Fashion via my mom

My mom has the best taste in clothing! Here are a few outfits from my birthday presents!

Plus I scored on some jewelry! 

Thank you mom! For teaching me how dress, be modest, and be cute while doing it! 

Sure miss you a lot! 

Love you! 

Curtains

So due to Audrey's OBSESSION with having to be in the window all day long.

Please note, that she has almost ruined the blinds if they are closed trying to get to the window...

 I have been in desperate need of curtains. While at my parents house, I saw my moms floor length ones in her formal dining room and loved them... But there was a problem... I have a couch and a chair in front of my window in need. 

I saw these at potterybarn.com and loved that they still let in a lot of light. 

So while at Walmart of all places I saw this fabric and knew it was perfect! 

Anyways, today I whipped these out in an hour or so, ( in other words don't look too close;) ) and they do the job and give the room a bit more life! Plus, I can pull the blinds up and not have my window wide open.... So everyone's happy!

Grateful

So I know its March. I also know it's St. Patrick's day coming up. I am so grateful and lucky today.

I honestly have so much to be grateful for!

My awesome husband.

( he'd kill me if he knew I posted his first attempts at selfies... But those lips! Haha)

The gospel.

We get to go to what I consider home  today!

I have an amazing family. Seriously they are so cool and crazy!

( even when walker is not looking and Jackson is giving his half smile) 

I have a job that pays all the bills!


So you can see why I am feeling Lucky today!

And spring is coming!

Love,

Bugs

Flowers

For my birthday... Last year ( I know I am really slow) my mom gave me these adorable pots and seed packages. Every pot has a flower painted on them and matching seed package the same color with matching illustration from the pot!

This is only half of them, but I am so excited to have 12 blooming flower plants here in the next 6 weeks to adequately welcome spring!

Here they are three days after my birthday! 

Good Eating and a little Comfort talks

So as I mentioned before... I am trying to be/eat healthier.  As for my goal... I failed. I ate what I wanted on date nights, then went out of town and could only eat out. So I am going to try again.

With that said, it's pretty expensive to make everything at home, to me that is the hardest part. There are something's you just can't make with out the right equipment ( soda, ice cream, ice( didn't have an ice tray) etc...) So you have to give in on those store bought items. Other things take so much time, you buy the ingredients and then they go to waste because you can never make the time... this project takes a lot of planning out and recipes that use the a lot of the same ingredients. I really like the "freezer meals," but have a hard time eating so much of the same leftovers.

As far as the comfort talks go, there is something to be said about dinner time. I LOVE sitting down eating and talking to people. It's three of my favorite things in one shot! Haha, anyways, I have had some great conversations at the dinner table these last few weeks and I am grateful for them. The idea of having a conversation with people sitting down at a table, is seeming to me to becoming a lost art. I really wish people would go back to some of the basics. But hey, maybe I am just old fashioned.


Here are a few tried and loved recipes from this last round. Until next time:)

Chicken Enchilada Soup

Coke-a-cola Cake ( this is SO addicting)

White Chicken Enchiladas

Bean and Bacon Soup

Healthy

This is a Hayley post... Not about Kade... so looking for an overall family update... you'll have to wait until I finish that post!

Persisting in healthy eating. I read this post over at Cup of Jo.

here is the video she posted....

I seriously fell in love with this concept. If you what to eat healthy eat at home. So this is my challenge to myself for the next month. I can eat whatever I want as long as I make it.

Here is to a better healthy lifestyle and eating! Plus, getting back into something I really love..cooking!

2014

 So I am starting a new tradition this year.
Actually picking one word( usually I pick two or three.... ) and  applying my New Year's goals to that one word. I follow a few blogs that have done this perviously and one is 71 toes and she does this as well see here.Then one of my favorite books, Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert also picks a word that pertains to her life.

So my word this year is Persist:

The definition of Persist is to keep carrying on: to continue steadily or obstinately despite problems, difficulties, or obstacles. To endure tenaciously.

It defines what I need to work on as an individual and seems to be fall into the category of divine inspiration with the way our lives ended up this year.

I won't bore you with my goals for the year that require persistance. But hope you find a word that works for you and you stick to it! Good luck and Happy New Year!