Stop! In the name of love!

.....before you break my heart. 

That song just popped in my head because I look at these pictures I took of Mariam over the weekend, and I can see how much she's grown since the last time I photographed her in February wearing this same baby bandana head covering.

Just look at my little mooshy doll face. I can't get enough of her! It's almost midnight as I type this and I almost want to creep into the nursery just to pick her up and hold her. I won't do that though. Are you kidding me?! I'd be nuts to wake up a sleeping baby. ;)

Layla Wear

{Shorts: Target / cardigan: Kohl's}

I'm not wearing anything special today other than a pair of shorts and sandals, but I wanted to show this pretty necklace that was recently given to me by a family friend. It's not something I would have normally picked out for myself before, but I love it! The different stones makes it very versatile.

I'm very sleepy today. H and I stayed up till almost 1 in the morning last night watching a movie. We had a date night last night which was nice. It's rare that H and I get to hang out with just each other--where it's just us. I dropped off the girls at my in-laws and then headed to a restaurant where H met me. He was just getting off work. Poor guy has such a long commute. He amazes me because despite having a long commute to and from work and managing a staff while having his own deadlines, meetings, etc, he somehow manages to leave everything at the door before he gets home. He hardly ever complains and only occasionally mentions work.

How does he do it?

He has the patience of a saint and I love him for that. Have a great weekend everybody.

Two little hearts

While we try to teach our children all about life,

Our children teach us what life is all about.

~Angela Schwindt

My weekend in iphone pictures..

A lovely weekend it was. Saturday I spent some quality me time at the nail salon getting a pedicure and later that day, H took two of the girls to his mom's house so I could go to the mall. I took baby Mariam because I'm exclusively breastfeeding and I don't like dealing with a pump. She actually did really well there! I had left the big stroller in the other car but I had Layla's umbrella stroller and she fit in it fine. She's almost 7 months and the recommend age is 6 months and up so we were fine. Sunday we spend some time at home and then headed over to my parent's house for grilled steaks. Yum.

Later when I got home, and applied my MAC foundation, I realized I got the wrong color. I looked like a vampire it was so white!

I hope everyone had a great weekend and to all you mother's and soon to be mother's, hope you had a great mother's day.

Friday Fancies

So glad it's Friday, however it's rainy and gloomy outside and the girls and I will most likely be spending all day inside. I've got some things to do around the house and I'm hoping the girls take a long nap at the same time in the afternoon so I can get some work done. I've been getting a few inquiries about making custom bibs for birthday parties. I recently did first birthday party bibs for a set of twins. Their theme is "pink lemonade." So cute! Love that theme.

I've also got some new designs/prints coming out each week and something big I'm working on for the summer. It's all very exciting but there is much work to be done and research. I'm hoping I reach my deadline but it all depends, because I can't move as fast as I'd like. My girls come first. I don't let my work cut into being with them and I have a system that works..for now. So we'll see. Since I'm already talking about the biz, I'll go ahead and share this little beauty which will be available online Monday. Love.

Princess Mariam

So I got hit with a double whammy this past weekend. Not only did Layla turn 2 years this past Monday, Mariam turned 6 months on Sunday! In 6 more months she'll be a year. How did that even happen?

Layla's Birthday Party Pics

We had Layla's birthday party this past Saturday and everything went great. I'm so glad I kept it small and family only. In total there was 15 people so definitely less stress! I got so behind on things I literally bought some decorations and presents the night before and threw my ideas together. Serena helped me decorate and it all came out cute and simple. Initially I was going to do a minnie mouse theme since Layla loves minnie mouse right now, but I ended up doing just pink and whites. A girly slightly shabby chic theme. 

The party started at 4:00 pm but half of the family didn't show up till 5:15 pm. We had a simple menu of veggies, cheeses, fruit skewers, fried chicken, potato salad, corn and salad. The only thing we had to do was cut up the veggies, cheeses and put the fruit skewers together. Everything else we bought already made. With three girls, one being a baby, I definitely need to keep things quick and easy right now. 

Putting together this photo banner was a lot of fun and super easy. I simply uploaded photos to Walgreens.com and then picked them up an hour later. I also bought some card stock and ribbon later and just taped them on the ribbon.