Halfway!!

1.  How did you find out you were pregnant? - I just had that 'take a test' feeling. The positive sign came up so fast I forgot to dump my pee out of the cup. My poor husband found it later on in the day and thought it was juice. Whoopsies!!

2. When you found out you were pregnant how many tests did you take? Only 3 ;)

3. How many weeks were you when you found out? - Just barely! Around 5 weeks

4. Who was the first person you told you were pregnant besides your partner?- The best friend of course! I sent her the same picture I sent my hubs.

5.  How many weeks are you now? 20!! Halfway- wahoooo!

6. Boy or Girl?- It's a sweet baby GIRL!!

7.When is your due date?- August 10th. Oh man. It's going to be a hot summer

8. Cravings?- Anything sweet. When I lay in bed at night and try to fall asleep, I just think of what I can go eat. I could out eat anyone right now ;)

9. What do you miss? Swimsuits. And having coffee every morning. When I got pregnant it just never sounded good anymore.

10. How much weight have you gained? Only 7 pounds!! I gained way too much weight with my first 2 babies.  I'm hoping to not get over 25. Wishful thinking?

11. Do you have a name picked out? What? I do! Ryan- not so much. He doesn't love the name I do. So we'll see ;)

12. Is the child being named after someone? Her middle name will be. My grandma would be proud :)

13. Who is going to be with you during delivery? I think it'll be my parents and Ryan. That's how it's always been.

14. What was the first thing you bought for baby? Before I even knew she was a girl- I started getting headbands. It's kind of a problem. She may or may not already have 15. Ish ;)

Here's to another quick 20 weeks!! We are so excited and can't wait to meet this little girl 

Easter Peeps

Today we are excited to share with you these adorable Peep printables.  They are a perfect way to dress up peeps for Easter.  A big thanks to Ann from Crowshaw Cakes for designing these printables.

                       To download "Some Bunny Loves You" and Single Peep Tags click HERE.

To download multiple Peep tags click HERE & HERE.

Happy Easter

-Christy 

Blog Hop and My Best Friend's Birthday

We are so excited to be co-hosting this Blog Hop with The Life of a Not So Ordinary Wife.  It's a great way to meet new friends and find great blogs! Today is also a big day because it is Chelsie's Birthday!  I am so thankful that she is my best friend.  Happy Birthday Chels! 

Have fun with this hop and send some love to Chelsie!

It's Tuesday again which means it's time for the GFC Blog Hop!

I realize the blogging world has gone crazy with Google announcing the close of Google Reader this summer and I know some have worried what this means for GFC so I decided in the next couple of weeks I will be changing this hop to "Friend Connect Hop" Just dropping google ;) It will be based on making new friends and finding new blogs. You can choose to follow the cohosts in whatever way is best for YOU! Thanks so much for linking up!! -Melissa

Ok, so let's get to the party, shall we?

RULES are simple:

1. Follow your host 

The First link below

2. Follow your co-hosts 

The Next 7 links below

3. Link up below using your main blog url not a specific post.

4. Make sure to visit some of the blogs in the link up and follow them 

and if you want to leave them a comment, I'm sure they'd appreciate that as well.

5. Tweet about this blog hop

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A Little Box of Sunshine

A good friend of mine has been battling thyroid cancer for the past two years.  This week she had surgery for the second time.  A friend and I wanted to take her something besides the usual bouquet of flowers.  I went searching on Pinterest and found this cute idea HERE. So we made our own version of this Get Well Soon Gift. Thankfully it's Easter and the Dollar store at Target had a lot of yellow items. 

For the FREE Printable click HERE.

Supplies- Yellow tissue paper, Lemonade, Reese's Egg, Teddy Grahams, Notepad, Nail Polish, Goo Gone, Pedicure Set, Yellow Chicks, Fortune Pen, Juicy Fruit, Potato Chips. 

Such a fun way to brighten a friend's day!

-Christy

Little He or Little She Gender Reveal Party

I was lucky enough to have my best friend and sister throw a gender reveal party for me. I knew that since this is our last baby I wanted to find out what we were having in a really fun and cute way. So the planning began! I was part of most of it, helping where I could but I didn't want to find out until everyone else at the party found out. Two days before the party we went and had the ultrasound done. After the ultrasound I was dying knowing that Christy and Caleigh knew what it was and I still had no idea!! I swear it was a long two days. Saturday came and our closest friends and family came over to find out what the baby was. There were 25 black balloons filled with either pink or blue confetti. Everyone grabbed a balloon and stick and on the count of three we all popped them at the same time. That is a moment I know I will never forget. It was amazing. Pink and white confetti went everywhere! I freaked out, jumped up and down, and cried my eyes out with Kennedy. Ryan was super excited, but our poor Jagger wanted a brother so dang bad. He sat on Ryan's lap for a good 10 minutes with the saddest look on his face. Poor little guy!! He's finally ok with having another sister ;)

 

The very talented Tiffany from Tiffany Collins Design designed the adorable invitation. 

Sticking with the mustache and lip theme of the party Christy bought cookie cutters from CookieCutter.com and made our favorite sugar cookies.  Click HERE for the recipe. 

For the lips and mustache straws we used glitter paper and found a template online to use as a stencil.We used a hole punch and viola you have an adorable straw topper.

Lip template click HERE

Mustache template click HERE.

Ann from Crowshaw Cakes made this gorgeous ruffle cake as well as these adorable fondant lips and mustache cup cake toppers.

We set up a voting station where all the guest could cast their votes. Tiffany made the little ballot cards for all of the guests. We used the ribbon banner from an old project, The Mimosa Bar. We spray painted plastic balloon sticks to tie the banner to.

 

For the big reveal we bought bamboo skewers to pop the balloons. For an extra touch Christy spray painted them gold, pink and blue.

 

Poor Jagger was so sad he didn't get a brother. He sat with Ryan and put his head down for a good 10 minutes.

It's a GIRL!

We couldn't be more excited to be having a little girl!! Thank you to everyone who came and made the day so memorable- especially Christy and Caleigh. I love you guys!!

                                                                           -Chelsie

Photography Purple Peacock Photography 

Ruffle Cake  Crowshaw Cakes

Invitation  Tiffany Collins Design

Candy  Zurchers