100 Day Journey of the Same Dress: Week 11

Sunday, May 14 (day seventy-one) Mother’s Day with my family! We went to the strip and looked at the new seasonal flower display at the Bellagio Conservatory and then had an all-vegan brunch buffet at Crossroads kitchen in Resorts World. Everything was delicious! It is also wild to think that […]

100 Day Journey of the Same Dress: Week 7

Sunday, April 16 (day forty-three) French braid today! A low-key day at home, getting ready for the week, enjoying the sunshine! Monday, April 17 (day forty-four) Okay, here was when I started realizing I’ve been wearing my dress on its own for a while now, and I was starting to […]

Travel with a baby? 9 amazing reasons you should do it!

We have been parents now for nearly seven months, and it can be so difficult to travel or leave the house with a baby. Most parents have a general schedule of sleeping and feeding their baby, and it can be hard to try doing anything other than keeping that schedule […]

Best summer hikes in So. Nevada: Cathedral Rock

It is no secret that summers in Southern Nevada can be extremely hot. While the dry heat is a marvel, the temperatures are still brutal on many days in the summer months. As hikers and parents of an infant, we head up to Mount Charleston as often as possible to […]

12 lessons the desert taught us in year one

Today marks one year (twelve months) since we moved to Nevada from Indianapolis. It was one year ago today that we saw our condo we were buying for the first time, and we ate at Violette’s Vegan (RIP) so many times that first week. It was hot when we arrived, […]

How to make easy, beautiful vegan sushi (without fish!)

Every once in a while, we make things a special occasion by making our own sushi! It really is not too difficult, because we have this awesome Sushezi (found on Amazon). We are not influencers, but this product really surpasses all expectations on how easy it is to make sushi […]

First Camping Trip with Baby

When our daughter, Leah turned three months old last month, we felt more confident in adding back pieces of our former lives into our new lives. We planned our first trip to Zion National Park.  Unlike our previous trips as a family of two in Zion, we were not waking […]