this past saturday, i was blown away. absolutely, fall-off-my-chair blown away. the baby shower that my closest friends and family threw for me was beyond anything i could have ever dreamed. really. beyond. it wasn’t just the decorations, and the food, and the gifts, and the games – although those were all far more fabulous […]

well, the checklists and books are all telling me it’s time. any minute now, it wouldn’t be out of the question for me to go into labor. technically i’m not due for another 5 weeks, but nate and i are planners. like compulsive planners. we like lists – lots of ’em. we’re pretty much total […]

all of a sudden, it’s close. i have 6 weeks to go until i’m ripe at 40 weeks and at my due date. 5 1/2 weeks, really. 39 more days. i’m kind of speechless…cuz, ya know, 39 days is like….nothin’. the closer i get to meeting the little lyon, the more my mind wanders. what’s […]

this week has been the most baby-filled week yet! call it the 7-day-baby-marathon if you will. childbirth classes our first of two childbirth classes was last week at the hospital we’re having the baby at. you know – the childbirth classes you see in the movies and on tv with a group of couples sitting […]

when we were planning our wedding, pinterest was tiny. like no one knew about it – tiny. i know, total tragedy. no endless pages of ideas, or dresses, or things you’d never think of. we came up with ideas from the hundreds of weddings i’ve been to, wedding magazines, and even managed to come up […]

you know the saying, “crisp mountain air”? it’s more than just the air… something about being in the rocky mountains just puts a whole new perspective on things. the minutes move slower, and the people you’re around feel all that much more important. it’s like the perfect little escape. kd and darin are lucky enough […]

i know i still have 9 weeks or so to go until we meet our little man, and still a lot to learn about the last stages of pregnancy, but there are a few things that every pregnant woman should know. so here i go – take it or leave it – my top 5 […]

planning and decorating the nursery has definitely been a highlight of the pregnancy so far. the closer we get to having the nursery finished, the more real it feels that our little lyon is almost here. we’ve done quite a bit of work on the details of the nursery lately, including coming up with a […]