Ikea, You Just About Lost Me

While finishing up Jules’ room, I remembered I had a floating shelf that I purchased from Ikea awhile back. “This will be perfect in his room.” And now that it’s up, it is perfect. But it didn’t come hassle free. I purchased the shelf when we were still living in Las Vegas. (Not IN Las read more »

Where, Apparently, Anything Goes

Justin and I took Jules on his first road trip. A four hour drive to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. “Why the heck would you go there,” you might ask. Or “Sioux Falls, where?” Yeah, it’s on the southwest border of Minnesota and South Dakota. Geography! These two states are neighbors! Sioux Falls is apparently the read more »

One Month

When the first pediatrician came to see us in the hospital, she told me my only job for the next few weeks was to eat, sleep and feed my baby. Nothing else. Luckily, my mom, sister and Justin were around to do everything else because that’s all I did, but not always in that order. read more »

84 Diapers

We went through a box of 84 newborn diapers in about 10 days. 84 diapers people! He’s three weeks old. And that doesn’t count the 2 smaller packages we went through first. Luckily, I didn’t buy any of them but now I have to. Here’s the problem: I got another box of size ones as read more »

His Good Side

Catching a baby on camera can be fun. You never know the faces you’ll get. These are some of my favorites so far. No gas involved. Look at those cheeks! All boob fed! If anyone knows Justin well, you’ll see why this photo is funny. If his arm was just a little big longer – read more »

1st Drum Corps Show

We took Jules to the Stillwater show last weekend. Honestly, we thought we wouldn’t make it to any shows this year because of when he was due. But, we made it to Stillwater. Turns out it was the first show of the season because the night before was rained out. Regiment horn arc during warm-up. read more »

His Name

It took a long time for us to come up with a girl’s name, but when it came to selecting a boy’s, it wasn’t hard. We knew we wanted to keep the J.R.F thing going especially if he was a boy. Justin is more into traditional names and I wanted something unique without being so read more »