Right before we were about to leave for our cabin vacation my three year old got back at me for ruining his life by having this baby and "accidentally" kicked my camera off the couch while staring me right in the eye. We're trying to move on but Finn is still coping with the new kid (Gus) being around. The other day he told me to "stop talking" and every once in a while he likes to make it known READ MORE
Right before we were about to leave for our cabin vacation my three year old got back at me for ruining his life by having this baby and "accidentally" kicked my camera off the couch while staring me right in the eye. We're trying to move on but Finn is still coping with the new kid (Gus) being around. The other day he told me to "stop talking" and every once in a while he likes to make it known READ MORE in Cool Things
It's Time!!! The Allen fam has been waiting all year to take our much anticipated vacation at Uncle Matt's cabin in Cross Lake, MN. This year will mark the 4th annual TPC & friends family vacation. Jeff and I consider this vacation as the reward for a hard year of sacrifice and waiting. We are so excited that Gus is here and will be joining us, we can't wait for fam & friend time spent on READ MORE in Cool Things
So I have a list about a mile long (not kidding) of all the things I need to get done around the house before the baby comes. One of them being to organize and clean up the kitchen. I took on a small area of the kitchen this weekend and updated our coffee nook. This nook is an odd space in our house, it used to be the entrance of the back stairway that connected the 2nd level and the kitchen. It READ MORE
I've been meaning to organize the built-in buffet cabinet in our dining room for some time, it's been set up the same way ever since we moved in, straight from the moving boxes and into the buffet. It's seems like I should've done this a long time ago since it's such a prominent piece in our main living space, but I never gave it too much thought, and I didn't really have any great ideas for what READ MORE
I have to tell you how excited I am! Two weekends ago on my way up to our annual cabin adventure weekend at Matt's folks place in Cross Lake, we stopped in Saint Cloud and met a guy in a parking lot between a thrift store and a bar and picked up this new friend—a Kelsey letterpress! I know, I have never even touched a letterpress, but for some reason I felt like it was calling to me: "Yo Scoops! READ MORE





