We are 5 months into 2019 and I never would have imagined our year would be filled with so much already. We found a house, put in an offer and it got accepted sooner than we expected. So we put our house on the market and within a week we had an offer that we […]
the shaver crew
meet mera
Kylo is gone. We have a couple theories of what happened to him, but after checking animal shelters and waiting for his return, we’ve concluded the second part of the trio known as “the triplets” (Rylie, Kylo + Rey) is no longer with us. Being without a dog has felt somewhat unnatural to us, […]
easter 2019
I love Easter! I love celebrating the extravagant love Jesus displayed. I love dying eggs and having hard boiled eggs for days afterwards. I love the Easter best you see families wear to church and I can never get enough of the poofy dresses little girls wear and the mini suits and tiny spiked hair […]
baby shaver #3 is a…
It hit me at my 12-week appointment when I saw our sweet baby on the cell phone sized portable ultrasound. “Who are you?” Every day I know Rylie is Rylie and Emmaline is Emmaline. But who was this baby? Was it our sweet boy or a precious girl? The last month of waiting to find […]
our trip to illinois for papa freddie
It was sudden and completely unexpected. Aaron and I had just talked to Rick and Michelle after closing on our house and they were going to go out of town for the weekend to celebrate their anniversary. We decided to get a celebratory dinner before we picked the girls up from Amberlyn’s house. As we […]
telling close family and friends
One of our favorite parts of pregnancy is announcing it, especially to close family and friends. What made this one extra unique is that absolutely no one was expecting it. We had been pretty open about wanting more kids, but we had been very adamant that we were waiting a little bit and giving ourselves […]
our 3rd +
2019 has been a very full year already for the Shaver Crew. Selling our house (which of course involves packing, projects and more), sudden family deaths (Aaron’s grandpa and my grandpa passed the same weekend), the normal day-to-day AND celebrating Emmaline’s 1st birthday, it’s been steady, to say the least. But what we haven’t shared […]
welcome to “how to be a big sister 101”
Rylie taught “How to be a BIG Sister 101” to help prepare Emmaline for some upcoming changes. Graduation is scheduled for September 2019. || We know you have lots of questions, like: How far along am I? When did we find out? How did we tell family? Do we know the gender? Etc. […]
once upon a time – emmaline’s 1st birthday party
We love the early birthday party themes to be a play on words that share the age of the kids. So far we’ve hosted: Wonder Woman (One-der Woman 😉) How 2 Train Your Dragon When we started thinking about party themes I expressed my desire for a whimsical fairy tale style and Aaron and […]
mr. & mrs. benson
Back in September my sister-in-law got married and officially became a Benson. It was a gorgeous day and by far one of my favorite weddings ever!!! Ryan and Amberlyn recently got their wedding photos back and I’m refraining from sharing all 1,000+ of them because they are all gorgeous and perfectly capture the day. You […]