My Wish List (An Easy Guide for My Hubby!)
[soliloquy id=”2091″] While my favorite thing to get as gifts are decor items for our home and house projects, Bryan still likes to get me a few fun gifts for myself. He told me, “Make a wish list! Give me some ideas!” And of course, I can’t just make a regular ole list with pencil and paper…I had to make it pretty and visual! And even better, some of these items are Amazon Prime, which…
Family Pictures with Matching Christmas Pajamas
Ahhhhh it’s December! Wow I can’t believe the year is almost over. These last few months have flown by and it’s hard to even think that in 3 months my girlies will be ONE! Georgia and Genevieve are 9 months now and before taking these pictures, we only had two or three pictures of our whole family of five! I wanted to get some good pictures of us as a family, but also knew…
Six Month Pictures Two Months Late…and That’s OK!
Oh the monthly baby pictures…how I despise thee. Honestly, whoever came up with the monthly circle stickers to put on baby onesies and therefore making it mandatory that we document each month with perfectly staged pictures of our babies was not thinking it through… I have spent way too much time feeling guilty over not taking the perfect monthly picture, or completely forgetting it all together until the month already went by that I’ve come…
Happy Halloween from The Joneses
[soliloquy id=”1820″] Happy Halloween from two kitties and a storm trooper! Halloween has become SO.MUCH.FUN in our house now that Cade is getting older. He loved helping me decorate the house in all our spooky decor, he’s been asking to take walks every night around the neighborhood to look at all the houses who really go all out with their Halloween decorations, and I can’t tell you how many times he asked me to take…
Seven Week Sonogram
Throwback to this day last year… Oh was it a big one for me. We had our 7 week sonogram appointment at my REs office. Walking into that waiting room, I remember not being able to sit still, fidgeting, flipping through magazines I wasn’t even pretending to read, my mind racing. Is this it? Did it finally work this time? Am I actually going to see my baby (babies) on the screen? I had imagined…
5 fun learning activities for kids watching the Olympics
When my sister and I were little we LOVED watching the USA gymnastics. My favorite memory was watching the 1996 team, I wanted to be Dominique Moceanu so bad! We were SO into being like the USA gymnastics team, my dad built us a wooden “balance beam” that we put in my room and made up our own routines on and choreographed them to music! (There’s even VHS home movies that show off our big…
Easy Grapefruit Frosé Recipe
Easy Grapefruit Frosé (Frozen Rosé) Recipe Try this refreshing frozen rosé grapefruit cocktail, a frosé recipe with added tart sweetness of grapefruit! Perfect for wedding showers, mother’s day brunch, or a warm summer afternoon on the patio. 1 bottle of rosé ((standard 750mL) ) 1 cup ruby red grapefruit juice 1 cup Crushed Ice sliced grapefruit and sprigs of mint (for garnish) Pour rosé and ruby red grapefruit juice in ice cube trays. Let freeze…
10 Things They Don’t Tell You About Labor and Postpartum
There are so many things I wish I would’ve known before I went into labor with Cade…you’ll hear a lot of women say, there’s no way to prepare yourself for labor and delivery…you have to experience it for yourself! It’s very true that every delivery, and every woman’s postpartum experience is COMPLETELY different. Some women go into labor and within a few hours, it’s all over and they’re back to normal within a couple weeks,…
The Day We Have Been Waiting For: Our IVF Twin Girls Delivery
March 14 2016 5:42 AM My phone alarm beeped. I set it the night before knowing I wouldn’t need it. I had been awake already for an hour, and only went to sleep 2 hours before that. Plus, I get up to pee every 15 minutes like clockwork, soooo….. really no need for an alarm. But who would want to take the chance of being late to their own scheduled cesarean section? I mean, I’m…