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Welcome to We’re Parents!
We are Andrew and Larisha, a unique, multicultural, mom and dad blogging team living in New Jersey with our two beautiful daughters, ages 5.5 and 3. We met in college in 2005 at West Virginia University, started dating in 2009, moved to Jersey together in 2010 and have loved every second of Jersey life since (well, minus the property taxes).
We’re Parents is all about cooking and traveling our way through imperfect parenting. Hey, we all make mistakes, we’re just trying to have fun while minimizing how much therapy our kids will need later!
Who are we?
-Larisha-
In 2012, I lost my job. Four weeks later, we found out we were expecting our first child. Frightened doesn’t begin to describe the feelings we both had. I started We’re Parents as a creative outlet to share my pregnancy and my recipes with family and friends while I searched for a job. After having our daughter, we decided it was best I stay at home. I’m an adventure seeker, love to help and entertain others, and obsessed with Amish doughnuts and cheesecake. I have a serious addiction to pizza and I dream of the day we travel the world together. You can usually find me in the kitchen with our tiny chefs – The Seasoned Kids or in our schoolroom since we homeschool.
-Andrew-
While I’ve always been a part of the blog, design wise, I didn’t join the writing side until 2015. I love the community that we have built together and I’m excited to see where our blogging journey continues to take us together. Photography, cars, my motorcycle, and snowboarding are my passions, while chocolate chip cookies and lasagna are the way to my heart. I also have a passion for building things by hand and working to update our house we bought as a foreclosure. I strive everyday to give Larisha and my girls everything they could possibly imagine.
-Serenity-
The defining moment our lives changed forever was the moment that she was born in 2012. She’s wild, adventurous, and an extreme daredevil. She started walking at 8 months and hasn’t slowed down since. She loves being in the kitchen cooking, doing stunts, and anything art related. The child will go through a bottle of glue in 2 days if you let her! She loves soft pretzels, pizza, and has a wicked obsession with bacon. A contagious laugh that melts daddy’s heart and gets her whatever she wants sums her up.
-Storm-
Born in June 2015, almost in the parking lot, this one made our family complete. A fierce attitude and a large vocabulary have this girl keeping us on our toes already. We know that paired together with big sis these girls are going to make life joyous and daunting at the same time. She currently loves popsicles and oatmeal, designing clothes for her dolls from play-doh, and taunting her sister.
About our Site
Wereparents.com is an award-winning website that focuses on our family’s personal journey. When we started blogging in 2012, we had no clue that we’d be where we are today, in reference to both the size of our blog and the type of parents we would become. We are a “semi-crunchy” natural parenting family – focusing our space here heavily on breastfeeding and car seat safety, healthy meals that kids devour, pregnancy and postpartum, as well as our travels. Our travels focus on local, family-friendly travel in New Jersey and PA, as well as #OurQuestTo50 – our goal to travel to all 50 states with our girls. We are currently at 8 states with the goals to hit at least 4 more during 2018.
Every Wednesday we do a live cooking show on Facebook called “Will It Work Wednesdays”. We take recipe submissions from other bloggers who say their meal can be created in 30 minutes (OR LESS!) and recreate them in a timed live video. Check out all previous episodes of our show and make sure you join us Wednesdays at 4pm EST LIVE.
We love partnering with brands and agencies to write about things that we use in our everyday lives through sponsored posts, reviews, press trips, videos, and more. We’ve been honored to do a segment for The Today Show on behalf of Campbell’s. We’ve been ambassadors for companies such as: Boba, Hyland’s, Chick-fil-A, HP, and Mommycon’s Mom Squad.
We’ve been featured on Huff Post Parents and Mashable and our recipes have been featured on BuzzFeed, The Stir, Mom.Me, and Undercover Mama. In 2014, we won the Johnny Rockets #MyRocketShake contest with our Berry Banana Cookie Milkshake Recipe and Video. Andrew was also awarded a 2017 BlogHer VOTY for Food Photography and Larisha a 2017 BlogHer VOTY for short narrative.
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