Made with Love

I am so terrible at scheduling photo sessions. When I was pregnant with my first, I booked mine so late. I took my maternity photos probably 2 weeks before Lennon was due. This time, I literally booked this 2 days before the session. The photographer, whom was also our wedding photographer, was doing mini sessions at the almond blossoms. They came out so beautiful. I loved loved loved them. I am about 25 weeks, so I had my baby bump, and not swollen yet. As for my dress, I literally asked to borrow my junior bridesmaid dress and it BARELY fit! I tried to wear my sister's bridesmaid dress from my wedding but that definitely did not fit. I tried really hard to get all my makeup glam, I went all out like with lashes and baking powder, not like cooking baking powder but makeup baking powder LOL. Did you know about baking your under eyes? Yeah it is a thing and it is the best discovery made on youtube make up tutorials because anything to cover my bags! I honestly am so happy I made the...

Our Gender Reveal was so fun, we had never done one before. At first I couldn't decide if I should find out at the ultrasound or gender reveal. At my ultrasound, my sister and son were with me since my husband couldn't make it. I decided then it just didn't feel right to me if I knew and my husband didn't. It would be so hard to keep that from him. The Sonographer gave my sister the ultrasound with the gender and put it in an envelope ;) I'm so glad I waited to find out together. We invited our families and friends nearby. Parties are hard because we have such a big family and friends but we wanted to keep it small since our house is pretty tiny. I didn't have a set theme, we just threw it all together with our small budget. We decided on our reveal a while ago so after my ultrasound appointment, my sister ordered our reveal for us and kept our secret for about a week without telling anyone. I don't know how she did that but she did a great job. We didn'...

"Raise your hand if you dislike Monday mornings? After such a busy weekend, there is no time to recover. Monday morning was such an emotional one. Of course I press the snooze button too many times, its 7:30am and I have 15 minutes. Fifteen minutes to get my son dressed, myself dressed, breakfast for Lennon, making sure he actually eats it, find clean clothes for him and I, then its a race to drop him off. For the first time, since he was in preschool last year, he never cried or hugged on to me. When I dropped him off he just hugged onto me, not letting me go. His eyes started to tear up and his arms wrapped around my hips. I just said "Lennon what's wrong?" In that moment, I just felt this sadness. My little four year old that has been so happy and independent, still needs me. Eventually it took two teachers to take his hand to play. I just couldn't help but leave crying all the way to work, and I couldn't stop when I was at work. I sat at my desk and coul...

There's been so much sunshine lately that I wanted to take my son out else where than the park. I personally love hiking. It is hard to hike any strenuous trails with toddlers but there's a lake near by that had wide open trails for them . My best friend and I took our two little boys on a fun hiking adventure that was fun and safe for them.  First the boys were so excited they started booking it down the trail which scared us because I didn't want them to fall off the side. My son is pretty fearless. He just kept running.We tried to have him hold Mason's hand but that only lasted so long then they both started running! I brought my stroller so we switched off the kids in the stroller if one of them got tired. We hiked until we decided to stop by the water where the boys were throwing rocks into the water. Lennon wanted to grab the biggest rocks to throw into the water and Mason wanted to throw as many as he could all at once. It's these moments between these two ju...

When you have a day off, do you ever feel like there's not enough time in the day?!   I have this anxiety where I feel like we're not going to have a good day if we don't leave early in the morning, if there's not a plan, if we don't get everything prepared to leave on time, if it's too late in the day then we won't get to enjoy the day as much. With our schedules, there's only so many days where we have days off together. Sometimes I need to just let that go and let it be, I stress myself out thinking that way. I worry too much about having the day be perfect with my family that I am not actually enjoying the moment.   This weekend was filled with spontaneous moments with my loves and it was exactly what I needed to let that anxiety go. Friday, my sisters, Lennon and I spent that evening in Santa Cruz visiting a friend that lived down the street from the beach, and my son loves the beach. He said "beach, beach, beach" the whole way there. I ...