tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39114590730787794482024-03-12T18:37:33.715-10:00The Zinnia Patchkellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05895193331965817410noreply@blogger.comBlogger991125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-22761653847924464592014-11-12T17:00:00.000-10:002014-11-12T20:55:25.674-10:00where trouble melts like lemon drops...<div style="text-align: center;">
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14903431812942288612noreply@blogger.com59tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-74710989647043615822014-10-23T16:30:00.000-10:002014-10-23T16:30:25.936-10:00sisters<div style="text-align: center;">
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Oh how I love watching these two grow up together. There is no end to the imagining and dressing up and pretending and giggling that goes on when they are together (which is of course all the time.) Their friendship is deep and true and beautiful.</div>
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-adorable zinnia print dresses by YiaYia!</div>
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When Shawn has a day off, we all have a day off. <i>This is why we home school them!</i> we remind ourselves. And off we go, wherever we want to, leaving the school books behind.</div>
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Monday it was the Dole Plantation. We went all out tourist mode buying tickets for the train, the maze, the garden tour, and splurging on a theme-park-priced lunch of kalua pork. </div>
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We rode the open-air Pineapple Express through a cool mist rain shower and pineapple fields. There were also things like bananas, sugar cane, star fruit, papaya, mangoes, and coffee. Coffee.</div>
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Also the Mindanao Trees. I have no words. Let's all just stare at this wonder for a moment shall we?</div>
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The highlight for the kids was the World's Largest Maze. I'm not even kidding. Running through that maze in the blazing sun and getting hot and lost and turned in circles was their Favorite Thing. Donovan fell asleep in his stroller and Kate successfully hunted giant snail shells while the two bigs felt they'd won the day for getting all their maze stamps. Win, win, win, win.<br />
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Full Disclosure: I was pretty much done with the maze about ten minutes in but I sure got a kick out of watching them. After that we were all happy to cool off over Dole whips. It's just pineapple ice cream or frozen yogurt or something but it's called a <i>whip</i> so it tastes better.</div>
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These new little pineapples were really red. I don't know why. I guess they all are at first? And pineapple plants are super spiky so the job of harvesting these babies cannot be fun.</div>
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So after all that touristing we took a drive chasing rainbows in big blue skies for the rest of the day. We stopped here and there to dig our toes in the sand and watch the swelling North Shore waves. We literally drove to the end of the road and then turned around and went home. Happy.</div>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14903431812942288612noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-67203579623039136272014-10-08T15:39:00.001-10:002014-10-15T23:18:10.902-10:00wave watching<div style="text-align: center;">
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(and maybe some people watching too.)</div>
Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14903431812942288612noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-56924958083700795592014-09-29T00:00:00.000-10:002014-09-29T00:00:05.410-10:00at day's end<div style="text-align: center;">
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Dinner's aftermath is left on the table because we want to catch our golden window. Dishes can wait.</div>
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The kids jump on scooters and lead the way to the shore. They are wild and free and hard to keep up with.</div>
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A few minutes later we are clambering over rocks to say hello to the ocean.</div>
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Hello, Ocean.</div>
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Sea turtles play where the waves break while the kids play in tide pools teaming with bitty crabs. They fill buckets and fight over the one red scooper and exclaim over this one and that.</div>
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The sun moves lower... lower... coloring the sky with brilliance.</div>
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Hello, Sky.</div>
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We watch and listen and watch some more and there are no words.</div>
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Our hearts are filled with every crashing wave and every changing cloud.</div>
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<i>The heavens declare the glory of God, the skies proclaim the work of his hands. </i>Psalm 19:1</div>
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<i>Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them. </i>Psalm 69:34</div>
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Yes. We will praise him.</div>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14903431812942288612noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-39305098805799471202014-09-25T15:19:00.002-10:002014-09-25T15:19:55.515-10:00keiki love<div style="text-align: center;">
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14903431812942288612noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-13281543956491600312014-09-21T23:00:00.000-10:002014-09-21T23:09:13.140-10:00finding our home in hawaii<div style="text-align: justify;">
As of today, we have been here for forty days. (I counted it twice because it feels like so much longer.) On August 13, we boarded a plane in Houston, Texas after <i>three months</i> of being in-between homes (but enjoying every minute of our visits with family.) About ten hours later, we were standing on Waikiki Beach, totally unable to take it all in...</div>
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We spent our first days on the island in a strange jet-lagged limbo of real life and tourist life. One morning Shawn would be dressed in his Alpha's and headed out the door of our hotel-room-home to his job, and the next we'd be flip-flopping it to the beach. It was surreal to say the least. (Oh and p.s. they're not flip-flops here, they're slippers.)<br />
