What more could you ask for to get you over the hump of Wednesday than this cute puppy face?! Isn’t she adorable? This is Charlie, or Cha Cha as her closest friends like to call her, and she belongs to our resident photographer Katie. Britt and I decided, a DIY braided dog collar was the perfect ploy to get to spend more time with this adorable ball of furry cuteness and I’m so happy with how it turned out! You can keep reading for the full tutorial, but first: Anyone out there with kids have dogs? I’m having major puppy …
When I first moved to Los Angeles in 2006, I was constantly walking into Mexican restaurants and asking for breakfast tacos. Here in Austin it’s near a dietary staple, but there people looked at me like I had just tried to order prescription medication. Breakfast burritos abound, but a taco? You’re out of luck. Here’s why tacos are so much better than burritos: Instead of big bites of tortilla at either end with sloppy goops of filling in between, you get perfectly proportioned bites of everything inside. You …
You probably already guessed from the title… and the photo, but it’s true! We’re adding another babe to this crew in August and I’m so happy to finally share the news with you guys! There have been so many times that I felt like I was going to share it by accident here or that I wanted to mention my very strange cravings or food aversions, but stayed mum about the subject just a little while longer. Parker has been asking for a baby sister for nearly a year now, so she was so excited when we told her that there was …
I was on a group text earlier this week with my girlfriends back in Los Angeles (actually one of them moved to Phoenix the same week we moved to Austin). We were somewhere between chatting about pregnancy weight gain and the latest lice outbreak at someone’s preschool when one of my friend’s mentioned that National Margarita Day had reminded her of me– the nicest compliment I could ever hope to receive, by the way– which led us down the rabbit hole of our happy hour meet ups pre-kids. Figaro’s on Vermont! The …