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 […]