2.21 Friday Faves

February 21, 2025

Hi friends! Happy Friday! What do you have going on this weekend? Itโ€™s Rodeo Break (itโ€™s an AZ thing and I love it), so the kids are off school. Weโ€™re just enjoying some Tucson adventures, fun with friends, and enjoying this spring-like weather. Sending some sunshine to my freezing friends right now! Iโ€™m doing a…

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Tie Fail

So many fun adventures today! A world beat class (which was amaaaaaazzing) hike at Sabino Canyon and dinner with an intimate party of 17. I was SO excited to take world beat this morning. As I mentioned before, thereโ€™s no recorded music, only live drummers, and we dance to international rhythms including African, Latin and…

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“Everywhere you look”

Itโ€™s a full house over here ๐Ÿ™‚ (+ my nana and stepdad) The Pilotโ€™s side of the fam came in from the southeast yesterday afternoon, and when they got here we did what most people do with out-of-town guests: took them to a bar.   Ok, so not a *real* bar, but to the squadron…

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Friday Faves

1. The meal of my childhood. On Sundays after church, everyone would go over to my nanaโ€™s house for homemade tortillas, chorizo, tamales, beans and eggs. Itโ€™s something my mom would often make on the weekends, too.. I knew it would be a good day when I woke up to the smell of chorizo. Now,…

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Things that go “smack” in the night

The other night, while I was feeding Livi, I heard an intense SMACK into one of our living room windows. โ€œWake up! I heard a noise!โ€ I went into the bedroom and shook the Pilot, who sleeps with earplugs in (thank goodness he didnโ€™t have to fly in the morning), and he woke up, grabbed…

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Postpartum eats

The first couple of weeks from the hospital were a mix of different emotions: happier than I thought was humanly possible, at the same time feeling a little wonky from the hormones stabilizing, extremely exhausted, and so full of love for my husband and new daughter. There wasnโ€™t a difference between night and day, and…

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