Special Guest - Elizabeth Dobson

Recently I had the opportunity to address my local church congregation about my faith. How I found it, and how I keep it. I decided I would also like to share it here. There is a lot going on in the world, a lot of hard and sad things. People are leaving organized religion and thanks to social media we get to hear all about it. More often than we used to. My experiences with my own personal revelation have helped me deal with all the madness in the world. 

Well I think this title speaks for itself. But seriously though, let's talk about Bruno and the entire Madrigal family, because Encanto is a smash hit and it's been stuck in my head since November. 

Birth story for Piedra baby #3!

I had the wonderful opportunity to sit down and talk with Elizabeth Dobson, the author and voice behind Family Remixed.com; a blog she created to educate and empower a growing demographic of interracial and adoptive families. Liz is a biracial woman adopted into an all-white family who shares her story to help and inspire others. Liz built a career in marketing in New York city, is a Tedx speaker as well as the winner of season seven of BYUtv's Relative Race alongside her husband Devin. 

My thoughts lately on the persecution suffered by early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and how it applies to me today. 

A little life update for you on what has been going on in our house over the last few months and weeks!

This week I want to focus an episode on blended families and the many shapes they take. I decided to talk to my cousin Whitney about her experience losing her father at a young age (my uncle) and what her life has been like since gaining a step father. 

Today's episode is a conversation I had with my new friend Kimberly Castaneda. Kimberly met her husband Felipe when they were fifteen years old. Since meeting Felipe joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, both have embarked on church missions, Kimberly has learned two languages and they are now married with two beautiful children. Listen as Kimberly shares the challenges and joys of being in a multicultural relationship and all that has happened along the way!

It's been a rough few weeks...not too long ago I experienced my first miscarriage, and shortly after beginning to process that we got to be part of history yet again and experience winter storm Uri, power outages and all. 

So it's been a while y'all...I can say y'all now that I live in Texas right? Let's check in with each other this new year...