spending time with Parker and Jolie has been more important now than ever.  they’re growing at lightning speed.. and to be honest, its quite surprising how much they are learning as they go. while I am a mama to four babes, I’m still a first timer when it comes to everything these girls go through. […]

on Saturday morning Jordan and I slept in (again!!) and headed over to my parents house for breakfast and to see the babies.  my parents, bless them, kept the kiddos for us while we were away and it was SO good to see them! I scooped Baker up and snuggled with twins and about ate […]

I need a weekend coming off this weekend:) we arrived home on monday afternoon from a super fun weekend with my family- I felt like we had been gone FORever, but really it was just a handful of days.  we kicked off our weekend on Thursday night after dinner- we did our normal bedtime routine […]

one. more pumpkin’ing the fall weather arrived in Dallas this week- it lasted about 3 days and its going to be 89 degrees today. but we enjoyed it while it lasted!! it will be back.  I am confident in that:) we hit up the pumpkin patch again.. this patch is amazing and all the activities […]

this is a sponsored post on behalf of Avéne USA; however all opinions are my own.as the big girls approach kindergarten next year there are many things that I wish I could protect them from. October is ‘bullying awareness month‘ and I was recently introduced to the story of Carissa- a sweet girl that has […]

its that time of year again.. time for family pictures!  we take our family photos around this time of year and over the years since adding kiddos to our crew I have gotten the hang of making the experience as seamless as possible.  seamless is a terrible word to use.  you know.. I’ve either had […]