Summertime Tea Party

So good good day yesterday!  I had the honor of hosting...I mean, my six-year-old had the honor of hosting,...a tea party!  Seriously cute.  Pretty confident to say I was just as excited as they were and perhaps a little lot more emotionally invested in its success.  But that's alright.  I They loved it! And it's all about me the kids right?? :)  The girls all looked so beautiful (even when they ditched the tea cups for the sandbox! lol) Honestly, I LOVE having little girls!  And I LOVE watching them in their rush to be grown up, giggling and talking a mile a minute...  if they only knew, 6 year old tea parties with your best friends in the world and your mom's high heel shoes...PRETTY much as good as it gets! :)

She was so happy.  I hope I can fill her little life with memories like this one...

  

Backsplash Finito.

So, true confession,...this backsplash may have been done for quite a while and I may have been just avoiding the whole blog notion.  I know right?  not really need for a spoiler alert on that one.  Ummm...March 11th.  'nuff said. 

And you know I love bringing in the old pics to help myself feel better about what we have done so far...

But Aaron did do a fantastic job and I am loving it!  There are still a few details to finish up in the kitchen but we are largely happy with it thus far - just have to kill off the other two appliances. :)

Art for the Newlyweds...

Went to a little wedding this past week-end.  Found some inspiration on pinterest...I know right??  Who knew pinterest could do that?  There's really no need to be creative anymore...other people do it sooo much better and it's so much easier to mindlessly rip off their successes (also avoiding the flops...)! :)  Anyway - thought it was super cute and I just had to buy the stand - YAY!

See you again in October... :)

YAY! B&B DONE!

I am so SO super excited to show you this project!  It has been in my dreaming stage for much much too long and I am so happy to see it done and looking just as I had hoped! :)  It was actually really quick and painless too, once I found a good tutorial and figured out all the math.  Aaron showed up with an air nailer for the rails install so that definitely sped things up a bit as well!  LOVE that guy!  ...Funny how he disappeared again for the caulking and painting stage though.... ;) So proud of my little laundry room - lookin' less ugly all the time!

LOVE board and batten!

And those three beautiful children on the wall are pretty stinkin' cute too...

Maternity Skirt Redo

So - super happy to say that I have begun to purge my maternity clothes!  And thus being the case, thought that I could try and repurpose some of them for my girls.  And yeah - a little umm... surprised? how far these whole 'repurposes' may go....


So, my 'little' Old Navy summer skirt... has become, 

a jersey dress for not one,

but two!  Oh yes I did.  Matching dresses. :)  Funny/sad story...had I another girl,...definitely had enough left over to hook them up too!  From the bolt,...I mean,...single skirt,...

Baked Glazed Donuts

So, I did something today that I've never ever done before. Found the recipe here, and  was actually pretty skeptical that I could do it. But, gotta say,...

.....DELICIOUS.  I think I'm going to have to do it again tomorrow.  MAKE THEM!


Because really... what IS the official moratorium for maternity pants?? 

School Valentines

Happy Valentine's Day!!  


It was Claire's first school valentine party today and so the two of us made up special little chocolate valentines for her class.  It was a super cute idea - totally not mine - and pretty easy to put together....however, not as easy as buying a box of Disney princess cards which I'm sure she would have been JUST as excited about sadly! :)  But, fun nonetheless...Just a Rolo chocolate bar with a Hershey Kiss on the end!

Hope you felt loved by someone today! :)