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Everyday Life

MERRY HAPPY LIST: 48

An impromptu #remotelycandid photoshoot with Lydia and Elliott  // Elliott trying to sneak a banana muffin when I was distracted making dinner 😂 // Lydia asking if I was “shoveling” the “candylane” cards // catching up on @nbcthisisus with Stephen // throwing a ball up and down the stairs with L&E // Elliott's static-y hair after he rubbed it on the couch //...

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Elliott Allred

39 WEEKS AND THE 'NESTING' STAGE.

This post is written in partnership with Kolcraft. All words and opinions are my own. This post contains affiliate links. I'd never heard of the term 'nesting' until I was teaching 6th grade a few years ago. I had a student whose mom was pregnant with twins and one day when I asked how her mom was doing towards the end of the...

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Everyday Life

MORE BACON, PLEASE

Last week Lydia, Elliott, and I were eating cinnamon rolls for breakfast. (I had attempted to make some Sunday morning for General Conference breakfast, and I'm choosing to celebrate the fact that they were edible and call them a success, but the truth is they mediocre at best, haha - we were eating the leftovers*.)   Anyway, we're eating the cinnamon rolls and Lydia...

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CHICAGO: WINDY AND WONDERFUL

Back in July we took a family trip to Iowa! The trip was inspired because one of Stephen’s best friends from high school was getting married and rather than just have Stephen go all that way for a weekend, we thought it would be fun to go as a family and make a vacation of it! Stephen's parents had the idea to make...

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Elliottisms

MOTHERHOOD IS JOY.

Yesterday I read the following post in a facebook group: Hi! I'm currently 34 weeks pregnant and expecting my first. As the time gets closer, I thought I'd be getting more excited but have found that I'm hearing non-stop comments that are negative or unhappy about what to expect. Things like, 'just you wait until [insert here]' or 'Make sure you do this...

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FAMILY COSTUMES OF HALLOWEEN PAST

It's OCTOBER which means it's time to start thinking about Halloween costumes!!! (Totally unrelated, but it also means that I can officially say I'm due next month which is weird.) I have a love/hate relationship with the fact that we've done cute family-costumes the past two years because it's been SO much fun! ...but is also making me feel pressure to out-perform the previous...

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A RAMBLY UPDATE ON LIFE AS OF LATE.

Today was our ward's primary program and goodness. Children singing primary songs + pregnancy hormones are a ROUGH combination. All I can say is thank goodness for waterproof eyeliner and mascara and thank goodness I was seated with my primary class on the BACK row, with kids STANDING all around me, because to say I was "a bit teary" during the program would...

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ST. GEORGE, UTAH: A GUIDE FOR THE ANTI-HIKING ENTHUSIAST

*This post is written in partnership with My Place Hotel St. George. All opinions are my own. I've only been to St. George a handful of times in my adult life, and if you're a long-time follower of this blog you might remember the time a few years ago when we went for a long weekend with some friends and I got bamboozled into...

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