Emily Tucker

Stop it! It's June?

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Two fun June calendars - I was torn between the two but ended up choosing the waves. I've got water on the brain, partly cause I reallllllly need to drink more and because we are headed to my 3rd favorite city in the world in a mere 18 days a.k.a. Palm Springs. 

  • May was great and I literally had the best birthday yet! 
  • Jamie and I wrapped up our women's book club for spring. We read Ann Voskamp's One Thousand Gifts and Jamie wrote a great post about it here. I will recap it later this week on the blog. We also have planned out our book club for summer! I'm super excited to be reading our next book, since its a personal favorite - Shopping for Time by Carolyn Mahaney & her daughters.


June is for party planning, palm springs and pool time!


-xo Emily


Birthday Weekend Recap

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Friday

My actual birthday was spent lounging around and also watching many movies of my choice.

but the main one, was Chronicle. 

Kinda like Heroes, but more anti-hero and dangerous. 

We also watched I Love You, Man! I love Paul Rudd, so it was a win for me.

Plus a little bit of those two. New strawberry cake & creme donuts at Krispy Kreme and a weekly staple around here, Chipotle. Nom & Nom.

Saturday

Had a perfect morning getting stuff done while Hayden slept in because shes teething..

Followed up by a perfect Giants game! Ellen, Kim, Hayden and I got to go to the A's vs. Giants game. Also it happened to be Hayden's first game post-in womb and lucky her we had primo club level seats in the shade. 

Fyi: Hayden is obviously the most authentic fan... Since she can already hold her sign so well! She was greatly offended by the man that kept placing his sign in front of her during her television debut. But being a true fan this did not thwart her from enjoying the game. 

Documented here. Clapping hands and dancing was involved. Some garlic fries, sweet potato fries, corn and regular dogs were consumed, its the shared CuppaKim/Emj rule of baseball. Go Giants! 

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After the game Hayden enjoyed a nap while I journeyed to Target.

 Where I found a new little friend and some half off shorts for our impending trip to Palm Springs.

The middle cream one to be exact :)

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The next part of the day was spent out with girlfriends to watch... 

I wasn't sure exactly what to expect, haha little pun, but was surprised to actually like it Jennifer Lopez and all... lol. Honestly the best are some of the dad parts and Cameron Diaz might actually be making a come back but no surprise Elizabeth Banks was the shining star. Bonus: Chace Crawford, had no clue he was in this but yay. 

All in all definitely my best birthday yet! Thanks for making a fabulous 25th birthday for me peeps!!

-xo Emily

What I'm Reading: Run Like a Mother

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Run Like a Mother by Dimity McDowell & Sarah Bowen Shea


Inspired by my new love for running and thirst to learn more about it and how to be better at it... I searched for the perfect beginning running book for women and found something even better - one written for moms by moms. 

Broken up into 26 easy to read chapters each with a .2 section after it. 26.2 a.k.a. the distance of a marathon. The chapters vary from helping you find the right gear, to running while pregnant, to getting the hubs on board with your new running regime and then to the funny, how/when to go to the bathroom during a race. Basically all the need to know things about running that you wanted to know about but were too afraid to ask plus more like the fun music playlist ideas. 

Run Like a Mother is a great mix of funny, heartwarming and encouraging stories and lots of applicable advice. I loved this book and highly recommend it to the beginner mommy runner! It would even make a great Mother's Day gift. Maybe paired with chocolate and some cute running shoes of course ;)


-xo Emily

Hey! It's May!!

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Calendar by Caroline Johansson

What's up?

-My first Mother's day with baby-out-of-body :)

-My 25th birthday!!! I know I'm not that old but I really do like getting older minus the new lines on my forehead and don't try to tell me they aren't there... I'm thinking about making a list of goals for my next year of life- maybe give me some inspired ideas 

-Hardcore planning the little lady's first birthday party

-Tossing around some new ideas for our women's book club for this summer but we have locked down this book as our choice 

xo- emily