Ode to Mormon Mommy Blogs

This one's for you, Mormon-Mommy bloggers. Your ability to pull off skinny jeans in the same month you gave birth is inspiring. I know it was a splurge, but the size 0-3 mos Sperrys were so worth it. For a minute we thought Aiden wasn't going to finish potty training . . . but luckily you had a follow-up post. Thank you hip-Mommy bloggers, for making the world a more bubbly place - one post at a time.

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This week I put my wannabe-hip-mommy blogging skills to the test during a trip to my hometown. With Canada Day and the 100th Calgary Stampede book-ending my stay, I had a lot of opportunities to snap totes adorbs shots of my nieces/nephews, bake, and do some serious nail-painting.

How to Have a Mormon-Mommy Blog

Step 1:  Have adorable kids.
If your kids aren't Target-catalog material, you might consider a different hobby.

Step 2: Always wear lipstick.
Exercise in it. Sleep in it. You have no idea when a good photo op is going to happen, and you want to be ready.

Step 3: Bake things that look like other things.

Step 4: Match with your kids.

Step 5: Don't forget hubby.
But don't include so much of him that people think he's the star of the show, here.

Step 6: Take pictures of everything you eat.
...especially if it has quinoa. Or goat cheese.

Stampede Pancake Breakfast was kind of a bust

 Step 7: Nails. Nails. Nails.

4th of July nails for Mya's birthday. And America's

Grandma Terry likes to paint nails too

Step 8: Treat everyday as it were a fashion-show day, because surely it is.

Almost all of the clothes in our photo shoot are mine. NBD.

Other pics from the trip that weren't hip enough to be mommy-blog material:
 

The LDS Calgary temple under construction...!!



Calaway Park was a lot smaller than I remembered it



My bestie of 25 years (minus 2 weeks) and her fam

"There's a feeling in the air that you can't get anywhere, except in Calgary..."