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Everything about this photo feels like summer. • • • • #ourselahhope #welschmanor #summervibes (at The East Side of Providence) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd1inhqLFEG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

There is just so much that I love about this picture. I love Kevin. I love Selah. I love their relationship. I love her free, playful, imaginative, spirit. I love Kevin’s enthusiasm for going along with it. I love her thought process, I love Kevin’s way of entertaining those thoughts. I think too often we let negative events/situations bogged us down. Lately when this has happened to me, I like to look at pictures/videos and point out every little detail that I love. They all seem so small, but they add up quickly and fill me up with more love than I could have imagined. Which is honestly ironic, since most of the negative things tend to feel so big, but really are the smallest of things. This life, man. Lord, you have blessed me. • • • • #welschmanor #ourselahhope (at The East Side of Providence) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWMM0cEPgvH/?utm_medium=tumblr

Dating you looks a whole lot different after 12 years! No makeup/hair not washed since I don’t know when, and sharing our dinner with a toddler. Our “dates” may not look like dinner and a movie anymore, but we will use any little time together to consider it a date. Even the “let’s squeeze in one more episode of Ted Lasso before Selah climbs in our bed” kind. 😆 I love you and I like you, let’s keep dating through marriage. 😘 • • • • #welschmanor #dateyourspouse #anniversary (at The East Side of Providence) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVZHupkM32W/?utm_medium=tumblr

The fun thing about buying an 80-year-old house, is the projects you know will have to happen eventually....tend to need to happen abruptly and not when you planned for them. Cut to a new fence, new retaining wall and stairs this past year. 🤪 We moved in two years ago yesterday, and I don’t think we have ever NOT had a project going on. Cheers to many more years in these walls, and the walls knocked down in the process. 🏡 • • • • #welschmanor (at The East Side of Providence) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPmJtvIl60X/?utm_medium=tumblr

Our big helper! Kevin was installing railing on our new steps leading up to the house, and Selah was allllll about helping, and later, she helped with grocery shopping. She even took her own photo of the experience! 🤣 Her help may make the process longer but we love how she is so willing to give help where she sees it’s needed. 🥰 • • • #ourselahhope #welschmanor (at The East Side of Providence) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMs5SInlQQU/?igshid=w1cm0c8xmsdb

“You’ve always had the power, my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.” Dorothy, Glinda, and the Lion (Toto had to stay home) followed the yellow brick road to some Covid-safe trick-or-treating on @hopestreetmerchants! Dorothy clicked her ruby red slippers and we were back home ready for a warm and cozy night in 🥰👠🧙🏼‍♀️🦁 • • • • • #halloween #halloween2020 #ourselahhope #welschmanor (at The East Side of Providence) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHBVpiXlXXM/?igshid=17pqpjzjbf38s

🍁 Subtlety bringing in elements of fall 🍂 • Does anyone else feel like September snuck up on you? 🙋🏼‍♀️ I really don’t want summer to end, but I also feel like we’ve been stuck in the month of April and I’m so ready for a change of pace. So bring on apple picking, pumpkins, sweaters and leaf peeping season! • • • • #welschmanor #colonialoncolonial #newenglandfall (at The East Side of Providence) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFDl-Iil7Hj/?igshid=1s5f9aqy4vb27

And just like that it’s September, and we have a big girl. 🥰 • #ourselahhope #welschmanor #babiesdontkeep (at The East Side of Providence) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEmmz_sl-kq/?igshid=1hxmomvwqeoi1