Boy, did you choose an amazing day to head to Everyday With Bay! We have a super amazing giveaway hitting the blog today & I’m so excited to share it! We will be awarding $700 total to 4 $175 winners! But first, this weekend went by wayyyy too fast around here! We had plans with friends that got messed up because #life but I got to spend time with my babies and that’s always a win so I call it a success! I’ve already got a case of the Monday’s and it’s Sunday night when I’m writing this! 😉 It’s never enough time with daddy home, my mom visiting for a bit and lazy weekend hangs! But I hope this giveaway brightens your Monday & hopefully you will be the winner! …
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Love Your Mama Giveaway
Who doesn’t love a giveaway?! Mother’s Day is coming early for one lucky mama! I have teamed up with some amazing shops and bloggers to give one lucky mama all of this!…
Christmas Traditions + “Bonus” Day of Blogmas
Merry Christmas Everyone! I wrote this post a week ago so I am enjoying the day with my family but I wanted to share a few family Christmas traditions with all of you that have carried over for years! Since I was a little girl so many of these shaped the way we looked at Christmas and how we made it special all while keeping Jesus the center of our day! I hope all of you make traditions and keep them going every year! Here are just a few we did growing up that I have continued with my own children!
Christmas Light Ride Along
We go every year to look at lights! We crank up the Christmas music, drink hot chocolate or coffee, and just have a great time!
Salvation Army Angel Tree
We give back by helping those less fortunate!
Cookies for Santa
We make homemade sugar cookies each year. They look like a mess but boy are they made with love!
Reindeer Food
This kindergarten teacher’s daughter is spoiled because Gram Gram makes this with her class and brings us the extra!
Letters to/from Santa
We can’t forget to write him so he will write us one in return!
Talking about Jesus’ Birthday
We always make sure Jesus is the main focus of our celebration!
Matching Christmas PJs
This is a must for us every year!
Opening A Present on Christmas Eve
This is usually where the PJs come in but this year I think it’s going to be a movie and someone else because we have already been wearing out PJs for 3 weeks! ha!
Christmas Morning Breakfast
We get up pretty early on a normal basis so Christmas day is super early! We let the kids do their presents and then we cook a nice big breakfast while they play!
Pictures With Santa
I love looking back at each Santa picture. It’s so funny to see how much hate can turn to love in one short year!
Christmas Service at Church
Such a special time where you can spend quality time celebrating the birth of our Savior!
Parades
We watch the Christmas parade on tv and try to go to local ones! The kids love them but now that we went to Disney last year nothing will ever live up to those Christmas parades!
I have enjoyed hosting our “12 days of Blogmas” & hope those of you who won the giveaways are super excited about your prizes!
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I HOPE YOU ALLHAVE THE MOST MAGICAL & WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS FULL OF LOVE, LAUGHTER & FAMILY! SO THANKFUL FOR OUR SAVIOR!
Christmas Movies + Day 12 of Blogmas
Christmas movies, I wish I could watch them all year round! However, I am one of those people who can not watch Christmas movies if it’s not close to Christmas. I get super sad that it’s not Christmas time and in the end it just makes me very bummed out so I steer clear. But when it’s finally November I bust out all of the movies I can & will watch them on repeat! We do movie nights with the kids where we make a huge comfy pallet on the floor, make a fire, eats ridiculous amounts of popcorn & candy and just have some great quality time together! It’s moments like those that I hope they remember forever! Some of my all time favorite Christmas movies that I may or may not have watched 12819 times each!
Jingle All The Way
The Grinch
The Santa Claus (All of them,but I definitely like the original the best)
I’ll Be Home For Christmas
Home Alone
Elf
Christmas With The Kranks
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
What are some of your favorite Christmas movies? Do you have a movie night tradition with your kids?
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Letter to Santa + Day 11
Letters to Santa…some of the sweetest memories I have as a child! I remember each year sitting down with my sister to write our letters to Santa. We were very detailed and I always had wayyyy too many things on there, with way too many specifics that now looking back on it I just think, “man my poor mama!” My Santa was the best there was and didn’t ever disappoint! Christmas morning usually resulted in everything from my list being sprawled out all over the living room floor but my absolute all time favorite thing about Christmas morning was the letter from Santa! Talk about the coolest thing ever in my mind! He knew so much about us, every little detail actually, always mentioned my dad and how proud he must have been of his girls…literally I’m not sure one Christmas went by that my sister and I didn’t cry when we read our letter! So thankful that my precious mom kept them all because now we have years & years of these precious Santa letters that are so fun & emotional to go back and read. It may sound silly but those letters were magical, they connected us to such a special place, reminded us of the true meaning of Christmas and were just such an important part of our Christmas morning! We actually still get Santa letters and I still make my sister read them out loud because I can’t do it without bawling! #emotionalmess
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Christmas Cookies + Day 10 of Blogmas
If Christmas cookies don’t get you excited then I just don’t know if we can be friends! Ha! One of my all time favorite memories as a child is making Christmas cookies and decorating them with my mom & sister! I remember there was always way too much icing, wayyyy too many sprinkles and it was perfect! Too be honest I’m not a baker, like at all! I generally just do slice & bake…or pre rolled cookie dough! It really is just #momlife #mylife! There are so many of these amazing moms out there that bake these amazing cookies that look like they came out of a magazine and I just can’t hang! HA! So I’m sharing some of my favorite Pin-spiration cookie ideas on my food board! …
