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Summer 2025
It’s officially Fall, though it’s still in the high 80s and sometimes 90s. This summer was filled with Eddie becoming a toddler and Hansen being a newborn and baby. Eddie is now able to walk up and down the stairs while holding the railing and Hansen is the smiliest baby!
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An Impromptu Week in Spring Hill
On a Thursday evening, after a long week of enduring the heat and Eddie feeling cooped up, Jason had the idea to drive to Spring Hill and have the boys and me stay for a week. What a wonderful idea, because it was much needed. Grace and Stirling got a taste of what it’s like…
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Family Photos!
Sara Espinoza, A friend of mine from “moms group” (weekly meet up at the library) offered to take our family’s pictures for free! She is trying to build her portfolio. I was excited because I had been wanting nice pictures once Hansen was born of the four of us. We met at Rose Gardens next…
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Anniversary- 3 years
Jason and I agreed that three years sounds like a short amount of time, but when we looked back at all we’ve done and the places we’ve been since we got married August 6th, 2022 it feels long. A year is a lot of days! We’ve had two babies, moved across the coutry twice (Rexburg…
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Fourth of July 2025
We started the day mopping and cleaning listening to patriotic music. We ate some egg sausage casserole for breakfast. We invited all the young married couples in our ward for dinner (Grangers, Rick’s, Grover who didn’t make it, and Spencer burhoe) Since I’m in change of making young married group activities happen I called up…
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July 2025- Shipley Fam Reunion
All the Shipley Aunts and Uncles and Cousins (minus Lori on her mission, she was an almost life sized cardboad cutout) got together in Gatlinburg TN for a Reuinion. It has been many years since the last one and I was in my mission so even longer for me. The theme was “Quilted Connections.” Here…
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Hansen’s baby blessing 🩵
All of Eddie and Hansen’s grandparents, cousins; Kami, Grace, and Stirling, and Shipley great-grandparents (Jan and Dave) came to celebrate Hansen! The Kober’s came all the way from WA on a long day of traveling and we made sure we planned fun things to do with them. In the end the best part was just…
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A Family of Four
We are starting to adapt to being a fam of four. This means we are exiting survival mode and entering transitional mode- where we and focus on being intentional parents and change our family systems. We are learning a lot, and there is so much more to learn, about being parents to a toddler. But,…
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Hansen’s Birth Story
Welcome home Hansen! On Sunday April 27th, I hit my due date. We went to church and I got to tell everyone who asked when my due date was that it was TODAY! Many responded with, “oh wow! I hope he comes soon.” And I agreed. But, we were thriving. Eddie and I were enjoying…
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Mother’s Day 2025- a hidden Mother’s Day gift
This year for Mother’s Day, I am 1.5 weeks postpartum and get to celebrate with a newborn (Hansen) sleeping my chest, thinking how crazy it is that last mothers day I celebrated the same way but with baby Eddie. It’s glorious! I love my babies and how i am becoming a mother because of them.…