4 Years & 51 Weeks Married | Early Anniversary Celebration

We celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary (early) this year. It was so fun getting dressed up and going out for the evening! We started the night off with some sushi and ramen. Ramen for delivery just does not hit the same way as ramen in a restaurant. It’s always more delicious and satisfying in a […]

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4 Years & 46 Weeks Married | Saturdays are for Birthday Parties

As if we weren’t busy enough with our own social schedules, we now also have to accommodate Baby R’s social life! And she’s quite a popular baby! Every week, if it’s not a play date then it’s a birthday party… or some sort of event. We’d be lying though if we said we didn’t enjoy […]

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4 Years & 45 Weeks Married | First Weekend Away From Baby R

One of Jake’s best friends got married this past weekend! It was a small wedding out in Colorado. When we originally got the invitation, we decided we would not bring Baby R so that we could be present and thoroughly enjoy the trip. At the time, we didn’t think too much about it. But as […]

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4 Years & 44 Weeks Married | 14ish Months of Baby R, Random Updates

Month 14 seems to be the month of exponential growth and learning for Baby R or should we say Toddler R. It’s almost as if overnight her brain turned on and now, every day she’s doing new tricks! Here are some cool things she’s been doing that we just want to document & remember. She […]

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4 Years & 40 Weeks Married | Date Night!

The big highlight of our last week was our first date night in what seems like a long time!!! The biggest advice we hear from seasoned parents is to prioritize quality time together. For us, this was a little easier back in the baby days when all Baby R would do is sleep and when […]

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4 Years & 39 Weeks Married | From 0-100

We went from having no plans at all last week to a week packed with social engagements nearly every day this week! It seems counterintuitive but when you have a toddler who needs entertaining all day, it’s actually preferable to make plans than to not make plans. Sometimes the days just drag by, when we […]

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4 Years & 38 Weeks Married | Easy, Relaxing Week!

(well as relaxing as it can get for Jake… he’s racing against the clock to finish his paper) We had one of the most relaxing weeks in a very long time this past week. In fact, we haven’t felt this refreshed and relaxed in quite a while! Baby R caught a little cold, so we […]

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4 Years & 33 Weeks Married | Memorial Day Weekend

Baby R was due around this time last year! Oh, how our lives have changed!! Exactly this time last year, we went on our final “spur-of-the-moment late-night movie showing”. Now, when we want to watch a movie in a theater, we have to plan in advance so we have a babysitter for Baby R! We […]

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