anna-laura Archives - Kathryn Whitaker

She’s a Decade: Happy 10th Anna-Laura!

Sappy letter, coming right up. I soooo meant to post this Saturday, but Disney happened. I’m counting that as a good excuse. Don’t you worry, she got plenty of love on her big day. I really love it when the birthday party falls on the actual birthday. As it should be, right? Anna-Laura, this letter…

So…about Christmas

I know. We’re nearly 30 days out from Christmas Day. Math isn’t my strong suit. I shared a bit of the Whitaker family Christmas, but thought I’d show you the rest. You know, because I’m timely like that. Rather than give you the montage of what we did, I’m sharing my ten favorite moments of Christmas Eve…

It Was Holly and it Was Jolly: Christmas 2014

In total, I think we hosted 16 people, other than our family, for the Christmas holidays. That’s a whole lotta crazy fun right there. Let’s start with the Nutcracker. For the fourth year, my mom took the girls and I to Ballet Austin’s Nutcracker. As usual, it was fabulous. We’ve managed to time it so…

All Hallow’s Eve

I can’t say I’m the biggest fan of Halloween, but when you see kids in cute costumes? I cave. It’s probably more accurate to say that I love the fun part of the tradition. The sweet costumes, the time seeing neighbors, the extra Snickers around the house. We’ve never been ones for the gore or the…

Our Very Best Moments from Summer

Even though our days are still in the high 90s (and sometimes low 100s!), with the start of school summer sure seems like a distant memory. Before we hit the vernal equinox, I wanted to share a few bits and pieces from our summer here at Casa Whitaker. Just a few nights ago, Scott and…