Last Tuesday I spent the day in New York City with my friend Sarah. We hadn’t seen each other since the photo shoot for the Hot Blogger Calendar back in October (OCTOBER! It had been that long!?), so we were long overdue for some quality time together. (And really, who needs an excuse to meet [...]

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Last night my mom, dad, Audrey and I went out to dinner to celebrate Audrey’s 31st birthday. Yes, her birthday was a week earlier, on May 23, but it fell on Memorial Day weekend, and it was a pretty jam-packed weekend at that, so the birthday dinner was pushed to May 30.
It’s funny that Audrey [...]

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Audrey turned 31 on May 23, and I thought I would share 31 things about my beautiful big sister to celebrate her special day. Some of these things you may already know; others you may not. Enjoy!
1. She knows I’m a day late and a dollar short for everything - including her 31st birthday post [...]

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One of the good things about living back at home with my parents right now is that since they live about a mile from Audrey and her family - and Audrey’s boys pretty much love nothing more than going over to Grandma and Pop-up’s house - I get to see my nephews (or at least [...]

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When Audrey and I were younger, even though we each had our own rooms, we preferred to sleep together on the pull-out couch in our parents’ bedroom. We call it the pull-out-couch era.
I don’t remember when or why it started - or even when or why it ended. I was probably around 9 or 10 [...]

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Reading over my most recent posts, I realize that I haven’t gotten very personal on my blog lately, even though this is, in fact, my personal blog.
Most of my writing is about fun, light-hearted stuff, which is great because there are a lot of fun, light-hearted things going on in my life right now.
But there [...]

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Audrey’s oldest son William turns 4 today.
I cannot wrap my mind around the fact that the little guy I touched in Audrey’s belly here:

… and whom I held for the first time here:

… is now a smart, witty, happy, funny, big 4-year-old kid:

Time has a way of flying by, doesn’t it?
I am so proud of [...]

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Unlike some four-legged members of this household, my Ryder is not a chewer.
Even as a puppy, she never really chewed anything up or destroyed any of her toys. Instead, she’s always been something of a kleptomaniac.
Well, I guess it’s more that she likes to borrow things and snuggle with them.
I remember when she was a [...]

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Audrey let me borrow a tank top this weekend. I was waiting in my car, picking her up at her house, and she ran out with a tank for me to put on.
It fit perfectly up top. The stomach? Wonderfully roomy.
Seriously, I was astonished at how much material gathered at my stomach.
“Wow, Tweightloss is really [...]

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