This post is sponsored by Walmart and SheKnows Media. As always, opinions are 100% my own. Now that we have two kids, we’re having to pack our diaper bag a little differently these days. So I thought I’d share everything we take on the go. As a mom who almost always has her hands full, I’m big proponent of the… View Post
This post is sponsored by Walmart and SheKnows Media. As always, opinions are 100% my own. Putting together a baby shower gift basket can be difficult, especially when you don’t have a registry to go off of. So when I’m putting together a baby gift, I like to stick to more practical items, with a couple fun/cute things thrown in…. View Post
Let me start out by saying I’m not a botanist or a gardening expert. I’m just sharing the steps I took to transplant my peonies from our old house to our new house. If you’ve been around a while, you know my peonies are like my babies. And I’m not some basic chick who recently became peony obsessed. I’ve loved… View Post
This post is sponsored by Walmart and SheKnows Media. As always, opinions are 100% my own. Since becoming a mom of two, my time is even more restricted. One area where I’ve had to carve out some time is dinner prep. Gone are the days where I had 45 minutes to prepare dinner because Owen is at the age where… View Post
I get emails and messages about my galactocele (milk cyst) from time to time, so I decided it was best for me to dedicate a post to direct to people toward instead of emailing them a novel. So if you don’t care at all about this topic, I don’t blame you for skipping this post. Carry on, and have a great… View Post
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Schlage . The opinions and text are all mine. I love the entryway area of our house– the board and batten, the craftsman-style doors, the French doors and transom, the flooring. But with this house being a production home, we were limited on lots of our design details. One… View Post
So I can enjoy some time with Emmett and get acclimated to life with a newborn and a toddler, I asked some of my blog buddies to play along and answer some hard-hitting questions about pregnancy and motherhood. I did the same thing after I had Owen, if you want to check out those. My fashionable, jewel tone-loving, fellow night owl friend Haneen from… View Post
I’ve been trying to work on the playroom lately. Which probably isn’t the best idea because the builder still needs to complete work in the playroom. Since adding the new I-beam and removing the incorrectly placed I-beam, the floor has settled some, and now there’s a large gap between the baseboards and the flooring and there are floor pops where… View Post
So I can enjoy some time with Emmett and get acclimated to life with a newborn and a toddler, I asked some of my blog buddies to play along and answer some hard-hitting questions about pregnancy and motherhood. I did the same thing after I had Owen, if you want to check out those. Today, my sweet, world traveling friend, Tammy from Pink Peppermint… View Post
This post is sponsored by Walmart. As always, opinions are 100% my own. Easter is just days away, and if you’re a last minute person like me, you’re scrambling to come up with an Easter basket for your little ones. But fear not, because I’m sharing some Easter basket ideas for toddlers today. And bonus– they’re less than $35 each!… View Post
Going into the final weeks of my pregnancy with Emmett, a lot of emotions started coming up about the end of my pregnancy with Owen. I was induced with Owen at 40 weeks 2 days because I ran out of amniotic fluid, and had I not followed my gut and got a non-stress test and biophysical ultrasound when I did, things… View Post
With Owen, we used his dresser as his changing table. We’re using the same dresser/changing table set up in Emmett’s nursery (still under construction), but we added a changing table into the mix with baby #2. In our old house, the living room, where we spent most of our time, was in the middle of our house with our master… View Post
I’ve decided to start a new thing here on the blog called Friday Favorites where I share some of the things I’m fond of. It’s basically my I’m Lovin’ series, but I’ll just post on Fridays. Expect the ultimate hodge podge of things– today is a good example. I’m hoping to make this a weekly thing, but if I can’t… View Post
So I can enjoy some time with Emmett and get acclimated to life with a newborn and a toddler, I asked some of my blog buddies to play along and answer some hard-hitting questions about pregnancy and motherhood. I did the same thing after I had Owen, if you want to check out those. Today, my hilarious friend, Charlotte from At Charlotte’s… View Post
Toward the end of my pregnancy, I thought it would be a great idea to have the moments of Owen meeting Emmett photographed. I mean, you meet your little brother only once. The original plan was for Owen to come to the hospital with his grandparents and meet Emmett. But when Brad and I got to the hospital, we saw… View Post
Brad, Owen, and I are excited to announce the arrival of Emmett. 2.21.18 7:52 AM 8 pounds, 12 ounces 21.5 inches You may notice his birthdate is two twenty one, which is a crazy coincidence I didn’t even realize until after he was born and Brad pointed it out to our family members when they came to the hospital to… View Post
I was asked by my sweet friend Tammy to team up with 25+ other bloggers and share rooms we love throughout the week. I chose our dining area for a couple reason. The biggest being that it’s the most finished room in our house right now. The other reason being that I love the view out the windows and how… View Post
Since we’re hopefully, wrapping up a lot of the work on the house next week, I’m trying to work on some window treatments around the house before this baby boy makes his appearance. One of the reasons I waited this long was because a lot of the windowsills need to be sanded, and I didn’t want to risk new window… View Post
Last Sunday, I shared a pic on Instagram Stories of a chocolate salted caramel toffee cake I made. I ended up getting a bunch of messages asking for the recipe. And because I can’t leave anyone hanging, I’m sharing the recipe, which is super easy. Warning: this cake is rather rich. But who wants a wimpy cake anyway? One of… View Post
It’s finally February! I know everyone is talking about how January felt like it was 74 days, but seriously, there’s some truth to that. And praise be, I’m exactly 4 weeks from my due date. I also don’t want to jinx myself but I’ve been mostly sciatica-symptom free for almost a week– it seems the little booger has shifted off… View Post
