I¡¦m a 29 year old active, full-time working dietitian mother of an ambitious 20 month old Jaeleigh and pregnant with our second baby due May 24th! I am married to the love of my life who is also an active 29 year old full-time working father who is also going to school (for his second degree) and working on remodeling our home at the same time. When I get time I love cooking and baking (with new recipes especially!), crafting (namely scrapbooking) and event planning. Our home is full of a lot ...

I¡¦m a 29 year old active, full-time working dietitian mother of an ambitious 20 month old Jaeleigh and pregnant with our second baby due May 24th! I am married to the love of my life who is also an active 29 year old full-time working father who is also going to school (for his second degree) and working on remodeling our home at the same time. When I get time I love cooking and baking (with new recipes especially!), crafting (namely scrapbooking) and event planning. Our home is full of a lot of love and very little sleep! ƒº

Our family loves the outdoors and loves the beach. Vacationing is our passion, although at this time we only get to travel about once per year! We also love camping, skiing/snowboarding, snowshoeing, kayaking, and so much more when we can find the time!

Our passion is healthy living in general. We strive for the best home environment we can create including our food (first and foremost), our activity, and our lifestyle. We strive to eat mostly fruits/vegetables, 100% whole grains, lean protein sources and sometimes organic dairy thrown in. We strive for whole foods and limited hormone, antibiotic, and chemical exposure by choosing local and more so choosing certified organic. We stay active by running (our first choice of regular activity), using our small home gym, and limiting our TV/sit down time (we don¡¦t have cable/satellite and our TV exposure is about 1 movie every few months¡Kand we like it that way!!). We are doing our best to keep our home free of harsh chemicals by, once again, seeking out natural, organic methods of cleaning, freshening the air, and overall living.

This really became a much bigger deal with our first daughter was born. We knew hands down that she would be 100% breastfed (for multiple reasons) and 100% cloth diapered, and that she¡¦d sleep on an organic mattress (crib and co-sleeper), be changed on an organic changing pad and be surrounded by as many natural, organic fabrics as possible. So far, we¡¦ve kept our promises to our little girl and we know in our hearts that she is being raised healthier than most.

We often get deemed ¡§obsessed.¡¨ I often hear the term ¡§crunchy¡¨ used in regards to how we parent¡Kand, we flat out get told that we¡¦re going to die of stressing about these things before we would die of chemical exposure. What people don¡¦t really understand is that all of our doings have had a natural flow. We didn¡¦t change our lifestyles in a day. We have done it over time. Nearly as long as we¡¦ve been together ¡V 8 years now, we¡¦ve been making healthy changes ¡Kand even before that as individuals. People do not realize that this is not a ¡§stressful feat¡¨ for us. This is something we enjoy. We love taking the steps to seek out more organic food options at the supermarket, we love getting online to research what type of mattress is as close to organic as possible and we love the conversations we have in regards to healthy living. It is a huge part of who we are as individuals and who we are as a family. It is not stressful.

So this is us. Many call us crazy, but we call ourselves smart! We¡¦re just two loving, hard-working people raising our little girl the best way we know how, while trying to stay healthy and¡Kget enough sleep!!

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