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Charlotte Ashley

Diggin’ Taters

Project Life

19 Jan

I started 2011 out with my Project Life posts on this blog, but as the year went by I found posting here became hard, due only to the lack of time.  Before actually trying to post to this blog, I had however become a part of a private blog between friends stretched all across the United States– South Carolina, Arkansas, Montana, and Idaho– where I was able to keep up with my weeks and the journaling needed to complete my actual Project Life binder that I’m still slowly piecing together! 😉  I met the gal that started the private blog when we lived in Tennessee, a move we had to make for my husband’s career with the US Forest Service.  Her husband also works with the Forest Service and they have since moved to Arkansas, and then on to Montana.  So, Forest Service friends enter but then have to somewhat leave our lives so often. 🙁  It’s been an awesome process as I’ve witnessed a week-by-week documentation of other’s lives as they have of mine.  I’m so grateful for the little community we have developed and I think to myself how neat it would have been for my parents to have had the internet access that we do now so that they could better keep up with the friends they’ve made through their moves made with the Forest Service (my dad is retired from the Forest Service).

And I said all that to say, there have been so many moments captured throughout 2011, that I really do want to share publicly with you all.  Since time prohibits me from sharing every picture… well and the fact that I don’t want to put our family life SO out there on internet world, I will slowly but surely share some of our memories.

I look back now, and I look into the future and I realize I only desire one thing for my family and that is to have our memories documented because, and I’m not sure who I quote here, “someday you will be someone’s memory!”  I want my child and any future children we may be so blessed to raise, to be able to look back and remember how we lived when they were toddlers, the foods they ate or didn’t eat, what they played with and how they played, the walks we take, the messes they made, their facial expressions, their antics, what their daddy loved to do, who their dog was at the time, and the list goes on and on!  There are so many moment’s as a parent of a toddler that I will never get back so I don’t want to miss a thing!!!  I’m blessed enough to be able to be home with my son and I will be ever so grateful that God has blessed my husband with a job that can support this type of life, and a passion and God-given talent of mine that helps out a little on the side too!

So my friends, from this point on, you will experience a little of the Jennings’ life! 😉  Brace yourselves.  lol
If you so desire, you can experience weeks 1, 2, and 3 by clicking here.  And weeks 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 by clicking here.

So… in between the craziness of running a small business, editing pictures, photographing sessions, raising a two year old, being a wife, chef, house-keeper, and many other things, we managed to find time to…

… visit the zoo.  I don’t think little guy was quite sure about the Gorilla! 

…and dig taters with the aunt and uncle! 🙂

… and even do a little bird hunting with daddy and mommy!  😉 

I’m so thankful anytime a picture is snapped with me in it too because I want my children to look back and see me at times rather than just know mommy is there, she’s just behind the camera all the time!  Thanks so much to my husband here for breaking out the ole point and shoot!

Here’s to memories made in 2012!  Stay tuned for a Project Life kit giveaway coming soon 😉

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Hey, hey friend! :) I'm so glad you're here! God gives me all the strength to navigate this crazy, beautiful life of mine; and this is my attempt to keep it somewhat documented and organized! My family and I believe we are called to be stewards of the land and try our hardest to live a biblically-based, holistic life. You'll discover a whole lot about nature, photography, and being a creative entrepreneur if you poke around a little bit on the site! Enjoy. More about me...

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