Our girl is two months this week, and she is so much fun! I freaking love being her mom. 🙂 She’s smiling a lot, making tons of crazy noises that get louder every day, and we’re soaking up our last few weeks of hanging out all day before I go back to work. We are […]

Because all women, pregnant or not, should enjoy a decadent waffle from time to time. 🙂 These are just a few snapshots of the shower we (myself, my mom, and my fabulous friend Amy) threw my sister to celebrate and prep for the little man who is due TOMORROW!!! I am anxiously awaiting his arrival […]

Hey! It’s been a month. Wow. Isn’t that just how it goes sometimes? We have had so much going on. Namely, our bathroom remodel project is underway and actually almost done! What we naively hoped would be a 3 week project, 4 max, is turning out to be about a 7 week ordeal. Gross. As […]

I have a little news to share this morning…the Rawsons are gonna have a baby! (That’s not mine. Obviously.) Here’s the rundown: Due in August. I’m 15 weeks. Yes, I was a little sick for a few months but not bad. Yes, we plan to solve the he/she mystery (end of March). And yes, we’re […]

Winter. Blech. I’m not a fan. I try not to use this blog as a platform to do a lot of whining, but I allow myself one post a year to rant about the weather. And it’s that time again! January in general (and particularly last night’s snow dump) makes me wonder why on earth […]

My mom, Dori, who many of you know, turned 60 on December 19. Earlier this year, my family decided to pull together a surprise party for her and it took no small amount of planning and scheming. She was very surprised to see my siblings and our spouses in South Dakota, a week before she […]

Clinging to this today, and praying for friends dealing with an excruciating loss. The Lord is God and he is good. No matter what.

My last post was on my wedding anniversary. About an hour after posting it, I got a phone call from my parents and found out that my grandma, the one I visited back in May, had taken a turn in her health and wasn’t doing well. They were getting on a plane to go see […]

A few days ago, a friend asked me the question “Why get married?” It has made me think a lot about why my life is this way. Why did I want this? Did I seek it out? Did it just kind of happen to me? Not “how” really, but “why”. And truly, there is much […]

Last weekend, David and I flew to Salt Lake City, Utah to visit my brother Mark and his fantastic wife Jenna. They’ve lived there over a year and I was dying to see and experience their day-to-day life and see what everyone kept telling me was a “really cool, clean city with super wide streets”. […]

I feel old – like I’ve been around the block a few times. My blog turned 2 on Sunday! I’ll admit I feel a little proud of the fact that I’m still blogging. I didn’t know how long I’d stick with it when I started two years ago. It was really awkward at first, sharing […]

My awesome, entrepeneur-minded friend had this great idea to start his own blog and write about all the cool things happening in Nebraska that centered around food. Because believe me, Nebraskans love their food. And there’s a growing number of them that appreciate really really good food. Tyler’s idea, Nebraska Foodie, is the blog that […]

The only reason I haven’t shared a suspenseful teaser of my latest project yet is because I didn’t want to make people sit in agonizing anticipation for too long. That…and I forgot until now. Coming Monday – my good friend Tyler is launching a new blog and I’ve been busy tweaking and styling the site. […]

So, my sister and her husband (you’ve met) celebrated five years of marriage a few weekends ago. Doesn’t that seem like a long time these days? I think so. They are awesome and love each other greatly and just have a cool story of their life and the things God has done in it. They’re […]

This post probably should’ve gone up Monday, but my site was down. Thanks GoDaddy! Anyhow, my weekend was the most productive I’ve had in a long time, which incidentally means it wasn’t too restful. Sometimes you have to choose one or the other. As tired as I was Monday, it felt good to spend the […]

We made it to Boston! The last two days (Saturday and Sunday) were spent here and overall it was quite nice. We had some light rain the first day, but nothing we couldn’t sit out in a nice little bakery or walk through under a polka dot umbrella. We did learn that Boston isn’t such […]

Picking up where I left off on Part 1, after a fantastic, albeit short, visit to Portland, we hit the road and headed downeast (i.e. northeast) to Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park (both located on Mount Desert Island). This was the pace of our trip. We spent a fairly short amount of time at […]

Yes, David and I did indeed go to Vacationland. I have wanted to go to Maine for as long as I can remember. I used to beg my parents for a New England vacation, and we just never ended up there. I was stoked when David and I found reasonable tickets and decided to go. […]