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JESSIKA REED

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Fiesta Lime Open Faced Shrimp Quesadilla

Oh man, these things are so tasty! I love them. I am not a big shrimp fan but Stephen loves shrimp and all seafood for that matter but not sushi. Anyway, I try to incorporate it into our meals when I can tolerate it 🙂

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My first Mother’s day

This year was my first Mother’s day. Stephen told me he had something planned but wouldn’t tell me what it was. He made me breakfast, french toast with Great Harvest Cinnamon Burst bread. Then Reece and I took a nap – yep right after breakfast! We then got ready and headed to the car. Stephen told me to bring my camera and he took me to Utah Lake, which is about 20 minutes from our house. I had never been there and had mentioned that a couple of weeks before and how I wanted to check it out for photography spots. What a sweet guy to remember that. He looked up where to go and things to do in that area and planned it out. We walked around and snapped some photos – what a gorgeous place! I forget sometimes how much beauty surrounds me in this state but sometimes it takes my breath away!

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Homemade Iced Latte

Hello! It’s been a while. Had a kid, some issues after delivery, loved every minute of maternity leave, returned to work and still busy as ever adjusting to new mommyhood! I still have mommy brain but am starting to feel much more like myself and it is good to be back.

Stephen and I have challenged one another to not eat out at all during the month of March. We have some aggressive financial plans going on and are trying to improve ourselves and meet some new goals. Part of this challenge is financial based, not that we go crazy but all the little things really eat up and I am a nerd tracking all of our spending and making charts and graphs and I hate what I am seeing when other things could be done with that money – more on that another day. But another thing is the food isn’t usually healthy and more often than not it doesn’t even taste good so why waste the money! [Read more…]

Introducing Reece Thunder Reed

We have been a little busy around here, soaking up all the amazingness that is our beautiful, perfect in every way little boy! Motherhood has been amazing so far and I feel so very blessed at this time in our lives! I wanted to get these when he was super sleepy and very brand new but had some recovery hiccups that needed to be dealt with first and wasn’t feeling well enough to do this until the middle of his second week. He has already started to change so much! I am thrilled to share these!

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Bags Are Packed – Please Come Baby!

Dear baby of mine, we are so ready for you. Please stop kicking me and come out already! I am so uncomfortable and can’t wait to meet you! If you make it tomorrow, your birthdate will be 10.11.12 – wouldn’t that be great??? Our Dr. informed us this week that our due date is actually 10/13 not 10/15 as the nurse initially told us. That makes sense to me as that is what all of the websites said and they would write in our little appointment book what week / day we were on and it didn’t add up. Not that 2 days is that much of a difference, but it is at this point!!
I have decided that I am going to try everything I have heard of to induce labor today, so far this is what I have in mind:
Activities:
Mini Jogger
Walking
Lunges

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