Look at these cuties! Don’t they give you a good scare??? We had a pre-Halloween blast with family over the weekend. Lots of pumpkin carving, candy eating and ghost scaring. Emily and her two little cousins running around the farm with sheets hiding their true identities 😉 Add in a visit to the barn to…

When a friend of mine suggested some Halloween fun, it took me a nanosecond to say YES! We got our kids together and draped them in colorful sheets, black “Blues Brothers” glasses and look at those pumpkins they’re all holding! She and her daughters painted those generic orange trick-or-treat pumpkins you find everywhere this time…

The assignment was to find color. We found it, nearly everywhere! I had such a fun afternoon strolling around downtown Wheaton with this gorgeous high school senior and her family and friends. From the storefronts and flower lined doorways to her fun purple hair and funky shoes, color was all around us.

Thirty years ago I moved from Minneapolis to Chicago. I felt like I’d finally grown up. I’d just turned 30, I had landed my dream job and I was working in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It was a really exciting time in my life, and overwhelming too. All of those…