Nicole's 3rd Birthday

My baby girl turned 3 years old this week!!! Her special day was filled with smiled, cupcakes, presents, gifts and McDonald's!!

She started her special day off with a special Shimmer and Shine that she LOVES!!!!

Our newborn Nicole!!

Our first kiss XOXO

I took a screen shot of the cute pink and purple cupcakes from Walmart and I just added some Shimmer and Shine cut outs from Etsy on them, pretty cheap!

School pic!! Cupcakes, pretzels and Capri Sun!!

We celebrated with a #3 Cookie Cake!!

Happy Birthday Sissy!

Present time!!!

Best Day Ever!

Big #3 Balloon from Gigi!!

Birthday dinner at McDonalds!

Cheers to 3 years old!!!!

Nicole, you are my answered prayer, the light during a dark tunnel, and my pride and joy. Your little ways make me smile and your sweetness always shines through. You are very smart, want to do what ever your big sis does, & fearless. You bring so much love to all our lives. Wishing you a fantastic third year XOXO



Celebrating Birthday's in Athens

We are gearing up for a big weekend at my house right now, countdown is on to the girls birthday party on Sunday. Since my Dad will not be able to attend Gigi put together a birthday celebration in Athens this weekend and it was so fun!!

Red and black ready!! Dressed to cheer on the Dawgs!!

Gigi surprised the girls with huge balloons and a Peppa Pig cake!

And M&M's of course!

Such a cute Peppa cake, oink oink!

Gigi's girl!

Taylor loved all her gifts, especially the LOL Dolls!!!!

Coco loved her new Peppa Pig castle!!

Taylor showed us all how the LOL Doll dissolved!!

Smiling ear to ear!!

Our family was so sweet to think of the girls and make them feel so special, it was a fun Saturday after another Dawgs win!!



Simple Joys

For our neighbors in the Carolina's right now, I know there are not a lot of simple joys, I have been seeing pictures of all the water, its so much ya'll. But I have also seen so many pics of our National Guard rescuing people and pets, pretty amazing. I know we are all keeping those effecting by Florence in our prayers XOXO

I saw this Lilly P print and I loved it. I see God as the sunshine watching over everyone :-)

Getting to take Taylor to the bus stop makes me so happy!! She loves it too and always gives me a big smile to start the morning off right!

I also enjoy getting to make her a special after school snack, for this one I just cooked up some Martha White muffins and chocolate milk!

I was tickled when I was watching my friend Jennifer go live on Facebook talking about her LimeLife make up. I purchased some beautiful Faith lip gloss and love it!! Its a beautiful fall color! Give Jennifer Vickery a follow, you will love her stuff!

I also added a few fall touches to our den with a leaf print blanket and a Happy Fall Ya'll dark orange pillow I scored off Ebay last year. My den is never clean, everything is just pushed on the other side of the camera!!

My girls love Friday nights, Taylor loves putting her pjs on and Coco loves Oreo's!!!

Our sweet neighbor Emily had a friend spend the night and they asked if Taylor wanted to join them in their tent to look at Ipads, so cute!!



A Bugs Life Movie Night

For our Sunday funday movie night we watched the Disney movie, A Bugs Life!

I pulled out our fly swatter for some bug décor!!

To make these yummy bug crackers I just took some grape tomatoes and black olives and spread some Laughing Cow cheese on crackers, yummy! Also some chocolate milk made for some good mud drink!

Gummy works and muddy pudding for a sweet treat!

My little bugaboos!

This girls loves to kill some flies!!

Sporting her red, white and blue on 9/11

My sweet coworker gave me a huge bag of Legos and Taylor LOVES them!! I am not a Legos fan but I am of fan of Taylor's big smiles! Having another thing to pick up at my house makes my back hurt but she has been doing good keeping them off the floor :-)



Lion's Lunch & Fall Mantel

Greeting friends, if you are like me living in the southeast right now, all news and conversations are about Hurricane Florence, I sure wish she would calm down! I get so nervous about this kind of stuff but tell myself the only thing I can do is prepare my house the best I can and trust in God for the rest. I can't stop it myself. Hoping everyone makes it out ok and remains safe. Our physical items although special can be replaced but we can't. So just always do the safe thing even if nothing really happens which is what I hope!! So since we can't change it, we keep going and I wanted to share some pics of when Hubby went to read to Taylor's class as a surprise!!

Hubby was the surprise reader!!! He brought one of Taylor's favorite's, Lion's Lunch!

With some planning ahead we ordered this not too scare lion outfit from HalloweenCostumes.com. ROARRR!!

I know this made Taylor's day, Hubby even stayed for lunch and she was thrilled. Parenting is hard but getting to so stuff like this makes is soo much fun!!

I also wanted to share my fall mantle with you! I love the yellow and orange colors!

I changed my Happy Everything plate from a school bus to a football, tis the season! This pumpkin came from Walmart a few years ago.

I put a smell good Glade candle in this little arrangement!

Pumpkin Mickey came from my Mom and the flowers came from Walmart!

I filled this Goodwill basket up with some fall veggies and fruit!

Snuggle up!!



What I Wore

17 years later a lot of us still remember where we were and what we felt. And for a lot of others they never knew 9/11, like my girls. I pray they never do. But I do hope they grow up with an appreciation of how blessed they are to be Americans, its awesome. And 17 years later the USA is stronger then every, USA! USA! USA!!

I've had this American heart tee from Walmart for years, I pull it out all the time from Memorial Day to Veterans Day and so many days in between. My red and blue tassel bracelet is from Dixie Delights Ship and my favorite neutral pants came from Walmart.

For red and black Friday I wore this chevron print dress from Mud Pie, it was from an online boutique which is usually too pricey for me but I thought it was too perfect for game day!

I picked this cute dress off the Walmart clearance rack for $7 bucks...SCORE!!

Along with this cute black and white top with side tassels, $6 bucks!

Ending on a cute note, isn't she adorable with her little boots?!

These boots are made for walkin!