life is crazy. time is passing me by and i don't feel like i have a minute, a second even, to actually be in it. to enjoy it. to breathe in everything around me and count my blessings. i have a lot of them.



i forced myself to sit at my computer today and hull through images this morning. i opened up this folder from our thanksgiving trip up north and broke down into tears. these pictures are in no way perfect, but it is my family. them being them. i love my family. more then words could ever express. on a daily basis i am constantly fighting an inner battle of self doubt as to whether or not i am giving them enough. am i doing all i can to protect them, to love them, to provide for them, to encourage them, and to teach them. am i doing all i can so as to not screw them up. kids are like a parents best recipe. a little of this, a lot of that, and when you realize something isn't working you substitute it for something else.

baker recently was out golfing and when i checked in via text message he wrote back to tell me that he was playing awful and wasn't having fun. without blinking i replied "just do your best and make the most of it." i quickly realized i wasn't living my own advice. i spend a lot of time and energy battling my own self doubts. the bottom line.

i am doing my best.

some days my best is worse then the day before. on a good day, better. but for me right now, in this moment, i am doing my best. that is all i could ever ask from my kids. to give it their all and do their best. so for them i can do the same.

that on this day, one day before his 8th month birthday... he cut his first tooth. for posterity reasons i felt compelled to document it. since neither of my poor kids have had records kept. worst mother ever.

we're working.

dorothy and the cowardly lion in full effect. just the beginning of our week of halloween extravaganza. a little amuse bouche for our aunties waiting to see the kids all dressed up.

when baker and i went in for the ultrasound to find out if we would be giving emmy a brother or sister i was positive it was going to be a girl. it HAD to be a girl. we already had the clothes, the toys, the shoes, the bedding, the girly wallpaper up in the room that would be sharing, the bows, the everything. seriously, if it were pink and it screamed girl, we had it. therefore it HAD to be a girl. plus i loved the thought of emmy having her best friend to always play with and relate to... i always wanted all girls, i always pictured myself with all girls. i WANTED another girl.

then i had dane.



i admit openly that the initial reaction of hearing "it's a boy" is one i hope he never has to know about (lets just say it took me a few days to be ok with it), i now look back and can't help but think i was such a fool. i love him. everything about him. life would be different if he had been a girl. i'm glad i didn't have a girl. i now don't want anymore girls. i just want a whole carton of dane's.

look at this kid. wouldn't you want a dozen of him too?


today he hit 6 months. seriously? what the heck.. where has the time gone? dane really turned our "married with a kid" into our family. he's just so easy to love.

it's almost crazy how much we love our kids. life with emmy was perfect.. or so we thought, because life with dane is even better.

obsessed from jenny morphy on Vimeo.

i love him. enough said.

dane emmett morphy


we blessed dane the first weekend in august. it was great to have family and friends be there for the special occasion. we snapped a few pictures of him with some of the guests, i just wish i would have gotten everyone. bummer. thanks again to everyone who traveled to be here. dane is grateful!


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as a side note, i can't believe how different he already is. he is getting so big, so fast! ugh!

yes i am. but not for long. just checking in. i've been updating my photo blog (finally right?) check it here.

we have also been talking to aunt mimi quite a bit. here is the proof. might i add that my kids just love her!


ps. updates on my kids are coming soon. my son is 4 months. what the what? when did that happen?

been hanging out with these crazy kids too much.

now that dane is rounding two months, he is finally starting to enjoy life a bit. here my friends is the proof.