Peanut Butter Fingers

06/12/2026

All of our active kid summer favs in one place! ☀️🌊Comment “active summer” below to get links to these favorites sent directly to you!

06/07/2026

For my full Lisbon recap comment “Lisbon recap” below and I’ll send you my detailed blog post! // We spent a very unexpected 2 days in Lisbon, Portugal en route to the Azores when our travel plans got derailed. Thankfully YOU guys came through and helped us plan a wonderful adventure in Lisbon! If you’re gonna get stranded somewhere, I highly recommend Portugal! 🙃🇵🇹 Sharing some of our favorites from our whirlwind time in Lisbon ➡️ Chiado Hotel (very family friendly, walkable to shops, restaurants and sites), Oceanário de Lisboa (aka the aquarium — our 10 & 7yo’s fav thing we did), Pastéis de Nata (Portuguese custard tarts we could not stop eating), Time Out Market (a great spot we liked enough to visit 2x with a wide variety of incredibly delicious food), a tuk tuk tour (we flew all over Lisbon for an hour and loved this warp-speed way to see the city + learn more about the history), making a game of spotting artwork by Artur Bordalo II (he’s a Portuguese street artist famous for creating massive three-dimensional animal sculptures and murals made entirely out of recycled/discarded materials — I included a pic of his panda here!), tinned sardines + octopus (so good), wandering the streets just to explore and see what popped out at us, a quick day trip to Sintra (a beautiful and charming town 45 min from Lisbon with castles well worth visiting) and gelato, of course! 💛

05/27/2026

On Saturday we did our very first YES DAY as a family to celebrate Rhett's preschool graduation + the end of preschool days for our family (cue all the emotions!!!) -- The day ended up being SO fun from start to finish!! I shared all about it on the blog (how we planned it, our Yes Day rules/parameters, etc.) in case you'd like to check it out!!

Have you guys heard of a “Yes Day” for kids? A Yes Day is a day when parents/grownups agree to say “yes” to any kid requests (within reason, of course). Our kids naturally thought this concept was the coolest — our oldest requested a Yes Day a while back after a friend came to school... R...

05/26/2026

Our Yes Day from start to finish!!! We loved every second of this day and feel like we are still on a high from all the fun! We did take some time to plan everything out the night before and set some ground rules I think were really helpful — I shared everything in detail on my blog today if you’d like to check it out! Just comment “YES DAY” below and I’ll send you everything!

04/27/2026

Today is my birthday and I was talking to Ryan earlier about some of my best memories from last year. One “grief and joy can coexist moment” popped out at me. After our dog died very suddenly, we did almost 2 weeks of family sleepovers with the boys. They slept on our camping mats in our bedroom and we just got through it together. These sleepovers ended up being etched into my heart forever because they led to so many sweet, silly and tender moments. So we did one again last night and we’ll do it again tonight to sandwich my 41st birthday in sleepovers. ❤️ Life isn’t perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but family sleepovers make it pretty darn close.

04/07/2026

Easter weekend in Sarasota! 💚🩵🩷💛 We filled our days with sunshine and family time — plus visits to Casperson Beach (where we found lots of shark teeth!), (best soft pretzel of my lifeee), Crescent Beach (where the boys swam in the ocean and found some crazy-cool conch shells), the new aquarium (beautiful and a huge hit with our whole family), Urfer Park for an early-morning bunny + tortoise walk and Payne Park to play on the circus-themed playground ☀️🫶🏻 Not a bad way to kick off spring break!!

03/24/2026

Lazy Baker Whole Wheat Banana Muffins: Easy, delicious, healthy and ummm did ya see the ONE BOWL thing?! Hooray for less dishes! 🍌

03/23/2026

Our dogs’ personalities 🤗 Please tell me about your dog/pet because I love this kind of stuff 💗

03/04/2026

Play “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” and I will buy every last one of your BOGOs

02/16/2026

Not sure who I think I am cramming a wedding in Northern Michigan and less than 15 hrs in Vegas for the final Backstreet Boys concert in the Sphere into one weekend but I channeled my inner 22yo and had a freaking blast! Celebrating love (so happy for Ashley + Sean!), seeing some of my best friends of 20+ years, dancing my face off, laughing until my stomach hurt and living out my millennial dreams in Vegas = One heck of a weekend 🤗 Now flying home to hug the boys and face plant in bed the second they’re all tucked in for the night