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Workout Wednesday 1.3.18

Now, I hear you right now in your head going "Oh no...not another self indulgent fitness blog post that makes me feel bad about not working out." Reason I hear you saying it because it's what I'm hearing in my head too. But hear me out and I think we can move past the "normal" fitness blog.

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A New Blog

So, we changed the design of the blog! We are also sharing some big changes not just in the blog but in our lives today. I hope you will watch the video to find out what's going to be happening and join us on this adventure!

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Little-Ruler-Christ-Song

Merry Christmas everyone! I'm talking about Noels on my blog, especially my Reagan Noel!

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Madelyn Egli
A Christmas Outing

Well, this last week marked our baby girl turning one month old and, subsequently, us surviving our first month as parents. So we treated ourselves to a date and a family Christmas outing.

The Christmas outing itself was to a lights display called Enchant Christmas. We loved it! And I think you will love the video too!

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Our top 5 (ish) baby products!

So, today we have officially made it four weeks with our newborn! While lots of prayer have helped us the most, there are a few products that have definitely saved our sanity! Jared and I came up with our top five lists of our favorite products so far and we hope they help you rock parenting with style! 

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A Craft Cart Reveal!

Ok. Blog is up a little later than normal today. But late is better than never so here we go!

I am so, so excited to show y'all the INCREDIBLE craft cart Jared has made me! 

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Advice from New Parents

Today our little one is two weeks old. We are by no means experts. But we thought we would give at least a little advice from two parents who are fresh out of the box new at this whole baby thing. Hopefully it will encourage/help any other expectant parents out there who are anxiously awaiting their turn to tackle taking care of a newborn!

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A Birth Day

Well, in typical new parent style, our entire social media is filled with stuff about our new baby girl. Here's a (non graphic) look at the day our little one was born one week ago.

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A Baby Update

Baby Update

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A Humble iPhone X Review

The internet is saturated with iPhone X reviews with fancy montages and shots that look like Apple might have paid for them to make the reviews (not saying thats the case but sometimes one begins to wonder). Then there are other reviews that would rather just bash Apple about everything. Me? I just want to tell you about my experience and include a new thing I tried where I preordered through the Verizon app and activated my phone from at home, including a trade in.

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Happy Halloween 2017

While there are going to be plenty of things that are scary this evening, this picture pretty much sums up my fears for right now.  Why? Check out the blog to find out.

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A Nursery Remodel Reveal

It's officially done. The nursery is complete! After working on in since August, we are excited to finally show y'all the details of the nursery, including how we came up with the design.

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A Harry Potter Date

Jared and I had a summer bucket list...which we actually got mostly through! So when we sat down to talk about our fall bucket list, we actually decided to try a fall themed date that would be fun but easy. Aka...the challenge for every date! 

So I took on the challenge of doing a Harry Potter themed date!

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A Mixture of Emotions

Last week at my OBGYN appointment, doctor said “I’d be fine if she came as early as October 15th…37 weeks is technically full term.”

Begin my freak out. 

So, considering our baby could come as early as two weeks from now to as late as a month from now, this ticking time bomb has some thoughts on the whole pregnancy thing.

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The Last Baby Shower

Ok ok. I realize that we only had two baby showers. But labeling this one "The Second Baby Shower" seemed so less dramatic. To read all of my thoughts on our baby shower experience, check out our blog!

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The First Baby Shower

Over last weekend Jared and I were blessed by so many amazing people who poured out the gifts for our little baby Rea! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to everyone who came and sent gifts! We feel so loved!

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An Instructable DIY: Industrial Chandelier!

Jared has once again shown his brilliance. He created an Instructable discussing how he created the chandelier for our office! It's so awesome, he was actually chosen as a featured post on Instructables.com!

You can help him win by going to his post and voting for him in the First Time Author's competition. Visit the blog to find out more!

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A Wedding in Arkansas

Last weekend Maddie headed up to Bentonville with her family to attend her cousin Kelsi's wedding! It was a fun weekend full of family and touring. We are so excited for you Kelsi and Calvin! Here's to a wonderful weekend!

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A Trip to Wimberly: Part 3

Our final day in Wimberly was all about the local shopping! There are so many cute little stores downtown. We met so many interesting people including the wonderful people at the gourmet popcorn shop and the guy that hosts the local art gallery across the way from the cafe! The bakery has many gluten free options (including cinnamon rolls! Oh how I've missed you!) and we indulged before heading back to Fort Worth.

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A Trip to Wimberly: Part 2

Day two of our baby moon to Wimberly was all about swimming! We headed over to Jacob's Well (something that was on our bucket list to see) and then tubed down the river in San Marcos for the afternoon. Even Duchess got in on the action!

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