handle.
Lets please slow this down, shall we? 

dan, dan the coffee man.

If you've had even just one conversation with Dan in the last 6 months you would KNOW that 95% of his time awake is spent roasting coffee, thinking about roasting coffee or buying beans to roast... into coffee. It's a tasty (and I would argue expensive) hobby (and he would argue is more like a skill).

I snapped just a few, quick shots of him roasting some beans on his birthday because what did Dan want to do the evening of his birthday? Roast, of course!

happy birthday!

Dan turned 31 yesterday and Jackson continues to be confused as to why, just WHY, do mommys and daddys not have big parties for every birthday? So, we compromised and made gluten-free birthday cake at 10:00pm. 

Here's to being another year older (and maybe even a little wiser?)!

With 2 of his best buddies. The bear was already in bed. 

I think maybe she enjoyed her cake :) 

butterfly gardens...

On Saturday morning we went to our first children's event in our new community- planting our own butterfly garden! Each child was given their own space on the bank of one of the smaller lakes to plant flowers that are known to attract butterflies, labeling their spot with their name on a stake. So fun and so looking forward to going back to check on "our flowers" throughout the summer to see how they grow.