City Boy + Farm Girl

03/02/2021

Happiest of birthdays, my sweet boy. How you can already be three years old I will never understand. I haven’t cried yet, but let’s be honest, I’ve been close. I love you so very much. You were so worth the wait.
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Reading you a chapter from your book and watching you fall asleep was icing on my mom cake today. But when I got up, you just barely woke up and asked me to sing our song. Even better 💕
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The years will continue to fly by while the days sometimes drag on. I’m so very fortunate to stay home with you and baby sister. Sometimes it isn’t easy, but it’s still the best job. Yet even with all the time I do get with you... it doesn’t feel like enough (especially on milestones like a birthday). While you’re both so young I often have such strong urges to sell everything and simplify our lives... just so there are less distractions and more time just as a family. Just us. Together. Time is so fleeting. It’s the one thing I wish we could get more of, but don’t we all. Probably shouldn’t have been lazy and got some of the great photos I took today on my real camera but laying in here nursing your sister.

02/13/2021

I was able to breathe new life into this piece that was in my grandparents’ home my entire life. It now holds our son’s clothes.
I used the Restore-A-Finish in the color that was the closest match and Feed-N-Wax after multiple cleanings. Fitting I chose their products as my grandpa went by Howard.
I never shared this before. Probably because I had planned on taking a staged shot...and life happened.

05/27/2020

I couldn’t help myself. I HAD to make this. A chicken picnic table = Chicknic Table! I am officially the
Also, their server was pretty excited to bring them a snack (second picture).
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Inspiration: A few friends and family sent me the exact same picture of one of these. I’d tag whoever made that one if I knew.

02/27/2020

Baby Girl’s room is officially done (minus the whole decorating part). Need to find some new shades, rug, and a vintage bed frame for later on. As you can see, we chose to leave the wood window and door trim and are pretty happy with how it turned out. Only took until I was 39 weeks + 3 days pregnant 🤣
➡️ Swipe to see the Before. I’m considering framing and hanging a piece of the wallpaper for posterity.

01/02/2020

Hello, 2020! Crazy to think that baby #2 will be joining the family soon and our whole dynamic will change. Enjoying all the time I’ve got left with just little man and I. He’s the best and I’m so thankful God let us be his parents (even if he had me up for two hours last night while he screamed/cried for no apparent reason). Today, he wanted to go on a walk in the woods... carrying the chicken feed scoop of course.

12/23/2019

We celebrated our 5th anniversary on Saturday night. Our first date night since we became parents... 21 months ago! And we’re now 10 weeks away from adding baby 2 to the mix.

We got to enjoy this spectacular view followed by a great dinner... and even better company.

This was all thanks to my mom (so so so very thankful) who called last week and offered to watch Henry so we could go out (Yes, I’m the mom who doesn’t like to leave her kid with anyone). Being 3 hours from family stinks but at least it was close enough she could do this.
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06/07/2019

So many fun things happening around here this year! This happened this week. I might become a crazy chicken lady! Henry hasn’t decided how he feels about them yet. thinks we’re torturing him with birds in the backyard.
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I’m almost embarrassed by how excited I was to find an egg on the first full day with the girls in the backyard.
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We’re already talking about building a new coop and large run. We let them free range during the day, but definitely worried about predators at night.
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I’m TERRIBLE about sharing on here. I do alright on IG stories and Snapchat, but never take time to post. Sorry ☺️

04/03/2019

Just made this tonight and it was DELICIOUS! Highly recommend. We used the ground turkey tonight but will try other meats in the future.

Even if someone has never had spaghetti Squash, I think this would win them over.

This Spaghetti Squash Lasagna with Turkey Meat Sauce will be your new favorite healthy dinner recipe for fall. You definitely don’t miss the noodles in this one! Have you ever imagined what life would be like without cheese? It’s probably one of the most unpleasant thoughts ever. I mean, all the...

02/26/2019

02/02/2019

I apologize in advance to the rest of the world, but my son is the cutest...ever! Just partially biased here. Also, he has dog food in his mouth in this picture.
I’ve also decided that he’s not allowed to turn one. I can do that, right?!

01/21/2019

Had an awesome ❄️Snow❄️ Day with the family. Little Man went sled riding for the first time... pulled him and our neighbor’s daughter behind the 4wheeler. Also plowed the driveway no les than 4x so far. I did it once and it’s actually fun.

01/16/2019

I’m basically a professional bread maker now. 🤣 But seriously, it SO SO good.

And my new year definitely did not involve any dieting goals. 🤷‍♀️