Natalie Hemsley

Oct12

My Little Pumpkin 1 Year Ago

I can not believe that one year ago Nyla was so tiny. Now she is a little girl. Time sure flies by and they grow up so quick. I just love looking at pictures from the same time last year to compare how much she has grown and bring back the memories of her when [...]

Oct10

Pumpkins Galore!!

So this weekend has been pretty ugly in Oregon. Rain, rain, and more rain. It killed our apple orchard festival Saturday and it looked like it killed any plans for Sunday but luckily around noon it finally cleared up a bit. So we knew we just had to get out of the house. We decided [...]

Oct5

Fresh Pumpkin Puree

So it’s that time of year to buy your pie pumpkins. One thing I learned a while back when I was perfecting my pumpkin pie and pumpkin cheesecake was that canned pumpkin is way different than fresh pumpkin puree. I have used both can and fresh and Josh could totally tell when I just canned [...]

Oct3

Pumpkin Season is in the air…

Yesterday we went to our first Pumpkin Patch of 2010. We originally were going to go apple picking at the Sherwood Orchards but they were closed this weekend. Bummer! So we had to change our plans and decided since we were gonna visit a 3 or 4 pumpkin patches this year we might as well [...]

Sep21

Dear Hawaiian Airlines!!

Dear Hawaiian Airlines, We were flying back from Maui Friday September 17th 2010 on Flight 40. There were very grumpy people that were cussing at there kids even when we were just entering the plane. They unfortunately were sitting right in front of us. We knew this was gonna be a hard flight with a [...]

Sep21

My Maui Birthday Trip!

We had an awesome trip to Maui! 7 days of rest and relaxation. We had a great little 2 bedroom Villa at the Marriot Ocean Club right on the beach. We had a really nice strip of hotels along our beach that we would along everyday and enjoy all the wonderful restaurants. Their was also [...]

Jul15

July trip to SoCal

I am gonna keep this nice and short cause knowing me I could write a whole story on here about our California Trip. We had an absolute blast on this trip to California. We made sure we saw some immediate family but we wanted to make sure we got to enjoy our vacation there and [...]

Jun30

Backyard fun!!

Today was a great day. The sun was out for good. There were finally no clouds to cover it. After Nyla’s nap we decided to hang out in the backyard instead of going out. I took out my picnic mat, watermelon, goldfish, sunblock, the camera and Nyla’s sippy cup. Nyla started off playing in the [...]

Jun29

A Beautiful Day!!

What a great Tuesday it was today. With a great start to yesterday and then a quick 180 that turned that day into an absolute nightmare day, it is such a breath of fresh air to have such a nice day today. I got to sleep in a little bit while Josh got up with [...]