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Another summer weekend of play is in the books. This past Saturday we took everyone to a place called Pirate Coast Paddle Company in the Newport Beach area (insert shameless plug: I highly recommend this place if you’re in SoCal BTW!!!). We picked out a spot in the shade, let the kids roam around searching…
This trip was a total surprise to me for my birthday! The back story is that for the past three years we have somehow managed to be on an island for some sort of vacation for Matt’s birthday. And apparently last year (I remember this now, but it took him reminding me…) I had…
Last month was our 14th wedding anniversary! I cannot believe it’s been that long! I thought I’d share just a couple of my favorite pics from our night out together. And a little bonus photo down below of what most of my pics look really like! 🙂 We went to eat at a restaurant in…
The other day my neighbor came over to surprise us with Angels tickets! It happened to be one of the boys birthdays, but since there were only four tickets it was just me with the three oldest boys who went. We were given a parking pass that got us up right by the gate…
Traveling with kids may seem like the impossible, but believe me it isn’t. I have been out of the country with a child as young as 2 weeks old and have flown numerous flights with 3, 4, and 5 kids with me. I love to travel and even though we don’t get to as often…
Our family LOVES donuts….or doughnuts…or little fried sugary bits of heaven. I believe we are borderline donut snobs now if I’m honest. We have been to some amazingly incredible out-of-this-world donut shops and now the normal run-of-the-mill is never quite enough. I mean…don’t get me wrong…if it’s between run-of-the-mill and nothing I would still take…