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Welcome to our little family, Fruitcake! This year is our first year with an elf on the shelf, I'm so excited! Probably more excited then Chloe is I'm sure. Our elf arrived on November 28th (because I just couldn't wait any longer haha). This is where we've found him so far- - on the right was the first day, bottom left was the second day and top left was the third day- I wasn't sure if our elf would arrive early or wait until like a couple weeks before Christmas, but I ended up deciding for early. I think from now on our scout elf will arrive on the last day of November every year. I have so many cute ideas for these few weeks before Christmas, it's hard to believe that there aren't too many more days before Christmas!  So far Chloe has been pretty excited to find fruitcake in the mornings but she doesn't remember when she wakes up, I remind her to find him. She is still a little too young to remember when she wakes up and I'm sure she doesn't g...

-my phone case currently- 1. Which iPhone do you have? I have the iPhone 6s. 2. What color is it? Space grey I believe it's called. 3. How long have you had your iPhone? Like a day haha. 4. How many iPhones have you had? I've had other apple products but this is my first iPhone. 5. What was your very first one? The one that I currently have now, iPhone 6s. 6. Lets see your case! I don't have one yet, I'll update this then I get one and post a picture of it!  **updated** see above for my fave phone case!  7. What is your wallpaper? A purple flower with a black background, it's one of the ones that comes in the wallpaper settings. 8. How many apps do you have? Besides the ones that come on the iPhone already I have 4. 9. What is your most used app? Probably the Facebook messenger app. 10. How many contacts do you have? About 13 or so I think. 11. Who was the last person you texted?  My friend Brendan. 12. What is your relationship with that person? He's like my be...

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas...Not! I'm so ready for it to feel like Christmas time and look like winter out. Where I live we have had snow twice so far, it wasn't much and it didn't last long. Even the weather has been pretty nice also it's only just starting to get cold out, usually it starts to get cold in October.  Now don't get me wrong, as soon as winter arrives I wish it never had, but it sure does look pretty outside when there is snow and lights and all that good stuff. My Christmas lights aren't up yet unfortunately, it's been super rainy and windy recently and that's definitely not fun weather to be outsidestapling up lights..not that it's fun any other time either, haha. I have gotten some decorating done inside the house but not much so far, I still need to dig it all out of our storage room.  The only thing I'm really on top of this year is getting gifts and wrapping them, for the most part I'm actually almost...

I got the idea to do this tag when I saw it on a YouTube channel that I like to watch, the channel is- barbiesbeauty  http://youtu.be/aIT8aCLwa6g 1. Favorite candle scent? I don't often burn candles but I have a fall one that I really like, it is Vanilla Pumpkin Marshmellow from Bath & Body Works. I was surprised that I like it because I'm usually not a huge fan of the pumpkin scent. 2. Coffee, tea or hot chocolate? I don't drink coffee and I'm not usually a big tea drinker so I'll have to say hot chocolate. 3. Best fall memory? Chloe was born in the fall, so that is my best fall memory. 4. Which make-up trend do you prefer: dark lips or winged eye liner? I don't do either, I don't wear much make up. I guess winged eye liner though if I had to pick one. 5. Best fragrance for fall? I'd probably have to say anything with Apple scent. 6. Favorite Thanksgiving food?  I probably have to say stuffing, I like all thanksgiving foods but stuffing is probably ...

The other day I gave Logan his first food! As you can see from the picture at the bottom...he loved it! So far he has tried carrots, peas and oat cereal. The cereal stuff was his very first, he was sure what to think of it but I don't think I watered it down enough. Then he tried carrots, we had that for a few nights and then we tried peas two nights ago. So I guess he had his first food more like a week ago not the other day haha. In the picture he had just tried carrots for the first time. I didn't make these myself I just bought the organic baby food in bottles and the oats cereal. I bought Hienz brand for the organic baby food (peas and carrots) and Gerber was the brand of oat cereal. -who else uses this brand? I'm curious what's others there are, my store only has three different one. I can't imagine that's all they make for organic-  My grocery store where I live doesn't carry much organic baby food, just peas carrots and squash so I will be making mos...

