2014

To say this year was amaze balls

would be an understatement.

When we rang in 2014 I remember

thinking that no year could top 2013,

for obvious reasons.

But this year is one for the books.

I started our little blog in February

we celebrated tons of first holidays with Cam

went on TWO family beach vacations

got engaged

celebrated Camdyn's first birthday, twice

grew our family by one, fluffy little member

and last but not least got MARRIED

We plan to spend this New Year's Eve

just our little family of three,

eating tons of appetizers

& watching The Twilight Zone marathon.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot some resolutions ;)

I.

Be more patient with myself,
especially as a momma.

There are MANY days that I feel like

I'm doing everything wrong,

"Does Cam watch too much TV?"

"Am I feeding her enough lunch, dinner, etc"

"Do I teach her enough in a day?"

Growing a human being is not an easy

task, it takes lots of time 

18 years to be exact

& lots of PATIENCE.

II.

Work on my skills in the kitchen.

I have a long way to go with this one

think flour all over my clothes

& many tears over burnt garlic

but I think it should be a fun adventure ;)

III.

Top this outfit 

Happy New Years Eve!!
Bring on 2015 :)

Christmas 2014

Ah, Christmas morning

the day that every child & parent

anticipates since the first sign of festive everything

in the aisles of Target.

Our morning started off with 

Cam having a minor cough attack

immediately after chugging her milk

which resulted in Chris getting puked on

LOL

Girl acted like nothing even happened

& went right along with her morning

if that were me I'd be rolling around in agony

the majority of the morning but hey, to each their own

Puppy child's first Christmas

& she was excited.

We headed down the road to Gigi's

Cam LOVES her uncle :)

& as you can tell her aunt just

wasn't having pictures that day

Except when I held her

then she was having it

just a little :)

Just a man & his dog

Bring on the new year!

Christmas Eve 2014

Christmas Eve aka my favorite day of the year

was amazing this year.

I know everybody says it but

the holidays are A MILLION times better with minis.

We started the morning off

with some errands

& breakfast at Gigi's

Vest-H&M

Leg Warmers- Hobby Lobby

Moccs

& somebody experienced

some serious FOMO watching

her aunt & uncle take a bath

Cam enjoyed some of her

new pressies that she got in the mail

as did I.

We got ready for a night of festivities

with friends & family

of course a selfie...

hung out with Pop-pop

& the amazing cheesecake that

he brings every year.

& ended the night with a 

visit from the big man ;)

Seriously, best day of the year!

Friday Favorites

I.

THIS

I've decided that this will

at least be attempted next year

for our Christmas pictures.

II.

Last weekend Chris & I had a little

getaway to Hoboken & adventured into NYC

since he's never been!! 

We definitely chose the worst day to go

being that it was Santacon

but it definitely made for some good entertainment.

III.

We've gotten at least one Christmas

card in the mail everyday this week & 

it makes me so happy.

I seriously hope that Christmas cards

stay around forever.

IV.

We realized this week that 

we're like super close to being able

to start house hunting, eek!

I'm so excited.

V.

Scrabble.

It's actually pretty fun,

add a side of Oreos & you've

 got a good night.

#parentlife

Pinning- Christmas Style

Christmas is one week away!!!

Pinterest has been swarming with

amazing holiday ideas since like mid-August

so I've had plenty of time to rack up

some of my favorites.

I.

These peppermint Oreo truffles sound amazing.

Just the name alone makes me drool.

Anything involving Oreos is a win in my book.

II.

Once Cam knows who Santa is

I'll definitely be making her this

Santa pancake breakfast

I guess in the meantime I can make

it for Chris, only for the hat I'll use bacon 

instead of strawberries.

Perfect ;)

III.

These plaid stockings

will be ours next Christmas.

IV.

These trees

would be the perfect use for the tons

of leftover scraps of fabric that I have

from Cam's nursery banner

& our fall banner.

V.

If we were hosting a Christmas dinner

these would absolutely

be our place settings.

Oh, I'll leave you with this,

Cam's picture with Santa.

Aka a baby mugshot

  That Santa right there,

is the happiest Santa I've ever seen.

& I love him.

High five for the cheer, Santa!

Friday Favorites

I.

Wanelo

I LOVE this site, especially this

time of year when I'm making my Christmas list ;)

It's like Pinterest for shopping.

II.

Cam's gotten her first few

Christmas presents in the mail

& it's SO exciting.

She got a Little Tikes slide

from her awesome aunt & uncle,

you can imagine the excitement

when I discovered a GIANT box

on our porch on Wednesday night.

III.

I went into Baby Gap the other day

& they were having an awesome sale;

buy 2 items get 30% off,

3 items get 40% off 

& 4 or more items get 50% off.

So I got her this sweatshirt

these pjs  & these pjs

because you can never have enough pjs.

IV.
& then I headed on over to Old Navy

& got her these pjs

V.

I've made about 5 batches of 

these cookies 

already- they're amazing.

Christmas Card Pictures

Since we recently just got our

first DSLR camera there was no

question that we were going to attempt
to take our Christmas card pictures ourselves.

We dragged my stepdad down his road

 where there stood a line of trees that screamed

"use me as your backdrop for your

Christmas pictures"

& voila:

 Of course, we did a little

editing once we got the pictures on the

computer so the one that we chose was much more

vibrant, if you will.

 Next year I'll try to coordinate

our outfits just a little better, HA.
I'm a newb at this guys.

& this is the winner:

I knew I wanted the picture to be

focused on Cam & this displays us

perfectly, two grown humans

 running after our 3 foot tall human. 

Typical.

& then we took these two

& I seriously debated just throwing

the past half hour away & sticking

one of these on our card

because that happiness.

But instead, we decided to print

the bottom one onto a canvas print as tall

as me. I'm not kidding.

*insert red faced Emoji here*