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Valentine’s Day Ideas + Heart Health

Christopher todd | engagement photos | houston

Happy Wednesday, friends. With Valentine’s Day on a Monday this year, I’m curious about what ya’ll are up to. But first, February is Heart Health Month. My work does a heart health challenge in February to encourage employees (and anyone else) to get up and moving. Sharing the chart below that you can use throughout the entire month to encourage…

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Weekend Edit + Three-ingredient snack idea

golden retriever

Happy Monday, friends. I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Why do the weekends always seem to fly by? This was the first weekend in a long time where I didn’t have to set an alarm. I had nothing concrete on my schedule, so I got to go at my own pace. I think we sometimes get so caught up…

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Friday Favorites: Texas Cold Front edition

popcorn for the people

Happy Friday, Friends. I promise we will be back to regularly scheduled programming within a week or two. My meetings schedule isn’t going to be as bad over the next couple of weeks. If you live in Texas, you might be having a snow day – especially if you are in Dallas. We didn’t get any snow here in Houston,…

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Weekend Edit: Spring Preview

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Happy Monday, friends. I’m sitting here at my desk this morning, with a cup of coffee, waiting for the rain to come in to Houston. We are in for a rainy day – and a real cold front later this week. But, this weekend was fabulous – it was an unexpected spring preview. Saturday and Sunday both started off in…

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Friday Favorites: A whole lotta Zoom

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Happy Friday, friends. It’s (obviously) been a really inconsistent blogging week for me, but I honestly needed some time away from the screen. I had a record week for Zoom meetings, and that isn’t a good thing. If you’re actively participating and listening in a Zoom meeting – you really shouldn’t be doing anything else. As I learned in a…

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Dogs

Pupdate: 9 Months

golden retriever

Happy Wednesday! I thought it would be fun to give you guys an update on the pups since they are 9 months old now. And, one of our friend’s parents just got a puppy from the same set of parents last weekend. We’ve come such a long way from when we picked them up in June, and I’m proud of…

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Weekend Edit

golden retriever

Happy Monday! I had some very early morning meetings on Friday, so I had to take a bit of a blogging hiatus. Once my day got going, it was pretty busy. So, I’ll fill you in on our weekend, which we kicked off early on Thursday night. Thursday Our cold front came in on Thursday, so our weather was in…

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Thursday Tangents

baby shower

Happy Thursday, friends! I was able to get a little tennis in on Tuesday night, and I’m still sore this morning. Our instructor couldn’t make it, so my friend and I went to go practice anyways while the weather was warm. Let’s just say, we need to probably continue practicing with our instructor for awhile longer. This is going to…

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Cooking

Easy No Bake-Noodle Lasagna Recipe

easy no bake noodle lasagna recipe

Happy Tuesday, friends. If you’re back to work today like I am, you’ve spent half your morning confused about which day of the week it actually is and may or may not have gotten some meetings mixed up. We’ve got one more day of nice weather here in Houston before the rest of January turns cold. And by cold, I…

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Weekend Edit: Long Weekend Edition

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Happy MLK Day, ya’ll! I’m off today in observance of the holiday, but I wanted to check in to share what we were up to this weekend. So, I’ll make today’s post short and sweet and try to do a sentence per picture. As for today’s agenda, I’m about to go walk the dogs, make a new banana bread recipe,…

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