three more sleeps! I can’t believe how quickly this month and holiday season has flown by.. it feels like thanksgiving JUST happened? last night we took the kids to the Dallas Zoo for their Zoolights event for an evening filled with family fun and a million lights. we always go to the Fort Worth Zoo […]

our stay at the Gaylord Texan part II :: see part I HERE Saturday morning started with breakfast before we hit the ice rink! a REAL outdoor ice rink. in texas. on a 60 degree day. it was perfect.  I’ve never been ice skating before, so this was as new to me as it was […]

happy Monday! here we are in Christmas week, and I cannot believe it! were in the single digit countdown to Christmas and I am probably more excited than my kids. we had a really fun whirlwind of a weekend and I documented with about 4700 pictures and I’m happy to say we checked off about […]

its no secret around here that I’m not crafty.  in fact, I might be the least crafty mom you’ll ever meet. I try SO hard because the girls, especially Parker, love doing arts and crafts.. but usually, if it didn’t come off the shelf next to the crayons and markers I don’t find success in […]

I’ve been trying to finish up our gift guide series for the last week and today I’m finally sharing our baby boy’s gift guide!  shopping for a boy the last 9 months has been a lot more enjoyable than I expected. I will say, this age is kind of difficult to shop for. “does he need […]

 I can’t believe its December 1st!!  we are spinning our holiday wheels over here and attempting to cram in as many Christmas-y things into the next 25 days as possible!  as I was coming up with our December bucket list I was texting Jordan every five minutes to see about adding something else to the calendar.. […]