By Kelsey on June 18, 2013 +

This is a good one! The best yet, if you ask me. I’m considerably less awkward :)

This Video Is All About:

  • Where we were when we decided to take Financial Peace University
  • My (fake) love language
  • How long our first budget took us and why it ended in tears
  • The first line item on our budget

Watch the other three videos to hear how we learned about money growing up, the college years and our first jobs, and our early years of marriage.

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By Kelsey on June 17, 2013 4

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My Favorite Breakfast

Eric used to eat peanut butter toast every single morning and I used to eat a peanut butter sandwich for lunch every day. But we wanted to cut down our grain intake and in doing so I found my new favorite breakfast: organic celery and sunflower seed butter.

This wasn’t an overnight switch. It was probably a switch of 1.5 years. {We’ve found it’s best for us to slowly replace certain foods/habits one at a time with better ones, even if it’s ever so slight.}

Over time we switched from:

  • white bread + peanut butter
  • to wheat bread + peanut butter
  • to wheat bread without HFCS + peanut butter
  • to wheat bread without HFCS + natural peanut butter
  • to celery + natural peanut butter
  • to organic celery + sunflower seed butter

Baby steps! A variety of nut butters is really good for our diets. We like peanut butter and sunflower seed butter (my favorite brand is SunButter) but aren’t fans of almond butter. Many peanut butters have added sugar, so check the ingredients if you are worried about that. We get ours in the Hy-Vee Health Section (though you still have to check labels there).

What’s your go-to breakfast?

*Get a $1 off coupon for SunButter (gluten-free) here.

*My coworker heard that if you eat a vegetable before 10:00 am, you will eat 25% less food all day. I can’t seem to find the research on that, but it’s still crazy, huh?

 

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

Annie Dillard

By Eric on June 14, 2013 12

We’ve gotten a few questions about the biking gear we’ve been sporting on our family bike rides, so here’s the rundown. If you are just tuning in, you might also want to read up on how long Kelsey waited to purchase her bike (homegirl has patience!).

Our Biking Gear

You could probably get by with less, and the biking gear you choose for your family totally depends on your needs, your wants and the level of safety you wish to exercise (pun intended). Some links below are affiliate links.

family bike ride

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By Kelsey on June 13, 2013 2

Most of these (all except the last one) were a complete accident that we recreated family photos on nearly the exact same day one year apart! Thanks to Timehop, I receive an email each day with my social media activity from the same day a year ago. It’s been really cool to be reminded of what we were doing last year (my last day of maternity leave, our first meal out as a family, etc.). It’s been really great to remind myself that I have made lots of progess in the past year!

It shocks me to see how much Rooney has changed in just 365 days. Especially that last one! Her hand is in her mouth in both photos, but she’s grown so much! And her hair is getting so long!

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