• Thanksgiving

    Jonita, Allen, Nicole and her family came out from Texas to celebrate Thanksgiving with us AZ folk! Jen hosted this year. The family keeps growing and she has a big beautiful home. <3…

  • NAU Volleyball Camp

    This was Alayna’s 1st year going to the NAU summer volleyball camp. NAU is only a 2.5 hour drive up north from Gilbert. So we packed up the car and headed up bright…

  • Sandström Farms

    My oldest, dearest, and sweetest friend (BFF’s since 6th grade actually 🙂 ) and her family have a beautiful little farm in Coolidge, AZ. They bring their delicious organically grown ancient grain oats…

  • Thanksmas!

    Jared’s family got together for a combo Thanksgiving/Christmas over the weekend. His sister Julie and her special guy realized it’s much more affordable to travel between holidays than on the holiday. ;P So,…

  • Thanksgiving – All Together Again!

    Rich and Rita have settled into their new home and have been dying to host the family for Thanksgiving. It was so neat to be all together again! Rita started off the meal…

  • Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig!

    The time has come and Jared’s parents made the big move from Texas to Arizona! We couldn’t be happier to have them back! I wrote a little about what spurred this decision back…

  • Wild Fires = Incredible Looking Sun

    I feel like every few weeks in 2020 there is some new apocalyptic bucket list item to cross off the list. It’s kind of insane. Pandemic- checkQuarantine/Lock-down- checkNo Toilet Paper- checkMurder Hornets- checkProtests…

  • Plugging Along

    Here we are with another week at home. We’ve all fallen into a routine of sorts. The days feel a little longer than normal as we don’t get out to do much other…