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Welcome to our blog. Here you’ll find daily dispatches and all the musings of our family’s adventures in our small town as we raise our kids, fix up our farm, and renovate houses. Thanks for stopping by! We’re so glad you’re here.

A Breezy Fall Day & Happy Friday!

Happy Friday!

How was your week?

Ours was filled with a bunch of…sickness. By that, I mean Riah threw up a few times at 3a the other morning and, after taking care of him, we both decided we couldn’t go back to bed so we just stayed up for the day- bad choice. Also, PJ brought home Jet (as in, Jet Black), our brand new little black lamb (remember when Maud had triplets a few weeks back?) because he wasn’t getting the milk he needed from his mom, as the other two were hogging it all.

So, PJ brought him home and has been nursing him back to health! He was so frail and weak and PJ wasn’t sure if he was going to make it (he wasn’t eating or drinking anything PJ was giving him at first because, well, he truly didn’t know how to eat), but after a few days, and as of this morning, he is eating and drinking and running around the house baaaa-ing and it’s the cutest thing ever!! Way to go, PJ!!

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In other news, today is the first official, OFFICIAL fall day of the year. I’m declaring it. It’s cool, crisp, breezy, and wonderfully beautiful out. We have had the doors and windows open all morning just letting the air in, which is something I look forward to doing every year. With all the animals and kids and just all the living things in our house, it always feels so good to open everything up and let the fresh air come in and breathe new life into our home. Do you know what I mean?

Meanwhile, there will be no Weekender Newsletter this week as we’re shooting two big campaigns over the next few days. There will, however, be a new YouTube vlog premiering Sunday all about our anniversary and this whole week in general. Speaking of, thank you so much to everyone who sent love and well wishes on our anniversary the other day!! So sweet. It’s been a wonderful 6 years of marriage, filled with ups and downs and so many firsts (even after all this time!) and many, many lessons learned. I am grateful for it all. Especially my husband’s love of animals, particularly farm animals. Hence all the photos with Jet Black that have been taken over the last few few days since he’s been staying with us. So stinkin’ cute.

Have a lovely weekend!!!

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