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We stayed in Waikiki for a few days (no, a week? two? time lost all meaning...) before moving to a resort on the Windward side of Oahu. The resort had it's perks -beautiful views, a great breakfast on the open-air lanai every morning, and a lovely pool. It also had some drawbacks we didn't see coming such as way too little space for our six-bodied family and no air conditioning (well OK in all fairness it had a small AC unit in one room so if you wanted to sleep standing up next to that particular window you could keep cool.) There were other inconveniences but first world problems-that-aren't-really-problems for sure so we did our best not to complain. We were surrounded by the most amazing scenery, we had time and space to explore, and we were seeing God's provision at every turn. We were just really really ready to not be living out of suitcases anymore.<br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/15256041935" title="Paradise Bay resort by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="Paradise Bay resort" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3855/15256041935_b8b059ef17_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/15255660222" title="Makapu'u Beach Park by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="Makapu'u Beach Park" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3896/15255660222_7790f2bb37_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/15292426496" title="a windward rainbow by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="a windward rainbow" height="600" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3891/15292426496_fd41381240_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
Shawn and I went into our appointment with military housing knowing what we would hear but still half hoping for better news. A twelve to twenty-four months wait for a home on MCB Kaneohe Bay was the news we expected, not the news we hoped for. We began meeting a lot of other military families in the same boat. We were all in some stage of the long transition process, living in hotels for weeks- some for months, looking at the same listings on Zillow and getting the same "already rented" responses to our inquiries. We were all frustrated and tired and hot and anxious. We were all feeding our toddlers on the floor and wishing for just one home cooked dinner free of french fries and chicken nuggets.<br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/15069531198" title="DSC_4440 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_4440" height="531" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5567/15069531198_c2d12400c8_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/15292432336" title="kayaking with dad by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="kayaking with dad" height="600" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3854/15292432336_203160d844_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/15233080906" title="DSC_4206-001 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_4206-001" height="531" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5573/15233080906_701188642e_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
In between our play time and house hunting time, we actually managed to show up on time for our first day of Classical Conversations. We were sweaty and tired and unprepared, but we made it. It was a new group full of new faces but the most familiar and comfortable place we had been to yet. It was a breath of fresh air, a "welcome home" we so badly needed.<br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/15255821525" title="DSC_4470 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_4470" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3853/15255821525_d759888041_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/15255645202" title="first day of CC by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="first day of CC" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3891/15255645202_3f99109ef1_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/15069067949" title="DSC_4485_1 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_4485_1" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3838/15069067949_7a4ec61c3b_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
Looking back, I realize how short that time really was. About two weeks after arriving on island, we found a furnished town home in a great location ready for us to move in. Seriously great. It's a long drive to work for Shawn (made doubly long by the horrendous Oahu traffic) but it's our own space for a little while and it has beds for everyone and air conditioning and a kitchen where we can cook real food and amazing swimming pools and gorgeous beaches down the street...and did I mention it's great? It is.<br />
There have been so many good things crammed into these weeks.<br />
Donovan is walking, Shawn and I celebrated our fourteenth anniversary, Kenna had her cast removed, our kids have fallen in love with the ocean, Tristan, the one who shed the most tears over leaving Florida, is truly enjoying Hawaii, Katie learned to roller skate, Shawn turned 40(!) we found a great church, and we even had friends come to visit. Our lives have been filled to the brim and overflowing.<br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/15069044599" title="DSC_4363 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_4363" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3896/15069044599_43d3e2e297_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/15068703189" title="Kaneohe by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="Kaneohe" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3881/15068703189_9c4036c6b8_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
Life here is going to be an adventure. I'll do my best to share it with you often so if you're still actually hanging around this little space, mahalo! Be back soon!</div>
Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14903431812942288612noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-5588932540642991252014-09-18T22:19:00.001-10:002014-09-18T22:19:58.999-10:00distracted by beauty<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/15068786920" title="Kaneohe by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="Kaneohe" height="531" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5568/15068786920_51f21a0260_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
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Aloha! I'm alive, really I am. It's just that I am here. <i>Here.</i> Looking at this kind of beauty every single day and completely overwhelmed by it. I hope you've been following along on Instagram because we have been exploring and adventuring since the moment we arrived on Oahu and I love sharing daily bits and pieces there. I really do want to share some <i>bigger pictures </i>here in this space. I don't really know where to begin so I will just begin where I am, which is totally in awe...</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14744316870" title="Makapu'u by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="Makapu'u" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3898/14744316870_725cdef2bf_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