1. Are you a SAHM or a working mom? Kind of inbetween, I am home most of the time, my kids don't go to daycare, I do work a couple days a week though for a couple hours.  2. Would you have it any other way? Absolutely not, I love how my life has turned out, this wasn't how I expected it to go but I'm glad it's the way it is now! 3. Do you co-sleep? I didn't with my daughter when she was little, I do co-sleep with my son though.  4. One must have gear for baby? Well besides the basics probably a carrier, I didn't do a lot of baby wearing with my first but my carrier has made things much easier now that I have two. 5. How many kids do you plan on having? Probably 5 total, I don't plan on anymore anytime soon though. 6. How many date nights per month? 0, I am and have been single for a long time now. 7. What is your child's favorite show? This one is easy, Paw Patrol! 8. What is one thing you bought before you had a baby and never ended up using? A breast p...

Diapers- First off, who doesn't love all those adorable prints! I choose flowers for Chloe and giraffes for Logan. Diapers were the first honest company product that I ever used. I was to excited to get them in the mail! The box that the products are mailed to you in is so pretty as well! Chloe tried them first (Logan wasn't born yet when I ordered them). At first I thought they seemed like they wouldn't hold much but I was so surprised. Chloe didn't leak through at all, even over night! The brand we had been using at the time would leak through almost every night then I would have to clean her sheets and whatnot way more then necessary.  Logan had just as good results when he wore them, I liked how they fit bot Chloe and Logan. And stayed on good with Chloe moving around and on the go. I have nothing bad to say about the diapers at all. I do recommend you check the sizing though on the website when you order because when I ordered I ordered a size bigger than Chloe was...

Logan is now a little over 5 months old, so I have been thinking about when to start him on baby food. I remembered reading like a checklist of thing you baby is doing which might mean they are ready for solids when Chloe was a baby. So I googled it to see if I could find it. A checked a few websites, most of them said the same thing, here's what I found: • can sit up with support • can hold head up straight when sitting •  is a ble to turn head toward or away from food • seems to be interested in food when others are eating • opens mouth when offered a spoon • seems as though baby eats a lot more often/not satisfied with just liquids • tries to grab at utensils when someone else is eating  These seven things were just the main ones that I found on multiple websites that I checked out, these are mostly all true with Logan so I decided that I am going to try to start solids with him and see if he is interested. Chloe was about 5 and a half months of when she...

So I haven't posted anything in over a week, I been really busy with school and with the kids and just haven't gotten a second to sit down and type yet. This post is just going to be a little update on that's going on with me lately.  I can't believe it's almost already the middle of November! I'm so ready to start decorating for Christmas, just have to wait until after Remembrance Day which is tomorrow. The tree of course won't go up quite yet but I'm going dig out some decorations to put up, and I'll probably put the outside lights up on the weekend before it starts to get super cold out. I have lots of cut little ideas for Christmas that I can't wait to share but I'm going to hold off until the last week of November.  Another post that you can look forward to will be about Chloe's play corner, I'm going to turn a corner of our family room in to a little play corner for her to play with all her toys. I'm hoping that was her room...

1. Did you mean to get pregnant? (@jklundy93) No, not at all. Both of my babies were a complete surprise! 2. In your opinion which is better, C-section or Natural? (@me_enchanta15) By natural I assume you me vaginal delivery. I had a vaginal delivery with both my babies so I don't personally have a preference. I think it all depends on the person, everyone is different. 3. Do you add guys on your private Instagram account? Not really, I have a few on there but they are either dads or people that I know personally. 4. Do you have a Kik? Yes I do, my username is maddie_swimmer 5. Do you want anymore kids?  I definitely want more in the future, I'm not sure how many I'd like someday though. I don't want anymore for awhile though. 6. How did you get pregnant? I'll just explain with Logan so this isn't super long. I was on the birth control pill when I got pregnant with Logan, obviously I must have missed one or it just plain didn't work because I have Logan now ...

Happy November! It's November 1st, which means only 11 day until I can start doing Christmas things. I'm so ready to start now but of course I'm going to wait until after Remembrance Day. Last Christmas there was a lot going on in my family so we were kind of behind in the baking and decorating..and everything for that matter. So this year I really want to get things done a little sooner, that way I can relax and enjoy the holidays instead of everyone rushing last minute like we usually do.  It's around 10:00 pm right now and the clocks were put back an hour last night. So writing this right now I'm barely awake, it feels like it's 2 in the morning! I can barely keep my eyes open. I had a long day, which didn't help. I worked in the morning for a few hours, then when I got home I made chips and pumpkin pie tarts for my family's late thanksgiving. (I live in Canada) so out thanksgiving is in October instead of November like the United States. It just so h...