Archives for July 2025

Happy Monday! A few bloggers I follow will randomly do a post sharing three things about each member of their family, and since my blog is basically my online scrapbook, I thought this would be something that I’d love to look back on a few years from now!

Dustin and Sarah

1. Dustin just turned 40 on Friday and we celebrated him with dinner out. The place we went to started frying their fries in tallow at the beginning of the year and they are soooo good! There’s such a different in how they taste.
2. I’ve been wearing my weighted vest on all of my walks and I really enjoy it! The one I got is adjustable and it goes from 11-20lb. I’ve got it at 14lb right now. It has a little pocket on the front where I put my phone and I like that I can keep my hands free while I’m out walking. I’m either listening to a podcast or talking to someone on the phone while I’m walking 🙂
3. This is the 2nd year in a row that I did not shop the Nordstrom sale. I didn’t shop last summer because I was 3 months post-partum and still had a bunch of weight to lose. And I’m not shopping this summer because I’m still working on losing weight. I’ve lost all of the weight I gained from Merritt and now I’ve got to lose the weight I gained from Banks’s adoption ha! I’m slowly doing that now, so I don’t want to get a bunch of clothes at my current size. Now I did buy this spray for my hair and the last time I bought it was two years ago, so it really does last! I use it before I curl my hair and my hair is now long enough for me to start doing that again.

Harrison

1. Harrison just got his letter in the mail from his new teacher and he’s excited to see who is in his new class!
2. We’ve been reading lots together over the summer. We read The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe together and then watched the movie (he loved). We’ve recently started reading The Green Ember together. The language is elevated, but I believe it’s so important to expose children to elevated (and honestly, very beautiful) language in order to develop their vocabulary. Harrison has also been reading to me this summer! My mom brought by a ton of the old readers from the 1950s (think Dick and Jane, Tip and Mitten, etc) and Harrison has been reading those to me.
3. Harrison is super creative and loves to build robots and other creations with his legos. He goes upstairs and has his quiet rest time while the babies nap, and he’s always showing me his creations and the different parts to his robots. (He loves Wall-E and The Wild Robot)

Banks

1. Banks is our #1 helper. I say I’m running to the bathroom and Banks yells he wants to help and runs ahead of me and lifts the toilet seat LOL or he sees Merritt opening a kitchen drawer she shouldn’t be in, so he puts his body in between her and the drawer to keep her from opening it.
2. I wish I could post this video here, but Banks loves Toy Story so much that at the beginning of Toy Story 2 when Rex is playing the video game, Banks will act out the part of Buzz. It’s the best. I videoed him the other day doing it so I could remember it forever 🙂
3. Banks loves to be a backseat driver. We’ve just recently turned his carseat to forward facing, and he sure does love to yell out “Be careful, Momma!” or “Slow down!” Yesterday Dustin had the navigation on while we were going to pick up a marketplace purchase, and as soon as the navigation would say a direction like turn left, Banks would yell out “Turn left, Daddy!”

Merritt

1. Merritt has started roaring like a dinosaur. She heard Banks playing with a dinosaur one day and roaring, so she started doing it and it’s hilarious.
2. She’s still not walking (but taking a couple steps here and there), but she definitely is doing everything else. She learned how to climb onto the couch and she get down the right way, too.
3. Merritt loves applesauce pouches and can eat 3 at a time haha! She points to the pantry which means she wants some applesauce 🙂