I’m not sure what I love more? Putting stocking stuffers in the stocking or watching the kids get so much joy out of watching my kids get mesmerized over what is in their stockings. Are stocking stuffer gifts your kids’ favorite? There’s something for everyone. If you do stockings in your family, do you hang […]

where has this week gone?  we haven’t really done much of anything at all since the hustle and bustle of Christmas- the days are running together and ‘after-christmas’ sales are taking all my monies 🙂 its been a rough go this month with sickness and I feel like I’m chasing my tail between the lack […]

last week we took our big girls, Parker and Jolie, on a mini staycation to Great Wolf Lodge. we didn’t really tell the girls what we were doing until we dropped Baker and Brady with the grandparents and made the 30 minute drive to grapevine for a special treat to celebrate turning 5! we arrived […]

 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.. […]

halloween was THE best day!!!  these holidays are getting better and better every year!  this year, when talking about halloween costume ideas, I let the big girls decide what they wanted to be.  Parker announced that she wanted to be POPPY.. but then Jolie insisted she wanted to be Poppy as well and we had […]

As Christmas rapidly approaches (I mean it came SO FAST!) I started to think about our family traditions.  What we do from now until the girls are grown.  What do I want to include and what is important during this holiday season.  I didn’t have a lot of ‘tradition’ growing up.  I actually didn’t have […]