AND, the Boogie wipes winner is…


{Boogie Wipes: on Amazon}

Please watch this lovely video below to see who won… (I know… but it was fun to make! I got the idea from Lacey… so, you can blame her… just kidding)…


{Who won?}

Congrats! Please e-mail me your mailing address and I will let Boogie Wipes know you’ve won! Congrats!

They’ve reset the numbers… You want to vote for me? 😉

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Ummm… Happy Father’s Day?

Ha, I feel like I may be the only blogger mom that did not post something about Father’s Day. Oops! Mike just HATES getting his photo taken. The only way I get him in photos is by telling him that his daughter will want to have photos of him and her when she’s older. It’s like pulling teeth! Anywho…

Happy Father’s Day honey! I’ll only post 2 photos of you since it’s Father’s Day. 😀


{Ruari is 1 hour old}


{Ruari (2.5 months) and Daddy}

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Monday’s My Pick: Rose City Sweets


{Ruari sleeping at 6 months}


{Shhhh.}

Ruari and I let Mike spend a couple hours doing whatever he wanted at home while we ran off to the Summit of Awesome (put on by Hello Craft). We met up with Roxana (Cositas Bellas). It was just a small little craft fair… but, we had a nice little inspiring day.


{Summit of Awesome!}


{Mila and Roxanna and baby in belly}


{Mila babe}

I ended up only purchasing one goodie (although I wanted to buy EVERYTHING). I bought a little brittle covered marshmallow on a stick from Rose City Sweets. The proceeds of the marshmallows were going to a school for homeless children. So, I spent my $2.

It was a VERY tasty $2! And, all the yummy samples she had! MMmmmmm. I ALWAYS love brittle and chocolate. And, this was good.

So, this weeks Monday My Pick is a whole shop: Rose City Sweets. Trust me, these are very tasty and the shop owner is VERY sweet (like her treats). And, she dresses so cute for her shows too! Please check out her shop and show her some love. Enjoy!


{Brittle covered marshmallow: Rose City Sweets}

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Photo Challenge: Talented!


This weeks challenge
: Talented!

Since this is a mama blog all the challenges will be based around your children. Now, I’m not too picky on what you call your children. As far as I’m concerned my cats and dog are my kids too!

The challenge: Take or find a photo of your talented baby (or kid… or puppy… or kitty). Learning to walk? Doing a cartwheel? Let’s see it! An action photo would be fun!

Here’s my example of Talented:


{Ruari on her 6 month birthday!}

Ruari can now sit unsupported! She has been doing this for a couple weeks now, but she is getting really good! But, she does still tip over…. 🙂

Hey: I’d LOVE to know what photo is your fave! Just leave it in the comment below.

Also… I just wanted to say a quick Thank YOU to April from Flowers of Apple (or Fleurs de Pomme) for donating a lovely prize for the vote off (which will be happening right after this photo challenge). She wants to give the winner a choice of brooch or hair pin custom made to their heart’s desire!!! Oh, and please check out her blog! There will also be a little prize from me. AND, if you’d like to donate a prize for a vote off or challenge, please drop me a line! I would LOVE to show your shop some love.

{Flower hair pin: Flowers of Apple}

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There always has to be rules… I know, boring right? But, it’s to help me and you. 🙂 Click on the link for more details… Each entry does need to link back to my blog… Click here to see last weeks winner… All photo entries need to be in by 11:59 PM Pacific Time on June 25th…
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Guess what…. after 4 challenges there will be a week long vote off of the winners from the 4 previous challenges… The winner of the vote off will get a small prize! 0 more challenges to go after this one…

Winners so far:
– Three: … Little Mochi
– In the sun: … K.B. Squared
– Sleepy: … Skinned Knees
– Talented: … no one yet…

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If you have an Etsy shop and would like to give away an item as a prize… please drop me a line! I ♥ sponsors and will show your shop some love for your contribution. 🙂
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AND the "sleepy" winner is….


{Original post}

Congrats to Christy from Skinned Knees! We LOVED the Sleepy Tyler photo. I love the angle and I love that you can still see a blurred sleeping face in the background. I really like the lighting as well. Please visit her blog. She’s super sweet and has some beautiful photos! You are one step closer to the vote off that will start in one week!

Wow! Another amazing week of photos. I’d like to give a couple shouts out to some photos that were very close… The Freebird Photoblog, Scarlett, Philip Mandy Benett, and Twenty Little Toes. ALL of the photos were wonderful! I LOVED all those sleepy babes (and pup!). Thank you so much for participating everyone! I hope these challenges really inspire you to get out those cameras and get clicking!

Do you want to edit your photos but don’t want to buy a program? Last weeks winner uses a free program called Gimp. Try it out, play with your photos!

Christy: Sadly, there are no prizes this week. Just the excitement of winning! 😉 Feel free to grab a “fact: I’m awesome” button below. Because: you ARE awesome! And, thank you SO much for participating!

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Please check out this weeks photo challenge: “Talented!

Guess what…. after 4 challenges there will be a week long vote off of the winners from the 4 previous challenges… The winner of the vote off will get a small prize! 0 more challenges to go after this next one…

Winners so far:
– Three: … Little Mochi
– In the sun: … K.B. Squared
– Sleepy: … Skinned Knees …
– Talented: … no one yet…

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If you have an Etsy shop and would like to give away an item as a prize… please drop me a line! I ♥ sponsors and will show your shop some love for your contribution. 🙂
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Flashback Friday: Residential Final

Whoa, flashback man! This week I’m flashing back to college…. It still makes me tired thinking about it! This was taken of my Residential final. We had to present our drawings and plans at an architectural firm… after getting VERY little sleep for weeks. AND, you can’t see it in the photo… but, we also had to build our luxury penthouse out of foam core for a model. I just smashed that model a month ago… it sort of felt good…


{Chelsey age: 22?}

Yeah. See right there. Yes, my eyes are barely open…. But, this final was nothing compared to my last final in school. My classmates and I were in the CAD lab (this is the computer lab we worked in to draw our plans) 6 am – 10 pm for a straight week. We would always try and stay later, but those darn security guards would kick us out! I don’t know… I think I calculated my hours that week in the computer lab to about 85? Ouch. 😀 But, I loved what I learned. I miss playing with AutoCad, but I still get to play on Photoshop.

Flashback with us:
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