just our day to day life
It’s Christmas cookie time! One of my all-time favorites for the holidays is sugar cookies with homemade buttercream frosting. Making and decorating sugar cookie cut-outs was a major events at my parent’s house while we were growing up. It was a several hours process that …
You may have noticed that sometimes I get behind on posting. As an example, I started this post 2.5 years ago – shortly after our 4th wedding anniversary. I suddenly decided that now would be the perfect time to finish it because Valentine’s Day is …
Christmas is here, and it’s so different this year because Jenson understands Christmas so much more as a 3 year old. He “gets” Santa, is starting to understand certain traditions, and knows tons of Christmas songs. He’s been excited for Christmas Day and has enjoyed …
I used to love making a bunch of different Christmas cookies…trying new recipes each year and making my favorites. Then I had Jenson and that got more difficult, but I still managed quite a variety. And then I had Marlowe, and two days before Christmas …
While Lo was slaving away at work on his birthday, I met a friend at the pool for a few hours with the kids. Luckily her kids are older and can swim, so she was able to help out with mine. Jenson has a puddle …
We stayed at home on Christmas Day since we wanted to remain close to Columbus in case the baby came early (spoiler alert….she didn’t). It was a really nice and relaxing day with just our little family. We started the day when Jenson woke up …
Christmas Eve was an absolutely beautiful day. It was about 65 degrees outside and sunny, so we took full advantage and played outside for over an hour before lunch. Maternity shadow picture…not very flattering with my baggy sweats, but that’s life. It was warm enough …
Since we weren’t sure when the baby would come, we planned an early Christmas with Loren’s family for the weekend before Christmas. My doctor seemed sure the baby would come early, so we wanted to be at home for the week or so before my …
Part two of Jenson visiting Santa went much better, thankfully. We went to breakfast with Santa at Rusty Bucket and I think he actually had positive feelings towards Santa by the end of the event. It was really the perfect situation for Jenson because he …