February Favorites ♡

 

Some of our favorites from February...

In February we:

Created COUNTDOWNS for both Kenley's Birthday and Valentine's Day

Did a lot of Valentine's SHOPPING 

Got A LOT of new (& vintage) BOOKS

Had STARBUCK'S DATES

Celebrated Kenley's GOLDEN BIRTHDAY, turning ELEVEN on the eleventh

Went to a CARNIVAL

ATE a lot of COTTON CANDY (from the carnival and not from the carnival)

Celebrated Valentine's Day

Ordered a book from PARIS, Shakespeare & Co.

ATE a lot of CAKE

February is always one of my absolute favorite months... the month of LOVE, and also celebrating my mini's birthday! Every February I write out hearts for Kenley... things I love about her... I usually only start on the first and go until the fourteenth, but this year I did 28! I also started scripture hearts this year, but just 14... picked some of my favorite scriptures about love and wrote them on hearts, too, and shared them with Kenley. I loved this, and I think we'll continue doing it every year now.

Hope everyone had a lovely February!

♡

A

Birthday Love ♡

 

It's official, she's ELEVEN! ♡

At exactly 10:40, I lit her golden 11 candles and sang 'Happy Birthday' to her! Watched her make her birthday wish, and of course, saved the candles! This has been our little tradition that I started for her when she turned one, and although some years she has missed it, due to stupid school (ha), for most of her birthday's we've gotten to do it! Always a cupcake with candles and it must all be done at exactly 10:40, because that's the time she arrived into this world! This birthday was extra special this year though because it was her GOLDEN BIRTHDAY... she turned ELEVEN on the eleventh!

♡

80

 

Today would have been my Poppa's 80th Birthday!

His birthday is always a bittersweet day, but especially this one.

It's always sad with him no longer here, but I try to do fun things on his birthday... like things he liked or things that remind me of him. I usually let Kenley pick out candy... when us children (I had a lot of cousins growing up) were over, he'd always go to the store and come back with CANDY for us to pick from. So I let Kenley pick out her own candy and I always pick out Peanut M&M's for myself... two reasons why, one because he loved nuts any kind of nuts and two because his nickname for me was "Peanut"...  I've always been petite and so that's what he started calling me as a baby and it just stuck.

This year there was candy, but also champagne!

And I finally got to break in my Kate Spade champagne flutes!

His favorite color was blue, so we had blue icing cupcakes, complete with "80" candles for one! We did not light them though. We also made some biscuits... they were his absolute favorite things. I'm lucky because my Nanny taught me how she makes them, and even gave me her recipe for them, too!

We celebrated his life, and shed some tears, too.

Happy Heavenly Birthday, Poppa!

Love, Peanut

Top Nine

 

Tope Nine of 2020

BACK to SCHOOL

 

Kenley started SCHOOL, twice... 

we chose to do Virtual this year and due to COVID the school date got pushed back by a week (August 19th), and then the Virtual Program got pushed back by another week (August 24th)

Put together a little "Back to School" basket with goodies...

After her first day of school, we had to go pick up books from the school... 

So since we had to be out and about I decided to throw a little sweetness into the day, too!

Stopped by a little bakery and got her a cupcake to celebrate FIFTH Grade...

Daughter Day ♡

 

Happy DAUGHTER Day!

It's actually 'Sons and Daughters Day' today, 

but since I have no son... unless we count the cat, it's Daughter Day!

To my daughter... I am so grateful and thankful that God gave me you.

I always wanted a girl, and I still remember the day when I found out if you were a girl or a boy... I was so nervous. When the doctor told me what my heart already knew I was so happy. 

You are the daughter I always dreamt of having and you make my job of being your Momma so easy.  Not only are you a fun and funny girl, but you also have the kindest soul and the biggest heart, which makes you both beautiful on the outside and the inside. 

 I love creating memories with you and most of all I love being your Momma!

XoXo

 

Happy CAT Day!

                                                   

                                                          Happy International CAT Day, Jovi!

                  

                                                                                   ♡

 

Friday Night MOVIE Night ♡

 

{Friday Favorites} ♡

 

AUGUST ♡

 I cannot believe it's already AUGUST! 

