Louise Higgins

Baby Shower

Today my sister-in-law hosted a baby shower for me! There was a beautiful diaper cake with a handmade tutu… a delicious and beautiful cake… lots of presents to open… and baby shower games to play!

Tomorrow we are starting a 3-week sugar detox program. The allowed foods are meats, vegetables, and dairy, but not fruit except green apples and bananas. I am excited to get back into healthy habits after eating too many donuts at home last week! I made up a meal plan including recipes for chili, beef stew,…

Trip to Reading

This week we went to see my parents in Reading. We drove all day Sunday and made the trip in 13.5 hours. On the way back we split it into two segments and spent the night in Louisville. These pictures are from the Reading pagoda, where you get great views of the city. It was…

Parents’ visit

New crib

The office/nursery is coming together, and now the crib is assembled. We also put up light-blocking curtains. The red light is a salt lamp which is supposed to clean the air but in any case I like the soft glow and it is unobtrusive in the middle of the night!

Weekend in Nashville

Baby shopping

On Friday we went over to Fairview Heights to do some baby shopping! We went first to Target since it was only 9am when we got there after dropping Alex at school. We told them we wanted to register so they gave us a free sample bag with a bottle and pacifier 🙂 We walked…

Balloon Fest 2014

This August marked my third summer in Centralia, but my first time visiting the annual Balloon Festival. For three days these hot air balloons, maybe 30 of them, congregate in Foundation Park for display, and races, and general festival activities. There’s food vendors– the usual summer carnival fare here like corn dogs, funnel cakes, tacos…

Weekend in St. Louis

St. Louis has a lovely set of museums, a quick drive from our house. In a whirlwind one-day adventure, we visited an American history museum and learned about the 1904 world’s fair, went to the art museum (the picture is from a rest between exhibits!), and saw tons of animals at the zoo! We walked…

Welcome Hannah!