Sunday Snapshots: {New}

Remember this?

I started this blog in April 2008, 3 years ago, mainly because I was addicted to lurking on adoption mothers’ blogs. I couldn’t get enough of them. So, I had someone design the blog for me because I didn’t even know what html meant. And, I was hooked (read this as proof).

For 3 years, I only changed the blog design once by changing out the pictures after we got back from China since having an ultrasound picture of the country of China for our last “girl” just didn’t belong any more since we had a real darling little girlie to replace it. 

But, it was time for a change. And, since my sweet friend Nicole (who just happens to be heading to China at the end of this week to bring home her darling Brooklyn) is a rockin’ photographer who happened to invite us down for a visit, I asked her to do some head shots for a new blog header. Theoretically, taking 6 individual pictures is easier than one picture of 6 people. With the incentive of lollipops (for the children…Mark and I did okay without lollipops), I think that proved true. 

Lydia gave us several adorable shots to choose from…good gracious, she’s cute.

Good pics coupled with a few hours of googling html code for how to make a horizontal menu bar and all that kind of thing and….ta da! Welcome to my cleaner, brighter blog complete with up-to-date pics of my handsome husband and adorable kiddos. Can’t promise you that content will be any different than before–still just the same ole me writing this stuff (for better or worse). But, hoping that whatever is here–whether I’m promoting The Sparrow Fund, waxing poetic about adoption, or simply journaling day-to-day life, is a bit easier on the eyes to read.