Summer is going by too fast and needs to slow down. We are not ready to go back to school. We want more summer, especially since this one has been robbed due to COVID and everything has been very limited or completely shut down. Ugh!

Made my favorites from July (pictures) and also decided to make a 'Photo A Day' challenge, too. Let's see if I can actually complete this one... pretty sure I've never completed any of these things, ever. 

XoXo

{Friday Night MOVIE Night} ♡

 

For tonight's FNMN, we picked a classic...

TROOP BEVERLY HILLS!

This wasn't our first time watching this, and we actually own the DVD too, but we hadn't watched it in a while and when we saw it was coming on we had to. Movies from the 80's were just so much better.

July Favorites ♡

 

Friday Favorites ♡

 

11 years today, I lost someone very special.

Every year on this day I try to celebrate HIM and his life.

This morning I put on my Van Halen vinyl and listened to his absolute favorite song, and remembered the day when he was so very ecstatic to teach me all about VH, and to really appreciate the music.

We both shared a love for music and lyrics... and oh how I miss those days and nights of just listening to music with him and dissecting lyrics.  To us there was no better way to spend a Saturday night than with wine and listening to music. We would listen to everything from Sinatra to Starship.

I think he's the reason why my music variety is so wide. We listened to it all.

When I had to get ready to go and do a few things out, I chose my VH tee...

There's always pieces of you in everything I do, 

and reminders in my every day life that make me think of you!

 ♡ 

Had a fun Friday Night MOVIE Night, and then on Saturday morning did a Starbucks run...

a perfect weekend was had!

Friday Night MOVIE Night

Happy Birthday, America!

This Fourth was definitely different (due to COVID and everything being canceled),

 but the love and excitement was still there from us regardless.

No matter what, we will always celebrate this great country and be thankful on her birthday.

Started the day off with surprising Kenley with a basket of Fourth goodies...

Then we got dressed in our Red, White, and Blue and went to the Coast to celebrate with family.

Ate cupcakes, specifically to wear the cute American-flag heart-shaped rings BEFORE going to our dinner reservation... because hey, it's America's Birthday and we can eat dessert first! :)

And then, we chose tattoos to wear. We were definitely the most Patriotic at dinner, for sure!

After dinner we stopped to get ice cream and drove around the beach town, 

couldn't drive on the beach since the weather wasn't the best. 

Then we went and watched fireworks in the neighborhood, from the neighbors, 

which I have to say was a pretty spectacular show for it not being professionally done. 

Also did sparklers, or well, Kenley and I watched as family did them because we LOVE them, but we just don't like doing them ourselves because they scare us... yet are so pretty.

It was still a fun-filled day celebrating our beloved country, just a bit different this year.

{July Favorites}

♡

Started the day by going and getting COFFEE, 

my Mom was with us for the day so grabbed her one too!

Ended up getting my drink wrong, but I went with it anyways... maybe Starbucks just knows better. 

Came back home enjoyed the caffeine and opened my presents from Kenley...

I already knew about the one, because well uh, I ordered it for myself from her :)

Kate Spade was having an amazing sale and it was something I've had my eye on for a while, and with Mother's Day coming up I went for it... when it arrived I showed Kenley what she had gotten me... ha! She loved it, too. She also made a sweet card for me as well as a little book with pictures of her and I... and that's the stuff I really really cherish the MOST!

Had a few hours to just relax before we had to get ready to go and be taken out to dinner.

So we got dressed and headed to the coast.

Had dinner at a cute place by the water... we kept our eyes out for dolphins, but never saw any.

I had the BEST lobster mac & cheese of my life... seriously I think I'll have dreams of it.

After dinner we drove around to see some of the beach town... even drove on the beach.

Then we went and got ICE CREAM! I had a flashback of when I was a little girl and my grandfather took us to an exact place... the old fashioned shaped-like an ice cream. I haven't seen one, let alone been to one in so long, but it was a sweet memory that I got to relive and remember him by.

I had the brilliant idea to take our ice cream to go and enjoy on the beach, it was a windy day so we opted to just park on the beach and enjoy it with the windows down, so there was no sand included.

It was a nice, relaxing, and sweet day!

XoX