An Open Invitation

Our State Fair is the BEST State Fair and you are invited to stay at my house to spend a day (or two or three!) at the Minnesota State Fair eating everything you can. Phew! Bucket-o-Cookies. Let me tell you, these are so good, so soft, so right out of the oven warm! We have read more »

Bye Bye Baby

He totally says “bye bye” and wanders off. He’s a busy boy these days.

I know you have an answer

I wanna know; what are your favorite songs/albums for a road trip? Mine are (while Justin let’s me play them, I’m not sure they are HIS favorite): Styx Greatest Hits – I’d never heard of Styx until the movie Big Daddy. The movie was dumb and the line about Styx being be “greatest band of read more »

13 Months

(Swimsuit edition!)I know you’re considered a toddler now, but you don’t walk – yet – and you’re still a baby to me…so, preshus baybee. Baby Jules, you are hilarious! You can push a car around the kitchen all night, if we let you, crawling through the chairs like an obstacle course. You love to give read more »

Goodbye Sillycar

I’m almost there. Just buy me a mac and I’ll be the smug douche-bag everyone hates. (Except the people who are ALREADY 100% smug. They just don’t know it because they are…smug.) I bought a hybrid SUV (new-to-me. See, I’m not smug, I bought used!). It gets a little less mpg’s than the sillycar did, read more »

I Appreciate What You’re Saying… But

I am, by no means, super attractive (please don’t tell me otherwise, I’m ok with the way I look – not that I expect anyone to object to that.). Just an average girl trying to do what she can with the face and body given to her. I like to keep things simple with hair read more »

12 Months

We celebrated Jules’ 1st birthday with lots of cupcakes. Lots of splashing (on a very cloudy day). And lots of baby friends (one of like 5 babies at the party). Jules learned quickly to share his toys. A smash cake that he didn’t really smash at all. At 12 months, it’s hard to get a read more »