Portland’s Christmas Spectacular!
We love attending this beautiful holiday event each year. Christian’s sorority sister is a member of the “singing tree” and the show is the perfect way to kickoff the Christmas season. Read more »
30 Questions
We found this article to help us gather the answers to all of these questions about you, so that our future child will know your story too (as much as you’d like to share). Christian is looking forward to adding all of these details to the baby book-so that baby will always know their beautiful story. Read more »
Homemade Cupcakes
Christian baked chocolate peanut butter cupcakes for her Aunt’s birthday today. Aaron is the official taste tester. He is also very easy to please when it comes to desserts. Read more »
Benny!
We spent yesterday down on the OSU campus enjoying gameday. We are looking forward to our child getting to meet Benny, the OSU mascot! Read more »
Perfect night for chili.
It’s dark and raining tonight in Portland - the perfect way to warm up is homemade sweet potato chili. Yum! Read more »
Furry Friends
We spent the weekend visiting old friends and we got to spoil their two sweet puppies: Remi and Ranger. We love all furry friends - they have so much love and energy to share. Read more »
Exploring the Red Rocks in Colorado
We spent today hiking in the Red Rocks - the views were majestic! We passed several people wearing their babies on their chests in packs and look forward to getting to explore beautiful parks with our child too! Read more »
It’s our 3rd wedding anniversary!
We are spending our 3rd wedding anniversary in Denver! Three years ago today we got married in front of the Ko’olau mountains on Oahu. Looking forward to exploring the Rocky Mountains this week. I love that we can sneak away for quick trips together often, thanks to Aaron’s free travel benifits! Read more »
Candy Chute!
We had fun putting up our candy chute again this year! It’s become a tradition with the neighborhood kids. Happy Halloween! Read more »
Finished the closet!
We finished painting the back wall of the closet and have been able to move in some of the cuteness we have been stockpiling - like this sweet whale we found this weekend. Read more »
Happy Yellow
We decided to paint the inside of the nursery closet today. The sunny surf nursery theme is inspired by a “Surfer Jesus” print we were given. There will be an accent wall of wave wallpaper that is white and turquoise. We thought the closet could use a little pop of sunshine to match. The color is called Happy Read more »
Stocking Up
We spent hours picking out the perfect car seat and playpen/bassinet yesterday. We want to be prepared for the magical call. We are ready to safely bring baby home! Read more »
Baby Beaver
Both of us our Oregon State University alumni and we have season tickets for football games too. We love being Beavs, win or lose. Even our first date was a Beaver game at Michigan! We like to daydream of how we’d announce our miraculous news that we were chosen. If it happened during football season, it would probably be Read more »
New Basketball Hoop for Grandma’s House!
We spent the last three days in Hilo, Hawaii, helping Aaron’s mom with projects around her house. Aaron grew up shooting hoops on the driveway, but the hoop and backboard he used was overdue for an update. Despite the warm rain, we were able to install a brand new backboard and hoop for all to use. Aaron is looking forward Read more »
Off to Hawaii!
We are headed to Hilo to visit Aaron’s mom today to help with some work around her house (hale in Hawaiian). Christian likes to work on her Hawaiian inspired quilt on the flight. Read more »
Zoom Parenting Class Today!
We spent today in an 8 hour parenting class! Everything from development to swaddling, bottle feeding and when to start baby on solid foods. Aaron is excited to make our own baby food. His favorite foods are already avocado, sweet potatoes and bananas. Christian loves practicing her swaddles. We even learned baby sign Read more »
A peek into our daily lives...
