Connor’s "official" Santa visit

While my parents and grandma were in town we took Connor to see Santa at the mall.  I bought this package at a discount through Groupon before I knew we would already see Santa a couple weeks ago in the store.  The Santa was wearing a LOT of makeup!!! ha..ha…  Connor didn’t seem to mind he was just wide eyed and taking it all in as usual!  I have a feeling this child is going to ask a LOT of questions when he gets older like his Daddy! 

Mom said he sort of looks like Ralphie on “A Christmas Story” in this photo 🙂
I’ll post more about my weekend with family tomorrow it’s been a super busy week!

Ugly Christmas Sweater Guy

Meet “Ugly Christmas Sweater Guy”
I was searching on EBay the other day for an ugly Christmas sweater.  I love ugly Christmas sweater parties and we are going to all wear ugly Christmas sweaters to work in the month of December.  While searching I found this dude and he is HILARIOUS!!!  You need to go check out his EBay store HERE.
It will crack you up and you get a good laugh!  I can’t believe he actually sells these things! LOL!

Show us your life & I need your help!!!

Today is “Show us your life” day over at Kelly’s Korner.  It’s laundry room day and I have to say this room has gotten a LOT of use over the past year with a new baby!  Our laundry room is not too exciting, but I do love having a front load washer and dryer.  It works great and I would recommend it to family and friends.

 

 Lots of STAIN REMOVER for poopy diapers! LOL!
 trash and recycle bin
-OKAY-
I am needing your help with our guest bedroom.  It is totally lacking in every way and I am not the best decorator at all!  I know a few weeks back Kelly had a “guest bedroom” tour, but honestly I was embarrassed to post ours because there is nothing in it!  So what would you do to decorate this room?  I want to keep the bedding and the picture on the wall….other than that I am up for anything.  ANY IDEAS WOULD BE SO APPRECIATED!!!

 

Also-bare entry way….what would you do to spruce this up?  Any decorators out there???
Please help this decorating impaired Momma!!! Waaaahhh!!!!
My family is on their way here from AR right now and I am so excited!!!! 
Hope you all have a great weekend lovelies :)

Stuff I want to share with YOU!

I am loving this casserole dish carrier from VONNY
LOVING THIS!
Jonathan Adler laptop sleeve
LOVING THIS!
Me & my sister in law Rebecca with baby Arielle

I wanted to share this baby food we found at Whole Foods.  Connor LOOOOOVES it!  He even eats the veggies without at problem.  It’s called Sprout and Tyler Florence from the Food Network is one of the creators.  I think even I would eat this baby food!

You all know my love of photography.  Connor is pretty much my “model” for most photo shoots….poor kid!  I don’t have another subject ya’ll!  Anyway….a really cool back drop for photos is to take some wrapping paper and lay it out or hang it on the wall.  It looks really cool and I took some Christmas paper last night and played around with it.  You can also place whatever you want on it…food…decor…it’s a cool background.

I’m also loving my new Starbucks holiday cold cup.  I wanted one last year but they sold in a day!  So excited to have one this year I LOVE IT!

Attempt at some Christmas pictures

Last weekend we met Terence’s sister and her baby girl Arielle in the park to attempt some Christmas pictures of the babies.  A lot of you have commented on the picture in my header and so I decided to post some of the pics we took.  Connor and Arielle see each other every day and are BFF!  They smile and giggle when they see each other it is so cute!  It’s definitely hard to get babies to look at the camera that is for sure…..so without further ado here are some of the pictures…..

 
 Daddy always knows how to make me smile!
 
 

 

 


Christmas Inspiration

This weekend Connor and I met with Amber and Kylon to head to Decorator’s Warehouse in Arlington.  It was a Christmas EXPLOSION in there!  We got a lot of inspiration ideas, but didn’t buy anything because that place was waaaay overpriced.  We left Decorator’s Warehouse with some good inspiration and headed to Hobby Lobby to find the “look for less”.  I found some things at Hob Lob but they looked dumb, so I took them back and next time I go shop for decor I think I’ll bring a picture or something to help me decide instead of getting a bunch of random crap.  I love holiday shopping…it warms my soul. 
I’m sitting here listening to the Christmas music station as I’m typing this….how appropriate is that?  ha..ha… 
Amber is just as addicted to Starbucks a.k.a. “crack” as I am.  So first thing Saturday morning we went to Starbucks and got our coffee.  We had lunch at The Cheesecake Factory (YUM!) and then walked around the mall for a bit.  I think Connor threw every item on our table onto the floor!  He’s definitely getting a lot more active now.  I’m so glad to have met Amber and she’s so much fun to hang with 🙂
 We saw this cool chair in the store so we took so pictures. 
It’s like pulling teeth getting these boys to look at the camera! Geesh!
 I only wish I could decorate like this….
 Winter Wonderland
 Cute deer and some tree fillers that made me think of Summer 🙂
 Fall and Thanksgiving decor….look there is an OWL!!!
 Some more fall and Halloween decorations
AND…DON’T FORGET…..
 GO ADD YOUR PICTURE TO RED CUP DAY!  I HAVE AND IT’S SO MUCH FUN!

We saw Santa

We had an impromptu meeting with Santa at Decorator’s Warehouse this past weekend. We were out with our friends Amber and Kylon and Santa was in the store….so I plopped Connor up on his lap and he was just fine! I bought a Santa package at the mall already, I wish I would have known about this Santa before I got that! Oh well 😛

I’ll post more about our weekend tomorrow! This day has been SUPER busy!!!