When Life Gives You Lemons...

 

if you know me, you know that this is definitely my life moto & you can bet your bottom dollar that this fun print that i did in the gold foil is front and center in my living room. it only makes sense!  i have been shopping at lululemon for over five years now, the quality is amazing and the fit is not like anything else. if you love lululemon just as much as i do, you NEED this print for your home! and you can find it in my shop, here! enjoy!!!

eleven months of scotti!

yesterday marked miss scotti lou's eleventh month of life. i am so happy she is apart of our lives. we just love her. scotti and olive get along for the most part, scotti just adores her big sis and always wants to hug and kiss and be doing whatever olive is doing.

she has been baby jabbering SO much lately. and it's mostly mamama an occasional dada and wow when she sees something cool.

she is a horrible sleeper. see previous post. but they're only babies once right? snuggle them while it lasts. ha!

she is wearing mostly 18-24 month clothing, but she fits into olive's 2T's so sometimes miss olive shares. she is also in size 3 shoes and we just switched her into size 5 diapers.

she still eats like a champ!! we are in the process of weaning, so we only nurse 3x a day now. she loves- bread, strawberries, bananas, peas, avocado, broccoli, carots, spaghetti, soup, cheese casadillas, waffles, eggs, pizza. basically anything we put in front of her!

she runs around like she is queen of the land. and is my super quiet trouble maker! seriously though.

she is a perfect angel at the grocery store and sits quietly and patiently in the cart. target is our favorite place, of course.

scotti waves at everyone, even if she saw you two minutes ago. it is the most precious little wave i've ever seen. (besides olive's first wave:))

she also has started pointing at things and opens her mouth wide and goes "ohhh"

she has the most pathetic cry of all time and it makes me want to just cuddle her up forever!

we are getting really excited for her first birthday, and we are already planning her party. but at the same time, time can pause so we can enjoy this time we will never get back. the baby stage is and will always forever be my favorite stage.

happy eleven months baby girl! <3

Mom Venting....

ugh. i am feeling like i need to vent to myself here on our little internet space. i am one tired momma. no really though. i am feeling like i am on my last straw and i just don't know what to do at this point. as a mom i go through out the day just waiting for bed time, but in all reality, i hate night time. why? because waking up every 45 minutes to an hour all. night. long. for the past 6 months is freakin tiring. and it's just me too. olive is out cold (thankfully) and for the most part, so is dave. because scotti girl won't take a bottle for the life of me.

by the time olive hit a year old, i told myself that i would do things differently with future babies. olive never slept through the night until just before scotti was born. but she sleeps in our bed. :/ but she only woke up once, had bottle and went back to sleep until eight in the morning. high five olive. i started out doing things completely different with scotti. i breast fed her (and am still currently breast feeding) and by a month and a half she was in her crib in her own room. down the hall from us. it took about a week or two and i had her sleeping from 9:00 pm to about 6:00 am, nursed and went back to sleep for an hour or two. and that lasted until about 5 months. and then i let her get in this HORRIBLE habit of letting her nurse to pacify herself during her afternoon nap so that she would sleep longer. i got olive and scotti on the same afternoon nap schedule which is amazing! and for a while there i was napping with them. the longer scotti slept, the longer i slept. ;) and then that habit continued onto night time. i put up with it for a little bit and then things got cray cray. waking up every hour sometimes sooner. so it got to the point where she would just go to sleep in our bed and stay there the entire night. blah, blah, blah. don't judge me!

i have loved my experience breast feeding this time around, we have created such a special bond. she loves it and i love it. but i really wish i hadn't created such a bad habit with her. i'm sure i could continue nursing her even past her 12 month mark. but i am emotionally tired. and physically tired. she is an amazing, perfect little human. but here i am venting to my blog because i want to freaking punch someone if she won't sleep! i did a lot of reading and got a lot of advice from other mom's when i was going through sleepless nights with olive. and i've tried about a million things. dave and i are both people that do not do the whole, 'put them in the crib and let them cry it out' thing. actually, i strongly disagree with it. but we don't need to go there.  this week we have started the weaning process. slowly. i have cut back her feedings, so now instead of nursing every 2-3 hours a day, she is nursing only 3 times a day. (morning, afternoon, night) she has done amazing.  we do snacks and attempt whole milk. she loves eating so she has no problem with that. but this milk thing has been difficult. like i said before, she has never taken a bottle and has always been such a stinker when we've tried. so giving her something other than breast milk or water has been an adjustment. sigh. we'll get there. this is the week we, and when i say we, i mostly mean me are breaking that horrible habit of nursing to pacify. it lasted one night. or should i say half a night. right now, she is running around the living room playing because she won't sleep. and she has already had her night time feeding. so here we are. someone come do this for me please!! lol! i still love you scotti girl, but you are a horrible sleeper. goodnight.

Donut Party Inspiration

just getting some inspiration from pinterest for a birthday party that is coming up next month!! i put together this collage on a few great finds! how we are already planning Scotti girl's first birthday party? i do not know. i wanted to do something simple this year. like donuts. and then i started browsing and i might spend more time on the whole shebang then i originally planned on. check out my pinterest to see more!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

I can't believe that 2015 is over and we are already four days into two thousand and sixteen!! 2015 was great to us. we started off the new year welcoming our sweet Scotti Lou into our family, I celebrated my 24th birthday in the hospital cuddling and smelling a newborn. (heavenly!) dave turned the dirty thirty this year and olive turned two! we potty trained olive and went on a few family vacations!!

i am really excited for a new year and some new goals!!! it's so interesting how your goals change from one thing to another each year. for me, i am going to focus on family oriented goals. such as, being a more patient, loving and present mother. i want to spend less time on my phone or cleaning the house and more time being involved in my daughter's lives.  i want to be a better wife. period.  i have such a horrible memory, i can't remember anything. so really focusing on that this year. becoming smarter and gaining more knowledge.  maybe reading more?! one of my other goals this year is to write in a journal.  the last time i wrote in a journal was probably jr high. and i don't even know where it ended up.  it will be fun to look back on it when i'm older. and see my handwriting and what we were up to. and of course, losing the rest of this baby weight.  i have learned in the last 11 months of breast feeding that it really makes me hungry!!! LOL. exercising basically got put on the back burner. i only have 3 pounds until i hit my pre-pregnancy weight but lots of toning to do! wish me luck!

so here we are! a new year, and a new me!! i hope everyone had a wonderful 2015!! good luck with all your new years resolutions!!!

Star Valley Ranch 2015

oh my goodness, we just had the best time at Star Valley Ranch in Wyoming is past weekend.  my dad and deanna rented out a cabin on the golf course, three of her kids went as well as dave and i and joey and his family. we have never been in such cold weather before, but we had so much fun. definitely some much needed family fun time. we did lots of eating, playing in the snow, sledding and snow mobiling. There was also a hot tub that olive loved!! We can't wait to go back this year!

I kinda love this guy!! it was so nice to get away just the two of us for a little bit! and we had so much fun!

olive kept saying, "i need to go up the mountain" and up she went. all by herself!