a silly sundae with two nuts

saturday night sweet cheeks had a slumber party. her cousin spent the night with her and what a time they had.

my sister and i are best friends. we are so fortunate to have one another (i, mainly, am the lucky one!). the fact remains that neither of our daughters has a sister, but believe both girls are lucky to have one another. i think cailyn is going to be the closest thing sweet cheeks gets to a sister. and they do behave like sisters!

so saturday night was a great time for both.

they pulled out all the silliness possible!

it started out as a simple picture of the girls laughing during snack time....



and it turned into a photo shoot of 2 major silly gooses....





the girls ended the night by sleeping in sleeping bags on mattresses that were on the floor. it doesn't get any better than that. really. it doesn't.

i so love watching them together and imagine it is a preview into the past of what my sister and i were like.

wordless wednesday

turkey to wear, not to eat

i am so glad thanksgiving is just around the corner. i am ready for some good food.

thought this was a super cute turkey day onesie (can be on a tee as well) from olive and ollie



now i need to go find some turkey crafts for me and sweet cheeks to do together.

all the leaves are brown

sweet cheeks is loving that fall is here.

she loves the crisp air.

she loves the fallen leaves.

she loves gloves.

she loves that the mosquitoes are gone.

she loves being outside.

she loves to rake.

i do not know where she gets that from because neither the husband nor myself want anything to do with raking. so she raked... alone. and she was good at it! i admit that we were a little worried about what our neighbors were thinking but she was enjoying herself too much to make her stop.

wordless wednesday (on thursday)

fly away sweet bird of prey

i ended up finding this purple, glittery tee at old navy. maybe it is a batman tee, but i told sweet cheeks it is bat girl tee. she loves it. i mean why wouldn't she.
it SPARKLES doesn't it.



brushing her teeth before school wearing her tee-
(blurry pic taken with the husband's phone)


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my husband, the good husband that he is, got ME a new phone. normally i take his old phones as really don't care one way or the other. but recently i have been feeling the pressure to get something new, something cool, something that isn't an old pink razor flip phone, something that i can easily text with and lets me take my own pictures! so that is what he did. he got me a phone that lets me do all of those amazing things. it's a mytouch 3g w/google. now i just have to learn how to use it. i feel like the old grandparent that was just introduced (or nicely forced) to emailing by the kids and grandkids.

isn't she pretty-


thanks husband.

wordless wednesday

beautiful bedtimes

one of my favorite shops for nursery and bedroom decor is serena & lily. i love everything about this store. the colors, prints, and simplicity are all amazing.

here are a few of my favorite collections-

kate collection (my favorite)


wren collection


isabel collection


asher collection

all in the brow

i have recently noticed that sweet cheeks is very expressive when she talks. for one, she seems to use her hands quite a bit. i think she feels her hands are her exclamation points when storytelling. for her, they really add emphasis! (note-i am aware of that fact that i overuse exclamation points when writing but still can’t control myself) i also noticed that sweet cheeks moves her eyebrows a lot when speaking. not always just for emphasis but even in her daily conversation. she is just a very expressive girl. some describe that as dramatic (i know i would on others but don’t like to say it about her- just being honest here- i prefer to call her an actress. doesn't sound as negative, right. are you with me?) it is really sweet though to stare at her beautiful, lightly freckled face and watch her brows move up and down while her eyes go from big to small, all the while she is telling me about something that happened in her day. i miss so much of her life while she is at school and i am at work, so i love that she wants nothing more than to share those moment with me.

i am beginning to wonder if i am as expressive as she is. i am pretty sure i do not use my hands excessively, since i can see those, but wonder if my brows move so much during conversation. i wouldn’t be crazy to say that sweet cheeks picks up a lot of the husband and my habits, some of which are a bit weird. we both have noticed that when we talk to sweet cheeks, she really tries to study our facial expressions to develop a better understanding of our feelings behind the words. what a smart cookie!

lately sweet cheeks will ask me, “are you worried about it” or “are you worried about me,” as if she can’t necessarily tell by what i am saying rather than how i suggestively say it.

it is a cute little phrase though and i appreciate her concern over my concern.

i picked her up from school the other day and her cheeks were pretty flushed. i was pretty sure it was just from her being out on the playground but to be safe, i put my hands on her cheeks to feel if she felt feverish. her immediate response was, “are you worried about me?”.

bodi, our dog, was coughing a few nights ago. it was a strange sounding cough, as if she were coughing something up. i went over to her to see if she was ok. sweet cheeks, not far away, just watched me as i made my way onto the floor next to bodi. she asked, again, “are you worried about her?”.


what a good reader of emotions and expressions she is. i have to say though that if it were anyone other than sweet cheeks watching me so intently, i would be a bit weirded out!

she just may be the next tim roth on ‘lie to me.’

wordless wednesday

all treats, no tricks, and some rain

my mom sent sweet cheeks a pumpkin decorating set that she had made. it turned out so, so cute!

what a cute pumpkin cat!



halloween was routine for us this year, with the addition of the rain and cold weather! nothings ruins trick or treating faster than those two things, especially when they happen together. actually, the good thing is that it really only ruins it for the parents. the kids are never bothered by anything on one of their favorite holidays. pretty sure that there is nothing that could keep them from a. dressing up and b. free candy. nothing.

sweet cheeks, the husband, and i went out to my sister's house. we joined them as well as some friends and their kids. we've all been getting together for the last 4 years (minus 1 when sweet cheeks had bronchiolitis). it is always so much fun. i really love just seeing them all grow up together.

the girls were so cute. so cute! they all had different costumes but were all witches. the 3 most adorable witches, possibly EVER.



3 witches, 1 Gangsta, and a Ghost walk into a bar.....



my witch, still dry and warm


witch hugs are the best


sweet cheeks did a great job trick or treating. once we got outside, hadn't even hit one house, she realized it was cold and put her coat on. i love my smart girl. we even used her umbrella a few houses into it. it didn't take her long to realize that her ghost was full and we could go home, get warm, and eat all the candy she possibly could while the other kids went a bit longer.

the stash! it is going to last a long, long time. i think she has only eaten maybe 3 or so pieces since. probably forgot about it and i will not remind her. i have no problem eating it all myself. isn't that my job as her mom?