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More to come soon -promise!</div>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14903431812942288612noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-60577798810732652722014-08-15T17:07:00.001-10:002014-08-15T17:07:44.408-10:00the one year old<div style="text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">donovan zachary on his first birthday ~ august 6, 2014 ~ college station, tx.</td></tr>
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On August 6, as we were traveling through Texas, Donovan turned one. We shaped a watermelon into a birthday cake and sang to him as he just looked at us, tired and confused. It wasn't the most festive of birthday parties but that it in no way lessened our joy in marking one year of this little boy's life. We didn't have fancy invitations or pinterest decorations or even a gift for our baby boy, but we had everything that matters- family, a healthy kiddo, joy. I can't believe it's been a whole year since we first held this tiny boy. He's still tiny by the way, weighing in at a whopping fifteen pounds. He's sporting the cutest head of soft baby hair and seven smiley teeth. He hasn't felt the need to use real words just yet but we can tell walking is just around the corner. His siblings worship the ground he crawls on.<br />
Every day he's a surprise. An incredible gift. And he's one. Our baby, Donovan, is one.</div>
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14744431547" title="DSC_3716_1crop by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_3716_1crop" height="531" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5581/14744431547_5b50f23411_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14744374888" title="DSC_3725_1 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_3725_1" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3855/14744374888_d4373fe8a8_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14471205438" title="standing by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="standing" height="531" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2940/14471205438_3a4ab88468_c.jpg" width="800" /></a></div>
kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05895193331965817410noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-32403964090865839302014-07-23T18:23:00.000-10:002014-07-23T18:23:39.391-10:00in a summer garden<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14543828198" title="DSC_3512_2 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_3512_2" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3844/14543828198_39b7d271de_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14730476825" title="DSC_3489_2 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_3489_2" height="531" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2936/14730476825_7be54d6f41_c.jpg" width="800" /></a></div>
kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05895193331965817410noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-12372130210595114722014-07-21T08:57:00.000-10:002014-07-21T08:57:09.320-10:00vacation photos<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14634845816" title="handstand by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="handstand" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3893/14634845816_03bafbb4b9_c.jpg" width="800" /></a></div>
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I'm drowning in them.</div>
kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05895193331965817410noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-77909113889617969312014-07-19T06:00:00.000-10:002014-07-19T19:31:03.531-10:00elements of a fairy tea<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14602005426" title="DSC_0833 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_0833" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3903/14602005426_94f543538e_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
A perfect summer day.<br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14695632282" title="DSC_0846_2 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_0846_2" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3868/14695632282_187cbdcebd_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
Cousins in homemade crowns.</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14695971505" title="DSC_0817_1 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_0817_1" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3877/14695971505_daef40fa28_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
Pink tea. Very sweet, pink tea.<br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14692794991" title="DSC_0814_1 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_0814_1" height="531" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5577/14692794991_c5b6af5096_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
Grandad's flowers and YiaYia's flowered china.<br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14693554614" title="DSC_2616_1 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_2616_1" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3852/14693554614_b4103026a5_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
Giggling chatter and endless requests for more.<br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14715825173" title="DSC_2583_1 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_2583_1" height="531" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2897/14715825173_5dd6b1e30a_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
Laughter.<br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14672949086" title="DSC_0860_1 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_0860_1" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3856/14672949086_88f1d03192_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
Pinkies in the air (just the way Aunt Sissie taught us.)<br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14693569224" title="DSC_0873 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_0873" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3924/14693569224_f70e2d93f1_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
Imagination. Wonder. Memories.<br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14438391159" title="DSC_2598_1 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_2598_1" height="800" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2903/14438391159_d2a886662d_c.jpg" width="531" /></a><br />
Little hearts that know they are cherished.<br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14509314950" title="DSC_0808 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_0808" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3923/14509314950_fc62efa179_c.jpg" width="800" /></a></div>
kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05895193331965817410noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-6530257835862919842014-07-10T18:54:00.001-10:002014-07-10T18:54:50.472-10:00cousin camp<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14438406808" title="DSC_0683_cousincampers by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_0683_cousincampers" height="531" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2901/14438406808_99fd3f6577_c.jpg" width="800" /></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14624530392" title="DSC_0661 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_0661" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3854/14624530392_160a2eb60c_c.jpg" width="800" /></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14625018285" title="DSC_0640_boys by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_0640_boys" height="531" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5037/14625018285_cce19fdd31_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14624533392" title="DSC_0616 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_0616" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3848/14624533392_4f6b28fa50_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14438613797" title="DSC_0845 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_0845" height="531" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5483/14438613797_65d39612c1_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14438617459" title="DSC_2755 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_2755" height="531" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2900/14438617459_8805c05d0c_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14625012095" title="DSC_1705 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_1705" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3913/14625012095_6699b6cbb9_c.jpg" width="800" /></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14602013086" title="DSC_1191 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_1191" height="531" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2939/14602013086_0634c7e3fe_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14438409548" title="DSC_2451 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_2451" height="531" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5237/14438409548_6330d5e5e5_c.jpg" width="800" /></a></div>
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...and <b><i>that</i></b> is why this little space has been so quiet. Many more photos on the way!</div>
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kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05895193331965817410noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-61495959935451544162014-06-21T17:26:00.000-10:002014-06-21T17:26:13.825-10:00hello, summer.<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14283654839" title="DSC_0172 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_0172" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3884/14283654839_0afe15d125_c.jpg" width="800" /></a></div>
kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05895193331965817410noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-68572636496492437372014-06-17T08:44:00.000-10:002014-06-17T08:44:39.982-10:00kansas green<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14361890056" title="DSC_9594 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_9594" height="531" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2897/14361890056_240c892a6a_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14405140773" title="DSC_9702 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_9702" height="531" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5499/14405140773_602593fbc7_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14384965025" title="DSC_9615 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_9615" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3839/14384965025_d32a20f34b_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14384002704" title="DSC_9542 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_9542" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3884/14384002704_98b88fe281_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14198363868" title="DSC_9765 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_9765" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3892/14198363868_3f9a27cbbb_c.jpg" width="800" /></a></div>
kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05895193331965817410noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-5324717471326339942014-05-23T02:45:00.000-10:002014-05-23T02:45:09.569-10:00And then suddenly...<div style="text-align: center;">
it was time to go.<br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14090531491" title="brothers by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="brothers" height="531" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7325/14090531491_5460ce27b2_c.jpg" width="800" /></a></div>
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We leave Florida today. Quite the adventure ahead...</div>
Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14903431812942288612noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-7114306019580903042014-05-14T19:06:00.000-10:002014-05-14T19:06:05.999-10:00spring in the garden shop<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14146784505" title="DSC_4996_1 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_4996_1" height="531" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7312/14146784505_1524a5c894_c.jpg" width="800" /></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/13960099757" title="at the flower shop by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="at the flower shop" height="531" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5311/13960099757_e7bb51f935_c.jpg" width="800" /></a></div>
Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14903431812942288612noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-50636374074226920622014-05-11T16:40:00.003-10:002014-05-11T16:40:54.279-10:00one, two, three, four.<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14127858974" title="DSC_2338_2 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_2338_2" height="531" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7342/14127858974_7059739b20_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
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Counting my blessings today. So very thankful for these incredible gifts.</div>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14903431812942288612noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-10986344726119247172014-05-10T09:01:00.001-10:002014-05-10T09:01:57.239-10:00care to take a drive?<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14090536591" title="Easter Monday by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="Easter Monday" height="531" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7304/14090536591_2575550e8b_c.jpg" width="800" /></a></div>
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Christie and I set out on a scenic drive one day with our girls and the babies. I knew my horse-loving middle child would love to see an Amish buggy on the road and hoped we'd catch one or two.</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/13999249085" title="Amish buggies by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="Amish buggies" height="531" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7367/13999249085_5aebca0369_c.jpg" width="800" /></a></div>
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We saw one. And then we saw one or two more. And then more. And more...</div>
