Category: Family Love

  • Are you serious about sleep? {Giveaway!}

    Are you serious about sleep? {Giveaway!}

    When Landon was a baby he was not a great sleeper. In fact he was a pretty crummy sleeper. One of the things we found that helped him was the use of white noise. Since then (4 years later and two more babies in the mix) we have continued to use white noise to help…

  • The things you do as mom matter

    The things you do as mom matter

    The things you do as a mom matter. All of it. The things you think don’t matter, the things you hate to do, and the things you love to do. The Lego building and block stacking and pretending to eat (and love) the strawberry chocolate milkshake they just pretended to make for you. Silly faces…

  • Everyday Life

    Everyday Life

    There’s not a type of illness I hate more than the stomach flu. I will take a cold, sinus infection or even strep throat over the flu. We’ve had the dreaded tummy bug go through our house pretty much the whole month of January. Poor Riley’s had it three times this month and the words…

  • Where I’ve Been

    Where I’ve Been

    It really has been forever since I posted last. Like 7 months forever. In the blogging world that really is forever. I have still been here and reading the sweet comments about the freezer cooking and replying to the lovely emails that some of you have sent. But I have been busy with life, so…

  • Not Your Usual Mother’s Day post

    Not Your Usual Mother’s Day post

    I remember when I was pregnant with Landon and we were setting up his nursery. I came across a lullaby CD we received at his baby shower and put it in, just so it was ready, and pushed play. I was sitting in the rocker, folding some of the new clothes and I had an…

  • DIY Fire Truck Birthday Party

    DIY Fire Truck Birthday Party

    Landon’s best buddy, Nathan, turned 3 a while ago. He had such a fabulous fire truck birthday party. His mom (one of MY best buddies!), Kelli, went all out with everything fire fighter and fire truck – after all Nathan’s dad is a fire fighter. The food was all themed around fire fighters, there were…

  • {Exhaustion} How to cope with the first trimester with young children at home

    I’ve been quite absent here in the last few weeks. In case you missed it, we are expecting our third child. While I am not unfamiliar with the exhaustion of the first trimester, I am having to learn the whole new world of being pregnant while being a stay at home mom to two young…

  • Changes

    When trying to think of the many creative ways to announce the news we finally settled on this, a video of Landon. The plan was to have each set of parents and close family over and show them the “cute” video of Landon. Landon had different plans. Even though we really didn’t talk much about…

  • Raegan Grace

    Raegan Grace

    Meet Raegan Grace: Before we moved from Yuba City I was part of a wonderful mom’s group. While I was only a member there for a short time before we had to move, I got to meet some wonderful ladies and kiddos. One of them was Raegan. More about her in a few – since…

  • Funny Things Kids Say {Part 1}

    Funny Things Kids Say {Part 1}

    Funny Things Kids Say Kids say the funniest things. So innocent. So new to the world of language. I can’t help but to write down all the sweet and funny things he says. Here’s the last two months worth of notable comments: December 28th, 2012 Landon’s version of football: “The other friends want my ball,…