Brynlee's 4th Birthday Party

Brynlee's Birthday Brunch, is how we celebrated this sweetheart's 4th Birthday.

It was such a fun, relaxing, snowy Saturday morning.

Luckily we had home made hot chocolate to keep us warm!

 

 We made popcorn drizzled in chocolate sprinkled with M&M's

for our Birthday guests and wrapped them up in cute fall bags

 Dark Picture but the only one I have of the whole table

 

Donut Birthday Cake, butterscotch monkey bread, egg muffins,

pumpkin chocolate chip mini muffins... YUM!

 

 

Happy Birthday To You!!

 

Make a wish!

 

Me with the Birthday Girl!

 

Me and my girls with my mom

 

Brynlee and cousin Hunter

 

We had such a fun time... Brynlee enjoyed EVERY minute of it, and that is ALL that matters!



Giving up Toys... for a good cause!

The other day I was telling Brynlee about kids that get little or nothing for Christmas. Brynlee has such a big heart and cares/worries about anything and everyone. She asked several questions about those kids. Then I reminded her that her Birthday is next week and Christmas is coming SOON and if she wanted she could give some of her old toys to these little kids...

 

She decided to help me go through her and Ellie's closets and choose toys, books and stuffed animals that would make mostly little girls happy (we have few boy toys at our house!)

  

 

 She was so happy to tell daddy when he got home from work about the little kids she was going to make really happy.

 

Later that night we were spending time as a family talking about all the blessings we have in our lives. She spoke right up saying she was blessed with so many toys that she even gets to help little kids for Christmas.

 

It made me feel so good inside knowing what an impact this made on my little 3 year old!

She is such a sweetheart, and I am so proud that she is mine!

 

Challenge yourself this Christmas season to realize just how blessed you are and do something good for someone else!

 

*Also if anyone knows of a good place we could donate these toys to I would really appreciate you letting me know!

 

 

Have a Wonderful Wednesday~ Thanks for stopping by XOXO!

*FREE Thanksgiving Printable

I wanted to share this really cute Thanksgiving printable that I got from

Decoration From Dental School

The BEST part is it's FREE!!!

 

I LOVE Thanksgiving time, when I found this printable it listed every thing that I love about this month so I knew I had to use it!

 

I added this printable to my Thanksgiving decorations and it gave an updated, fresh look to what I already had.

 

All you have to do is print this, find a frame lying around that isn't being used...

and YOUR DONE! So Simple! 

If you want to get your FREE Thanksgiving printable just click here!

 

This cute printable found its home right here at my house...

 

I hope you enjoy as much as I do!

 

Have a Happy Day! XOXO



Our Life Lately

I have been putting off my blog lately... for no reason... so today I wanted to share some pictures of what we have been up to lately.

Justin got home from deer hunting with a nice 4-point
but...
we did MISS him really bad!

We painted pumpkins

Halloween Party:
Rapunzel, Deer & Hunter, Ladybug

Rapunzel

The Boys:
My 2 brothers (Beetlejuice & Indian Chief)
Justin (Hunter)
My nephew (Zombie)

Carly & Brynlee
Batgirl and Rapunzel

The Girls

Pumpkin Walk

 Drinking Hot Chocolate and eating donuts by the fire with Grandma

My Birthday...
I got spoiled!

Grandpa Scott left the girls a monster stuffed animal...
you can tell they loved them

My Little Lady Bug

Grandpa Gary and Brynlee
Halloween Night

Disney On Ice:
My Minnie

Enjoying the show together

 

Thanks for stopping by, have a great Monday! XOXO

Fall Time Fun

Finally!!! My blog is working for the past two weeks it hasn't let me post anything!! :(

However... we have been having lots of fun enjoying the season of Fall (the BEST season of all!)

We have been pumpkin picking, corn mazing, witch hunting, fall shopping, pumpkin spice smelling, playing in the leaves...

Spending time with Family!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope you have all enjoyed the past couple weeks as we have! Have a wonderful day!



Halloween Cake Cookies

Halloween is coming and I am sure you are in need of an easy sweet treat.

I have already shared my sprinkle cookie recipe but I decided to mix it up and make these simple cookies into a Halloween treat.

 

 

 

What you will need:
1 box of chocolate cake mix

1 small box of chocolate pudding

2 eggs

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1 cup peanut butter chips

2 tablespoons Halloween sprinkles

 

(keep in mind you can easily make whatever flavor you want, these just happened to be perfect colors for Halloween cookies!)

 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

 

In mixing bowl combine all ingredients. Drop spoonfulls onto greased baking sheet.

Bake 8-10 minutes.

 

 

Enjoy!

 



Cousin Time

We had so much fun the past couple weeks getting to spend time with Justin's brother, his wife, and their 2 cuties while they were here visiting!

Brynlee and Ellie LOVED every minute getting to play with their cousins Molly and Todd.

 

Right before Molly came here she broke her foot

so Brynlee wanted to make her a sign and send her a picture!

 

Playing at the mall

(since the treehouse museum decided to close for a couple weeks!)

 

Watching a movie at Grandma's house

 

Playing at Grandma's!

(Todd is 8 months old and such a CHUNK~ It's so cute!)

Had to share:

We were shopping and I looked down to find the girls sharing a french fry!

Brynlee said they are sharing like Lady and the Tramp share!

 

We even got to celebrate Molly's birthday while she was here visiting!

Face Painting

 

Molly looking so cute and stylish 

after getting so many fun accessories for her birthday! 

 

Todd and Ellie playing in the toy box

 

and finally... SISTER SNUGGLE TIME! So Sweet!