Happy birthday Memaw

My grandma Memaw’s birthday was the week before Christmas. Lily decorated the envelope of the card we got her and before we mailed it off I asked her to stand by the tree so I could take a picture. She asked me to record her so I was happy to do so.

I’m hoping that when one of my aunts or my Mom goes to visit Memaw next they can show her this. *hint hint*

It’s Christmas card time again

I might have said this before, but for most of my life I couldn’t have cared less about holidays. Easter, 4th of July, Thanksgiving and yes even Christmas didn’t get much acknowledgment from me. I would tell people “Happy insert holiday here”, but I didn’t decorate much or really go out of my way to celebrate. When people would ask about my apathy I would tell them that when I had kids I’d care, but for now I just don’t have it in me to give a crap.  And you know what? I was right. Now I’m all about making the holidays great for Lil.

We paint eggs and do the whole hide and hunt thing for Easter. We make little turkeys out of toilet paper tubes and say what we’re grateful for on Thanksgiving. And then there’s Christmas. We hang lights and decorate the trees and we put little nick nacks around the house and I take tons and tons of pictures. Some of the pictures are just for fun, but some of them are for our Holiday Card. I love the beautiful colorful picture cards and we’ve done one each year of Lil’s life. Well not the first year when she was only 3 days old on Christmas, but every year since and it’s one of my favorite things.  We put our tree up the day after Thanksgiving, it was in my opinion a much better way to spend black Friday, but to each their own. While doing the tree and then after it was complete I took pictures and some of them I just love and may have already found our card picture.

This year I’m loving all the cards from Minted. There are so many to choose from that I don’t know how I’m going to narrow it down, but it’s going to be a fun task.

Traditionally I’ve gone for cards with multiple pictures, I like being able to really show Lily off. This year however I think I’m just going to find a card with one picture and really showcase that one great shot.  I guess we’ll see how it goes since in the end it’s really all about the card that speaks most to me.

Some of my current favorites are:

I love that it’s a ornament.  It’s just precious.

With this one you can change the edge shape (awesome) and the color combination.

Oh, I just realized that you can change the edge shape on almost all of the cards. What a great feature.

What a cute card for newlyweds. I love it and wish Waldo and I had done something like this when we first got married.

I love this design for multiple pictures.

There’s just something about the light strand that does it for me.

If you get a card from me don’t be surprised if you see one of these designs in your mailbox. Oh and by the way it will probably arrive sometime in January because that’s just how I do things.

*Disclosure:  This is a sponsored post for Minted.com; however, all thoughts and opinions are my own.

Random Mobile Shots

I guess the best way to start posting is to post so I figured I’d start with my standard Friday Random Mobile post.  These pictures are from the last few weeks.

Hot chocolate

Lily needed to potty so we ran into a coffee shop and I felt weird about not buying anything so I got a hot chocolate that Lil and I shared. And by share I mean that she drank 90% of it of course.

Homemade pizza

We love food and eating out is our favorite past time. Lately we have been working on eating out less to save money and for health reasons. I love cooking and making things from scratch is one of my favorite things to do so that’s what we’ve been concentrating on the last few weeks.  I made a super easy pizza crust and used some frozen sauce I made a while ago and we had crazy awesome pizza.

Homemade pizza

Lil doesn’t like red sauce so we use ranch on hers.

Homemade pizza

Lil’s pizza.

Homemade pizza

Ours. Yum!

Kitty nursing her 'litter'

Lily decided that Kitty needed to feed her babies.

Kitty nursing her 'litter'

And more decided that looked good and joined in.

Our new ride

We bought a new car. Well car type thing really.

Our new ride

A brand new 2014 Honda CRV. We love it.

Our new ride

Waldo really didn’t want me to take this picture.

Another trip to Montana part 2

This is really late in coming, but I need to finish it. Part 2 of our last trip to Montana.

Montana Trip July 2013

Lily continues draw her way across the country. She drew this for Becky.

Montana Trip July 2013

We went by the Credit Union to say Hi to my friends and Lily decorated Waldo with their toys.

Montana Trip July 2013

There was more Kinect Party at Anthony’s house.

We went and had dinner at our friends house. Anne and Dave. They have three very sweet girls, 14, 7 and 1. Lily had a great time playing with Allie their 4 year old and Waldo and I had a blast with Anne and Dave. Somehow I managed to not take any pictures of this event and I’m still kicking myself for it. Waldo even mentioned at one point to Dave he was sure I would be taking a complete ridiculous amount of pictures. Major fail.

Montana Trip July 2013

On the way back to Gil’s from Anne and Dave’s we saw some wild turkeys. I took a fricking picture of the turkeys. Kids having fun – No, turkeys – Yes. I told you, fail.

Montana Trip July 2013

In the tradition of last year we went to the park to feed ducks. Jack was suppose to go with us, but he ended up having something to do.

Montana Trip July 2013

Montana Trip July 2013

Montana Trip July 2013

Montana Trip July 2013

Montana Trip July 2013

Montana Trip July 2013

Montana Trip July 2013

Montana Trip July 2013

Montana Trip July 2013

Montana Trip July 2013

I took the opportunity to take some cute pictures of Lily.

Montana Trip July 2013

That evening we went to a party with some old friends and some internet friends that we met for the first time. It was a little odd, but mostly fun.

Montana Trip July 2013

Montana Trip July 2013

Montana Trip July 2013

Montana Trip July 2013

Montana Trip July 2013

Montana Trip July 2013

Montana Trip July 2013

We had to have breakfast at The Buffalo Cafe again.

Montana Trip July 2013

The main reason we went to Montana was to go to our company picnic. Lily loved our boss’s dogs.

Montana Trip July 2013

Montana Trip July 2013

Montana Trip July 2013

Lily lucked out when we visited our friend Jesse and Sheila. They gave Lily a few of their daughter’s old toys.

Montana Trip July 2013

Saying goodbye to Becky sucked.

Montana Trip July 2013

Montana Trip July 2013

Don’t let her look fool you, she’s having a blast on that horse.

Driving home was uneventful, but so much fun because we always have fun on road trips together.

Happy thoughts

I decided that I need some happy thoughts after last month’s hits so here’s some.

*Lily has started doing this really cute thing where she just breaks out in song all the time now. The best part is that she’s not singing songs that she’s heard, she’s singing about things that she’s doing. She will make up little songs about cleaning up her toys or what she’s drawing or getting dressed. It’s adorable.

*Waldo is my rock. He’s always there for me when I need him and I couldn’t do it all without him.

*This morning during a very emotional moment Waldo told me that I meant the world to him. It’s making me tear up just writing it. I feel the same way about him.

*Lily loves to dance. She will dance anywhere and everywhere. Often when we are eating dinner Waldo’s Dad will have the TV on and Lily will just start dancing in her seat to what ever commercial or whatever. It’s super cute, except maybe when I’d rather her be eating her broccoli.

*I’m back to making lip balm and other beauty products and I love it. I would much rather make something if I can then buy it.

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