Every Day

Snow!

Feb132014

I’ve lived in Columbia, South Carolina for ten years. (Let’s not talk about how it’s been ten years since I started graduate school.) Columbia is known for being “Famously Hot.”

When I was pregnant with Hayes we had a pretty decent little snow the day after Christmas. And then it snowed a couple of weeks ago when we were at Disney World. We were a little bummed to have missed it because it almost never happens here.

But then, yesterday, we had another snow day! (We had a lot of ice, too.) And it’s snowing again today. This is just unheard of for where we live, and this was my boy’s first time to really play in the snow.

We moved to Indiana from Louisiana when I was in the 8th grade, so for five years, I experienced what it’s like to live with some serious snow. My parents live in Indiana and have been surrounded by snow for months. But when it happens here, everything shuts down. We don’t have the plows but we are thankful that it will melt in a few days.

And Boudreaux is content to settle down by the fire.

In the meantime, though, my kids and I want to make the most of it because it may be a long time before we see it again.

Were you in the middle of yesterday’s snow storm, too?

ride the teacups and let go!

Filed Under: Every Day, Life, Travel

Feb32014

We are home from our magical vacation to Disney World. We had an amazing seven days away, and I can’t believe how quickly the time flew by.

We have some incredible memories from the trip, but honestly it was just such a joy to be away from home with just my little family of four. This was our first time to travel away from home for a vacation without any extended family. We did it. We loved it. (Not every single second of it, but we loved it.)

I plan to do some full Disney recap posts with everything we did and all that I learned, but first I just want to encourage you to spend some good, uninterrupted time with your families. We loved this time away together, away from almost all of our distractions, and I would go on a camping trip if it meant we got to have that kind of fun together again.

And I would even ride the teacups a thousand times if it meant I could see these faces just like this a thousand times more. What a joy!

Easter 2013

Filed Under: Every Day

Apr12013

Christ is Risen! He is risen, indeed!

I absolutely love celebrating Easter. I want to shout from the rooftops that I serve a risen Savior and this is the whole foundation of what we believe.

I also love the focus on family through Easter weekend, and we had a fantastic, busy, slow weekend with our family.

On Good Friday, my friend Allyson and her sister, Heather, hosted a huge Easter egg hunt for tons of kids. So many of our friends and their kids were there. The boys had a great time!

I didn’t get a picture of everyone, but I did get a picture of my three sweet friends and their babies.

Todd’s law firm hosted a crawfish boil on Good Friday afternoon for lots of friends and family and colleagues. It was a big family affair. A few of our friends were there with their kids and the kids had a great time running around.

We were shocked that we were able to get all the kids sitting down and remotely smiling. I think the peer pressure got to them and they were all willing to sit just because their buddies were sitting.

I just love sweet Gracie like she’s my own. And she loves Hayes.

There’s a wildflower “garden” on the grounds of Todd’s office, and the boys always love to just run their little legs off when we’re there.

After the crawfish boil, we went to church for The Story performance. I absolutely love the music and the stories behind them. If The Story is ever in your area, I highly recommend going to see it! It’s incredible!

Hudson and I dyed Easter eggs on Saturday afternoon while Hayes napped. We thought about including Hayes in the fun, but Hudson is at a great age where he can really do this. And it was something fun that we could just do together.

He loved it! And he loved writing the first letters of everyone’s names on the eggs and seeing them come out of the dye.

I put this next picture on Instagram because it was so sweet to me. Hudson was so patient while he waited for the eggs to dry, but he wanted to touch them so badly!

Our church had three services today, and since I sing in the choir, I needed to be there at 8:00 this morning. Church was wonderful, with a fantastic, powerful message, and beautiful music.

We left church and went to Todd’s parents’ house to get lunch ready and so the Easter bunny could finally visit the boys! (We decided to wait since church was so early today.)

They got some toys cars, some books, bubbles, some socks, and some new water bottles. They played with their goodies for a bit before we ate.

Hayes got a Bubble Guppies coloring book and I think it’s his favorite thing he’s ever gotten.

We had lunch with Todd’s parents and Nana at their house and the went outside for our Easter egg hunt.

