Remember the old days of blogging where bloggers would share more about their lives behind the computer" I miss those days! As I’m scrolling through Bloglovin’ in the morning, I see so many blog posts like “3 ways to ______” or “6 things to change in order to _______” . For a while now, blog posts have leaned way more into the educational side versus the carefree diary entries that they used to be.
And I’m definitely not knocking it, I certainly do that as well. Those types of posts typically resonate with a lot of readers and they are also a bit safer to write because they don’t open you up to as much criticism or critique as the more personal posts do. But sometimes I just want to read about what my favorite blogger did on the weekend, because it’s fun, easy to read, and may even inspire an idea for something that I would do on a weekend in the future! So as a way to try to include a bit more of that type of post around here, I thought I’d write a post recapping some recent events in our lives, from a new van to a final trip before baby #3 arrives!

Justin and I had been thinking about upgrading to a newer van for a few months. I was driving a used 2013 Honda Odyssey that I really liked. For some reason I thought it was a 2011, but when we traded it for the new one we learned that it was actually a 2013! We looked at one at a dealership a few months ago when we were dropping my 2013 off for some work and I ...