you are.

you are my sunshine

 my only sunshine

 you make me happy

when skies are grey

 you'll never know dear

 how much i love you

 please don't take my sunshine away.

i love you girl.

bug's first christmas!

i do believe that junie girls first christmas was a complete success.

we spent our christmas at papa and tootie's and it was the sweetest thing for this mama to share all off my childhood christmas traditions with my little girl.

traditions are a huge deal in our family.

it certainly was a very sweet and blessed first christmas.

i'll let the pictures speak for themselves.

hope your christmas was so very and bright!

christmas home tour.

i loved these home tours and hoped to get you inside our christmas home before christmas came and went so oh well.

i took pictures of our christmas house last year and it turned out so helpful this year when my baby brain forgot how things were set about to make our sweet abode so festive.

so welcome. . . a week late!

 this was by far my favorite christmas decoration. . . i loved displaying all of our friends and families christmas greetings.  i've got to hit the after christmas sales to get more 'placecard holders' for next year.

we totally ran out this year.

 our laundry room with a little christmas touch.

 june's sweet snowwomen and her glitter trees.

love!

 guest bedroom.

 these two pictures are from our kitchen.

just a little festive fun for cooking!

the bug's first christmas ornaments. . .

 from the etters.

 from aunt sylvia.

 and from tootie.

 these hung from every doorknob.

so there you go.

i already can't wait to put all of this fun back out next year!

 

happy birthday to me!

we celebrated my birthday weeks ago but i am just now getting to post about it's perfectness.

i realized this year that birthdays with babies are even better, my little angel girl was the best birthday present ever.

and these, this, this and this were very nice too. 

my fab mil and sil got me gift cards to here and here. . . they know me so well.

:)

my parents and christopher came in to celebrate with us and treated us to dinner at bucca di beppo.

oh my goodness that place is so yummy!

we all had to be rolled out of there.

of course my mom made my favorite funfetti cake. . . and look at sweet june helping me blow out the candles.

she's so advanced.

it was a great birthday!

i felt so loved and treasured by so many people.

thank you for all of your phone calls, texts and sweet wall posts.

it's been a year for the books!

here comes santa!

we took june to see santa and i feel certain that she is going to get all that she asked for!

we had planned to go at lunch like three days in a row and then finally gave up on that idea and went tuesday night.  we were prepared to stand in a good line but were so pleasantly surprised to walk right up and only had to wait on one other family.

it was great. . . i think i was more excited about not having to wait in line than i was about santa.

:)

 santa cracked us up because he curled right up with our little june and started 'reading' her a book.

her daddy about came unglued when santa patted june's hair, it was hysterical to watch andy.

sweet protective daddy.

 andy also wanted her in the bath asap when we got home. . . he called santa a petri dish of germs.

 this little picture cracks me up.

so gangsta.

 june did great sitting with a stranger but i would be willing to bet next year will be a different story.

we will see you christmas eve santa!

i just had to throw these in. . . too cute.

i hear a little baby calling my name.

xoxo.

christmas cheer!

i absolutely love christmas time.

love it all.

i truly believe it's the most wonderful time of the year.

it's even more wonderful this year with another little stocking hung by the chimney with care.

cannot wait to stuff that stocking for our sweet santa baby!

 speaking of our sweet santa baby. . . look at her cheeks.

i nibble on them all day.

 is there anything better than christmas cards with pictures?

i know there's not.

 ive been wanting to dress june in something festive but have had a hard time finding something not too terribly cheesy in her teeny size.

so i pulled out the craft wand and whipped these little onesies up last night.

i think they'll do!

rockin' her rudolph, just too cute!

and we're off to do some christmas shopping.

happy tuesday!

introducing.

well i think the mailman has had plenty of time to deliver this little sweetie to you so i just had to show everyone else how much we love our little girl and how much we love sharon albright. 

i had big dreams of having these out much sooner but now consider the fact that they are in your hands or mailboxes at all a huge accomplishment.

i think the total count was a 100+. . . in my head i imagined that i would sit with a cup of hot chocolate, my favorite sharpie fine point and a sleeping baby in the other room and whip these puppies out in an hour max.

no such thing happaned, i think it took me close to three weeks to get my act together.

so goes the life of a mother.

sure love this life!

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if you need any type of custom card you have to use sharon at redbud designs.

she was an angel. . . so sweet, so patient, so accomodating and so timely.  she has two of the cutest little girls, merit and august.  we are hoping that our little month babies will be buds at acu someday, just so fun!

go check her out, i know you'll love her as much as i do!