THE PEADEN LIFE PRE-BLOG

Whenever I post on our private blog, I will post on this blog with the title of the post so you all can see when we update. There will be a link IN the post as well as in the right hand column that will connect you directly to our private blog. Perfect solution right? We can keep our blog private, but you can still see when we update!

Another great benefit to this "pre-blog" thing is that if you have just found our blog and want to be added, you can go ahead and add a comment with your e-mail address and request to be added. Thanks for reading!

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Saturday, December 28, 2013

The Dinner Quest

Read about our dinner quest: here.

Oh, and read about our darling little girl: here.

Friday, December 27, 2013

Lydia Elise: 18-19 Months

Read about our darling girl HERE.

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Dear brother Peten,

Read about this cute note to David HERE. {And the big news in our ward.}

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

House Updates

See some of our happy home updates HERE.

Friday, November 8, 2013

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Monday, November 4, 2013

Fall Festivities

We've been busy beavers! And it has been SO fun. HERE.

Friday, October 25, 2013

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

While David's away... (in Kemmerer, WY)

Read about our adventures in Morgan while David was away on a business trip in Kemmerer, WY: HERE.

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

David's 29th Birthday

Read all about our Birthday Celebrations HERE.

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Overheard

Want to know what you might here if you were a fly on the wall at our house? Well, HERE is a sampling.

Friday, September 27, 2013

Our Week

Read about some things from our week HERE.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Pirate Party

Read about our Pirate Adventures HERE.

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Updated: Did You Know? (Shantel & David)

Updated post, friends! David decided to chime in his own answers to the questions. Check it out. HERE.

Did you know?

I answered a bunch of questions HERE.

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Phoenix, AZ

Last week - THIS is what we did.

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Come on Down!

Read about my birthday celebrations HERE.

Monday, September 16, 2013

My Birthday

Some thoughts on my birthday HERE.

Saturday, September 7, 2013

Lydia Elise: 15-16 Months

I've thought about cutting down to just quarterly posts, but I'd never be able to fit all of the pictures in. Prepare for massive amounts of darling pictures of our favorite Lydia. (Mom, this one's for you!)

HERE.

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Today's Random Thoughts

Some random things along with a list of things that make me happy HERE.

Monday, August 26, 2013

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Announcing...HBM's Merger with Eide Bailly

Some big changes are coming our way where David's job is concerned... He "guest posted" about it HERE.

Monday, August 19, 2013

3:07 in the AM

Our little sleepover (minus the sleep) HERE.

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Friday Five

I wrote this post yesterday, but forgot to post my link. Oops! Here it is: Friday Five.

Thursday, August 15, 2013

My Laundry Room

Read about my favorite room in the house HERE.

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Monday, August 12, 2013

The Little River

Read about our fun time at the little river, HERE.

Friday, August 9, 2013

Five Things

Five things from this week: HERE.

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Dear Thursday,

Just one Thursday letter today, accompanied by some awesome pictures. HERE.

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

The Cloth Diaper Experiment

I blogged about cloth diapering HERE.

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Lydia: 14-15 Months

Read about our darling 15 month old here.

Friday, August 2, 2013

Houston 2013: Road Trip Re-cap

Read all about our awesome road trip HERE.

Monday, July 22, 2013

Things I Think

Some of the things on my mind: HERE.

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Dear Thursday,

Read about my random letters to the universe HERE.

Friday, June 28, 2013

Monday, June 24, 2013

My Browser.

Random fact of the day: HERE.

Friday, June 21, 2013

Friday Five

Read about our week HERE.

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Staycation 2013: Fun in the Sun (Part 3)

See Lydia in her cute little swimsuit HERE.

Monday, June 17, 2013

Friday, June 14, 2013

Friday Five

Seriously, I try to make these guys short... but I just like pictures and I like to write. So I apologize it it's a little long winded. Oh well... it's my blog, right? Read about this week HERE.

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Trap Shooting and a Birthday Party

Read about my Dad's 50th Birthday HERE.

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Lydia Elise: 12-13 Months

Even if you just click over to see the first picture... it will be worth it. I can't believe how darling she is. 

HERE

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Four.

Read about my favorite day of the year HERE.

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Sad Little Fashion Show

See Lydia's modeling debut here.

Monday, June 3, 2013

Friday, May 31, 2013

Thursday, May 30, 2013

A Graduation.

My little sister Jenna graduated from BYU-I, read about it here.


Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Monday, May 20, 2013

Friday, May 17, 2013

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Monday, May 13, 2013

General Conference (a wee bit late)

Better late than never right? Plus, there are some really darling pictures of Lydia. HERE.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Examples of Motherhood

Read about my Mothers Day thoughts HERE.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Lydia Elise: 11 Months - 1 year!

Read all about Lydia's last month as a "baby" HERE.

Monday, May 6, 2013

Monday, April 29, 2013

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Five things on Saturday... night.

