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Tomato Love

by gidget food

I am so thankful to have family in the shipping industry. Once, my aunt and uncle sent us an amazing Trader Joe’s care package (on dry ice no less) back when we lived in the TJ’s-starved region of Colorado. Now, they’ve gone over and above by FedExing us… a box of bounty from my uncle’s [...]

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Encylopedia of Me: D is for…

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Dodgers I already told you about my family’s love for baseball and how I married into a love of the Dodgers, but I felt they deserved a post of their own, especially now that Brody just went to his first Dodgers game! My parents have a partial season ticket package for the Padres, and they [...]

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Three-Year Old Chiquita

by gidget family

We’ve had a busy week of celebrating one special little girl… {fabric flower by Cut Sew Repeat} {no-sugar carrot cupcake recipe from Progressive Pioneer}

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Announcing Our New Bundle of Joy

by gidget adoption

Meet Brody. He came home with us on April 10, 2010. We are overcome with gratitude. I’ll be taking a little break from blogging to soak it all up… wouldn’t you? More later… xoxo, the family of FOUR

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Encyclopedia of Me: B is for…

by gidget life is beautiful

Books I’ve always been an avid reader. One summer, as a child, I checked out about 15 chapter books to read on our 3-week long vacation up to Northern California, and then proceeded to read them all on the 15-hour drive up there. My problem these days is having a hard time choosing– I’m always [...]

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An Adoption Story

by gidget adoption

Did you know that I have a sister-in-law whose family is amidst the paper pregnancy of adoption right now, too? They are adopting their second Korean child (and also have a biological son). Stacey just posted a little teaser of her story of adopting Reuben from Korea. You can read it here and be sure [...]

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Family Photos by Rena Anne Photography

by gidget family

In November we had some family photos taken by my best friend. She’s been taking our pictures for a while (our engagement, maternity pics and more), and finally decided to actually launch her business. I’m so excited because she is super talented. I was happy to build and help her set up her new photo [...]

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Christmas Traditions: Celebrating Advent

by gidget faith

Celebrating Advent Advent is the term that is used to refer to the Christmas season, a season of hope and anticipation, as we await the celebration of the birth of our Savior. There are many ways to celebrate Advent, all of which help focus our thoughts on Jesus rather than the hustle and bustle of [...]

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A Journey of Hope, Part 4

by gidget adoption

You can catch up on our adoption journey by reading Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Where We’re At The last couple months we’ve been filling out paperwork and running errands like crazy. This week we are finally coming to the end of this part of the adoption process, which you could call the [...]

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A Journey of Hope, Part 3

by gidget adoption

You can catch up by reading Part 1 and Part 2. “holding” one of her favorite baby friends So, this is the really cool part. Despite everything, we still had hopes for a bigger family. We always had said we wanted three or four kids, and the older Chiquita grows the more we desire a [...]

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