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Good Food

No-Churn Cookie Dough Ice Cream

6:00 AM
At what point does a love for ice cream become a $10/week Ben & Jerry's habit? When one goes to Texas, that's when. We decided that we would kick the Ben & Jerry's habit (just after an ice cream stop at an actual Ben & Jerry's store on Brandon's birthday! Convenient!) going into the next semester, but we would need some other options....

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Country

Family 4-Hers at the Fair

6:00 AM
One of the things that I am not taking for granted anymore is proximity to family. Spending a summer in Arkansas, a summer in Texas and then the possibility of living far away has caused me to grab ahold of every moment I can with little nieces and nephews and sisters and brothers and mom and dad and everybody! Now we are happy...

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Date Night

Kangaroo Parenting and an Important Date

6:00 AM
I was reading a book to Devereaux a few days ago and learned an important fact. Baby kangaroos ("joeys") stay in their mama's pouch for nine months after birth. They eat and grow and hang out with mama very, very closely. Also, as I was reading more about kangaroos, I learned that sometimes when a joey is frightened, it jumps back into its...

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Brandon's Career

Mind. Blown.

11:57 AM
I used to think being married to a man with a master's degree would be the coolest thing ever. I could say "I am married to a master!" Only a Jedi-Master would be cooler.... okay, not really. But now, I'm thinking that being married to a doctor would be greatest! Not a medical doctor. No, sir. A doctor of science in earth and...

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