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Life Lately – August

July was a blur. I came back from Colorado and headed off to Ireland and Spain for work at the beginning of the month. I made lots of time for my guys around that trip. We explored Burlington and the park on Saturday. It was so humid but soooo much fun. We kept commenting on

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Handmade Baby Shower

I had to title this the handmade baby shower because we received so many beautiful handmade gifts including knitted blankets, an ABC book that was hand drawn by a wonderful artist and small soft blankets made from drawings of a family friend’s grandson. Seriously, the gifts were incredibly thoughtful and will be treasured forever! In

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Food for now and beyond

We’ve been consciously working on making delicious meals at home – and saving portions of them for when baby arrives and we don’t have time/feel like cooking a meal. Some of our first frozen dinners were chili (any recipe works here – we saved 4 individual portions) and chicken tortilla soup (we saved 4 portions in a

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Little by little

We finally have a fence for our backyard. It took a while with HOA approval, getting scheduled with the company (Fall is apparently a crazy busy time for fences) and then weather. They started on 10/4 by putting the posts up and then Hurricane Matthew made his way through North Carolina, delaying the rest of

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