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Valentine's Day 2021

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Gifting is not my love language. I like gifts and I like giving gifts but I feel like I'm just terrible at it and especially when it comes to Landin. It seems we are at a point in our lives where if we really want/need something, we usually just buy it for ourselves yet at the same time, I'm pretty frugal so unless it's something we really want/need, I hate to spend money on something we don't need just for the sake of buying something just because the calendar says so. If I'm going to give a gift, I want it to be thoughtful and meaningful and useful. So...I didn't get Landin anything for Christmas 🙈 I knew he didn't need or want anything (except a Tesla but ya know...) and I really wanted to get him SOMETHING because he absolutely deserves anything and everything he wants (even a Tesla but ya know...) but alas, I couldn't come up with anything and the next thing I knew the day came and went and I had nothing to give him. I decided I was going to redeem

Remember that time when I started a blog to better document our lives together...

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Apparently, I'm a terrible blogger. A little bit of happenings in the last 7 months 4 years: So, basically, we've earned two degrees (one each), had two kids, and we've bought two houses! After graduating (May 2015), Landin went into advertising as he planned and it only took less than a year to realize that the corporate world sucks. After Kayson was born (Sept 2015), it became clearer to us that we had no desire to spend the majority of our time furthering other people goals while surrounded by people we don't particularly care about. We want to spend our time together as a family! We started looking for other avenues of income to free ourselves from our current busy lifestyles that weren't getting us anywhere fast. So Landin started working as a real estate appraiser with my brother Sam (May 2016). The idea wasn't to get rich being an appraiser but to earn more money with less time so that we could step away from our busy 9-5 + commuting + d