Hello, everybody! I cannot believe that I'm back already with our baby news. I was so sure my due date would come and go without anything to report! But the Lord's timing is perfect. It's a boy! Meet Casper. He arrived at our house on Sunday afternoon, January 12th (the due date!) and both of us are doing so great. Praise Jesus! You guys, he is amazing. I'll give another update soon, but basically the news for the next while is going to be that I'm on the couch cuddling my son. In the meantime, hugs all around and I've got some recipe posts all pre-written and ready to go for you! Back soon!

I'm super excited. Back in the fall, I was contacted by the lovely Ticket Chocolate; the company famous for their gourmet hot chocolate on a stick. They wanted to feature my Have A Cup design as part of their new Cup of Cheer gift set! Eeek! What an honor. I'm happy to tell you that it's officially for sale today, in tote form, in their cute hot chocolate shop. Hop over if you'd like to take a peek!

Thanks for being excited with me, friends! And thanks for all the shop love and support that has already been pouring in this Christmas season. Love, Summer

if you follow me on twitter or facebook, you've probably already heard the news. we had a brush with celebrity the other night when we saw Rick Santorum! so fun to see someone in real life that you see on the news every night- and i got to shake hands with a presidential candidate! for a newsy girl like me, this was super exciting.

i am bursting to blog.

i can't believe i didn't post anything all week! i have so much to say and not enough fingers to do it.
a lot has happened this week… we have a brand new nephew, we had a visit from grandma (my mom) and aunt Kayleen, Hadley found her voice in a major way, i found several new foods to love (which you will hear about eventually), we turned the heat on, we shopped the annual rummage sale in our town, and we lost our dear grandpa Johnny. what a great man. we will miss him! i'm so thankful that i got to know him when i became a Harms.

in other news, this little blog of mine is now 3 years old. hip hip hooray! i forget what computer-ing was like before it was born. thank you so much for reading!

hello friends! you can stop checking and being disappointed now, because our baby girl has arrived! hadley. the whole time it was her inside me. it had to be her. she is perfect and we are both doing awesome! happily starting our new life. i miss her every second she's out of my arms. studying her faces is our new favorite thing. and the way she stares us down is hilarious. we are in love. i'm going to be taking a little blog break so that i can spend every second smelling my brand new baby!
i am so happy.

thank you for all the thoughts and prayers and excitement!

sending you an ocean of love.
summer

ps. happy first father's day to grant! i've already cried about how great a dad he is. it's unbelievable.

..from our new iPad!!
so now you know what we got for Christmas:)

the beatles and itunes together at last! yay.
i spent a bit of my saturday browsing the songs, reading about the albums, and finding all my favorites! i think i'm going to have to buy their cover of "till there was you"..

hooray! a brand new product goes on sale today. now stocked in the shop: the harvest collection



the pumpkin-y autumn postcards sold out so quickly (2 days!), that marta and i decided we'd like to offer you a new collection, just in time for harvest! (so you can still get your pumpkins if you missed out before.) and wow, i am super excited to show you these prints. they are quite possibly my favorite photos ever! am loving the elegant white background and stripey gourds.






the new collection includes 5 prints that feature the bounty and beauty of this season. including pumpkin pie. the series is ultra simplistic and sophisticated; perfectly suited for thanksgiving invites, place cards at the harvest table, a hostess gift for whoever is cooking your turkey, or cheery holiday greetings.


pack of five postcard prints: $10.00
sold exclusively at the mini mart. 

today my blog turns two years old! 
and i'm giving it a gift.

please see my sidebar to check out the all-new RECIPE page! the one i've been most excited about with this new pages addition. finally, a sleek new way to find food around here. i'm suuuper happy about it. i will use it myself, as weird as that sounds. (i really do look up my own recipes sometimes.) some of the recipes are from way way back, so you'll have to excuse the photos from before i knew how to use a camera. they're pretty unfortunate. but i guess i've learned a thing or two in the past two years, and that's a very good thing.

happy birthday, blog!
last year i wrote up a bit of its history, in case you're wondering about the past.

ps. please feel free to browse the other new pages, too. i will be keeping my labels section for now, so you can still search posts by topic, but the archives now have their very own section. so you can go back to last november to read what i said on the day when we got our new house, or what i was thankful for last thanksgiving. or check out december 2009 to see the christmas campout + the big blizzard. also, my formspring can now be found on the contact page, and the favorites page will be up soon!

hey guys,

you rock.

welcome to the debut of the penpal project.

want to know what i've been up to this summer?