This Christmas was different. It was the first time in our five years of marriage we wouldn't be spending it at our parents' and I was so excited. Mostly because I thought it would be less stressful without travel and fun in a new way. Though we definitely had a great holiday at home I learned a couple things: when moms have been...
There was a home building floor plan trend (in Utah at least) around the 90's to do a step-down family room from the kitchen. We really, really liked our neighborhood when we were house hunting and after touring quite a few homes realized none had our ideal floor plan so we went with what had the most potential. So we made a plan...
I'm slowly getting baby boy's room together. I had to pause because we budget and with David and I both doing projects, we hit our home improvement limit pretty early on in the month. So when you run out of paint and money... you clean out and organize your pantry and plan that future project out instead, ha. Pantry Phase 1 I listened...
I'm in love with these cute family illustrations you can do super cheap with Alexa Zurcher! Family Christmas card miracle :) ...
When Scotty was born and I went back to work full time I was unprepared, both mentally and experience-wise, and it was honestly really tough. A recent study found that moms who have a paid job and kids end up working 98 hours of the 166 hours a week and I believe it! It's hard to do so much and feel you're not completely...
Thanksgiving was so much fun! I definitely had Thanksgiving hangover after we headed home from too little sleep and too much good food. We stayed with Grandma Sandra and Grandpa Larry in Elk Ridge with all of David's siblings for the holiday. Grandma definitely knows how to throw a party! She's always the most thoughtful and gracious hostess- I'm picking up tips now...
I was a little intimidated by the whole novel gender thing for a second but then I just got really excited! Little suspenders and bow ties! Trying not to get pee squirted! Cars and legos! Manly things! All that extended to his room planning. I'm super pumped (do people even say that, ha) to design his room and it's actually the room where...
