over the weekend

we definitely enjoyed our time together.

jonah had his first sleepover at gamma + gampa's, all by his big boy self.

we went to the first drive-inn of the season.

little mo graduated from seminary.

dan moved home for the summer.

+ jonboy headed back up to seattle for the week.

our weekend was g-double-o-d GOOD + i hope yours was too.

the breaking point

when i started blogging a little over a year or so ago, i had 3 viewers. my mom, jonboy + my sister kylee. i started our blog to remember the adventures we discovered as newlyweds. i also remember as a new mother wanting to document e v e r y passing moment. everything just changes so fast + i didn't want to forget anything. i felt like i was doing a pretty stellar job with blogging about it all + then S N A P.

see ya later passion to blog, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

lately, as a mother, i have struggled with the balance of blogging. + by lately, i mean a few months. the numbers, the perfect pictures, the stats, the lunch meetings, just the fame + fortune of it all. things that were flattering before, plunged head first into whatever category very unflattering falls into. perhaps creepy? (you can insert your own adjective accordingly) but rather than continuing the search for that balance - i cut it out. working, blogging, photography + social media in general. i put all of my eggs into the full time mother basket. perhaps it sounds a little crazy to you, but it was exactly what i needed to snap back to reality. i love being a mother with every fiber of my being. i want to be real. i want to be true + i just want to be a good mom no matter who is watching, dangit.

my 32 gb phone dinged memory full while we were picking jonboy up from the airport yesterday. not a coincidence. i take a lot of pictures on my phone. but my routine used to be to backup + dump them after they were on the blog. jon knows this + he took initiative on the conversation that directly followed:

J  - "hey, i miss reading about our week on sunday nights + making fun of how addicted we are to jonah."

G -   no comment

J -  "that's all i wanted to do on the plane."

if you know jon, he really doesn't ask for much. he's very content + loves life for the simple things it has to offer. we have some pretty dang good times as a family + he is exactly right. it is a blast looking back through all of the silly things we do together. 

so, with that on the table, i miss it too. 

the parrish place is back open + ready to rock. 

grams : to you from us

instagram winstagram finstagram.
lets face it, social media is taking over the world.
but quite frankly, i can't decide how i truly feel about instagram.
i love you. i don't love you.
i'm over you. i'm addicted to you.
irony irony irony - - with a side of oxymoron.

it's doing a stellar job of capturing our little moments + keeping them all in the same place.
so for now, lets just embrace it.
happy gramsday, to you from us.

{instagram // gparrish }

sami jo photography

do you know this gal?
if not, let me tell you - she is out of this world.
i cannot say enough good about her.
you've seen a few snipets of our family photos here + there.
B U T there are more where they came from.
literally.
{ok, maybe i just love saying that}