Personalized Valentine's Cards!

It's official. Kenzie will have the most adorable Valentine's Cards ever for her Kindergarten party. And all thanks to Cardstore.

I mean seriously. Look at her face! 

She's a mermaid! 

And of course, I had to add Swedish Fish as a treat. 

Cardstore has 31 different themes for kids. We had a hard time just picking one! 

And the great thing about them is that they come in packs of four.

Can you stand the cuteness overload?

I'll give you a second...

And look! 

Even the backs of them have fun little activities.

Hurry and order yours! 

For as low as $0.89 per sheet, what's not to love?

Your kiddo will have the cutest Valentine's Cards in the whole class! Possibly the WORLD! 

Christmas Traditions

I can't believe it's Christmas time. I think I say that every year, but seriously. Where does the time go? And where is my White Christmas?! I guess Tennessee always bypasses that memo because last week it was in the 70s. Bipolar weather.

Christmas is usually my favorite time of year. Although I do get stressed out and procrastinate entirely too much, I love it. I love the music, the movies, the family time, and the looks on my children's faces when Santa comes!

Here are a few of our family Christmas traditions!

1. Visit Santa at the Mall! Even though the cost for those pictures are ridiculous, you just can't beat Mall Santa. I love listening to the kids tell him what they want for Christmas!

2. Pick out a new ornament! I love this tradition. I love seeing what everyone picks out. This year, I couldn't find ANY that I just loved. Even Hobby Lobby let me down! We did find some at Wal-Mart though. Doug and Tucker picked trains, Kenzie picked a glitter snowman, and I picked a doughnut. 

3. Family time! I have a huge family and I love it. And since we have divorced families, we have a lot of split up gatherings. We have my Poppa's, my Mom's, my Gran's, my Nana's, and Doug's side of the family. Needless to say, there's a ton of traveling and a ton of good eating!

4. Christmas movies! Of course we watch almost every Christmas movie that comes on tv each year. And we all have our favorites. Mine is Muppet Christmas Carol (or any Christmas Carol, really); Doug's is The Christmas Story; The kids love The Grinch and pretty much anything that involves Santa.

5. Santa's Cookies! On Christmas Eve, Doug and I help the kids bake and decorate cookies for Santa! This year, we picked Gingerbread. I just know Santa will love those. *wink wink* 

6. New pajamas! On Christmas morning, we have brunch with Doug's family and we all wear our pajamas! It's so much fun. But this year I waited last minute (shocker, I know), and I couldn't find Holiday pajamas for the kids anywhere. So I just let them pick out "normal" pajamas. Oh well. You win some, you lose some. 

7. Elf on the Shelf! This is our second year with our elf. And I'm crazy because for some reason, I thought our Elf's name was Buddy.

Nope.

It's Happy. 

But we've been going along with "Buddy" and the kids haven't caught on yet. Well, Kenzie found the name "Happy" in the back of our Elf book but I closed it pretty quickly in hopes she wouldn't ask questions. ha!!

So those are our family traditions for Christmas! I would love to hear yours!

Mother’s Day recap

 

I know, I know. I’m behind on this post. Better late than never, eh?

This Mother’s Day was so special to me. My kids actually understood that the day was all about Mommy and I woke up to “Happy Mother’s Day” “I love you” all that morning! Precious, I tell ya. I got them ready for church and of course had to take pictures.

I am so blessed to have beautiful, smart, funny children. Yes, they drive me crazy 80% of the time, but I would still do anything for them and I love them more than life itself!

Doug took them with him that afternoon so I went with my Mom to eat lunch at my Uncle’s with the rest of the family. It was nice to spend some one on one time with my Mom. She even got ME a gift!

Aren’t these coasters just adorable? She also got me a beach/pool bag, which I LOVE.

After all the family gathering/eating was over, I came home to a CLEAN house. Doug cleaned up the whole house. He vacuumed and everything. He’s a keeper.

Then the kids gave me their gift:

They made me garden stones with their precious handprints! They even decorated it themselves. I love them so much! And of course, my husband for coming up with the idea. I think homemade gifts are just the absolute best. I will cherish these forever!

I’d say my Mother’s Day was a success, don’t you think so?

A Late Halloween Post

You guys. 

It's NOVEMBER!

Where did this year go? Seriously.

But before I move on to November, I've got some October catching up to do!

I love Halloween. It's my second favorite Holiday. I love getting dressed up and letting the kids pick out costumes.

And we have our Annual Halloween party! Which is usually the best party of the year.

This year I was a cat.

I'm so creative.

Not.

Took me forever to make this tutu.

And curl my hair.

But I loved this costume:) I was super comfy and that's all that matters.

See: rainboots.

Douglas was a little more gruesome than a pretty kitty...

Eww, right?

Zombieeeeeeeeeeeee.

Halloween night we took these awesome kiddos trick-or-treating:

I mean, you really can't get much more precious than Skeleton man and Batgirl. Right? :)

They were so super excited. I think they love Halloween as much as I do.

I even introduced Kenzie to some awesome Disney Channel Original Halloween movies such as Halloweentown, Don't Look Under the Bed, The Nightmare Before Christmas (one of my faves), and Under Wraps.

Those movies brought back some awesome memories.

Oooooh. Look at our scary glowing eyes!!

Happy Birthday Tucker! ...and America ;)

Yesterday was this little boy's 2nd birthday.

I can't believe my BABY is two. TWO!!!!

It feels like just yesterday that I was informing my hubby that my water just broke, watched him freak out, rode with my Mother in Law who drove 5493204328 mph to get me to the hospital on time, sitting on the toilet because that was the only position that was comfortable to me and being scared I was going to give birth in it, getting my epidural then shaking like a crack head because I was so cold, and then cracking up when they put my new bundle of joy on the scale and it said 10 pounds.

Oh, how he has grown!

Yesterday we celebrated America's birthday with family at their cabin on the Kentucky Lake. We had a BLAST! 

My children are water bugs. 

I'm not sure how many 2 and 4 year old kids have been water tubing, but mine have! And they loved it! 

I hope everyone had a safe and fun 4th of July!