It's been a few weeks now, but just before Thanksgiving Ella got to dance in a holiday parade at our local open air mall. Every year they have a huge event outside with a parade, fireworks and Santa Claus where they "light up" all of the trees and buildings for the holidays. We were lucky enough to be the only dance studio in the Birmingham area to participate, so the girls felt like royalty. The entire place was packed and it was super hard to get photos while they were dancing. I was literally running down the sidewalk with my camera trying to catch up with them a few times along their route. Obviously, the studio isn't named after our daughter, but I figured we should mind our internet safety, no? We were lucky enough that Spark & Arrow does a ton of work with The Summit and ...
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Holiday Home Tour
You guys, can you even believe that Christmas is right around the corner?! I am such a kid when it comes to the joy and wonder of the holiday season and we have been giddy with anticipation over here. I warned you that I started my holiday decorating pretty early this year and when my girls went to bed on Monday night they were grinning and giggling because they were going to wake up to DECEMBER. It is so so easy for me to get caught up in all that I have to do and everywhere I have to be that I forget the reason for our celebration. I could tell you that our focus is always on Christ, but in the midst of elf antics and wrapping paper and credit cards, it is easy to turn our hearts and minds away. It seems like such a silly thing (and I know the Thanksgiving police might disagree with ...
Holiday Garland DIY
Affiliate links appear in the following post. Although shopping the embedded links won’t cost you any additional dollars, it might earn the blog a small commission. Your support of this space is always appreciated! I spent much of the day Friday getting my holiday decorations finalized. I used to be that girl who waited until December to decorate. Then after we had kids, we started picking up our tree right after Thanksgiving. I decorated mid-November last year and I have to admit -- it didn't make me any less thankful on that Thursday and it was a huge help overall. We got to enjoy our lights a little longer and I wasn't completely run ragged trying to unload ten plastic bins over a holiday weekend. I did something similar this year, adding a few things along the way for the last several ...
Collaboreads | Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
image via Make Space This month's Collaboreads link up was all about non-fiction. I just need to go ahead and admit that I am not really a fan of nonfiction books. At all. It doesn't matter how interesting the subject matter or how captivating the story, I can't ever quite make it from cover to cover. I like stories and make believe and escape and non-fiction almost always falls outside of those lines for me. Fortunately, a friend had encouraged me to read this one and since I had an extra Audible credit last month, I decided to download and listen to it instead. I'm not sure I would have finished it if it hadn't been for the audio version, but I'm so glad that I did.If you have lived on planet earth in the last year, I'm sure you've heard about this book or seen its cover floating around ...
Holiday Teacher Gift Ideas
With December on the horizon, it's time to start thinking about Christmas gifts and teachers are always pretty high on our list. If you're anything like me, you scour Pinterest for clever ideas, only to fall back on the tried-and-true gift certificate days before the class party. This year I am taking all of the guesswork out of the equation for you and I'm so excited to share these Holiday Teacher Gift Ideas. My favorite Walmart Photo product is this 14 ounce Collage Tumbler, available online or in-store at the photo center kiosk. At less than $15, this is the perfect gift for your favorite teacher. Since we love to personalize our gifts around here, we challenged ourselves to come up with three distinct gift packages for the girls' teachers, using the same product in each. This ...
Thanksgiving
I always thank God for you because of His grace given you in Christ Jesus. For in Him you have been enriched in every way - in all your speaking and in all your knowledge. 1 Corinthians 1:4-5 ...
Clear Stamps are in the Shop!
I am so excited because T O D A Y floral stamps sets are officially in the etsy shop. This project has been in the works for months and it has finally all come together today. Stamps arrived yesterday and packaging should be here later in the week and then all of these pretties will be headed your way by the first of December! ...
22 of our FAVORITE Christmas Gifts
Warning: Affiliate links appear in the following post. Although shopping the embedded links won’t cost you any additional dollars, using the links below to shop may result in a small commission for me. Thanks for supporting the brands that make this blog possible. Can you even believe that Thanksgiving is this week? And that means our Christmas shopping should be in full swing! I've already been stalking online retailers and begging the girls to finish up their Christmas lists so that I can take full advantage of the deals and steals circulating this week.I thought I'd share some of my favorite gifts for all of the little ones in your life! 01 Illustory: Make Your Own Book 02 Blankie Tail Mermaid Blanket 03 Cooking Class Recipes 04 Laugh Out Loud Doodles for Girls (and Boys) 05 ...