Hey friends! I hope you had a great week! I am really looking forward to this weekend. On Monday it’s Tommy and I’s seventh wedding anniversary so the boys are going to be staying with my mom for the weekend so we can celebrate. We were originally going to take a trip up to Lake George for the weekend but we just decided to vacation in our own town and do all of the things we wanted to do up there, at home instead. Hopefully I’ll remember to take some pictures so I can share how it went. 🙂 Let’s jump into our Friday Favs though, shall we?

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Ugh this sweet girl! I just love her so much! I couldn’t handle her in this adorable jacket! Also her poor little runny nose. She’s just the best.

She’s just always so happy, it’s so cute! I love how she does this little scrunchy nose face when she smiles. I also just can’t handle all of the cute little girl clothes. After two boys, the little girl clothes are just extra adorable!

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Mother’s Day was definitely a favorite this week! Tommy did such a good job at making me very loved. He also included the boys in it so much, which made it extra special. He took Riley out in the morning to pick me up breakfast and flowers. Then they made me one of my favorite dinners, homemade strombolis (pictured above), and they made lava cakes for dessert. Sooo yummy! Can you tell the way to my heart is yummy food?! 🤣 He also just took care of the kids so much and folded some laundry. It was a very special day.

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Haircuts this week were very necessary and a favorite for sure. These before and afters are so fun to see. I learned how to cut their hair from a Youtube video and it used to stress me out so much because I was always really afraid to mess it up haha. But I have practiced now for about five years and have gotten halfway decent at it. It’s just a good way for us to save time and money. And how adorable are those sweet faces!

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Another favorite from this week is that we finished our read aloud from Sonlight this week. We got send this book for free to try out Sonlight and we have really loved it. Even Riley listened to some of it. It was really cute. Having a read aloud time in our homeschool has been such a great thing that we added in this year and a for sure favorite.

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Homemade bread is also a favorite this week. I have broken out the bread maker the past few weeks and I forgot how easy it is to make fresh bread, and how delicious! I’ve been trying to make it once a week or so and the whole family has been really enjoying it.

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Thanks again for being here and thank you to Andrea and Erika for hosting this little linkup! 🙂 I’m off to go back for the boys to go to my moms, wish me luck!

Hi friends! Today I’m sharing my second frame this moment and it’s an exciting one!!

I took this little screenshot from a video of Melly army crawling! The night before this video was taken, Melly figured out how to start army crawling and it was such an exciting moment. This was the next morning when I set her down to play while I started making breakfast. She started scooting around and the boys were so excited and were calling her to come crawl over to them. All three of them were so excited and it made me so happy to see.

I can’t believe Melly is crawling! It’s a big week for our little family and I’m so happy to share it here. But that’s all for today. It was a short but sweet post. Thanks for following along. 🙂

Hi friends! Today I wanted to share some my favorites moments from the past few weeks. I’ve been really enjoying showing up here more often. Thanks for being here. 🙂

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One of my top favorites from the past month or so is our new little playgroup that I’ve been mentioning. This was from this past week. The weather was finally warm enough and we went down to the beach after playing at the park and riding their bikes. It’s been so sweet to watch these boys form a friendship and I’ve really enjoyed getting to know moms. This group is such an answer to prayer.

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This seems like an odd picture because it looks like a mess haha but another favorite it Target and BJs pickup! Normally we go out once a month as a family and do a big shop at both of these stores and it’s a lot of work bringing all three kids into both stores and trying to remember everything. This month we just didn’t have the time so I decided to do a pickup order from both stores instead. We left at 8:45 one morning to go and get the groceries and I was amazed at how easy it was. I really enjoy going into each of these stores and shopping myself but honestly I may need to do this more often because it just was too easy.

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Something super simple but I’ve been loving these new measuring cups that I got in my Target order. We have gone through so many sets of measuring cups because they either keep getting lost or breaking. It’s been very frustrating haha so I finally remembered to add these to my order and they are metal so I know they won’t be breaking anytime soon! 😉

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I FINALLY started making Brown Sugar Shaken Espressos and oh my gosh they have been soo good! I’ve been enjoying them in the afternoon and they are seriously so yummy. They’re extra good too since it’s starting to get really warm here too. I’m excited to keep enjoying them throughout the summer.

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I haven’t read very much of this book just yet but I can already tell it’s going to be a favorite. I have been following Ashlee Gadd on Instagram and her blog for a long time and have always really loved her writing about motherhood. I can’t wait to really dig into her new book and be encouraged to continue pursuing creating even in the midst of how busy motherhood can be. (P.S. This would make a great Mother’s Day gift! For yourself or a friend!)

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That’s it for today friends! Thanks again for being here and thank you to Andrea and Erika for hosting this little linkup! 🙂

Hey friends! I wanted to start a new little series on my blog this week. Tabitha from The Riddick Family Blog has started sharing a “frame this moment” every Thursday. She picks one special memory from the week to frame that she wants to remember forever. I have been enjoying reading hers so much over the past few months that I decided I would start sharing my own here too. 🙂

So for this week’s frame this moment, I wanted to share when we went out on an evening walk this last Saturday.

