Yup! You read that right. My kid is 21 today. I can barely type that. It’s probably because I’m so old, right? Let’s not focus on me here…nothing to see. You should probably know this post will be a complete Mom brag. Brace yourself! This girl (Woman? I can’t go there.) has got it all […]

If you know me personally you know I LOVE color. And of course I LOVE my girls. So when I saw this wall in my travels in south Seattle I knew I had to combine those two. Thankfully my girls were willing to get up (and shower) early to get to this spot before our […]

At church they call Advent the ‘Season of Waiting’. That is the perfect definition of our Christmas this year. We had it all planned out. We would spend Christmas Adam with our old neighbors, just like old times, We would spend Christmas Eve at my Mom’s with cousins and babies and extended family and we […]

For a couple of years an amazing holiday light maze has been set up in Safeco Field. (Ok, ok, it’s now called T-Mobile Park…but who can keep up?!) I’d seen pictures all over my social media and heard it was neat so we surprised the girls with tickets as one of their holiday gifts. It […]

For the first time ever we were on our own for Christmas morning. It was novel and weird and I don’t think we want to do it again (we are fans of family and hubbub) but it was also kind of nice. We slept in, had our lovely cinnamon muffins and we got to really […]

This blog post is coming to you from three different people. Enjoy the perspectives! Ellie – In my short, 39 hours in Las Vegas, I concluded that I have absolutely no desire to go back.  In my family (and everywhere else) I am the one that is known for going to bed at an oddly […]