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Pretty soon we were in an Amish traffic jam.</div>
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Actually, everything was moving along smoothly and peacefully, it's just that Everything Was Moving Along. On a Monday, it is typical to see a few carriages about, but most of the Amish people are hard at work in the fields or at home. Laundry lines are full and fluttering, work horses are pulling plows, children are at the one room schoolhouse with the bell on its roof.</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/13960168330" title="DSC_4954_1 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_4954_1" height="531" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7400/13960168330_b9bc5e50a9_c.jpg" width="800" /></a></div>
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Not this day. Every horse and carriage and cart and buggy in Lancaster county was on the road that morning. We saw a Father playing croquet on a front lawn with his children. We saw boys on scooter-bikes and pulling wagons, girls walking down the road in white-hatted clusters.</div>
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I was thankful Christie had offered to drive so I could snap away from the passenger seat of my own car. I didn't want to be the obnoxious tourist photographer type but then again, I did. There was so much beauty in the scenes we were passing. </div>
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We realized we had set out on Easter Monday, clearly a day of rest and gathering in Amish country. </div>
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We drove on to Kitchen Kettle Village to snack on whoopee pies and buy flowered bonnets<br />
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Slowly.</div>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14903431812942288612noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-16997532934242575142014-05-02T17:52:00.000-10:002014-09-28T23:51:04.768-10:00when cousins get together<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/14068772386" title="DSC_7801_1 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_7801_1" height="531" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7297/14068772386_cb58d8e08a_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/13906718429" title="cousins at longwood by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="cousins at longwood" height="531" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7339/13906718429_512041098b_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/13902977607" title="DSC_8268_1 by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_8268_1" height="531" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5566/13902977607_c62d728588_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14903431812942288612noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-70437459994113036902014-04-26T16:35:00.000-10:002014-04-26T16:35:18.359-10:00good night, maplehurst<div style="text-align: center;">
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It's going to be a long road home. Photos -so very many photos- coming soon.</div>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14903431812942288612noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-77819918873153842842014-04-24T16:40:00.005-10:002014-04-24T16:40:43.447-10:00april showers<div style="text-align: center;">
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Oh my. It has been a while. This month has been full of beauty. I meant to tell you that we finished our CC year and that Tristan <a href="http://www.zinniapatchpictures.com/2013/04/classical-conversations-memory.html">achieved his Memory Master title again</a>. I meant to share pictures I took one day of the kids in matchy-matchy outfits (when I decided against my better judgement that taking "real" portraits of them would be fun.) I meant to let you know we would be headed out of town for a while. I thought I might share some photos of my epic road-trip north to Pennsylvania alone with my kids. I have wanted to share pictures of this place and its happenings every day since we arrived and parked under that crazy gorgeous Magnolia tree. One of my babies lost a tooth. I got to hug a dear old high school friend. I filled Easter baskets. I turned thirty-five. Showers of blessing -and flowers too. Oh. So. Many. Flowers. This month has been beautiful.</div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/13998767071" title="under The Tree by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="under The Tree" height="531" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5236/13998767071_5bef00126e_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
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P.S. If you aren't already a follower, <a href="http://instagram.com/kellimcampbell">you might want to find me on Instagram</a>. I started a 365 Photo Project on a birthday whim- and so far so good. I have a feeling there are big adventures to come this year. And also some very pretty small moments.</div>
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14903431812942288612noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-21192370465891904002014-04-03T16:19:00.002-10:002014-04-03T16:19:38.942-10:00little and big<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/13208050583" title="brother cuddles by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="brother cuddles" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3672/13208050583_29378e6b0b_c.jpg" width="800" /></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/13208460834" title="bath time by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="bath time" height="531" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3767/13208460834_8c3bd0cfaf_c.jpg" width="800" /></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/27065099@N05/12972507593" title="brothers by Kelli Campbell, on Flickr"><img alt="brothers" height="531" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7336/12972507593_fb47f063c8_c.jpg" width="800" /></a><br />
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14903431812942288612noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-91622103693928082492014-03-31T17:57:00.000-10:002014-03-31T18:01:13.676-10:00spring chicks<div style="text-align: center;">
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Kellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14903431812942288612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3911459073078779448.post-32935567994636389162014-03-18T12:21:00.000-10:002014-03-18T12:21:05.804-10:00impromptu<div style="text-align: center;">
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It just so happened that I was hanging out at the beach with them and their whole family was together and the sun was just right and no one was melting down quite yet and when I said "throw your arms up and be silly!" they all did just that (except for dad who had permission to simply stand there looking cool) and the result was this. Just this. One of my favorite family portraits ever.</div>
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