enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: family adventures
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MY GIRL IS TWO. We're almost week in and I love two. Of course there will be tears and tough days. But there will also be language and creative play and (requested by her "fam-lee hug!" …it's where we all three hug and she pats our backs and my heart falls on the ground and…
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In February 2014 when we baptized Ellerie, Paul and I were talking to the pastor (the same guy who married us four years prior) about how tough it was to "balance" work and parenthood. I'm paraphrasing, but he said something along the lines of: "I know. It always seemed strange to me that the decade…
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Hooray! In my mind, June officially marks the start of summer which means last weekend we came up with our summer manifesto. It's a handful of easy, inexpensive activities that I would love to do one (or many) times these next few months. I love the idea of starting this tradition now and then eventually…
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Last week I shared photos from our family trip to Maui. We arrived on a Saturday and left on Saturday. In the middle – late Tuesday morning to Thursday morning, Paul and I got away to Wailea to celebrate our five year anniversary. We were very lucky to be traveling with both sets of Grandparents,…
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We spent the first week of May in Maui. It was absolutely wonderful to get away, though I am always humbled to re-remember that traveling with a toddler is not "relaxing." This was a special trip because both sets of grandparents were able to come with us! We were very lucky to have them. Paul's…
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We are headed out on our first big family vacation and the first week long break I've taken from the blog since our honeymoon in 2010. To say I've been looking forward to this would be like saying Ron Swanson is amazing (a gross understatement). Paul and I have spent the spring talking about what's…
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We are so thrilled to be expecting our second child! Yep! Ellerie will become a big sister in early November. We've had a long time to adjust to this news and it still feels a completely unreal. I found out the day before my 30th birthday, just five days after I turned to Paul one…
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photos, clockwise from top left: waterfront, SD zoo, Bird Rock Coffee, El Camino, Urban Solace, Snooze, Prep Kitchen, Exotic Gardens, Dark Horse Coffee. (We only take photos of Ellerie drinking from a straw, BTW.) I have avoided writing this post because I felt like we've spent such a short time here and we tend to go…
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We met Paul's family in Disneyland last weekend and it was awesome. This was Ellerie's first trip and we really didn't know what to expect. Would she love it? Would she be confused? Would she be tall enough to ride Space Mountain?!? (Yes, yes and this is a joke.) It rained almost the whole time…
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I'm doing a different sort of wrap up this year. I have shared a lot of photos & words over the past 12 months, but I have not shared a lot of numbers. Above is a collection of random facts that made up 2014 for the Cripe family. This was absurdly fun to pull together…
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