Cupcake Couture

     I love baking, especially cupcakes!  Finding new recipes and trying them out is such a delicious challenge I take head on!  What makes it more fun is when I can bake up a tasty treat for my son or daughter's birthday or a friend's baby shower or special holiday get together.

I baked up these Chocolate Chip Cupcakes for my friend's Enchanting Butterfly Baby Shower

I made these for Kinley's Rainbow 1st Birthday Party

These were fun for Liam's Skylander 6th Birthday Party

These minty cupcakes were for my sister's Baby Shower

These Strawberry Lovecakes were for Liam's Valentine's Day party at school 

Liam's Angry Bird 5th Birthday Party cupcakes

We celebrated 4th of July Crafternoon with these Snow Cone Cupcakes

Made these colorful cupcakes for my sister's Baby Shower too

Margarita Cupcakes for our March Crafternoon

Horton Hears a Who Cupcakes to celebrate Dr. Seuss Day

July Crafternoon with Cheeseburger Cupcakes

Also made these Cotton Candy my sister's Baby Shower

Celebrating Halloween with some festive Jack Skellington Cupcakes

Some throwback cupcakes for a Vintage Baby Shower 

Love the neon colors on these 80's Cupcakes

One of my favorite parties to host included these Twilight Cupcakes

It's Tea Time with these Black Tea Cupcakes for January Crafternoon

Liam loved these Alien Cupcakes from his Toy Story 3rd Birthday Party

March Crafternoon with these Chocolate Guinness Cupcakes

These Brain Cupcakes were ghoulishy good 

Made some Batman Cupcakes for a friend's son's birthday

Mad Hatter cupcakes for my friend's Mad Hatter Tea Baby Shower

Lots and lots of fun festive cupcakes! Pretty to look at and yummy to eat!

Kinley's Room

     I have finally completed decorating Kinley's room, it's full of yellow, gray, white, and purple.  When we found out we were expecting a little girl, I immediately started brainstorming on different colors and designs trying to get ideas for the nursery.  I found the Sweet Sunshine bedding by MiGi that I loved and knew it would look beautiful with pops of purple.  I found some cute yellow lanterns and made some silver/gray and purple pom poms I hung from the ceiling.  I also made some framed letters to spell out her name with some craft supplies I found at Hobby Lobby.  The flower topiaries and pinwheels are some of the decorations from my baby shower, that my besties Kristi and Tori from Lil' Mrs. Tori made for me.   I ordered custom made wall decals from Stixdesign.com on Etsy to decorate the walls along with my maternity pictures that were taken by my awesome friend Sam from Samantha Lovett Photography.  Red foxes are really special to our family due to my late Grandma Hazel, so I just had to incorporate those in her room too.  The white framed fox pictures were actually made by my sister and they match perfectly!  And the painted picture is a one of a kind by my friend Kristi from The Tipsi Artist.

I simply LOVE her room and can't wait to bring Kinley home to it.

Shutterfly Photobooks

     So,  recently I have been getting all creative putting together some Shutterfly photo books.  I love photo books, they are so easy to make and are a great way to display all those wonderful memories.  I usually do a yearly one for Liam, it's a great way to capture all those great moments. And WAY cheaper then making a real scrapbook.  Sometimes it's hard to decide what photos to put in it since I take soooo many.  This past summer, we participated in the Little Wonders' Days Bucket List.  I took pictures of all the activities we did over the summer and thought what better way to remember the fun we had then to put them together in a photo book.  So that's what I did!!  I also, put together a photo book of my baby shower and my maternity pictures (taken by Samantha Lovett Photography).  I posted the links to the books below.  Take a look!  I had so much fun! There are so many options from backgrounds to layouts to different pictures frames and if you sign up with them via email then they will send you their special deals.  I recently received a code for a FREE 8x8 photo book worth $29.99!  That's awesome!  I've also taken advantage of a FREE 100 4x6 photos special they sent me (just have to pay tax & shipping).  So if you have tons of pictures, like I do, and want to put them together in some sort of photo book/scrapbook, Shutterfly is perfect for you!!

Family of Four Photobook

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Photo books are the perfect gift for any occasion.

Kinley Baby Shower Photobook

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Start your own Shutterfly Photo Book today.

Daddy, Mommy, Liam + Kinley Makes 4

     The other day the whole family headed out to the Return to Freedom, American Wild Horse Sanctuary to take some pictures with Samantha from Samantha Lovett Photography.  I really wanted to capture my growing baby bump.  We didn't get to do any maternity pictures with Liam, which I totally regret.  We got some amazing pictures...take a look!

A huge thank you to Samantha for capturing some wonderful moments for my family.