The Santhouse House

21/09/2022

What do an apple, a tiger, and a sloth have in common?

They're all types of hot air balloons we saw at the Boise hot air balloon classic!

We recently went to the 2022 Boise Hot Air Balloon Classic, which is an event that happens every year in Boise! Jacob grew up going to a similar hot air ball...

02/09/2022

WE MOVED!!! 🎉

After living in apartments for the last 10+ years, we were so ready and excited to move into a house and have a backyard!

We moved (!) so we wanted to give you an empty house tour before we move in! We moved within the Treasure Valley in Idaho to a house! We have lived in apartm...

03/08/2022

When the kids would rather look at the seals behind you than the camera 😂

11/07/2022

It’s been one year since our adoption profile went active. One year of waiting. And we are still waiting. If you had asked us when we first went active if we thought we’d still be waiting a year from then, we would have said no. Waiting is hard, but we’re still in this. We trust the timing will be perfect.

So we continue to wait, hope, and pray. And live in the present.

We got paddle boards recently, and we’ve been spending a lot of time on the water as a family. It’s good for the soul. ☀️

03/07/2022

We recently took our kids camping for the first time - it was quite the adventure. We may have forgotten their sleeping bags… 😬😂
So naturally we vlogged it all: https://youtu.be/BWhBm6gJ-s8

21/06/2022

10 points to whoever can guess what Jaema was looking at 👀

18/05/2022

Sometimes kids get tired of walking. 💪

16/05/2022

In this day in the life, we're heading to the Boise aquarium, bringing Kaeden to physical therapy, and grabbing some Chic-fil-A! We've never been to the Bois...

24/04/2022

We posted a life update video + hike a few days ago! 🏞

It's our first hike of the year + a life update! It's crazy that this is our first hike as a family of 2022. We wanted to give you a life update about a bunc...

08/04/2022

Do you dye Easter eggs? We're trying to decide if this will become a tradition. 🥚

We're dying Easter eggs with our toddlers! This was such a fun activity to do with our toddlers and they had a blast! This was only their second time dying E...

02/04/2022

Would you ever go winter camping? ❄️

Jacob went winter camping again! He had such a great time last time, that he and his friend Patrick went winter camping again! They drove up into the mountai...

25/03/2022

It's another Old Navy toddler clearance/supercash haul! I love combining supercash with clearance find at Old Navy, so I wanted to show you what deals I foun...

19/03/2022

Come along and enjoy Colorado with us as we go to the Donut Mill (somewhere Jacob went often as a kid), enjoy the scenery, and go sledding!!

In this Colorado family vlog, we went to the Donut Mill, and we had a blast going sledding! We were in Colorado for a week and we spent a day exploring. Jaco...

14/03/2022

Did you know there are a bunch of weird Peeps flavors out there? Like sour watermelon? Or Hot Tamales? 🔥

Peeps taste test! Did you know there are a bunch of different Peeps flavors out there? We had no idea until we saw them at the store recently, so we got them...

05/03/2022

New video is up! 🚙

We went on a 12 hour roadtrip to Colorado! We love roadtrips, but going on long roadtrips with toddlers is definitely a different challenge. We drove from Id...

27/02/2022

When we have an upcoming road trip, I try to get some new activities for the kids for in the car, so I wanted to share what I'm bringing! 🛣🚙

Road trip activities for toddlers and toddler travel toys!We have a 12 hour road trip coming up, and so I wanted to show you what activities and travel toys ...

21/02/2022

I think we're done getting snow down where we live, but we've still been taking the kids up in the mountains to play in the snow!

Our sledding adventure | family vlog! We've still been exploring Idaho and getting the kids outside and in the snow, so in today's family vlog, we took them ...

06/02/2022

Did you know there are a TON of different flavors of Goldfish? We tried 17 different kinds in our video! 😲

We're deciding which Goldfish are the best in today's taste test! We eat Goldfish a lot - our kids love them, and we recently discovered there are so many di...

06/02/2022

Did we drive over an hour each way to find snow? 🚙

Why yes, yes we did. ❄️❄️❄️

23/01/2022

We spent a weekend apart. 🙃

our weekend apart. Jacob went winter camping over the weekend with one of his buddies while the kids and Kathy stayed home. Jacob filmed some of his experien...

12/01/2022

We don't get a ton of snow where we live in Idaho, so we drove a bit to find some and to fly our new drone!

We're going on a snow adventure with our new drone!!! Kathy surprised Jacob with a drone for Christmas (he was shocked), and so we've been going different pl...

03/01/2022

Jaema turned 2 last month and we threw her a Frozen themed party! ❄️

Our 2 year old's Frozen themed birthday party! Jaema turned 2 last month!!! We celebrated on her actual birthday, but then we threw her a Frozen themed birth...

27/12/2021

Can you guess which kid likes snow and which doesn’t? 😂
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25/12/2021

Merry Christmas!!!!!❤️💚❤️💚

15/12/2021

We ranked all of the holiday Hershey kisses! Which one is your favorite?

We're doing a taste test to figure out which holiday Hershey kiss is the best! There are so many Hershey kisses that appear around Christmas time, so we're d...

13/12/2021

Someone turned 2 last week 💖

10/12/2021

Have you tried any of the Hostess or Little Debbie holiday snacks? We're trying them all in this video! Yummm!

It's a holiday Hostess and Little Debbie snack taste test!! We are trying all of the holiday/Christmas Hostess and Little Debbie snacks that we could find an...

05/12/2021

There are some bizarre candy canes flavors out there, so of course we had to try them! Have you tried any of these weird candy cane flavors??

I'm guessing weird candy cane flavors with my sister! There are a bunch of unique and weird candy cane flavors out there, so we got a bunch of them and did a...

17/11/2021

It's hard to know exactly what to say when people ask us for adoption updates. Sometimes our profile book is being shown to multiple expectant moms at a time, and other times it's pretty quiet. Waiting is hard, and we're working on surrendering our expectations of when we will welcome a baby into our family. The timing is out of our control, so we trust it will be at the perfect time!

We haven't mentioned them for a while, but our t-shirt and faux leather earring fundraisers are still live (we also just added a fun mug!), and we hope that as you're Christmas shopping, you'll consider supporting our adoption at the same time. We'll put the links below, and we've also just added a 10% off coupon code (MERRYCHRISTMAS) for both websites! 🧡

T-shirts: https://www.bonfire.com/store/the-santhouse-family-adoption/
Faux leather earrings: https://www.thesanthousehouse.com/shop

16/11/2021

It’s a good day when mom puts chocolate chips in the banana bread. 😋