My sweet little boy, you will be one next week, yet it feels like you've filled our whole hearts for so much longer. I wish you could understand how you have changed your daddy and I's world. Before you, I was content, I was happy, I didn't feel like you were missing. Your daddy and I had a life full of love and laughter and joy, but I never could have fathomed how the fullness and joy could ...
Our New Addition
BIG NEWS! Our family of three is growing into a family of four 👫👶🏼👶🏼 There's a brand new little baby Chesson in ma belly. Due December 2nd! I am thirteen weeks along at this point, and we are super excited! The best (and cutest) deployment homecoming gift ever ❤. This new baby and Ford will only be a little over 16 months apart, so it'll be a crazy adventure for sure, but one we are so ready ...
To the Tired Mommas
This past week was an exhausting one with my little man. Basically a combo of no sleep + lots and lots of fussing + needing to be bounced and swayed while walking around in order for calm to happen (aka I got a BOSS arm and leg workout 😉). We aren't totally sure what is going on yet, but his pediatrician thinks it sounds like acid reflux or a protein sensitivity - both potentially fixable, so ...
Back in Business!
OH MY GOSH. It's been years since we've chatted. Okay months, but it feels like years. This is the longest I've gone without blogging since I started! So let's sit down, grab a cup of coffee (preferably Pumpkin Spice since it is now September/Fall/the best time of year EVA), maybe a cookie or five, and catch up. The first and most glaringly important thing to update you on is our brand new, ...
My 9 Pregnancy Essentials
Okay all you women out there, let's get real for a quick minute. Pregnancy ain't no walk in the park. It might be for some of you lucky ladies out there (I'm glad you can't feel my resentment as I type... 😉), but for the majority of the female species, it's nine months of heartburn, mood swings, back pain, and the appetite of fifteen morbidly obese men. I definitely haven't had a bad pregnancy, ...
Riley
May 4th. This day was supposed to be very, very different for us. Rather than just another normal Thursday work day, Seth and I were supposed to be at the hospital, welcoming our first child into the world. Today was my due date for the baby that my husband and I lost this past September. I never realized how common miscarriages were until I had one, and people started coming out of the woodwork ...
Guess What?!
OH my goodness, I cannot possibly explain how hard it has been to wait this long to share this news with you guys!! I. Have. Been. Dying. Every single post I've written since the very beginning of November, I've been one spastic keyboard motion away from typing "OH BY THE WAY I'M PREGNANT" and then frantically clicking publish. I overshare on this blog like every single day, and keeping this to ...
Free Printable Father’s Day Cards
Happy (almost) Father's Day to any awesome dads out there! When we were kids, I feel like we always did the same thing for my dad every year - bought him ties and made him a chocolate cake with a tie frosted on top. My mom would bake the cake and frost the outline of the tie and then my brothers and I would..."decorate" (aka cover the top of the cake in as much colored frosting as possible)...the ...