It's a little bit late... but this post is full of fun adventures and even a pretty new swimming suit! Read about it HERE.

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Thursday, April 18, 2013

We sprang a leak.

Read about a little leak and the three week journey to getting it taken care of HERE.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Monday, April 15, 2013

Easter 2013

A little late, but read about our Easter HERE.

Friday, April 12, 2013

Five Things on Friday

Read about some things from this week HERE.

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Yard Progression: Retaining Rock Wall

Read about the awesome stuff going on in our backyard... HERE.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Lydia Elise: 10-11 Months

Read about Lydia's last month - full of first steps, first words, and her first tooth. Yay! HERE.

Friday, April 5, 2013

A broken heart.

My heart is breaking and I wrote about it HERE.

But if you don't want to read something terribly sad... probably best to stick to my earlier Friday post HERE.

Friday

Here.

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Climbing.

Read about Lydia's climbing adventures HERE.  (With a shout out to my awesome rock-climbing sister Melissa.)

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Home Progression: Getting Settled

You can see the slow but steady progress we've been making on our house HERE.

Monday, April 1, 2013

Eight new posts. Read them - they are awesome.

So here is the deal. We moved into a new house and totally got behind on our blogging. So in an attempt to catch up, David and I teamed up today to write not one, not two, but eight  posts for your viewing pleasure! Don't miss out on them - we promise that they are good ones.

We had an awesome Superbowl Party.

Lydia and I went on a fun Lunch Date with some wonderful ladies.

A little tribute to Lydia's little "My First Pets."

Lydia's adventure with a little Valentine present that my Grandma Knowles sent to her. Also, an illustration of her funny quirk of wanting to hold everything in just one hand.

David posted about being busy. This busy season has been killer, but we have almost made it through.

Cute pictures of some fun Park Time.

We love us some March Madness here at our house. David gives the low-down of our brackets (including Lydia's.)

I threw a Bridal Shower for my sweet friend Cassie - complete with Yogurt Bar and impromptu presentation of The Ladder Theory complements of David.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Dear Thursday,

Letters to inanimate objects? Ready, go.

Here.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Lydia: 9-10 Months

Okay, so I'm two weeks late in posting this. I'm just grateful that it wasn't three weeks late.

You will probably want to click on this link, because I post dated the blog post so that it looks like I posted it on her 10 month birthday. (That way I look like I'm on top of things when I print out my blog book.)

You can read it HERE.

Friday, March 15, 2013

Surprise.

I just found this surprise waiting for me on our blog this morning. David wrote a little post and I'm SO grateful for such a wonderful man. Read about it HERE.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

A bunch of thoughts, in list form.

Read about some of the things banging around in my head today, HERE.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Friday, March 1, 2013

Friday

Pretty random post HERE.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Thursday, February 21, 2013

RC Willey Arrives!

See our awesome new furniture HERE.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

All moved in!

Read about the big move HERE.

Friday, February 15, 2013

Monday, February 11, 2013

Friday, February 8, 2013

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Goodbye to our clean apartment

Read about our last few hours in our very clean apartmet here.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Lydia: 8-9 Months

Read about our little sweetheart HERE.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

A mortgage

Read about the stressfullness that is called getting a mortgage here. No pictures, just a long rant in hopes of keeping this blog full of both the good and the bad.

Friday, February 1, 2013

Five Things

A little late and a little short - but a post nonetheless. HERE.

Monday, January 28, 2013

Cleaning.

Spoiler alert.

I HATE cleaning blinds.

Don't believe me? Read about it here.

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Three

Three new posts: two from Friday and one from yesterday.

Five Things

House Progression: Cabinets and Counters

Moving Time! 

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Friday, January 18, 2013

Five Things

Read about this week HERE.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Journaling

Last night we pulled out some of our old journals... and this is the post that resulted: HERE.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

House Progression: Paint and Floors

Read all about it here.

Here is a little sneak peek: 




Monday, January 14, 2013

Baby Bib Tutorial

Read about how to make these beauties HERE.


Friday, January 11, 2013

Five Things

Read about this week HERE.

Monday, January 7, 2013

Lydia: 7-8 Months

Read all about this beautiful girl HERE.

Saturday, January 5, 2013

A big post.

I have been pretty good about blogging over the holidays, but was really bad at posting them on the pre-blog. Plus, some of them I had written in draft form but didn't finish and post until just recently - so even if you have read some of our recent posts, there are probably still new ones that you haven't read. We really wanted them to all be in order and be ready for when we print our blog into a book for the past year. So here are the links all at once. There are some really good things in there, so check them out:

Twenty-Thirteen

Year End and New Years Eve

Ribbon and wrapping paper

Popcorn Baby

House Progression: Sheetrock

Christmas Day

Christmas Morning

Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas! {Christmas Card}

Christmas Baby

Great Grandpa Walker's Birthday

House Progression: Insulation

December Fun

Baking Day

Oh, and here's one of my favorite pictures from the past month just for the heck of it.