My Personal Life

I am sooo happy to introduce you guys to our new son today! Emmett Obadiah Allen was born just over a week ago (April 2nd at 11:01 pm). The past week has been a haze of newborn snuggles and lots of family time...in other words, pure joy. I spent the first 37 weeks of this pregnancy nervous that Emmett would be born before reaching full term. Then I spent the […]

I'm still super grateful to have reached full term this pregnancy...but dang, this is getting uncomfortable. I told Ben that God must have designed the last few weeks to be miserable so you actually look forward to something as terrifying as pushing a baby out of your vagina...haha. But seriously, I am 100% ready to get this baby outta me! I'm starting to look up all the old wives tales […]

Blog posts have been extra slow around here the last few weeks, and for good reason. I'm slow-moving in general right now, because I'm officially full term! Woohoo! When we found out I was pregnant again, getting to full term was my goal, and I was mostly nervous about getting preeclampsia before then. I didn't think about the birth itself very much, because I didn't want to jinx myself. Now […]

This post is written in partnership with HomeAway. All opinions are 100% my own. Photos courtesy of HomeAway. Exciting news...we are planning a trip to Hawaii around Memorial Day!!! This will be our first time visiting the Aloha State, and we're super excited. We have 10 nights total, and we're still figuring out exactly where to spend them...so if you have advice I am all ears! Kauai was top of […]