Hudson was so proud of his first bow tie. Todd’s dad wears a bow tie to work every day and Hudson was just so excited to be dressed like his RC. I can’t believe how fast he’s growing up!

This is a funny story that I don’t want to forget. Hudson only wanted to pick up the eggs we dyed instead of the plastic eggs. But he was literally throwing the boiled eggs into his basket. And they’d crack. So he stopped to look at all of them and was horrified that they were cracked. He said, “Oh no! They’re all crapped!” And we about fell out laughing at his little mistake.

He took all of the cracked eggs out of his basket and left them on the ground for Hayes to pick up. And of course, Hayes was happy to have them.

We had a really fun day celebrating with our family and friends the Risen Savior that we are so thankful for.

We are sinners. We are so imperfect and unworthy of the beautiful gift of salvation that we’ve received. But because of Christ Jesus, and his sacrifice for us, we have the promise of eternal life. And we praise His holy name for that gift! He conquered death and rose again!

This is why we celebrate.

weekly recap: September 8-15

Filed Under: Every Day, Parties and Showers

Sep162012

I realized that I haven’t really updated on what all we’re up to, so I thought I may just do a post each weekend to fill in the details of that week for my memory-keeping purposes. And in case any of you want to know what we’re up to, here it is!

I had a Holiday Market meeting on Tuesday night, and we organized all of our new decorations for this year. Oh my goodness, I’m so excited about the decorations committee and the fun decorations for this year!
We all went to church as a family on Wednesday night. In the past, I have just taken the kids with me and Todd meets us there later. But we’ve started meeting at church on Wednesday nights for supper as a family and then we all move on to our respective “programs.” This is something I did as a child and I’m really excited about having my whole family there on Wednesday nights for AWANA, Bible study, choir rehearsal, etc.

Hudson has started AWANA at church on Wednesday nights. He has already memorized his first Bible verse and he’s so excited about it! (“all…. he had made… was very good.”) Genesis 1:31
Our choir has already started rehearsing our Christmas music for our Singing Christmas Tree. I can’t believe it’s already that time of year, but it’s so exciting to be working on the music!
Hudson is staying after school twice a week for karate and J.A.M. (jump and move). His favorite thing about getting to do this is that he gets to bring his lunch. He thinks he is so cool because he has a lunch box! It’s really the cutest thing!
I started my new Bible study this week. It’s a community Bible study full of over 150 women from all denominations. Our commonality is that we all believe in the Word of God and its truths. I’m so excited about getting to know the women in my small group, and spending Thursday mornings with these women as we fellowship and learn together.
On the way to school on Friday morning, Hudson threw up in the car. Having throw up in a car seat is really just horrible. But poor Hudson was so confused. One minute he was singing a song and the next minute he was sick. I rushed him back home, and luckily Todd was still there to grab Hudson and get him cleaned up while I took Hayes to school. Hayes was at school until noon, and Hudson and I just sat and played and watched movies for three hours. It has been so long since I’ve had a few hours with just Hudson. It was wonderful. I’m sorry he was sick, but I’m so thankful that we had that sweet time together.
Shark Tank and Dateline are back with new episodes! Our Friday night ritual can resume. We are so happy!
Last weekend, I went to Charlotte to co-host a baby shower for the beautiful Rachel and her baby girl on the way. It was so fun to host with Katie, Ashley, and Michelle and to get to see other Charlotte bloggers. I was just going to share a handful of pictures from the baby shower.

Rachel had this adorable print on her Pinterest inspiration board for her nursery, so the hostesses and I thought it would be a great jumping off point for her baby shower inspiration.

via here

The talented mamas at Sweet Birdie’s Nest helped us create a beautiful invitation and all the fun cupcake toppers, banners, party circles, etc. I loved how the orange, pink and grey all came together.

Then Holly created these cookies based on the Etsy print and the whole look we were going for. I have never tasted such delicious iced cookies that were just as beautiful as they are tasty! Holly is the best! These cookies were truly little masterpieces. Adorable, delicious little works of art! Holly is amazing! (You can look at more of Holly’s cookies at Doughmestic Housewife.)

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