My Personal Life

Yesterday was Ben's first day at work after three glorious months off. Although I was sad, I think we did a great job of utilizing his paternity leave to the max! We visited our grandparents on both sides, saw all of our siblings (including the ones that live out of state), spent good time with our parents and friends, played lots of games, went on a really long cross-country road […]

It's been over a month since we got back from our big U.S. road trip! We traveled more than 6,000 miles over the course of a month, from Seattle to Austin and back. A lot of people have asked us how we managed everything with a young baby, so I thought I'd share my best tips for road tripping with a little one. Ian was 2 months old when we […]

Happy Friday! Things are slowly but surely settling back into a rhythm over here. I have to admit, even though I loved our trip it's pretty nice to be home. I don't think I could ever be one of those travel bloggers who are always on the move. Hanging out at home is my favorite, especially around the holidays. It's the best time to be inside, playing games, drinking spiced […]

Alright, I finally took some time to cull through the photos from our big road trip! It was a bit of a daunting task as we had 1,650 photos overall (!!!). I'm sure we would have taken lots of Ian pictures no matter what, and of course, there were some similar shots...but still. If the number of pictures is any indication of how good the vacation was, ours was reeeaaal […]