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Cook Book for Jane

Cook Book for Jane

You should know right from the start that I made this cookbook more for myself than I did for my ...
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Our Service Trip to Guatemala

Our Service Trip to Guatemala

My parents have always made service a priority in our family. They taught each of us to forget ab...
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Christmas Traditions with the Taggarts

Christmas Traditions with the Taggarts

Traditions keep families strong. I swear, having traditions is what has really strengthened my re...
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Falling In Love Again and Again

Falling In Love Again and Again

Talking comes naturally to some people and not so naturally to others. As you can probably guess...
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Blackberry White Chocolate Mocha

Blackberry White Chocolate Mocha

This is such a nostalgic drink for me. When I was in college I worked as a barista in a small lit...
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Hot Girl Summer

Hot Girl Summer

We are all gonna have a hot girl summer this year. ALL. OF. US. There’s no good reason you should...
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One Of My Favorite Summer Dinners

One Of My Favorite Summer Dinners

I'm an Aries, which is a fire sign. I know this may sound silly to some, but there's something sp...
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How We're Keeping Our Sanity This Summer

How We're Keeping Our Sanity This Summer

Cereal spilled all over the floor, a lukewarm gallon of milk sits on the kitchen counter with sev...
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Deliciously Easy Chicken Pot Pie

Deliciously Easy Chicken Pot Pie

My toxic trait is making amazing and delicious food, but never writing down a recipe, so I can ne...
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Thursday Thoughts - Girls Trip, Summer Plans, and a New Family Tradition

Thursday Thoughts - Girls Trip, Summer Plans, and a New Family Tradition

Ok, a girls trip is literally what everyone needs! My bucket is overflowing with renewed energy f...
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Avocado Toast to Die For… Literally

Avocado Toast to Die For… Literally

Supposedly millennials can’t afford to buy houses these days because they are spending all their ...
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Everything I Know About Getting Into Hiking

Everything I Know About Getting Into Hiking

The butterflies in my stomach are waking up knowing that hiking season is coming back! I never kn...
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Abi’s Intro to Prepping: Self Sufficiency

Abi’s Intro to Prepping: Self Sufficiency

Self-Sufficiency is the ultimate goal of any hard core prepper. It's the ability to live complete...
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Abi’s Intro to Prepping: Food Storage

Abi’s Intro to Prepping: Food Storage

Have you ever heard of the story of the ants and the grasshopper? The ants spend all year prepari...
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Abi’s Intro to Prepping: 72 Hour Kit

Abi’s Intro to Prepping: 72 Hour Kit

You asked and here it is! A Getting Started Prepper Guide. One of the biggest mistakes people mak...
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Abi's Intro to Prepping: Water

Abi's Intro to Prepping: Water

Every class I have taken for preparedness starts with water. No matter each person’s circumstance...
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All The Best Books - Recommended by You!

All The Best Books - Recommended by You!

When I hurt my knee I was down for the count. While stuck in bed I asked for you all to share wit...
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Baby Name Ideas

Baby Name Ideas

Naming children is hard, like so much harder than anyone ever lets on. My sister Emily was namele...
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50 Hilarious Guess Who Questions

50 Hilarious Guess Who Questions

The Best Way to Play Guess Who Guess Who was one of my all time favorite games growing up. I fond...
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Strawberry Banana Muffins with Thrive Life

Strawberry Banana Muffins with Thrive Life

Lately I’ve been experimenting with Thrive Life and trying to incorporate it more into my daily c...
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New Years Resolutions

New Years Resolutions

A NEW YEAR, A FRESH START My brother Spencer told me that the more goals we make the less likely ...
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Guava Nectar Kefir Smoothie with Mixed Fruit

Guava Nectar Kefir Smoothie with Mixed Fruit

One day last year, my mom busted through my front door and started excitedly rambling about th...
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What is Thrive Life?

What is Thrive Life?

Alright, to start out I have to tell you that all freeze fried or food storage companies are not...
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Meditation & Connection

Meditation & Connection

I could talk about meditation all day, every day! I love it! I feel like most of my problems are ...
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My Thrive Story

My Thrive Story

Pandemic + Earthquake At the crazy point of the pandemic where toilet paper was being sold on t...
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A Girls Trip to Greece

A Girls Trip to Greece

I’m finally coming back to the world of the living after getting over my jet lag, but GREECE, you...
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Making Big Decisions and Living Your Dreams

Making Big Decisions and Living Your Dreams

I'm kind of a dreamer. A dreamer and a doer, really. I always have been. It's part of who I am. I...
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August Wrap Up - All the Things in One Place

August Wrap Up - All the Things in One Place

My highlight of the month of August was for sure Aspen getting baptized as a member of The Church...
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Thrive Life

Thrive Life

Do you remember when Covid hit last year and toilet paper was literally wiped off of shelves? N...
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My love for PMD

My love for PMD

Me, traveling the country, working for and selling PMD! In 2009 my parents moved from California...
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Family is everything and an introduction to mine

Family is everything and an introduction to mine

I was 17 and my parents made a phone call…to Planned Parenthood. And it wasn’t for me. Let me fi...
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Wedding Disasters

Wedding Disasters

Dear Abi: I’m in the middle of wedding planning and I just know something is going to go wrong. D...
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Honey, I Pooped My Pants

Honey, I Pooped My Pants

The last Dear Abi question was about pooping your pants in public and it was TOO funny! I love s...
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Connecting to Your Family with Melissa Smith and Family Brand

Connecting to Your Family with Melissa Smith and Family Brand

Ammon and I have been hanging out with Melissa Smith from the Family Brand podcast and we are lov...
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My Favorite French Toast, As Seen In Cookbook For Jane

My Favorite French Toast, As Seen In Cookbook For Jane

I've always loved any kind of French toast, but my all-time favorite has to be the kind stuffed w...
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Double Date Interview with Dr. Chiddy, Plastic Surgeon

Double Date Interview with Dr. Chiddy, Plastic Surgeon

Ammon and I had the funnest double date with Dr. Chiddy, and his adorable wife, Mindee! He answer...
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