02/03/2017
Is it just me or did this week seem extra long? We spent most of Sunday shooting this post, so I guess our week was truly extra long. Aaron is headed to Houston for the Super Bowl today, so it’s a girls weekend for Parker and I! We have a birthday party Saturday morning (Paw Patrol themed which is sure to be a hit!) and I’m heading out solo for a dinner party Saturday evening. We will be watching the game with friends and family on Sunday, but our only other plans are to finish all of our unpacking. We’ve been in our … 
Can we talk about moving? When was the last time you moved? Do you hire movers or rally friends? I have a good handful of skills, but moving is not one of them. If all of my abilities were ranked from best to worst moving would be at the very, very bottom of that list. So low in fact, that if you didn’t properly format your printer, it might just be inadvertently cropped off which would actually make just as much sense. We moved just last week into a rental that we’ll call home until our house is completed in September. … 
It’s that time of the year! The time of year when Aaron ventures off to the Big Game (his eighth adventure to the Big Game!) and I plot and plan what I will bring to this year’s Game Day party. Last year I was going to simply pick up cupcakes from our favorite bakery. I wandered into the store 30 minutes before game day and they were slashing the price on this monstrosity of a football helmet shaped cake that must have weighed at least 30 pounds and I just couldn’t help myself. Since I feel that the equipment shaped … 
A lot of people have asked how we decided to build the house that we are building. Like if you could build anything you want, where do you even start? If you read this post from beginning to end (it’s a long one, not going to lie!), then you know that as far as the floor plan requirements were concerned Aaron and I each got to have three things that were priorities to us and then we agreed to be flexible on everything else. One of my three priorities, and perhaps the one that was most important to me, was having a playroom downstairs. … 
