I lied and made you wait an extra day for the final vacation post. This is the last day of pictures from our trip. If you are sick of them, there will be no more after this. If you wish there were more, you can call me and come over for coffee and I will […]

Welcome back to your online vacation! Before we hit the road again, I have what I thought would be some exciting news concerning this blog. As I am sure you know, if you bothered to wait for this page to load, my site is ridiculously slow. It has become increasingly frustrating to me, so this […]

Ready for installment number two of Rawson vacation? I am. To fairly warn you, I struggled to narrow these down. This was my favorite day of our trip. We said “Sianara” to the busy traffic of the city and took our time winding up the Pacific Coast Highway to Santa Barbara, the land of fairies […]

Last Friday, we got on a plane bound for California with high hopes for sunshine, warm weather, rest, and a little adventure. We got a little of everything, even though the temps turned out to be a little lower than we expected. It wasn’t quite the escape from winter I’d wanted, but I guess that’s […]

It has been an exciting week for my family. My brother Mark popped the question to his girlfriend, (and she said yes!) who is not only my future sister-in-law, but a friend of mine and my family’s for some time now. We kind of adore her. There were lots of crossed fingers as they started […]

Warning: No pictures today. Bummer, I know. It’s odd, but even though I am in a kind of oddball mood today (as in…cranky), I keep wanting to write on the ol’ blog. Doesn’t seem like those things correlate, but whatev. We’ll go with it. I promise to keep it short, since this combo of moods […]

Dear heat, I miss you. Please come back to me. Today is a tease. It’s currently 48 degrees outside. But I won’t be fooled. I know next Monday is supposed to be back down in the teens. In case you didn’t know, I am a warm weather girl. I hate the cold and it makes […]

First thing’s first. There’s a sweet giveaway going on and I want to win! And maybe you do, too, so I am letting you know about it. How nice, right? It brings up a relevant issue for me, considering that just this week, I kicked off the new face of my blog and have officially […]

Trust me, there’s a double meaning there. I’m quite sure my pseudo-new-year’s-resolution/goal of exercising more often is intimately connected with the quality of cooks in my family combined with the amount of food that was available to me over the last few weeks. Well, month, really. (Go ahead and laugh at my goal. I know […]

Home, check. People I love, check. Massive amounts of amazing food, check. Football, check. Freezing cold South Dakota, check. Ahh, Thanksgiving. I can hardly complain about how cold it was. I literally only went beyond the threshold of the door for about ten minutes between arriving at my parents house on Wednesday night and loading […]

Here’s a fun little story for ya: Last Wednesday I was at work and was planning to leave a little early to hit the road and head to my hometown for Thanksgiving. About 30 minutes before I left I thought, “I will write a post on my poor little unloved and neglected blog before I […]

Last week David and I celebrated our 2 year anniversary. Crazy, I tell you. Sometimes I just think to myself, “How did this happen? How did we ever end up together? How freaking lucky am I?!?! Last year we made a weekend of it to celebrate and headed up to Minneapolis. It was so much […]