Five On Friday

September 6, 2013

1. I love taking photos with hats. Where is your favorite place to get hats or accessories for your kiddos? 2. I found this gem the other day. Don’t you love our matching bear jumpers??? Ha ha! First day of school pic of course. This is awesome. 3. My Daddy is coming to stay with us for a week. We love him so much. Our Poppy is the best! 4. It’s officially football season! Woohoo! Connor just had to have a TCU hat like his Dad. He’s growing up before my very eyes. Sometimes I have to pinch myself that I’m this precious boy’s Mama. I know a lot of folks take football season SO seriously!!!! But I just think it’s all fun and games….so no matter who you are for let’s all be friends….mmmmmkay?

5. If anyone knows a “Connor” I’m selling these holiday shirt’s for $9 each *shipped*

Speaking of fall. The pumpkin spice latte is officially out a month early. Hard for me to enjoy when it’s 104 outside…but I did try one!

HAVE A FAB WEEKEND EVERYONE!!!

Don’t forget about a couple great giveaways I have going on right now- Just go to the top of the homepage and click on “Categories” and there is a “Giveaways/Contest” section

Also, I’m having a fab Silpada jewelry party and I’m in LOVE with all the sparkly bling-y-ness that is going on! Check it out HERE!!!!

Here is one ring I have been sporting this week!!!

Learning to take Photos of your Children

September 3, 2013

As you can see I did a little blog makeover. Darker colors for fall. I guess I change my blog as much as I change my hairstyle??? ha ha! We had a great long weekend. Didn’t do anything too exciting. It was just nice to chill and relax.
I took a few pictures of my munchkin. He’s so sweet to let me constantly take pictures of him. I was thinking of doing a few photography tutorials on here. What would y’all want to see? What would you like to learn more about regarding photography?

I’m also going to run some fall photo specials again this year. If you live in the #DFW or #FortWorth area give me a holler and I’d love to take photos for you! My email: beckylbranch@gmail.com

Here’s my lil stud muffin

An “Ellie”-gant Shower

September 3, 2013

A couple of weekends ago I had the joy of hosting a shower for our dear friends Sarah & Hyung. Terence and Hyung have worked together for over 5 years now. They’ve always been so good to us and we are THRILLED about baby Ellie’s coming arrival. I couldn’t have done ANY of this if it weren’t for Abel. She’s Sarah’s sweet friend who was in charge of most of the decor. She did a fab job! I love throwing get togethers and parties. I’m so excited its fall (almost) and the holiday seasons are around the corner. I am going to host a cookie exchange party one of these days….that’s one party I’ve always wanted to do. Maybe it’s because you get to gorge on cookies and it’s okay?

Thank you to everyone who came out to support Sarah, Hyung, and baby Ellie! We can’t wait to meet you baby girl! Much love, Ter-Bear, Becky, & Connor 🙂

Here are some shower pics:

Love that we had all this girly decor. OMG I really want a girl….ha ha!

Goings On & Friday Link Ups

August 30, 2013

I am SO glad it’s Friday and I have a 3 day weekend to spend with my boys! Yippeeeeeeee!!! We don’t really have any exciting plans, right now I just want to get rid of this head cold/sinus problem that’s been going on.
I am in love with Lolly Wolly Doodle on Facebook. They are the cutest shirts ever! Here is Connor in a Christmas shirt we got (I think it was around $10 bucks?) So cute!

My sweet sister sent me this love knot ring. She has one too and she said we can both wear them & think of each other 🙂 She also sent Connor a shirt and some “Pirate beads” Thank you Aunt Bonnie! I’m also loving these ruffle sleeve tops from LuLuBug Boutique. It’s also another Facebook boutique. Such cute stuff for little girls and Moms too! One of my other favorite bloggers Kelly is having a “Show us your Life” cleaning tips! I cannot tell you enough how much I love Barkeepers Friend! It works amazing on your pots and pans, or any kind of metal or hard surface in the home. It’s very cheap, but works GREAT!

Okay so now go link up with some of my Friday favorites Kelly, Darci, and Lauren!

HAPPY WEEKEND!!!

Sprinkles of Sugar + Giveaway

August 28, 2013

Today I have a fun giveaway in store for all of you! One of my sweet friends I grew up with in Arkansas, Amber, has recently opened up her own Etsy store full of custom invitations, business cards, graphic design services, & custom Facebook covers. Amber also does custom logo work & makes sparkly shoes for brides and they are also perfect for prom! All of her designs are so cute! She’s the nicest gal and she’ll work with you personally on whatever project you have in mind.

Amber is giving away a $50 shop credit to (1) The Java Mama reader!!!

Take a look at some of her creative work:
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Every Woman Needs a Little Bling!

August 27, 2013

Today I wanted to share some of the lovely bling that the ladies and I have been wearing lately. It’s from Silpada jewelry. I had never heard of this jewelry line until my co-workers told me about it. One of the girls joined as a distributor and is now selling it. It’s great quality silver pieces that will last for years. Silpada also works great with other pieces of jewelry you own.

I’ll let you take a look at some of the pieces we tried on. Also, check out the great way you can layer the necklaces. The pictures don’t do the jewelry justice. They are so sparkly and gorgeous!

If you’d like to order I’m hosting a Silpada party right now and would love for you to check it out HERE

It’s Almost Fall & The Obligatory Back to School Pic

August 26, 2013

My little cheeser. Found this bright little chalkboard at HomeGoods for $9.99. They have a few different colors. Perfect for these types of posts. I can’t believe my baby is so big….really where does the time go? I just want to freeze this time. Connor is at such a fun age and is so talkative now. He loves school and all his friends.

We got him a Transformer yesterday, his first big-boy robot. He went nuts over it! Ha ha! Honestly all this boy stuff takes me awhile to get used to. Growing up with a twin sister all I know is girly girl stuff. I’m the bomb diggidy Barbie doll player….just sayin. I’m starting to love all thing that go vroom, crash, and boom!

He woke up at midnight last night crying because he couldn’t figure out how to turn the Transformer back into a car. Yeah…that was fun. It’s a little complicated for a 3-year-old. Actually I couldn’t even figure the darn thing out. Toys these days….geesh!

I could definitely tell it was back to school today. Traffic was much heavier than normal this morning. Thank you so much for all who have prayed about my job situation. I’m so thankful to work for such a great company and wonderful people. God has blessed me in that regard. I’m also thankful to get a couple more hours to spend with my booger each day & working fewer hours 🙂

I was also so excited to throw a baby shower for our good friends Sarah & Hyung on Saturday. They are expecting a baby girl named Ellie in October. Pictures to come soon on the baby shower. I’m also going to host a jewelry party and I’ll share some of the goodies and bling bling my co-workers and I have ordered this week too. It’s gorgeous stuff!

Hope you all have a blessed day and all the kids going back to school have a good one!

xo Becky