Happy Valentine's Day! It is no secret I love holidays. I think I love holidays so much, because they tend to revolve around three things: family, food and traditions. This is the good stuff in life. This is the stuff we grow up and we remember and we do with our children. I fully embrace all holidays, we do not discriminate. After a few missed events and the whole are you, aren't you the husband I made a rule. From now on no birthday, Christmas, Valentine's day, Anniversary, Mother's Day, ...
Family Life
How Does She? She Doesn’t
Every time you wonder, How does she? Know that she doesn't. My kids cry, my house gets messy and even "dangerous" and me and the hubs fight. Yup, life around here is normal. Who really wants to visit a blog full of pictures of mess and chaos? So yes, we try to put our best foot forward around here. Does that make us fake? I don't think so. You don't wear your sweats on your date or your date outfit to work (Okay, so I probably have done both, but you get the ...
From Our Family To Yours
That is the best we could do this Christmas Eve with the self timer. Because it is too cute to now share...Heart officially melted! No wonder she has her daddy wrapped around her little finger. ...
Gratitude Jar Revealed
A whole lot of thanks going on around here. The gratitude jar we set up at the start of November (more on that here) filled up with a ton-o-thanks. We have a whole lot to be thankful for around here. Yesterday, being Thanksgiving and all, we carved out a little time (pun intended!) to gather as a family and read the things we are thankful for. To make sure Quinn was engaged we put him in charge of pulling out each slip of paper and handing it over to be read. This was so fun and truly was ...
Family Christmas Tree
This is our first Christmas as a family of four. I wanted to celebrate this in a memorable way so Saturday night we had a little family craft time. Since this is no spend November (Yes, we are still doing that and incredibly we haven't spent a dime beyond groceries, gas, and bills) we had to use what we had around. In my head I had a vision of a Christmas tree made from our hand prints. All we had was flimsy paper, but we did have a bunch of file folders from my classroom. So we got together as ...