Friday, December 30, 2016

Friday Favorites

Happy Friday, Friends!

Erika, Narci and I are sharing our Friday Favorites this week and we'd love for you to join in!  Grab our graphic, link back to one (or all!) of us and share!


Last week we had some of our FAVORITE friends over and y'all.... look how SWEET!!!  I try to keep Griffin out of the boys way when they have friends over, but we were about to walk to the park and Jack insisted on trying to carry GG up the stairs :)  So cute!



And please note our elf on the shelf's handiwork in the background :)


I'm not sure what was happening... but apparently it involved an army of zoob scorpions and a laundry basket :)


Another FAVORITE was when my aunt and cousin sent each of my kids one of those singing/dancing Christmas cards.  So much giggling.  So much dancing. :)


Griffin REALLLLLLY enjoyed hers.


Those little painted fingernails KILL me! :)



Told you she loved it!



Ummm.... when did she turn 12?!?!  And her hat is from HERE.  It's seriously the cutest!


Another FAVORITE was when Brayden was working in the yard and knocked on the door to tell us that there was a GIANT leaf pile that we might want to take advantage of before he bagged them all up.



This kid and his dirty face are my FAVORITE :)
(he was going down the slide face first)


Several of y'all have asked about the cookie press I used when making my giant batch of shortbread cookies so I got out the instruction manual in case you wanted to be on the lookout for one.  I couldn't find it online... but I got mine at Homegoods years and years and years ago.  #nothelpful #sorry ;)


I also got questions about my new FAVORITE poncho and you can find it HERE.  It's $42 ($100 off!!!) and reversible, so when you look at it online mine is the navy... it just doesn't look like the one in the picture because I reversed it.


And y'all!  Look at my new FAVORITE Sid Dickens tile from Dave and the kids.  There are three eggs in the nest! LOVE!


Monday night we wrapped up our Christmas festivities with some of our FAVORITE people at our annual McAnally Christmas celebration.




No clue what is happening with Mason's face :) 


Such a fun time!!!




My Oma was in town for Christmas and having someone to show all his Lego creations to was Luke's FAVORITE :)  I think it may have been her favorite as well!



Raking is her FAVORITE ;)


And Wednesday night we had my FAVORITE - family movie night!!!  We went and saw Sing and had the best time.  The movie was PRECIOUS, the popcorn was delicious and the company was great :)






Yesterday afternoon we headed to one of our FAVORITE places - Playstreet!  We hit up the Plano location and the kids played for almost 4 hours and would have played longer if we didn't have to leave to run an errand and get home!




SO CUTE!!!










Luke hard at work :)


The cutest playhouse there ever was!


 Mason was hunting bears ;)




I taught Mason "the dot game" - I feel like it's a valuable life skill :)







Griffin played for EVER with this little horse set.  I ordered it last night for her birthday :)  I had a moment because I played with Breyer horses for YEARS growing up!


And I also made one of my kids FAVORITE dinners...


Last but not least, a couple of my FAVORITE brands EVER are having amazing sales right now!

Matilda Jane has tons of awesome pieces marked way down AND you can order directly from the website AND it's free shipping.  Score!  Click HERE to shop!  Both of these jackets are still available!


And Evys Tree is running a HUUUUGE clearance sale with items marked down up to 75% off.  Think gifts!!!  Click HERE to shop!  (pic below is me in the Samantha - LOVE the two-tone brown!)

Happy Friday, Friends!!! I hope y'all have a fun and safe weekend ringing in 2017!  We have plans for a pizza party and day at the lake.  See y'all back here on Monday!

PS - This post contained a few affiliate links.  THANK YOU for supporting my blog! :)


Thursday, December 29, 2016

Keeping it real :)

Last night we had so much fun!  SING at the movie theater (including too much popcorn!) and then home for a few rounds of Rummikub and up WAY past our bedtime.  I had another post planned for today, but it needed to be finished and time with these sweet boys trumped it ;)

Trying to soak up as much "break" as I can for a few more days! 

See y'all tomorrow for Friday Favorites!!!


PS - I'm finalizing the "Show and Tell Tuesday" list for 2017 this weekend and so if you have a fabulous fun idea for a prompt let me know in the comments! ;)

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Fall Family Pictures

I've shared a few of these on Instagram over the past month or so but wanted to share our full fall family photo session here on the blog :)  We met Kelly on "the road" one morning in November and while I had big plans to mix pink in with our green and cream color scheme I ended up changing it at the last minute and LOVE the neutrals.


I always feel like we're in a catch-22 situation when it comes to the family pics... if we do them at the beginning then the kids (read: GG) aren't really "warmed up" to the idea of pics and if we wait too long we can surpass our limit of cooperativeness.  But somehow Kelly always manages to make our crazy look calm... and for that we're FOREVER grateful! ;)


It was cold and I guess that's why both of the boys insisted on putting their hands inside their layers :) hahaha


















I'm not sure any of them were ready for this picture but Luke's little smirk KILLS me! :)

















This is the picture that KILLS me!





My crew :)








Being in front of the camera isn't my (or Dave's!) favorite thing in the world but every time we do these pictures we talk about how glad we are that we have them.  Kids grow WAY too fast and I don't think we'll ever regret getting in the pictures with them.  



Blog design by Get Polished | Copyright 2016