Category: Family

Last month we took family photos! I still can’t believe we are a family of four! Jamie Patricia Photography took our photos and you guys she is amazing! If you are in Wisconsin please look her up! I am sorry I have been so behind on blogging. We just got back from our family vacation! We decided to stay in Wisconsin and headed to the Wisconsin Dells and stayed at Aloha Beach Resort on Lake Delton. Harlow and Sutton had so much fun swimming! It is so nice to get away and solely focus on having fun. I will post our family vacation photos for you all this week!

Playing with my little girl is always an adventure. She turned 6 months three weeks ago and since then she has learned to roll over and is almost sitting on her own. She is eating solid foods once a day at dinner with all of us! Sutton has tried broccoli, carrots, sweet potato, banana and egg yolk. I have a specific sheet that tells me what foods to introduce to due babies tummies and how they digest food. If interested I will definitely blog about it! Sutton has been a low key go with the flow baby! She enjoys rolling around and trying to eat all of the books in her path.

Hello Loves!!

After the holidays I get thinking of my new year goals and how I am going to follow through and achieve those goals. I actually am a planner by nature, and thrive on being organized. Hoping this planner will help me to be on time to things.  I mentioned a few posts back about my workout goal for 2017!  A few other goals I have for myself is to grow this fun blog I started, help to educate and share my love of essential oils and to live in the moment with my girls. So often I am thinking and planning other things when playing with Harlo especially. I want Harlo and Sutton to see me putting them first and living in the moment. With my planner to plan and organize myself will leave me so much more time to really BE there for the girls!

It’s that time of year again to go crazy taking family pictures and finding that perfect snap to place on the a Christmas card of your choosing! Sending Christmas cards can be a lot of work and very expensive! That is why I use Shutterfly every year for my cards! They are affordable and I am able to create any type of Christmas card I want! Here are some great choices! There is still time to send them out-but if you miss Christmas well there are beautiful New Year cards that everyone will enjoy!

Well this weekend was full of Ho Ho Ho’s, runny noses, and snow! Why can’t there ever be a December without the sneezes sniffles and snots? ha ha We have been running our Young Living diffuser with Thieves and R.C. to help support little Harlo’s nose and boost her immune system! If you want some of these oils head over here! I am hoping Sutton doesn’t get it but after being sneezed on multiple times a day there is only a small window of hope!;) I also have been putting the thieves on Harlo’s  feet with socks, some breathe easy rub from Honest Company and having her take elderberry syrup!! Annnnd following her around with tissues ha ha ha yep I am that mom 😉

So our weekend was fast and chaotic pretty much like most weekends! Saturday we went to the mall to see what I say is the ‘REAL’ Santa because it is the same place I went to see Santa as a kid!! I love the tradition. This year Harlo had no tears just smiles for good ole St. Nick and told him what she wanted for Christmas! (a doll carrier that she can wear) We are at that stage where she wants to mimic everything I do! I love it and never want it to change 🙂 Sutton also did a great job she wasn’t phased one bit! Sunday it snowed ALLLLLLLLLLLL day and we played in for a little bit! Embrace what you do not like! Check out my Instagram snap to see!

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Our first snow has arrived! Most find it magical and exciting… well I find it cold and wet! I guess it’s pretty & magical if I’m cozy on the couch and sipping hot cocoa.  Although, watching Harlo dance around and sing it’s snowing, it’s snowing song from Barney outside in the snow made me look at the snow in a different way!

Happy Friday Lovelies!

This week I thought would go slow being that it came after a Holiday weekend but alas another week gone! Once Thanksgiving is over time goes even faster for me because of all the holiday fun I want to jam into one month! I don’t want to get all holiday crazy so my goal this season is to remember the true meaning of the Season. Now being a mom of two I have been finding it hard to do all the things I use to do. Once you have two kids you realize how much more time you had when there was just one 😉 I am now trying to find simpler ways to do things to allow me more time with my girls! Motherhood is a balancing act and most days I feel I am conquering it and then dinner hour comes and I feel defeated again. What am I going to make? Do I have all my ingredients?

Enter Hello Fresh!

Happy Monday!

Our long weekend went fast and filled with all things Christmas! Once Thanksgiving is over we get our fresh cut tree and decorate the house! I love everything about the Christmas season.

Happy Thanksgiving Week Loves!

It was a girl’s weekend because Nick went hunting! Thankfully he hunts close to home so he came home for a few hours and went back out. He had no luck this time around hopefully next weekend! He is going to try Pine essential oil because deer are supposed to be attracted to that scent. We will see if it is a success and let you know! Our girl’s weekend consisted of watching Hallmark Christmas movies, Barney Christmas and lots of snuggles and cuddles! We also grocery shopped for Thanksgiving this week! I am hosting this year and my family all brings a few traditional dishes to pass 🙂 This will be Sutton and Penny my sister’s little girl’s FIRST Thanksgiving! So excited to share the firsts with my sister! We always dreamed to have kids together when we were little! It is incredible to have that dream turn reality!!

Hope you have a happy, thankful and blessed Thanksgiving!

Can I get a little love for yoga pants and top knots? This you guys is my err day! I thought I would share my daily #ootd when I am mommin’ at home.