Learning Our Love Language

Learning Our Love Language

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Today is Babywise Friendly Blog Network Day and we're all talking about Love Languages (pretty appropriate with Valentine's Day coming up, right?) Zach and I are approaching our 8th wedding anniversary. We have grown so much  in our marriage since the day we said "I do." However, I think we've actually done the most growing just in the past couple of years. Having children has brought new challenges but also many triumphs for us and I think as we get older, and more mature, that we're able to better communicate and understand each other. I was really excited to find a quiz about The 5 Love Languages! I have always speculated what my love language is and have always guessed that I knew what Zach's was. But taking the test really helped us determine the way we give love as well as the way we best receive it. You can take the quiz for yourself here: www.5lovelanguages.com  The great thing about the quiz is that it sends your results to you in an...

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Sled Day

Sled Day

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Originally we had planned to have our 2nd day on the trip also be spent on the slopes. After we realized the HUGE savings by skiing on weekdays we decided to switch things up and use Sunday as our "off day" and Monday as our last ski day :)  At home we eat basic breakfast every morning. The kids eat prunes and bananas and dry cereal. That's why on trips I always want to do fun breakfast food when we can! It's truly a treat! Zach and Kye LOVE to build things together. Leading up to our trip they decided to build a sled for us to take with us. Zach was convinced  that we'd have actual snow in the air and all over the ground during our trip. Like he was really positive about it (one of the rare times I was actually right haha!). I was nervous that the build up was too  big for the kids. I mean promising them they will get to ski is fine b/c we knew the slopes blew snow. But sledding?  Well. Zach got lucky ;) We happened to see a free sledding park on ...

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