Sally's 4th Birthday

Sally had been counting down the days until she turned 4. I had been dreading them. Although I love seeing my sweet girl grow up healthy, its hard to see her getting bigger. 

No birthday breakfast is complete without doughnuts. I woke up early to get the best in Memphis...Gibsons!

I put up the birthday banner (Target $1 spot) and My Little Pont napkins :)

I ordered some My Little Pony balloons from etsy and had them filled with helium. I also set out her birthday presents on the table. She was so excited when she woke up and came down stairs. She absolutely loved the balloons and squealed when she saw the turquoise gumball machine. 

I sang Happy Birthday to her and she blew out the candles on her doughnut. 

She had a Valentines Party at school that day so she was dressed and ready to go. We celebrated her birthday at school earlier in the week with My Little Pony cupcakes. 

After school, she opened her presents from Mommy and Daddy. She got Ariel and her sisters (mermaids for the bathtub and pool) and Mary Ellen (American Girl doll). My dad gave her a few different outfits for Mary Ellen including pajamas and a poodle skirt.

I told Sally she could pick to go out to eat anywhere she wanted and she chose Chinese food :) I ordered the most perfect pink cake with sprinkles from Brown Baguette Bakery. It was so yummy! 

I got the neatest candle for her off Amazon. It was supposed to sing Happy Birthday too but I think that part was broken. 

She still loved it!!

Happy Birthday Sweet Sally!!

Valentines Day

I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day. I'm not a huge Valentine person. I feel like you should show love everyday...not just on a certain day. That being said, I still like a chance to celebrate. 

Sally had her Valentine party at school on her birthday. 

We made little candy jars for her teachers. 

These were the Valentines that she passed out to her classmates. I think they turned out so cute. When we got home that day, she was so excited to look through her "mailbox" and see all the treats and cards that her friends had left for her.

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The night before Valentine's day, we were supposed to have a date night. We had childcare set up and everything. She had complained all day of a tummy ache so we ended up staying in and ordering pizza. 

That night, she got sick and threw up in our bed...good times!! She still wasn't feeling herself on Valentines day, so we took it easy and I had to cancel the cute breakfast I had planned. 

I did give her some small gifts....My Little Pony headphones and Electric toothbrush, a cute card, a new pony and small box of chocolates. 

This is the card I made for Joe...inspired by the Walking Dead. The inside said "we turn together".

I got Joe a smoothie maker :) He got me a vintage Beatles album...love it!!

We pretty much took it easy all day and put Sally too bed early. Joe picked up Chinese take out, we watched Walking Dead (which was amazing!!), and ate a salted caramel chocolate square from Epcot. Perfection!!

Speaking of Walking Dead...CRAZY!! Probably the best episode ever!!

Life Lately

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So...we went to Disney World last week. I cant believe I kept it is a secret. Sally was in shock! Full trip report coming soon!

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Its Valentine's week. Sally's class is exchanging valentines and I love these that I made this year. I also made some cute candy jars for her teachers. 

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I dont know about you, but I know how I will be spending my Valentines day...watching The Walking Dead!!

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The nursery is coming along. Hubby has been so busy working on it. Ship lap is up and painted the prettiest grey color. Closet is done and doors are being put on. Next up....assembling the dresser and crib!!

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Tomorrow is the last day that my sweet girl will be 3. She turns 4 on Thursday and I am NOT ready!

Recent Happenings {20 weeks pregnant, nursery progress, etc}

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We are finally making some progress in the baby room. I had to move all my craft room stuff into the guest room closest. 

I always thought I wanted a vintage maps and globes room but then I discovered the vintage camping theme and fell in love. I made this inspiration board. I already got the dresser, vintage globe bank, pillow cover and some of the art. 

Here I am...20 weeks pregnant! We are halfway there!!

It's so very un-Southern of me, but I just cannot do smocking on boys. I think we will do some seersucker but for the most part go towards the hipster look. I ordered these off eBay this week :)

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I have been wanting a vintage grocery sign for the kitchen for some time. When I saw this one as "deal of the day" on Decor Steals, I had to get it! If you haven't signed up for their daily deal email go here and sign up! They always have the cutest stuff!

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We made a trip to Minnesota to visit Joe's family after Christmas. It was FREEZING!! Sally got to ice skate and sled and had the best time!

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My bestie, had her sweet baby girl while we were out of town so we went this week to visit her. Sally was so sweet holding the baby!

Since I'm from out of town it was hard to bring her a meal. I decided to make her a basket. I filled it some of her favorite snacks, cozy socks, lip balm, face wash, hair bows for the baby and magazines/books. 

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My blogging here has been neglected. Life has been crazy but I've also been blogging over at Memphis Moms Blog :)

Check it out here!

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Hubby is officially a FedEx cargo pilot. We had his winging ceremony last week and to say I am proud is an understatement. He has worked so hard to get here and this is going to be huge for our family. 

 

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day!

Christmas Eve started out with Figgy making her final appearance before heading back to the North Pole for the year.

We went to service at Hope Church and itv was just amazing and so beautiful!

Then it was time to get ready to party. After doing the same thing for the last 34 years, we switched it up a bit and hosted a Christmas gathering for my moms side on Christmas Eve. We ate, laughed, and played poker :) The kids exchanged gifts and the adults played Dirty Santa. It was nice to be in our own house and get the kids to bed at a decent time. 

My cookie platter

The tree is all decorated and the floor is covered with gifts!

Carol Hannah and Sally watch cousins open gifts. 

After all the festivities were over, we changed the girls into matching pajamas and put them into our bed to watch a movie while the grown ups played poker. 

We had to get the obligatory family picture. Hard to believe next year there will be a little baby in it!

After everyone left, we took Sally outside to sprinkle her reindeer food on the front lawn. 

We set out cookies and milk for Santa and carrots for the reindeer. We also left our letter. Sally was so excited!! She was like "We have to go to bed! Santa is coming!!"

We read The Night Before Christmas and she was out like a light. Joe and I got to work setting everything up.

We crawled into bed and watched Christmas Story. We had horrible storms in the middle of the night and lost power at 2 am. It was still out at 9am when we woke up so we told Sally that one of the reindeer must have flown into the wires. We convinced her that it was just too dark to see her presents and maybe we should go to Poppy's house and do presents there first. She agreed and so we headed over to my dads to exchange gifts over there and make breakfast.

Around 11 am we came back to our house and the power was back on. Yay! She was so excited when she walked in and saw all her gifts from Santa. She was happy to just stop there but we told her she had a stocking and lots of presents to open. 

She started with her stocking and pulled out each item with such excitement!

Then she opened her Pony Surprise and found 3 baby ponies inside. 

We spent the rest of the day opening gifts, playing and just relaxing. It was SO nice not to have to rush anywhere. 

Joe got his viking jersey that he has been wanting. I also got him a Yeti cup, Viking t-shirt, Grizzles sweatshirt, cologne, tickets to Billy Joel, a few books, running shorts, etc.

Joe got me some vintage christmas ornaments and elves, bath bombs, new address book...but my favorite was my new turn table with some of the best music ever made...now I just need to get all the Beatles albums from my dads house. 

Sally also got a HUGE kinder egg that Joe picked up in Canada a few weeks ago.

We had the best Christmas season and its not over yet, we head to Minnesota in the morning to celebrate with Joe's parents. 

Merry Christmas Y'all!!