Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice...

My sweet friend Holly, from Where We Can Live Like Jack and Sally, asked me to come over 2 weekends ago and take a few photos of her daughter Olive and her niece Eliana. I was so excited to finally get to take some photos of little girls. ☺ Holly and her sister dressed the girls up so cute! They were just adorable! Here are some of my favorites from our little photo shoot!

And here are a couple outtakes too, because they are just too cute not to share.

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I'm Told I Love Football!

I saw this on Pinterest a couple weeks ago and thought it was so fitting for Jackson. He needs this shirt for sure.

 As I mentioned in this previous post, my husband is a die hard football fan! I mean really die hard. So everytime I see something football related for Jackson, its a must have. Here are a few examples from this past year. ☺ For Jake's sake, I really hope Jackson grows up to love football, LOL.

A photo we took for his newborn shoot! My mom made him the little hat and diaper cover.

Football binky!

Jackson wearing his first little Chiefs jersey!

Jackson wearing a shirt that says, "If the Chiefs are playing, I'm not napping".

This is what Jackson does when we say "Touchdown". He will also throw a ball down if he has one in his hands. Then he claps and says Yay! Ha!

Over the weekend I found this super cute winter hat. It came with little mittens too. ☺ Jackson needed a winter hat so when I saw this one, I just had to buy it for him. He looks so cute in it. 

This coming weekend, we are going to Jake's aunt and uncle's house for an early Thanksgiving celebration with Jake's mom's family. We do this every year and switch off between going to Kansas City and them coming to St. Louis. This year we'll be in KC, and Sunday everyone is going to the Chiefs game. Jackson and I opted out of going to the game because he's still so little and I wasn't sure how the weather would be, (Arrowhead is an outdoor stadium) They will be tailgating before the game though, so weather permitting, Jackson and I will be tailgating with everyone and then going somewhere kid friendly in KC. (If you have any suggestions, let me know.) So this will be Jackson's first time at/outside of Arrowhead Stadium. His cute little football hat will come in handy. I will be sure to post pictures next week. ☺

A Fun Little Photo Shoot

Thanks to Holly, last weekend I had my first photo shoot for someone that wasn't friend or family. It was so much fun and went very well. Thanks again Holly!! 

The co-worker of Holly's wanted some pictures of her grandsons, just playing at her house. The boys are so cute and sweet... they made my job very easy. ☺

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Saw It. Pinned It. Did It.

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This was a pretty simple thing to do, and I'm really happy with the way it turned out. 

I saw this one on Pinterest and new I could try and make one for my own house. I made a much simpler one for our living room gallery wall when I first added the gallery, but I just used a simple font from word with no color. So I thought this idea was much cuter. I used PicMonkey to make the new one and then just had it printed at Walgreen's since I'm all out of ink in my printer right now. ☺

I changed up the font and added the date that Jake and I started dating, to fill up more white space. Plus the little saying at the bottom says "first comes love" so I thought that date should be on there! Here's my version, before printing and framing.

And here it is printed, framed and hanging on the wall! I love it and it was super easy!

So easy in fact, that I made one for my sister too, and I just might make a few more and frame them for Christmas gifts! 

 What have you been pinning and making lately?

Thankful Thursday

I had seen on Facebook, and maybe you have too, where people write something they're thankful for each day during the month of November. I had never done this before, but decided to try it this year. I have SO much to be thankful for. So in case you don't follow me on Facebook, here are the things I have listed so far this month that I am so very thankful for! 

Day 1: First and foremost, I am so thankful for God's mercy and love. Without that, nothing else matters.

 Day 2: I'm so thankful for my healthy, beautiful, sweet Jackson! He is such a blessing to me and I can't thank God enough for him.

 Day 3: I'm so thankful for my wonderful and supportive husband.

 Day 4: I'm extremely thankful for my loving parents and mother in law. They are so great and so supportive!

 
Day 5: I'm so thankful for the best sister a girl could ask for, 3 wonderful bro. in laws and 2 wonderful sister in laws.

Day 6: I'm so thankful for my church and church family. I really don't know what I'd do without them!

 Day 7: I'm thankful for a great job with wonderful co-workers!

Day 8: I am so thankful for my extended family; Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles and Cousins! I am so very thankful to have grown up in a family where I've been able to be close to so many of my extended family. I love you all!!