dripping with passion

last weekend we popped down to the austrian alps to do a bit of skiing/snowboarding. ian and i have been wanting to have a ski day together for a long time (and we had our eyes set on kitzbuhel because our friends went there and it looked amazing ), but pregnancy and a new baby put it off … and then as moses grew we weren’t sure how to make it work because obviously we’d need an all-day babysitter. when my cousin aubrey moved to england to study at oxford, we realized it would work perfect to bring her with us to be our babysitter for a ski weekend – especially because she is a really big skier! we flew to munich on thursday night, aubrey skiied on friday, and we skiied (me) / snowboarded (ian) on saturday. i spent the month leading up to our ski trip hoping, hoping, hoping for fresh snow at kitzbuhel. i hoped so hard for powder that i forgot to hope for some visibility! and we ended up skiing through a blizzard – haha! the weather and lack of scenery (which was the principle reaso...

^^ january – december 2016 ^^ two thousand sixteen was the best year of my life so far. it was so full of different brands of wonder and challenge and joy. i became a mother, i improved as a wife, i evolved and deepened as a human. the year was full of exciting adventures, which were really awesome but are so so overshadowed by the glorious growth in my family and my faith. ian, moses and i enjoyed so many aspects of living in one of the world’s greatest cities and we traveled to fifteen different countries. but when i think of the best part of this year, i think of laying in bed, in the dark at 3am, listening to the heavy and somehow melodious breathing of my husband and my son on either side of me, and feeling a thrill of gratitude from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet. as i look back on two thousand sixteen, memories laden with sweetness and gladness fill my veins. to reminisce, express thankfulness, and celebrate - here are sixteen little vignettes from the ye...