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November 10, 2019

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Pippa, our fiery babe

July 14, 2019

Carrying around a water bottle that’s a big as her. Taking photos! Pippa has exploded! Her personality just bursts out of her on a daily basis. It takes more shape every day to our complete delight and amazement. She is entirely her own person with her own preferences and likes (full disclosure I’m writing this now when Pippa is 16 months not 15 months like when I started out). I just have so much to reflect on with her! I’m glad that I take the time most days to write a little something about what she has been up to because it is hard to summarize her in a blog post! Her liveliness increases exponentially with each day. Her now curly blonde hair has exploded with vivacity (we like to keep her hair in a half pony on top of her head) just like her personality and we are wondering- where did this all come from? Where was it stored? It is completely amazing to see how much she gets, how much she loves us, and how much she LOVES life. Our baby is seriously into toddlerhood ...

Utah for Grandad’s funeral

September 17, 2019

Grandad Hurst took a turn right before Labor Day and died August 31. He had taken a turn when we were all visiting in Lake Tahoe and hadn’t quite been the same, but still his death came about very quickly. Our little Family was in a very up in the air with what to do about maybe moving into the Hursts’s house, what to do for Hunter’s schooling, getting pregnant, where to travel for our fall family trip. When we heard grandad died we knew that we would go forward with a plan we had always envisioned- taking a good amount of time to see southeastern Utah and connect with that heritage. We had always liked the idea of taking the kids to red rock but the logistics and time of getting there we had a hard time justifying (it’s like flying to Europe the time it takes to travel there!). But grandad’s death and the reunion it would be with the family we knew we had to be a part of. don’t often instagram often, but when I do it’s to shamelessly plug m...