This one is for all of our parents who have girls; especially girls who are approaching the preteen era.

As a teacher, I noticed how intimidating it can be to be a girl with a changing body and a unique development speed. It's honestly really stressful, and actually terrifying, for girls to navigate all of it, especially when they think they are doing it all on their own.

I am here to walk you through our process on how I have talked to girls at school, church, and my own home about puberty, hygiene, and their body changes. This includes all of the things they find so strange and scary.

Save this one for you friends who have girls and let's prepare them while letting them know it's all good!

Thanks to everyone who has been watching and enjoying my house organization videos. Dalton and I clean and organize very differently so here's a little chat on some house management tips and tricks.

Maybe this will help you jumpstart a project and fix a few pain points in your home.

Here's a list of what I have been watching, reading, and listening to lately!

Watching:

• Gilmore Girls ... duh

• Heartland - LOVE

• Friends - classic

• Big Bang Theory - classic

• Shark Tank

• Yellowstone ... meh

• Marshalls

• Dutton Ranch

Reading:

• Emily Henry

• Karen Kingsbury

• Lynn Painter

• Katherine Center

• Sarah Adams

• Inheritance Games Series

• Summer I Turned Pretty Series

Favorite Books of All Time: 

• Baxter Series by Karen Kingsbury

• Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

• After Anne by Roxanne Henke

Listening:

• Almost Athletes - Dude Perfect

• Always Here

• Unplanned

• Jinger and Jeremy Vuolo

• These are the Days : Jeremy + Audrey Roloff

• Raising Heights : Zach + Tori Roloff

• How Rude, Tanneritos : Full House Recap

• Not Gonna Lie : Kylie Kelce

• New Heights : Jason + Travis Kelce

• Meaningful Moments with McKenzie

• I Am All In : Gilmore Girls Recap

• Couple Things : Shawn + Andrew East 

• Two Parents and a Podcast : Alex + Harrison Fugman

• Life’s a Tripp : Ryan + Shannon Tripp

• Drama Queens : One Tree Hill Recap

• The Carpool : Kelly + Lizz

• The Heart and Hustle Podcast

• Doing Life Differently + The Weekly Dwell 

We're back from our spring break! We never meant it to be that long but that's just how life rolls, buy living life loud and all.

It's that time of year to get your kids signed up for 'All the Things'.

It's been a hot minute. Here's a life update!

Make sure you start with Part 1.

Here's the rest of our journey on how their story becomes part of our story!

By popular demand, I snagged Kacie for an interview all about being a foster care parent!

People have often asked us questions about the foster care system and how it works to become a foster parent, but Dalton and I did not take the traditional route when going through adoption so we do not have all of the answers.

Thank you Kacie + Eric for accepting the call that God had for them and saying 'okay' to what He had planned. Thank you to Kacie for sharing her part of the story with us!

A little bit unorganized, but today we're going to walk through what we feel like is the hardest job you'll ever have - parenting.

Too many people are not honest with one another about how often life is crazy, messy, and an overall hot mess. It may look like we have our ducks in a row, but we don't even know where our ducks are half of the time.

There is an insane pressure in our culture to always be 'on' for our kids and doing the absolute best 100% of the time. To have this put together life that gets showcased online. We're here to tell you that it is totally okay to just be 'fine'.

Let's be more honest about our chaos and hot mess so that we can support ourselves better individually and as a community. Parents, it's okay to take care of yourself so that you're bringing your best self to do the hardest job.

Here's your permission to give grace.

We interrupt this regular program with a random rant about tables that no one asked for.

It's calving season! We have calves on the ground so the seasons are turning. Let's chat with Rancher Dalton about this season and some wild calving stories.