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Valentine’s Decor

February 1, 2017

Hello FEBRUARY!!! I LOVE when February hits because January is one of my least favorite months! It always seems to go by so slow and it’s SOOOO COOOOOLD. Feb 1st and I’m all like, winter is almost done! Plus, not to mention Valentine’s Day and it’s a LOVE month!

Ivy will be wearing this dress and bow and I can’t WAIT for her to put it on! Soooo many cute clothes for girls! And Leo, well I don’t know yet ;) He’d look pretty cute in pink!

After having some boring colorless winter decor around, I couldn’t wait to pop out my pinks and reds to bring some life into our room! Love the pops of colors for Valentine’s Day decor! Color fills up the room now!

top garland | bottom garland | xoxo | votives from local shop (similar here, here, and here) |

Here’s some more Valentine’s Day decor ideas!

– Candles –– Pillows –– Kitchen –

– Cards and Decor –

 

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New Years 2017

January 6, 2017

Hard to believe a week has almost gone by since the New Year! Goodness, already flying by! I hope you all had a fabulous NYE! We had sooo much fun last weekend. A few other couples and their kids joined us at our cabin to ring in the New Year. Love being with friends during celebrations! So nice to put the kids to bed, and enjoy time with each other!

While it was pretty cold to get outside Saturday and Sunday, Friday was SOO nice out! 48 and sunny and we took advantage of it by heading down to see the frozen lake and play in the sand.

We kept the wood-burning fire going all weekend. Leo was a big help gathering the wood for Daddy!

For NYE, all I could think about was the SEAFOOD FEAST we were going to be having! One of our friends had 3 live lobsters delivered, yaaaaaaas. The kids loved to see them, especially Leo who kept picking them up! And we all LOVED to eat them! :) MMMMM mmmm good!

We also had Alaskan king crab, shrimp, mussels, salmon, and add the lobsters and I was in seafood heaven! The crab legs were my FAVORITE. So delicious and such a delicacy!

We were all proud that we made it to midnight! We cheersed to the New Year and toasted to 2016 memories and making many more in 2017!

The next morning called for a dip in the hottub and bloody mary’s! I was really jealous of both! :(

Hope you all had a fun and happy New Year! 2017 is bound to be another busy and beautiful year!

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Christmas Cheer 2017

December 28, 2016

What a Merry Christmas it was! So much cheer in our home as we got to celebrate the special holiday with family and friends and our kids! Best of all was seeing Ivy go crazy with all of the Santa stories and presents! So much fun. A very memorable holiday indeed.

This year was unlike any other! Ivy REALLY got the jist of Christmas and Santa and baby Jesus this year, so it was so much fun explaining to her all of the stories and tales about Christmas! We tried to make it extra special and I about died when she wanted to leave Santa a plate of cookies and a glass of milk. So adorable! She even wanted to leave Rudolph a carrot, buuut, with no carrots in the house, she picked a grape instead, ha!

Ivy was such a pro at opening presents! She can read her name (pretty easy, three letters! I-V-Y) and we also taught her how to read Leo’s name (another easy one, L-E-O), so she would go around all of the presents looking at I-V-Y or L-E-O, it was super cute and hilarious!

All she had been asking Santa for were these Anna and Elsa dolls and Santa delivered! She was beyond ecstatic to open them and she hasn’t let go of them since! Leo scored on some new boy toys, lots of cars and trucks.

Doll bed

We also had such a blast with stockings! We kind of ran out of time for them with a brunch with John’s family, then dinner with my family, so we did them the next morning and it was a fun surprise for them to get to open one more thing!

Such a fun holiday and tons of food and holiday cheer. Here are some of my favorite pictures from this Christmas season!

Hope you had a very Merry Christmas! I can’t believe it’s 2017 in a few days!!!!

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Christmas Card

December 20, 2016

I am a huge fan of stationery! So Christmas cards are ultra exciting for me! I love choosing which style I’m into this year, and then a fun family photo to go with it. It’s a process because I’m like, SO INDECISIVE. I have a problem where I have to look at a million cards to make sure I don’t like one better before actually choosing one. But I really don’t complain because there are so many gorgeous and lovely cards out there! I really do love it and it brings me so much joy to send them out to our family and friends.

This year I used Minted, and have the past 4 years. I LOVE their cards. They offer so many fabulous designs and I always find my favorite there! Plus, they offer FREE matching envelope designs and recipient addressing, which is like, AMAZING because it saves me soooo much time to not have to write in addresses myself! Plus the matching envelope designs are really beautiful.

I chose the “Just Merry” design this year. I love more simple cards and the merry script on the bottom of the card was so pretty and simple. Plus, the white and funky script matched our urban photo (see more of our urban family photo shoot – photos by Emily Mitton Photography) perfectly! Love the black and white contrast!

garland by The Strand

And, I always pay the little extra to do the back of the card. I like to write a little bit about our year, what Ivy and Leo are in to, what John is up to, how my year went, etc., I think it personalizes the card a tad and I know my extended family appreciates the updates!

It’s been so much fun going to the mailbox each day! I LOVE seeing what designs and photos everyone uses. Really enjoy seeing our closest family and friends smiling at us each day on our board! So much cheer :)

Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!



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Holiday Toy List for Boys and Girls

December 17, 2016

Countdown till Christmas = 7 days! EEEK! ONE WEEK!! Do you have your holiday shopping done yet? I love going in to Child’s Play Toys this time of year. So much cheer and holiday spirit in there with all of the fabulous toys around! I am excited to share some of the toys that we got for Ivy and Leo. Toys for boys and girls, and toys for them to share!

Ivy is toooootally into dolls and barbies right now. And she is obsessed with YouTube! So weird. She watches videos of people playing with their toys and her favorite is any of the “Elsia and Annia” videos. It’s a young girl playing with the toddler (6 inch) Elsa and Anna dolls and Ivy is obsessed! That’s the only thing she keeps asking for from Santa! So adorable. Had to get her those! And she also asked for a doll bed to go with it! Love this bed and blanket set!

Leo is getting more and more boy! He is really into cars and trucks and trains. My sister got him a train set for Christmas and he’s been loving to push the trains through the bridge and down the hill. Fun to finally have some boy toys around here!

Then I plan to fill their stocking with some toys to share. Loving the sno-art markers! I think they’ll have a lot of fun with those once it warms up a little bit and they can actually go play in the snow! And a his and hers shovel bc we know how sharing goes ;)

Time crunch to get your shopping done! Thank goodness for Amazon Prime when it’s this cold out!

BOYS || dump truck | soccer ball | cars | mega bloks
GIRLS || puzzle | chelsea doll | doll bed | frozen boombox | princess playdoh
THEIRS || sno-art kit | shovels | dot art

Hope you stay warm this weekend! Dang it’s cold! Kids keep asking to go build a snowman and I’m like, yeah right! #wuss

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