Yesterday we surprised the kids and brought home a puppy!! They have been begging for one for years and we felt like the time was right to bring one home.

Meet Angus 🐕 He's a Golden Retriever/King Charles Cavalier Spaniel mix. He's 11 weeks old and currently weighs about 8 pounds, he should be around 35 pounds fully grown. I know it will be an adjustment for a while as he gets potty trained etc but we are so excited. 😂 Wish us luck! 🤪

Cheese is good! I ate a block of chipotle oven baked cheese with lunch yesterday and it was divine. I love it, but know that it halts any progress I'm making, and will even trigger eating in excess to where I'll gain weight. It's sad but I have accepted it. If I eat it in small quantities with a meal, it's ok, but I really have to work to keep it in check.

What's your favorite cheese? How do you incorporate it? Do you see negative results when eating it?

Happy Sunday! Sharing a video today from our week, one of the highlights. This was Wednesday evening church, normally they have a more casual prayer meeting where someone plays the guitar, but they were doing some construction in the fellowship hall so they had their prayer meeting in the sanctuary. No one was there to play the piano so my my Grandma did it, she's been playing the piano in church for probably 80 years.

For context, she's 88, she had a really bad fall 5 years ago now and hit her head and ended up with a lot setbacks, similar to having a stroke. She has a lot of dementia like symptoms also (I am sure related to her Type 2 diabetes), she really can't read music anymore, and she has trouble seeing well, and she needs to wear hearing aids to hear but hates wearing them, so on this night she didn't want to wear them. My 93 (almost 94) year old grandpa takes care of both of them on their farm. Anyway, on this night she sat down on the piano and led worship as people called ...

So looks like we are officially going to Meatstock next year. I mentioned it on the Livestream last night, but they had messaged me and asked me to be on a few panels. I replied back to them and suggested they just let me emcee it since I do a lot of that in my normal job as well. They were excited about that option so looks like we are good to go! (they put me on the website already haha)

It's May 7th-9th 2027 (the 9th is Mother's Day FYI) in Nashville next year year. I assume I will get some kind of discount code to give out for tickets but I'll keep you posted.

Happy Tuesday! Thanks for hanging out on the Livestream last night!! It's such a busy time of year for a lot of people, most schools are ending or close to ending for the summer. Lots of graduations, end of year events, and vacations coming up.

My biggest tip in this busy season is to keep lots of quick/easy foods on hand to grab when you are on the go. Having a back up plan to your busy plans is the best way too keep yourself on track! We shared a lot of those options last night on the stream too.

Are you currently in a busy season?

Laura & Chris, I just listened to the live stream from last night and heard about your trip to Montana! I'm so excited for you! Back in 2008 and 2009 I lived and worked on a dude ranch about 20 minutes south of Big Sky. We actually had to drive to Big Sky from the ranch in order to get cell phone service. I'm sure it's changed a lot since then 😆

I went down to Yellowstone several times and hiked some of the surrounding areas. It was fun seeing the bison calves, which are an orange color when they're young in the spring. I also saw bears, wolves, moose, elk and various mountain animals. Seeing Old Faithful and the surrounding thermal pools was cool, although the smell is terrible lol

There was definitely white water rafting on the Gallatin River, but I never got a chance to do it. It looked fun though! When I was there I worked 6 days a week, and on my days off I usually went horseback riding up in the mountains. It was such a great experience! I'm excited for you and the kids to be ...