I'm back!!

Sean and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary in Maui this past week.

Can you tell I was happy to be there?  I was.  But now I'm back.  I didn't get a ton of pictures...I know, I know, before you start booing and hissing at me, just know I tried friends.  I really did.  I even handed my camera off to complete strangers and put it on full auto mode in hopes that it would kinda sorta turn out...they didn't.  I'm over it.  And you can only take so many pictures of you by yourself.  Sean said to me at one point, "enough with the senior pictures already!"  :)  Our time there was awesome and I'll be sharing the photos I did get with you all real soon.

summer is here

Summer is in full force.  It's VBS this week.  I don't know about the rest of you, but it warms my heart to see those little ones singing songs of praise and doing the hand motions too.  I like it.  Summer so far has been buusssyyyyy.  I've been taking lots of photos (you can see some of them here for now), we've had special guests come and visit, I'm going to Lake Chelan with my best girls this weekend (I. CAN. NOT. WAIT!), and our Hawaii trip is fast approaching (which reminds me that my Hawaii diet has somehow flown out the window?!).  So needless to say I have so many photos to share and stories to tell and maybe even another giveaway??!!.  So stick around, my friends; don't give up on me yet. :)  

Until I can actually find the time to blog,  I'll leave you with a photo of some sweet little hands.  They belong to my Caleb and I am missing him.  Yep, I sure am.  A lot.

xoxo

drum roll please...

And the winner is....

comment #13, KELLI, who said...
I love 2 things! I love the fabric banner and the wax seal stamped charms!


Congratulations, Kelli!!!  You are going to love all of the stuff!! :)



To the rest of you, thanks for playing! It was fun. :)

Last day to enter!!!!! You know you want to :)

The winner will be announced tomorrow (thursday) morning.  That is if I can figure out random.org.  Or I might have to put all the names in a hat and let Stella pick, so then it would be tomorrow afternoon. :)  This is so fun.  I wish I could do this every week!!

PS... ( I know, this should go on the bottom, but most of you have read this whole post and I didn't want you to miss this) Did I mention that up to 25% of each item sold from Summer's shop will be donated to St. Jude's Children's Hospital? Yeah, amazing.  Here's a little clip from Summer's blog in case you missed it...

after i lost my dad to cancer (march 26th, 2009), i tried to figure out a way to make a difference. mashing my passion of creativity with my dads passion for st. jude childrens hospital (a hospital geared towards helping kids with cancer), i came up with this idea. handmade jewelry & handmade items {i'm obsessed with letters & numbers & blue & antique vintage things}... donating up to 25% of each item sold to st. jude childrens hospital. every little bit helps.

Thanks again, Summer!  It's so awesome to be a part of this!  

OK, carry on with the giveaway...

It's giveaway time!!! 

I was SO excited when Summer, from the firefly moon, contacted me and asked if I'd do a giveaway on my blog.  Of course I answered her with a big fat YES!!  Her shop has adorable stuff.  And guess what?!  Summer's nice enough to want to share some of it with one lucky reader.  Here's what you'll get if you win... 

A super cute flower pillow cover 

and

this adorable vintage flower tea towel 

and

a set of burlap tags 

and

cute numbered magnets 

and

a set of glittered clothes pins !

Here's my plan for the clothes pins.  Just imagine the window frame is a nice distressed white, thanks.  And also imagine the clothes pins hanging more than two random photos. :)  It's going to look great!

Cute stuff, right?  If you want to play in this little giveaway, listen up.   You can have a total of 2 entries for this giveaway, here's how...

First, visit Summer's shop, www.thefireflymoon.bigcartel.com , then come back here to my blog and leave me a comment telling me what your favorite item is at her store.  The comment left on my blog will be your entry.  

For the opportunity for a second entry, you need to visit Summer's blog, www.thefireflymoon.blogspot.com and become a follower.  Then come back here and leave me a comment telling me you are following Summer's blog.  That will be your second entry.

And to fill you in on a little secret, I highly suggest you become a follower of her blog, she may just be having a little giveaway there also if you become a follower... word to the wise. :)

Easy peasy, huh?!  Good luck my friends!  I'll be using (i think) random.org to pick the lucky winner in 3  2  1 days.  I hope you all play, friend or stranger!

Thanks, Summer for this amazing opportunity!   

 I {heart} the firefly moon !

good things are coming

There might be something special coming on this old blog of mine.  If you like pretty things, I suggest you come back reeaaalll soon.  Call me crazy, but I have a feeling you might like it and you might like the chance to win it.  I'm just sayin'....

And since I told you good things are coming, I thought I better share this photo of Caleb.  His chubby legs and feet are good things to me. :)

Stay tuned.

world's greatest dad

I did a little interview with Stella, Jonah and Ava on how awesome they think their dad is.  It went a little something like this...

What do you love most about dad?

Stella: "That he cares for me and he loves me."

Jonah: "He plays soccer with me and I love 'em."

Ava: "He makes waffos (waffles) with me."   she may be on to something here... :)



What makes your dad special?

Stella: "He has a wife and we all love each other."

Jonah: "He's good at basketball and soccer.  He is mom, he can bounce the ball behind his back."

Ava: "waffos (waffles)"



If dad were a super hero who would he be?

Stella: "Superman."

Jonah: "Dash, cause he runs fast."

Ava: "waffos (waffles)."




What is your most favorite thing to play with dad?

Stella: "football"

Jonah: "soccer"

Ava: "make waffos (waffles ;)"

I'm so thankful for the fathers in my life and the father and grandfathers in my children's lives.  I have the most amazing family.  Period.  I am beyond blessed.

Happy Father's Day

baby legs

They don't get much better than these.  Caleb's got legs that might make other mom's jealous.  I could squeeze them All. The. Day. Long.  Apparently my sister produces heavy cream and from the looks of it, Caleb enjoys every last drop.  I couldn't be more thankful. :)

look who I've been playing with

Yep, my nephew, Caleb.  He's happy to see me.  It's been a long 3 months, but we're together again.  I don't think I'm going to let him leave.  Do you see that drool?  He does that for me because he loves me.  Hugs and kisses, Caleb.  I'm so glad you're here.  And I'm glad you brought your mom and dad with you too. 

she didn't get the memo

She could blame it on the fact that she can't read, but we all know she has ears.   I'm pretty sure I've heard Stella yelling the exact same words that are on her note. :)

I totally won!

About a month or so ago I happened upon a photographer's blog I follow.  She was having a friendly little giveaway and I thought - why not?! - so I entered.  The prize was an adorable pair of earrings.  In order to enter you had to become a fan on facebook of the amazing mastermind behind the cute stuff, Jessica from Allora Handmade .  I didn't end up winning those earrings, but because I was a fan on facebook I learned of another giveaway and this one was even better!!  The Queen Bee Market was having another Allora Handmade giveaway and you better believe I was going to try and win.  Not only were they giving away the adorable earrings, but also a super cute headband and (my favorite) a necklace!  And guess what?!  I won!!!  I never win.  I was so excited. 

Here's what I got...

A headband in teal.  

A gray necklace and a gold one.  No, I didn't win both of them.  There was a little mix up in the colors, but seeing that I LOVE gray I kept it and bought the gold one also :)  Two's better anyway...right?

The cute earrings in robin's egg blue.

  Thank you Queen Bee Market for the giveaway,  and thank you Jessica, from Allora Handmade for the amazing stuff.  I love them!