Everything lined up perfectly on this day where we had cleaned up the house early enough and had enough energy to head out on a walk after dinner. This doesn’t happen very often and the weather was perfect. We had such a nice time.

Shane had just gotten his big boy bike this day too, (!) (which somewhat inspired this walk.) We had ordered the bike over a week earlier and it kept getting delayed in transit. So needlessly to say, Shane was beyond excited when it finally showed up. He had such a fun time to riding his new bike.

This was just one of those moments where I was just extra thankful for my little family and just couldn’t believe that I get to be their mama. ❤️

Hey friends. Today I wanted to share about what has been going on with our little family over the past month or so. We’ve been very busy and are in a new season of parenthood where there are a lot more commitments outside of our house. It’s been an adjustment but it also feels really good too.

Speaking of commitments outside of our home, let’s start with t-ball! This is a picture from our first game and we’ve been having a lot of fun going to t-ball. I can’t believe we have a child who’s old enough to do sports. Shane has been loving having something special to do that’s just for him and we are loving watching him learn something new.

This sweet girl is just along for the ride. She is just the most joyful, fun girl who is just growing way too fast.

She is already eight months old!! She is just growing so fast. We’ve just moved up to eating solids twice a day now. She can sit up and is working on learning to crawl. She babbles a ton and can say mama and dada (when she wants). She completely adores her big brothers who adore her just as much. She is going through a bit of some sort of sleep problem where she doesn’t want to be put down at night but honestly I know it will only last so long and I’m just enjoying the extra struggles (even if they are exhausting sometimes).

And my sweet Ri! He’s getting so big too of course. We just recently weaned him from his paci and he did so great with it! We’ve been telling him lately that he’s too big for the paci and that he didn’t need it anymore and for a while, he wasn’t convince haha. But one day he just sort of decided himself that he was done so we went with it and honestly have never looked back. I’m so proud of how well he handled it because he was very attached to his paci. His language has also just exploded and he can now speak in small sentences and he is honestly just the cutest and the most fun. He’s hilarious and so different than Shaney and we are just enjoying being able to hear his little thoughts.

Another big thing that has happened around here is that Shane has gotten a new big boy bike. The package had gotten delayed twice and he was devastated at first but really handled it so well. He loves it so much and I’m so thankful we have been able to get him a new bike. Next is learning to ride without his training wheels!

Everything is changing in our lives and our dining room is another huge thing that has changed. We have been doing our schooling in the dining room and we unexpectedly were able to do a little makeover these past few weeks. We just love it so much now and it functions so much better than before too. I actually just did a Youtube video on it, if you’re interested in seeing more.

Because of our dining room refresh, it has let me to organize and purge so many things from our home. I started in the kitchen and dining room so that we could have everything organized better because of the new furniture, but then it led me to every other room in our house basically. I’m probably going to be sharing more soon. So far I’ve also done the kid’s toys (which desperately needed to be done!) and under the bathroom sink, and of course the homeschool stuff (which is still a work in progress).

We’ve been meeting each week with two other moms who also go to our church and who homeschool, which has been just the best. We have been meeting them at the park down the road. This week though it was much warmer than it has been and we also went down to the lake after playing at the park and it completely wiped this guy out. He fell asleep like this during quiet time. So sweet!

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I think I could honestly keep going but this post is getting long and I need to go feed my boys (and myself!) breakfast. It has been really fun to write this post and share a bit more about our lives and I’m excited to keep going. Thanks for being here friend!

Hey friends! So I have been doing some thinking and praying since my post last week and I have figured out what my plans are for this blog going forward! I just wanted to hop on here really quickly and share. 🙂

In the beginning I started this blog to share about what God was teaching me and also to document my life. I then discovered that you could make money while blogging so I decided that I would try to do that as well. It has been a place where I’ve documented big things that have happened, two of my pregnancies, my birth stories, and many of the little things in between as well.

I have burned out many times and lost direction too. I haven’t really known what to share because my vision for the space has changed so many times. I’m excited to use this space going forward to return to my original vision and to use it to document my every day life and to share what God is teaching me. I used to think it was only worthwhile to share if I had many people reading here, but I’ve since realized that I can share here for myself and for my family.

I want to take more pictures of our mundane, normal life and share so that I can have this space to look back on. I realized it was the perfect place to document the big and little things and to have to show my kids when they get older. I also realized that some of my favorite blogs are ones where other moms are sharing just the “boring” every day life things.

I’ve already started taking a lot more pictures this week and plan to share soon. We are currently updating our dining room and just yesterday I went through and purged our entire kitchen of so many things. So that’s the plan, I am going to share more of just our every day life. Sometimes the posts may be just of random pictures from our week, and other times they may be more intentional posts of things that I have learned.

Either way, I hope that if you’re here and reading this that you find this exciting too. Thanks for being here friend!