I was compensated to take time away (3 days) to go on the food farm tour with the Kansas Farm Bureau, Kansas Soybean Association and United Soybean Board. This post is a recap of the tour and all opinions expressed are my own, The Farm Bureau simply took me to see farms but did not in any …
LIFE
I graduated from high school ten years ago, it feels like an eternity like literally a distant, distant memory. When i think back on it it was a good experience but i’m sure we can all relate to remembering things we did and how we acted at times and get a little red in the …
9 Fantastic Toddler toys your kids will love! This post contains affiliate links. I had a friend text me around Christmas time to do a post on our favorite toys and I’m just now getting around to it. I have a love hate relationship with toys, I know they are essential, that my kids really …
So don’t tell my kids, but they’ve been eating carrots and sweet potatoes without even realizing it! These cookies are adapted from my very favorite cowboy cookie recipe that is Matt’s mom’s. I usually get in trouble when i mess with it, he’s always telling me that trying to make a cookie healthy is like …
Happy Monday friends, today in Kansas City its not even going to get out of the single digits and the “feels like” temperatures are so low its laughable (-25). All of my good intentions to go to the gym today are way way out the window, you couldn’t pay me to leave my nice warm …
So i know its a little late for an advent calendar but even if you are coming late to the game its something you’ll use year after year so don’t get too down on yourself. (or at least that’s what i told myself when i was making it on the 4th). There are sooo many …
Hi friends. You read that title correctly, I only go to the grocery store once a month and it has changed my life and saved my sanity. I have been talking about this a lot lately to my friends here in KC and so I thought I better just write a post that explains what …
Yesterday i had my first real parenting breakdown, like bawling on the phone to my husband breakdown. Moral of the story is that 2 year olds are hard. This cute little guy featured below in all these fabulously creative scenarios can really push my buttons, let me tell you. I think the lesson to be …
Last Sunday night we arrived home from our 10 day spring vacation. We live in Kansas City (dead center of the country) and so to get to a beach it takes a while. The easiest option is of course to fly, however now that Max is 2 we just couldn’t stomach the $1000 in airfare …
I am so excited to finally put these photos up. Yesterday my friend Tara came over and took some more maternity shots of me and these of the Nursery. She did such an amazing job, i am in love with all of them! I’ll put up the maternity shots in the next post. The first …
Our Bedroom after the paint job with cute new bedding from Target! i still have a lot of details to consider to finish the room- curtains, wall decor, paint a bookshelf, etc. but i’m LOVING the results already! Below is the nursery with the new color. It’s called Robin’s Nest by Benjamin Moore and it’s …
I’ve only been doing this mom thing for a little over a week now, but one of the things i kept looking for when i was preggo was a good list of baby things that were really essential – and from a mom, not from babies-r-us or some other retail store telling me what all …