Is there a blog term for latergram?

I am slowly but surely making my way through the very very full folder of pictures on my hard drive called "unfiled photos". The problem is that each time I go through a folder of pictures from an event in our lives whether 2 years ago or 2 days ago, it brings back a flood of emotion and feelings that I feel I may forget if I don't record them somewhere. And so this is where I do that. On instagram you can just add the hashtag latergram and then it is cool that you are posting something from days/weeks/months/years ago, and I don't know if there is a blog equivalent of that other than "yep, I'm still a slacker!" but I am doing it anyway, and I hope the 5 of you that still read this blog don't mind.

Back in February of 2013, we had our surgery to save the sweet little twin baby boys who are now running around and climbing on things and making messes everywhere they go. As I looked through the pictures labeled "LA Trip", the flood of emotions of those days came right back swelling in my heart and spilling out from my eyes. The funny thing about it is that I wasn't remembering the worry or the fear (although you can see it in our eyes), but the absolute hope and faith that carried us. The prayers and love of so many who were supporting us were felt in a very real way, and while everything inside of us said this is scary and hard and we are completely helpless, our hearts knew it would be ok.

I see in those two faces absolute unwavering faith that there was a plan for our family and this was a part of it and faith that we could get through it, no matter the outcome, as long as we had each other. I had no idea then how deeply the two little humans I was carrying would change my life forever, but I am ever grateful for the strength I had to move forward with hope and faith and not be overwhelmed with the fear and gravity of the circumstance.

And on a less serious note: let me remind you that I was only 24 weeks into my pregnancy and this was my silhouette... I definitely have not forgotten feeling so full and uncomfortable that I thought I would burst when I was swollen with all that extra fluid from the TTTS. Also, there is just something incredible and wonderful about breathing in the ocean air and hearing the waves on the beach. Sunsets are an added bonus!

Tumacaori Mission Christmas Eve

Since we aren't sure how much longer we will get to call Tucson home, we decided we better get going on our Tucson bucket list, and the Christmas Eve Luminaries have been on the list of things we wanted to do since we got here. So, we got it on the calendar early and made plans to spend our Christmas Eve down south at the Tumacacori mission. It was such a wonderful experience complete with making friends with some strangers in the line, caroling with them while we waited for dark, and an unsuccessful attempt to grab some tamales for dinner leaving us with a very late trip through the Carl's Jr. drive thru for Christmas Eve dinner. It was memorable for sure and so very very cool to see! If we happen to be here again next Christmas, we would definitely do it again! All of the luminaries are hand lit real candles. Amazing!

last photo is a long exposure taken by Seth