Busy weekend…. and Monday’s My Pick!


{Ruari (22 weeks) and I}

This weekend was a busy one… again! Mike and I have been organizing and cleaning our house like crazy. I swear… it seems impossible to keep our home clean. My sis came over to help by holding the babe while Mike and I ran around the house.


{Nicole and Ruari}

For whatever reason Ruari had decided that naps are for squares and she skipped her first 2 naps Saturday… She was awake for eight hours straight! It was insane. She finally passed out on my sis.


{Finally fell asleep}

We have discovered we have an ant issue…. They are all over our bird feeder and are even in our house! We can’t seem to get rid of them.


{Mmmmmm.. sugar.}


{Bob the ant and his wife Sue the ant}

Soooo, I decided that washing my curtains in the washing machine would be a great idea… nope…


{Shrink}

Turns out they are dry-cleaning only… They shrunk to half their size! So… since we are trying to save money we had to make our own temporary curtains. It was free! 😉 We now have a Seattle Mariners blanket in our window. Ugh. I hate it!


{DIY curtain}

After cleaning and ruining our curtains we headed over to a friends house for the evening.


{Nicole and me.}

It’s so hard to a real picture of Mike…


{Mike hates getting his photo taken}

I have a silly family.


{Mike and Nicole’s prom photo}

Awwww… they love eachother.

{Smoosh}

Monday’s My Pick:

Isn’t this the cutest pillow?! It has little hand embroidered ants and bees on it. So freakin’ cute! I wish I was that good at embroidery. 🙂 Check them out!


{Hand emroidered pillow: roxycreations}


{Hand emroidered pillow: roxycreations}

How was your weekend?

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Photo Challenge: Fingerprint.


This weeks challenge
: Fingerprint…

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!

Take or find a photo that has fingers or toes in it. A sweet photo of your child’s hands or feet. Have fun!

Here’s my example of Fingerprint:


{Ruari’s chubby fingers at 21 weeks}

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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 May 28th…
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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! 2 more challenges to go…

Winners so far:
– Joy: Six Cherries on Top
– Curiosity: 4 Ladies and a Patient Man
– Blue: Love Love
– Fingerprint: … 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 "Blue" winner is…


{Photo challenge link}

Courtney at Love Love! Wow, once again very hard to decide! I had 4 judges for this challenge and all of us had different favorites (as usual)… but this blue photo won out over the others this week. Love it!

Congrats Courtney! What a very sweet photo! And, I love keeping up with your blog! Please check out her blog and show some love love! 😉 Wonderful photos and sweet posts.

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: “Fingerprint

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! 1 more challenge to go…

Winners so far:
– Joy: Six Cherries on Top
– Curiosity: 4 Ladies and a Patient Man
– Blue: Love Love
– Fingerprint: … 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: Prom 2001

{Dan and Chelsey: Prom 2001}

This week we’re flashing back to my prom… 2001. I went with my friend Dan. Check out his mo-hawk! We’re so proper. Standing there with our hands to ourselves.


{Chelsey and Dan: Prom 2001}

We both completely forgot to go get the professional photos. I wish we had. But, these will have to do. 🙂

Happy Friday!

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