This weekend we celebrated this amazing man that I get to do life with. This was his first birthday as a daddy and so it was a little different than birthdays past. Before Marlee I always did my darnedest to make sure his day was special – filled with friends and fun and usually a …
Our Christmas Cards
One of my favorite things to do over the years has been to design our Christmas cards. Every year I’ve tried to some up with a way to make our cards special or clever. It never mattered to me that we didn’t have children to show off on our cards – it just meant we …
Christmas Festivities for 2017
It feels surreal to be celebrating Christmas with a little one this year. For nearly a decade I yearned for the days of celebrating Christmas with a little one – of sharing traditions and seeing the joy and wonder of a child’s face on Christmas morning. Granted – Marlee is still quite little and not …
Out with 2017 & In with 2018
Last year was quite the tumultuous year for us… we had the adoption scam in October of 2016 which left us going into 2017 feeling rather hopeless. So we chose to focus on other things, and lo and behold – little Miss Marlee made her way into our world. It’s amazing how much can change …
Merry Christmas!!!
Here we are – Christmas day! Since we’ll be celebrating with family not only today but over the course of the next week – I’ll share some personal Christmas fun later. So today I’m keeping it short and sweet and just wishing you all a very Merry Christmas from our sweet little lady! I hope …
Social Media Self Care
With the holidays approaching, I thought now might be the perfect time to talk about something that I think is pretty important – social media self care. Obviously, self care in general is super important, but I think taking care of ourselves with relation to social media is just as vital and often overlooked. Honestly …
My Favorite Way to Print Our Daily Memories
I’ve said it many a time before but you guys know how much importance I place on photos and not just taking them but printing them. You’ve seen our walls where we have photos displayed and you’ve probably seen in the past that I always make a photo album of Ryan and my’s annual photo …
Thanksgiving 2017
Well it’s been over a week, but I finally had a minute to sit down and share a little peek into our Thanksgiving festivities this year. This was Marlee’s first Thanksgiving, which meant we made some changes to our usual crazy busy day. For the past 13 years that Ryan and I have been together, …
Halloween 2017
Well I meant to get this post written for yesterday but life happened and it didn’t go up. So it’s coming to you a day late instead. Growing up, Halloween was always fun even if I wasn’t always incredibly creative or over the top with my costumes. I think I used the same doctors coat …
6 Years After the Fire
So yesterday, October 10th, officially marked six years since the day of our house fire. There are some days it doesn’t feel like that long ago – especially when people are burning things other than leaves and firewood… and even then I can get a little shaky. And of course there are aspects of that …