The Glamorous Life of a Housewife

Years before we ever built our house I had one dream item. Well, not counting the chandeliers, because that was a given. I shopped for and purchased some of my lighting 2 years before we even broke ground, but that's another story for another day. Back to my dream item... If you'v…

When planning a trip to visit a new place, I spend extensive time researching where and what we will eat while we're there. As proper foodies do. While living in Pennsylvania we had a trip planned to Philadelphia for a conference my husband had. We had visited Philly a few times befo…

The first few weeks of having our puppy Winston was a complete whirlwind. We were running on little sleep and adrenaline was the only thing that kept us going. Much like having a newborn. A newborn that bites. We have so many hilarious newbie puppy parent stories from that first month, b…

The Mount Rushmore State! For those of you who remember when I started this whole venture back in November know that our very first state challenge was North Dakota. And I spent most of the day calling it South Dakota, for whatever reason. But last week was finally time for actual South D…

Glamma hosted the whole family for an Easter Sunday & Birthday celebration last weekend. She pulled out all the stops with the most charming Peter Rabbit table and a balloon arch she and my dad made themselves. What a spectacular sight to walk into!  Ezra was beyond thrilled his birt…

Nine years ago today my baby boy was born. Ezra Ray was 10 pounds of pure love and he came into the world with his arms stretched wide open, screaming with all his might. I laughed when I saw him - such a beautiful, happy boy! He continues to bring to me the same joy he did that very fi…

My mom had all the grandkids over last weekend for their annual seder meal and Bible lessons on everything leading up to the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus. She does this for them every year leading up to Easter and it is the most special time as they spend the entire weekend to…