This past year has gone entirely too fast. It feels like just yesterday I was planning Hilde's first birthday! 0-1 is a pretty big growth year but so is 1-2! My baby is no longer a baby! She is a full grown toddler and she runs around telling people she is two years old! With COVID & quarantine, I didn't know what kind of party we would be able to have. We ended up doing something at home with our families and it was wonderful! I'm sad we couldn't invite all our friends but we'll make up ... continue reading...
The Playroom
Thank you buybuy BABY for sponsoring this post! Okay, this room isn't 100% done but it is pretty darn close. And really when is a room actually "all done" - I know that the living room now has a rug, new chairs, and our yearbook shelves since that big reveal sooo.... without further adieu, here is the playroom! It took sometime to figure out what we wanted this room to be. I first started making it a livingroom because of the fireplace but we also had a livingroom just around ... continue reading...
Goodbye Pool, until next summer!
Just like that, summer is over. And by summer is over, I mean the pool is closed. We had some good times this summer pooling it up! It was SO nice to be in a place that felt more normal - no masks, just happy smiling faces glad to get some summer in! These photos are from one of our evening trips. The ones dad gets to join us on after work. We ate dinner by the pool and swam as the sun went down. The older kids stay until dark but these kids head out to be home for bedtime at 7:30. I ... continue reading...
Our Family Yearbooks
Several years ago I got the itch to make a yearbook of our year. I take SO many photos (guys, it is a bit unreal) and I hated the idea of them just sitting around on a hard drive never to be seen again. That was 2016. Then I made one for 2017 and I remember being SO sick while making it because I was in my first trimester with Hilde! Then 2018 and 2019 got put on the back burnners because I kept having babies! HAHA. Over quarantine I got our 2018 book ordered and I'm in the middle of 2019 just ... continue reading...
Stop the Scroll
This may be an ironic post to be writing on a blog but here I am anyways. Technology and the internet has opened worlds of opportunity and I honestly am grateful for it but is has also opened up a floodgate of new things to navigate. I watched as technology as we know it today grew into being. I remember rushing home after school to use our dial-up internet and put the house phone out of commission for 45 minutes. That's all the time we were allowed because the home phone was a ... continue reading...