Our Favorite Postpartum and Baby Products

If you’re a first time mom-to-be and you’re anything like me, you are COMPLETELY overwhelmed trying to make your baby registry. There are so many of every different type of thing that everyone says you need. Especially on Amazon.

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Adventures in ParaDyess: The Wedding

We finally made it. After 5 years and 1.5 months of dating/engagement, we were finally going to become husband and wife. At the time, those 5 years felt like forever, but looking back, we’ve been married longer than we were together before we got married…and that’s CRAZY to think about.

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Adventures in ParaDyess: The Proposal

He walks me what seems like FOREVER but I know where we’re headed. We’re headed to the tree we’re going to get married under. We get there and he takes the blindfold off of me. We’re standing in the middle of a heart made out of mason jars with little fake candles in them and rose petals on the ground *swoon*. He reads me a letter that he wrote me and of course I start crying.

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Adventures in ParaDyess: The Dating Years

The story of Ryan and Brittany - the dating years. It was August of 2011. I was preparing to go to college and Ryan was on his way back from a family vacation. I was ay my uncle’s house preparing for my going away party (really just an excuse to have a giant slip-n-slide party). I came inside to show a friend my new computer—complete with fancy Jack Bauer-esque finger print scanner—when Ryan messaged me on Facebook. We chatted for a few minutes and, since I was going to go back outside to join the festivities, we exchanged phone numbers…and we never looked back.

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Adventures in ParaDyess: The Road to Hana - Maui

Apparently the one thing you HAVE to do in Maui is drive the Road to Hana. It’s this super narrow, twisty, windy road through the mountains and along the coast of east Maui that leads to a town called Hana. The reason you have to do it isn’t because Hana is this super awesome, hopping town. It’s for the adventure of getting there. Hana Highway is 52 miles from Kahului to Hana with 620 curves and 59 one lane bridges. Talk about car sickness waiting to happen.

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