Valentine's Day (2/14/17)

As if I need another holiday to celebrate... I am so grateful for Valentine's day to get to show these tiny humans, and one big human, just how much I love them. 
This Valentine's Day was celebrated with Preschool parties, homemade Valentines, parties, crafts and one romantic dinner date to Sundance with the hubby (and newborn). 

I absolutely love this Hallmark holiday and it never gets old spending one day being extra mushy and lovey and all things hearts!

Pinners Conference Utah.

I think it's time for this mommy to have a few days to herself before baby #3 comes and what better way than to spend a few days at Pinners Conference Utah this weekend.

So... What is Pinners Conference and Expo?  Pinners Conference is two great events in one. It's a conference featuring 100 Pinterest-based classes taught by the best presenters in the nation. And it's also an expo with nearly 300 top businesses providing beautiful options in the worlds of DIY, crafts, cooking, self-improvement, photography, party planning, scrapbooking, holiday, beauty and fashion and all sorts of other great things! Guys, it's PINTEREST in real life! 

This year some of my favorite Pinteresters/Bloggers are speaking and teaching classes!  Heidi Swap, Ashley Reeves from AshleysFreshFix, Megan Moore from TheBeautySnoop, Natashia McLean from CanaryJane, Jordan Page from FunCheapOrFree and even my sweet friend from high school, Amelia Edwards of SutterSisters. 

I am so excited to get the chance to go and mingle with these fabulous ladies and so many others.  How great is it that the awesome team behind Pinners Conference has brought together all these amazing and talented ladies, speakers, bloggers, crafters and creaters to one place for us all to learn and shop from! 
Did you know that Pinners Conference isn't just in Salt Lake?  This year, Pinners Conference made its way through Texas, Arizona, Utah and Georgia.  Be sure to follow Pinners Conference and Expo on Facebook Instagram and Pinterest to stay up to date on next year's schedule, speakers and shops. If you're in Utah, be sure to put Pinners Conference down on your to do list this weekend. The even runs Friday November 4th from 10am-9pm and Saturday November 5th from 9am-6pm at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Downtown Salt Lake.
General Admission is $7 for Exhibits and Shopping and Class Passes can be purchased for $15-$29. Purchase your tickets here or get them at the door! 

Hope to see you there! 

Target Tuesday - Valentine's Day Addition

I am so excited for this months feature of Target Tuesday. Valentine's Day is this Sunday and I may have gone a little crazy at Target in preparation.  Valentine's Day is one of my favorite holidays because it's all about LOVE, and although being a wife and a mother gives me the opportunity to LOVE some pretty special human beings everyday, I absolutely LOVE getting to be super mushy and shower my little family with extra goodie LOVE on Valentine's Day. 

I scored HUGE in the Valentine's Day department.  I was able to find some adorable decorations, crafts, fun trinkets for the children Valentine's Day boxes and even some table settings for our annual Valentine's breakfast. 
I was in love with all of the cute gift bags, name tags, craft stickers and foam hearts we found and the kids made some adorable Valentine's to give to Dad.

I am totally <3 eyes over these cute red milk jugs and the perfect holiday straws.  How cute will these be for our Valentine's Day breakfast?

These felt heart banners were $1 each! 

I'm obsessed with these Valentine's Day card envelopes for the kids valentine's day cards.  These arrow pens will be so fun for them to sign their names with. Way to go Target.

Found these festive clothes pins. 

Perfect for hanging our Valentine's from friends, craft projects and Valentine's photos.

Target does such a great job every holiday and each season to introduce new products and they are always so charming and within any ones budget! 

Be sure to check back in soon for some more fabulous Target finds! 

Decembers Blog Fog.

I'm not entirely sure what has caused me to "slack off" in my blog posting as the year quickly comes to an end, but I finally decided this morning to come out of my BLOG FOG.

I'm not sure if it's the changing weather, the fact that I turned TWENTY FIVE, the holiday season, work, deciding if we should buy or build a home in the spring, or the ONE MILLION other things going on in my life that has distracted me from doing this one thing that I love. 

So here I am. 

Baby is sound asleep, he's been a little sick these last few days and I am watching him like a HAWK to make sure it doesn't turn into something worse.

I should be cleaning, shopping or most importantly PACKING but I NEED to just take these twenty minutes and blog... or I might actually go crazy.

Did you see the ADORABLE SURPRISE POST my cute husband wrote for my birthday? 

He really knows the way to my heart.

December has come and gone so quickly.

I made lots of fun Christmas Crafts.

We put up our Christmas tree, and took it down.

(Reason for the Craft Paper Tree)

We looked at Christmas lights.

It SNOWED.

Hunter started to sit on his own AND roll over from back to front.

We celebrated my TWENTY FIFTH birthday.

I can hardly believe that a quarter of my life has gone by.

Luckily, I have been blessed with so much in that incredible 25 years.

We had a little gathering with some friends the night before to celebrate my aging.

A delicious hot cocoa bar and some of the most delicious cookies ever.

It was so nice to be surrounded with some of the incredible people I have been blessed with to call friends.

Sorry I didn't get photos of any PEOPLE. So sad about it.

Hunter survived, (depends if he gets really sick or not) his first 

WHOLE THREE HOURS of church.

He kind of loved the kids.

Kevin made a delicious breakfast before church on my birthday and I got to open my presents. 

I was so spoiled.

Thanks to my awesome husband, parents, family and friends I got TONS of great gifts this year! 

Monday night we had the traditional Tucanos dinner. 

It was delicious.

Kevin has been working his butt of this whole month preparing to be gone for 9 days in Sacramento next week.

He works so hard for our family and I truly feel blessed every day for the time he spends making sure we have a good life.

Love you babe.

OK, this should hold me over for a day or two.

I am preparing you now though, I tend to take RECORD BREAKING NUMBER amounts of photos when I visit Sacramento, plus it will be Hunter's first Christmas and my sister said my parents have changed a bunch of things in their home to "update" it and I just know it will be an amazing trip home.

So, you have been warned. 

Prepare for Sacramento Photo Overload over the holiday week.

4 Day's until Christmas!