Last year when Grace’s first Christmas was quickly approaching I felt this pressure to come up with Christmas traditions for our family. If you think about it, what we all remember the most from our holidays growing up are those special things we did as a family every single year. Family traditions are important! (At…
The Cake: I ordered a chocolate cake with peanut butter icing. The bakery gave us a free “finger cake” for little Grace to dig into. I love how the cakes turned out and so did Grace! She started out picking off the little dots around the edge of the…
Dear Grace Renee, Today we celebrated your FIRST birthday! We had a nice party and invited lots of family. Everyone was happy to come help us celebrate your first year of life! A lot has changed since I wrote your last letter on your 6 month birthday. Here are some of the highlights of the…
On Grace’s 11 month birthday we decided that we would celebrate by cashing in her free ice cream cone coupon that she earned by completing the summer reading program at the library. Although I’m not a fan of McDonald’s, that is where the coupon was for so that is where we went! As Nate and…
Going into my labor and delivery there were just three things that were really important to me besides having a healthy baby: I really wanted to avoid being induced. I really REALLY wanted a midwife to help me deliver. I was going to try to go all natural, but if I ended up needing some…
Nate and I were very blessed with beach vacations this summer! We left Ocean City, NJ and just 10 days later we came back for another few days! We certainly didn’t plan our vacations to be so close or to the exact same place, BUT like I said we were very blessed to have the…