Favorites of 2012 via Instagram

2012 was definitely a big year for us! So many huge things happened and it is a year I will remember forever. Two of the biggest moments for me was the birth of my second daughter and purchasing our first home! Not every moment was great but we continue to focus on the blessings!  God truly blessed us in so many ways last year and I am looking forward to what's in store for us in 2013!

My wish came true when I found out baby Carter was a girl

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We took our last vacation as a family of 3 to the Grand California Hotel at Disneyland

Enjoyed my last time being pregnant

My beautiful daughter Kensington Claire was born
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Sisters!

Our first home!
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I hope you all have had a wonderful New Year so far! I'd love to hear what happened in your 2012!! 
 

A few Christmas Highlights

Happy Sunday everyone! I thought I would share a few of our highlights from Christmas! I have to preface this by saying they are mostly all of my girls but those were my highlights! :) We pretty much had 3 different Christmases on different days and all of them were quiet and lovely! 

 my beautiful girls before our Christmas eve service 

 after Christmas eve service...all 4 of us!

 Kaydence opening her gift from Santa!

 Kensie's gift from Santa...not realizing she's not supposed to sit in it :) haha

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year! Enjoy the rest of your weekend!!

Our New Home

I am back! And hopefully a couple times a week! I've missed you all so much!  Thought I'd kick off my return with our new house.  December was a bit busy to say the least! Being married to a worship leader makes him pretty much non existent during Christmas time, and of course this year we had to buy a house in the middle of it all! We were so fortunate to be able to buy the home of our dreams and we moved in on December 14th! I'll share some pictures of it empty as we saw it. She is a beauty and we couldn't be more excited! I'll share pictures of it decorated soon. 

 I still get excited seeing this picture! I remember thinking..."there is no way we could ever afford this!"

The entryway...love the wrought iron!

Living room...don't mind the random car seat and don't worry there was no baby in there! :)

I actually have a big girl kitchen!

We actually have a dining room now too!

Master Bedroom with a sitting area

Those were some of the pictures we took when we first saw it. Hoping and praying it would be ours! I can't wait to show you pictures of it decorated soon!

Wow! Where Have I Been?

Things have been a bit busy around our house since the birth of my second daughter! Adjusting to two kids was harder than I had anticipated... I know there are many of you out there that have 3,4,5 and so on kids and I applaud you! I am going to get back into blogging more often now that we have sort of settled into a routine! I also have some very exciting news that will give me A LOT of projects...I am happy to announce that we are going to be home owners! Hopefully escrow will close by the end of this month. Keep checking back for updates and fun little projects I find to do around the new house! Til next time...  

Our New Addition!

Wow! I cannot believe that I have neglected this blog for so long! I honestly have no idea when I am going to get back to crafting because I have my hands full with two littles now! Yes that's right, my second daughter Kensington Claire was born on June 19, 2012 weighing 8lb 3oz and measuring 19 inches long. We are so in love with this little girl!  Here are a couple pictures from the hospital, then the third is my favorite picture that I will ever have. My oldest daughter meeting her sister for the first time!

Photo by Sara Lucero

Photo by Sara Lucero

 

Here she is at 7 weeks! Love her little face!

 

I'm sure I will be sharing a lot more of my new addition soon. I'm trying to figure out the exact direction of this blog now. I will for sure be crafting again at some point but may be adding a little more family and personal posts...we'll see. Let me know your thoughts! Thanks everyone for being such faithful readers and hanging in there with me! 

Our Finished Nursery- Home Tour

We finally finished our baby girl's nursery. I have to say that I flip flopped back and forth a lot with this one. Theme or no theme? which colors to pick exactly? I am glad to say that I am very happy with how it turned out.  All of the photos were taken by my wonderful friend Stephanie at SMG Photography!

This dresser used to be my little brother's and was oak. I wish I would have taken a before picture of this but completely forgot. Bummer! I do love that it has been in the family for a long time! The changing pad box was made by my wonderful step-father!

The baskets hold all of the little fun things that I'm sure I will be using quite often. :) 

The walls are adorned with some great etsy finds! 

Butterflies: Bugs Loft 

Love You So Much Print: Fern Tree Studio 

Mini Pom Garland: TiTi's TuTu's

 

Hope you all enjoyed the tour :) Please feel free to ask any questions about where things were purchased!

A Long Over Due Post with Maternity Pics and Baby Shower! Whoo Hoo!

Oh my dear, dear readers. I feel like such a bad friend! I honestly have not been doing much since the pregnancy due to some minor complications that have hindered me from doing much of anything. I have a hernia which limits most of what I would normally do, so the crafting has been put on the back burner for a while. I did however get my little girl's room finished and those pics will be coming soon! But for now I decided to share a few of my maternity pictures taken by my wonderful friend LeAnn Salazar at Pure Photography, and a baby shower that I couldn't have even imagined if I tried, also thrown by LeAnn and her sister Ashley. I am very lucky to be able to call them my friends!

These were taken when I was about 30 weeks and I am now 34 weeks so I've grown a little ;) Last Saturday was my baby shower. I was blessed to have 24 of the closest people in my life with me on that day! The pictures taken below are from Sara Lucero.

I hope you are all having all having a wonderful Spring! I can't believe May is already here. My goodness! Well I will be back next week with pictures of the nursery! Thank you all for hanging in there with me. :) I promise one day soon my craftiness will be back!