coming up

Do you need to update your wardrobe? Guess what hits next Wednesday, May 25th?

It's the Nordstrom Half-Yearly Sale for Women and Kids. Get there early and enjoy!

super gorgeous

Life would be a lot less colorful without etsy. My baby girl was a flower girl in a wedding over the weekend and the colors of the wedding were blue and white. I wanted her to have a really beautiful headpiece and I found this one on etsy at RCC Couture. Gorgeous right? We are so lucky to have such an easy avenue to beautiful handmade pieces!

all i wanted

The only thing I wanted for my birthday was this cookbook, Gwyneth Paltrow's My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness. I have loved her since the movie Sliding Doors and even more when she named her daughter Apple. I love how bold she is and all the different avenues she lets life take her in. So far I have read the forward and browsed the recipes. I already love it. I love what the book stands for. I love that my hubby made sure that it was all wrapped up for me on my birthday morning, even though he had something else in mind.

got them

The things we do for our kids! Brody loves his slip-on black Converse but he wore out his old ones like it's no one's business. They barely sell them anywhere so I spent an hour calling and looking online at a million places and I finally found them. It was a little out of the way but glad to finally have them in our hands. Phew!

cuties

We use to love eating Cuties when my friend would bring them on a playdate, but I never use to buy them. Now we buy them weekly and cannot get enough of them. All three of my kids devour them and they are so easy to peel and take places. Plus they are super sweet, kid sized and don't have seeds. Would would we do without Cuties?

all i wanted

I'm not kidding when I say that all I wanted for Mother's Day is the new cute monogrammed Anthropologie mug. I got it and drank tea out of last night. It made me so happy. Only $8 at Anthropologie stores or online. I can think of some other letters that might go well in my house too.

for the grandmas

We had fun making Mother's Day crafts for the grandmas this year! Here is what was included:

As seen in preschool classes around the world, but we did these ourselves.

Each child drew a picture of grandma in the box and then answered

questions thought up by me. The grandmas were very happy

when the kids guessed they were 2.5 and 22 years old! So cute!

Watercolor paintings for the grandmas

We also painted rocks for their gardens

Nothing really crazy, everything was super simple and kept their attention span. But lots of love was involved.

reading

I always can tell when life starts to get easier after having a baby. In my case it was about 16 months this time. I can always tell because I am able to start reading again. Sure, I can't read daily but I can actually start a book and finish it in a week or so. I love that (although I miss having a newborn baby around).

What I am reading right now:

What I just finished reading:

lucky me

My sweet friend Vanessa made this E for me! It was such a wonderful surprise. I don't know all of the details on how to make it but I do know it included a store-bought letter, scrapbook paper, some kind of clear coat, cute ribbons and a homemade fabric flower. I absolutely love it and I think gifts like these are really the bees-knees.

baseball treats

Here is what I made for B's t-ball team. It's a rice krispie treat, cut out with a cookie cutter, frosted with vanilla frosting and I added the striping with red gel. Super easy! I will be duplicating this for soccer season with some black gel. Yummy!