Happy New Year, Everyone!!

I hope everyone had a safe and happy New Year's day. 
We kept it pretty low key around here, but it was nice as always to have daddy home during the day! 
Im going to be keeping this much more up to date this year.  I want to keep all of our family (near and far) informed on what we are up to.
I will be posting a little end of the year info on things that we did in 2012. 

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy 2013, from my family to yours!   

And the Winner Is....

Congrats Danae!!!
Please email me, and I will let you know what the next step is.

Thanks to everyone to entered!  Dont forget you can get your own great MumMe Wear at anytime by going to MumMe Wear.

{Mumme Socks Review and Giveaway}

When I found out I was pregnant with a little girl, I was so excited to be able to start shopping for all those adorable clothes and accessories for her.  (Not that my son doesn't have the cutest stuff, but let's face it, cute little girly things are easier to find).

Since its such a pain to keep shoes on little babies, I decided to get some of those adorable little shoe socks instead.  Matthew had some cute little cowboy boot ones, but Paityn needed some of those cute Mary Jane or ballet slipper ones!  You know those ones I'm talking about! The ones that when your kids wear them everyone makes a huge fuss over how cute they are and how they need to make them in adult sizes too.  Oh yeah, I had that same feeling too!  I needed to have cute little shoe socks just like P!

This is when I went on my search.  I came upon this site called MumMe Wear, and guess what they had?!?!
You guessed it.  Matching socks for P AND ME!!!
They were all so adorable, but I settled on the Mummy & Me Plaid Mary Jane set.  They are adorable, really well made and are all Eco-friendly (made of organic cotton or bamboo) and they come in the cutest little shoe box.

Here's a little information about how MumMe Wear came to be:

MumMe is the brainchild of Canadian mompreneur, Noelle Rathee. Inspired by her fun-loving little girl who always wants to be "just like mummy", Noelle created MumMe (Mum + Me = MumMe), a line of matching "shoe" socks for stylish mums and their little ones. Shortly after launch, it quickly became apparent that dads and older kids wanted in on the fun too, so MumMe expanded their size offering to include the whole family and now carries fun "shoe" socks for all ages!


Let me just say that Noelle is the SWEETEST company owner EVER!!!  I've always been impressed with how she was the one that always answered my emails and it wasn't just some random person.  That's quality customer service right there!

I wanted to share this great product with everyone else since I have had such a great experience with this company.  Plus, I KNOW I'm not the only person who wants to have these adorable shoe socks just like the kids do!  These would be a great baby shower gift, too!

I contacted Noelle to see if we could try out some of the cute sneakers socks as well (since Mattie can't wear the Mary Jane's with us).  They are black and yellow too, so these Steelers fans were super excited about that one!

She also agreed to let me offer a $25 voucher for one lucky reader to shop at MumMe Wear, too!
Check out her store, you will fall in love with them too!

Here's how to enter:

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Water Bugs

Today we went to hang out with Devon and Hailey at the pool at their hotel.  Kate was at her training for work, and Marc was at work, so it was just all the cousins.

Miss P fell asleep on the way there, so she swam for a little bit but wasn't to happy about it. 
It was chilly at first too, so that probably didn't help either.  


She did LOVE putting her feet in the hot tub water with me though.  Loves warm water, just like her mama!

 Mattie on the other hand was being my little fish as always. He spent almost the entire time in the pool and loved every minute of it.  We need to work on the swimming without the swimmies some more, but at least we aren't afraid of being in the water or swimming in the entire pool.

Miss Hailey is also a little fish.  That girl has NO fear of the water at all!  She can thank her daddy for that one!

I think between the three of them, they have gone through a pound of goldfish crackers in the last few days!

Memories and Visitors

Today would have been Baba's (my grandma) birthday. I really miss talking to her and spending time with her.  It really sucked to have lost both of my grandma's within 40 days of each other.  I think about them both a lot and hope they are enjoying themselves in Heaven.

Today we spent most of the day outside with Devon, Kate, Hailey, Daddy and Uncle Ronnie. 





Daddy worked on the chicken coop a little more while the kiddos ran around, played in the sand and water table and got all messy!

  I'm glad the kids are getting to play with each other for a few days since we live so far away from each other.

Silly Hailey!

Chalk Paint

We decided to try out one of the many outside activities we have pinned to our Outdoor Activities board on Pinterest.  We've wanted to try the chalk paint for awhile now, but the weather or naps kept winning out on the days we were planning on it.

The recipe was SO simple!
1 cup of cornstarch
1 cup of water
food coloring

We put it in old muffin tins so we could make lots of different colors and bought cheap paint brushes at Walmart because those foam ones would have been eaten by the driveway very quickly.
We painted on paper, rocks, the driveway, our cheeks and legs.  You name it!  They both loved it and we WILL be doing it again.  You have to keep mixing it up or the cornstarch settles to the bottom.  The blue also stained their skin at first, but all the colors came off with just a simple bath. 
Try it out, its fun!!!

Update

Things have been crazy so far this year...yes, I realize I havent posted in a while but the kids are keeping me REALLY busy.

I have a few new posts coming up including a WONDERFUL giveaway, so stay tuned!