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  • Welcome Miss Daisy

    Welcome Miss Daisy

    She’s here! She’s home, healthy, and oh so beautiful! I can’t believe she’s mine, that I made someone so pretty and sweet.  Giacomo adores her too. Before I had her I was so afraid that he would be resentful or upset because of the new baby and/or because of my surgery. I underestimated him for…

  • Using Transfer Paper to Make Freezer Paper Shirts

    Using Transfer Paper to Make Freezer Paper Shirts

    I went on a bit of a shirt making kick. I made maternity shirts, the baby shirts, and shirts for my husband, father, father-in-law, and brothers-in-law for Father’s Day. I learned quite a bit making them, and I like how they all turned out. I made the baby a shirt for the 4th of July…

  • We’re having a Daisy!

    We’re having a Daisy!

    Recently we had an abnormal blood test come back for the baby, so we had to have a few more screening blood tests done. They all came back great, and I finally did get back the baby’s gender. I wasn’t going to find out, but when they called with the results and everything was fine,…

  • My New Favorite Kitchen Gadget: Pineapple Corer and Slicer

    My New Favorite Kitchen Gadget: Pineapple Corer and Slicer

    We have a small red hutch in our kitchen that houses what Matt likes to call UKGs, or Unnecessary Kitchen Gadgets. Some gadgets he just doesn’t understand, like what a baster is. Or why we need a happy face pizza cutter when we already have a regular one (because the kids like it, and sometimes…

  • We Haven’t Found Out the Gender Reveal

    We Haven’t Found Out the Gender Reveal

    Happy April Fools! It’s no secret that I like to bust my family’s chops. I’m kind of surprised that they didn’t see this coming. Every since my family found out that the baby’s gender could be determined by a blood test much sooner than an ultrasound, they’ve been hounding me about finding out if Giacomo…

  • Jack’s Big Announcement Photoshoot

    Jack’s Big Announcement Photoshoot

      Jack finally spilled the beans! He will be a Big Brother in September! We tried to let Lilu be part of the announcement pictures also, but she was just eating the jelly beans. Oh well. I made the signs with some paint and my Cricut. The eggs were from Target, and I just used…

  • Still Sick

    I have officially been sick for three weeks. Antibiotics did nothing. I was told by my doctor’s office that this illness could last five weeks! At least I’m over the hump. My nose is stuffed, I’m coughing constantly, my ears are clogged, my head is throbbing, and I’m exhausted. The worst part is poor Jack is sick…

  • Glittered Wine Glasses for President’s Day Weekend

    After a break of a few years, we finally resumed our annual President’s Day weekend family reunion ski trip (or, for many of us, sit in a cabin in the mountains and hang our trip). My sisters, parents and cousins rent two side by side houses so we can bounce back and forth from the houses.…

  • Don’t Chew on Jesus, The Joys of Stock Photography, and Other Reasons to be Grateful

    Don’t Chew on Jesus, The Joys of Stock Photography, and Other Reasons to be Grateful

    2015 was a difficult year. I suffered more than one loved one having passed, I had terrible separation anxiety from Giacomo, my father had a serious health scare, and the year ended with a such devastating loss for my young niece. I am still too upset over some of these to really talk about them…

  • Grinch Ornaments for Giacomo’s 1st Birthday

    Grinch Ornaments for Giacomo’s 1st Birthday

    It’s crazy to believe a whole year has gone by since my Mr. Man came into the world. I always say that the day he was born it felt like an explosion, that my heart grew 3 sizes that day like the Grinch. So for his first birthday, we had a Grinch themed party. Giacomo…