New Home Tour Part 1- Craft Area

Wow I can't believe we've already been in our new home for about 2 months now. I have been decorating, organizing and re-organizing like crazy! Today I am going to share with you the room that you see when you first walk in the door. We decided to make this a craft area since I no longer have an extra room for that. We have a lot of built in bookshelves in the new house so I utilized them for organizing my craft supplies.

 

This is my entryway with our vintage Victrola cabinet. My husband and I realized that is the only piece of furniture that we have kept since we lived in our first apartment! I made the little greeting at the entryway to say hello when we have visitors :)

 
Here is a view of the room from the entrance.

Some of my organization. I used mostly bins, jars and boxes from Ikea and Target! They house everything from Washi Tape to all of my fabric!

A couple fun crafts that I made. I redid this table to fir the room a little more with gold and white stripes.  I also took a frame found at the Salvation Army, painted it and added some twine for a fun photo display!

Another thing that I love to do is scrapbook. I recently joined the Studio Calico Scrapbook Club and get fun little goodies every month! If you enjoy scrapbooking you should definitely look into that!  These pages hang directly over my desk and can be changed whenever I want to display a new page!

I hope you all enjoyed my craft area tour! I'll be back later in the week with Kensie's nursery!

Ricotta Blueberry Muffins

I LOVE to cook and bake!  It makes me so happy that you can mix certain ingredients together and make something amazing!  I am so excited to share one of my all time favorite breakfast muffins with you. They are adapted from Skinny Taste's Chocolate Chip Ricotta Muffins which are to die for as well! I wanted to make this a little more "healthy", so I added blueberries instead of Chocolate Chips...that's really the only difference, but it gives it such a different flavor!  Here's what you need!

*2 cups cake flour
*1 tsp baking soda
*3/4 cup sugar
*3 large egg whites
*1/4 cup butter (melted)
*8 oz. ricotta cheese
*1/2 tbsp vanilla 
*1 pint basket blueberries (or more if you'd like)

First in a bowl combine the flour and baking soda, set aside.  In another bowl, mix together sugar and butter until it's combined well and add the egg whites.  Next you'll add the ricotta cheese.  Once all of that is mixed up nicely, add the flour mixture and the vanilla. And lastly, fold in the blueberries.  The batter is pretty thick and sticky but that's perfect!  Spoon into muffin cups and bake at 375 degrees for 15 minutes or until a little brown on top.  DELICIOUS!!  And here is a fresh batch right out of my oven!

Hope you all find time to make these delicious little creatures! Enjoy!!

Life Lately

For some strange reason I feel like life is just flying by! Little Kensie is almost 8 months already. How has that happened??!! Here are some fun pictures for my iphone from the past couple of weeks!

 

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Hello there! I am starting a new link up every Friday at Life Rearranged.  I will be linking up my weekly pics from Instagram. It's always fun to me to see how people spend their days...kinda stalker-ish I know but hey, it's fun! :) Head on over and say hello if you'd like! Here's what we were up to this week!

This little love was sick most of the week last week so we decided to get out and spend a day shopping...she brings her stroller everywhere!

This face I tell you literally almost KILLS ME!! She is such a happy girl and LOVES getting her pictures taken!

 It's been so nice here we had to spend some time outside. We finally got a swing for Kensie to add to the swing set so it was perfect and they loved swinging together!

My husband and I will be married for 10 years this month! I can't believe how fast time has gone! I have been wanting boots for A LONG TIME and we found these and he got them for me for our anniversary...what a sweet man I have!

I figure I've always been a pretty organized person, but I love organizing other people's things more than mine! haha! A wonderful blog that i follow called  i heart organizing shared her budget binder and planner on her blog and I fell in love with them! The binders and title plaques are Martha Stewart from Staples!

I hope you all have a marvelous weekend!

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!