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After a marvelous evening filled with friends, cupcakes and dancing…I feel more like myself and less like a slug. I’m looking forward to thirty even though I still feel like I’m only 22. It’s tradition around here that you wonderful people come out of hiding and make me a comment cake, telling me about theContinue reading “aaaand…i’m thirty.”

Well hello. I’M IMPRESSIVE. (Also known as 10 things I can do that impress the pants off of my kid.) My ‘Before Addie Moves Out’ Bucket List. (#6 – Teach her to drive a stick.) 10 things we’ve successfully done from Pinterest. (Most of them involve butter.) Some parts of parenting stink, literally and figuratively.Continue reading “(big babble) impressive parts of horses I don’t especially like much.”

I’m in uncharted territory here. I have so many obligations yet I have so much hanging heavy on my heart. I’m having to put my head down and plow through all of my responsibilities, one by one, feeling the slightest bit of reprieve with every ‘to-do’ that is checked off of my list. Many ofContinue reading “uncharted with postage stamp maps.”

I learned to tap a keg at 17. I learned to say no at 29. As my 30th birthday creeps closer, here’s 20 things I learned in my 20’s.(#2? I learned how to hug.) 5 songs that are kind of about motherhood that make me weepy. (Turns out they make you weepy too.) Vivi hasContinue reading “(baby babble) terriers, tipsy, tears and terrors.”

(GIVEAWAY OVER! Winner has been contacted and will be announced soon!) Hey there. Ever dropped your phone? In water? Yeah, me neither (LIES.)

I can only assume that when you lose someone close to you, it’s pretty common to be blindsided by sadness on occasion. I really miss my Aunt Cheryl. There have been so many times that I have picked up my phone to call her only to realize she’s in a place without phone service. I’mContinue reading “missing burritos.”

On Big  Babble: More about my side of the family and why they’re so great. Addie doesn’t like candy. It’s strange (and somewhat wonderful.) On Baby Babble: More photos from Tayden’s birth and first day. Vivi’s 14th week on Babble. I found a 30 year old can of formula at my dad’s house, just howContinue reading “three times the babbling.”

‘Tis true. Last week Cody began writing for Babble’s Dadding blog, if nothing else he’s about to get schooled in traffic goals, judgement and this crazy cool community that I’ve been entrenched in for years (he may also get an idea as to just how hard I work.) I’m excited you get to learn moreContinue reading “and then cody started babbling…”

I love Utah but we will not be moving back. (Sorry parents.) My sister is still wildly pregnant. WAFFLES ARE DELICIOUS. That photo book, it keeps getting bigger each day.

You could set three dozen of the greatest baby toys to ever exist in front of Vivi and she would manage to find the one piece of cat food on the floor and eat it. You could set a hundred more toys in front of her with one butcher knife thrown in for good measureContinue reading “wheeling and waiting”