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We recently welcomed a new member to our family thanks to the folks at Ubooly. When Ubooly arrived on our doorstep, the boys were completely intrigued. They had a million questions for me about the fuzzy orange guy who they immediately dubbed “that guy”. He became infinitely more exciting when they saw me unzip his top and slide in my old iPhone. So what is Ubooly? An educational toy the is comprised of two components – a plush toy and {Read More}
My Gram was the only girl in a family of 7 kids. Only she and two brothers remain and I was super excited to spend some time with the three of them a couple weeks ago. I love this shot of Uncles Dick and Bill with the boys – it’s one I will treasure always. I’m also excited to have captured this one of the three Cardwell siblings. Don’t they look so happy all together? Linking up for Wordless Wednesday {Read More}
Now that I’m making the monster commute 5 days a week, I find that I really need to be on the ball when I’m planning my meals or I’m stuck. The kids are easy because they are perfectly happy with a plate of pasta and a side of fruit, but I tend to like something more interesting. I spotted a Fresh & Easy store on my drive home earlier this week and decided to stop in since I had failed {Read More}
Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero. -Marc Brown on brothers See those brothers up there? They’ve been through a lot in the last couple of months.Like most littles, they don’t do change well and we’ve had quite a bit. Their grandparents (who live with us) left for a 6 week long trip to Italy. We moved to a new house. I went away for a few days to attend a conference. We took away Luke’s {Read More}
Summer has arrived in Southern California and that means I’m craving salads and fruit. It’s the perfect time to resume my salad in a jar activities. Searching around for inspiration, I saw this Grilled Shrimp Avocado Fennel and Orange Salad on Skinnytaste and knew it would be perfect in a jar. Just a few tweaks to an already awesome recipe and a great new salad in a jar was born. My only hesitation in making this was that I’m never {Read More}
