My First Giveaway:)

Happy Wednesday My Friends;) Today I am hosting my first giveaway:)
I will be giving away 2 of my favorite Williams-Sonoma Items:)


Glass Domed Cake Plate/ Punch Bowl






And your choice of one of the following Paring Knives:)



How to enter:)
* For 1 entry leave a comment on this post with your favorite kitchen item:)
* For 2 entries become a follower and let me know.. if you already are one... just let me know with your comment
* For 3 entries blog about my giveaway and send me the link to it:)

You have until Wednesday, April 7Th to Enter;)
I will announce the winner Friday, April 9Th!!

YAYA!! So FUN
HAPPY Day!
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Happy Anniversary Ryan

2 years ago today I married the love of my life!! Right now I was with my bestest friends and family getting ready for the best day of my life! I cannot believe how much has happened since we walked down that aisle two years ago!! I am truly blessed with the best life God could ever offer me!! I thank him every SINGLE day for blessing me with such an amazing, loving, thoughtful, caring, helpful, outgoing, patient, laid back husband and best friend!!



Some things about Ryan I LOVE:)

* Watching him be such a wonderful daddy to our daughter
* How he gets up every morning and feeds Cate her first bottle of the day
* How he surprises me with flowers when he gets home from work
* The way he plays with my hair at night before I fall asleep
* How hard he works everyday, so that I can stay at home and be with Cate
* How much he loves our daughter
* How he tells me a million times a day he loves me
* I love that him and Cate are twins!
* How he makes me laugh on a regular basis
* How helpful around the house he is... he is the best vacuumer and best toilet cleaner and he makes a great breakfast
* How he loves spending time with family
* He is always very positive and optimistic
* He always brings out the best in me
* He is my best friend
* I love listening to him and Cate during bath time! It is the cutest thing ever!!
* I love how he always makes the bed, when he is the last one out of it!
* He never complains if the house is a mess... as long as Cate and I are happy, so is he
* He tells me I am beautiful, even if I have no makeup on and spit up all over me:)
* He appreciates the little things in life
* I love him for who he is and how he makes me a better person just by being in my life!!!

Thanks for being the most amazing husband ever! I know I may not always show it, but I love you soo soo soo much! You and Cate are the lights of my life!!!
Have a great great great day!!







Post this week:)
Blog giveaway
Mexico Highlights
Cate's Seven Month Photo Shoot with me:)


Happy Monday:)
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Mexico:)

Hi Hi Hi:)

Thank you everyone for the kind words about my new blog design:) I LOVE it and I'm glad you guys do too:)

I was going to do my first giveaway tomorrow but I am going to wait until we get back from our trip to Playa Del Carmen:) Watch for my giveaway, I'll be giving away a Williams Sonoma Punch Bowl/Cake Stand and one of my favorite Williams Sonoma Knives:) YAYAYAYYA!!!

I will miss reading every one's blogs while we are away, but I will have limited cell phone coverage because it cost an arm and a leg to use your phone over there:)

Cate is all packed and ready to go:) She even has her own passport:) Pray she starts feeling better though.. we took her to the Dr this week and both of her ears are infected:( Poor girl!!

Don't worry about the dogs;) Ryan's parents will be staying with them!!! Ryan's mom even said she will have some food in our freezer for us when we get home:) How nice is that!!?? Sooo NICE:) Plus our neighborhood kids love daisy and have started coming over during the day to take her on walks, walk her around our pond, play in our backyard with her!! She is so spoiled! Today the doorbell rang and it was for Daisy, "Can Daisy, come play!!??" So cute!

Do you think Cate is ready for our trip?????






LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE:)

New Look:)

HI HI HI HI:)

How do you like my new blog look??
My bloggy friend Cystal did it for me!! She used to design blogs but recently quit and had told me before Caters was here that she wanted to do a new blog header for me, with Cate included!! Well, I finally got around to getting back to here! So sorry Crystal:) Thanks for being patient with me!! I'm n LOVE with my new design!! LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE it! I love opening up my web page and seeing my lil girl included in my header! The picture of her in my header is one of her new six month pictures! I will post a few of them once I get the CD from my amazing photog:)

Stop by Crystals blog and say hi:)



Thank you so much Crystal! I really love it! You really made my week!!

And here is a Wordless Wed pic for you:) My lil OSU cowgirl:)




Do you like my new blog design?! I sure hope so:)


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Six Month Photo Shoot in San Fran

HI HI HI
Happy Friday!!

While in Cali:) Cate turned 6 months! I really cannot believe she is already six months old! Time really does fly by! When I was pregnant with Cate, when people would tell me, "Enjoy every minute, it goes by so fast..." I would bawl!! It made me so so so so sad! I just couldn't imagine the months flying by so quickly! But gosh they really have!!!

Cate did so well on her first flight. She slept the whole way there and had one small crying spell on the first leg home, but we just fed her and she fell right to sleep! She is just the friendliest little girl, she loves staring at people!!ha!

Her are some Cater highlights:

* She loves our dogs! Daisy gets her cracking up all the time
* Bath time is one of her favorite times of day!
* Getting out of her bath, not so much a favorite
* She LOVES all kinds of baby food!! I mean she gobbles it down!!
* She HATES getting her face wiped off!
* I swear she said "MA MA" the other night and then Ryan heard her say it and she was straining her neck to look for me and find me and said it again! I think she said her first word:) She says it a lot and I hope she knows it is me!
* She is still a rolling machine and sometimes lays her head down and moves a tiny bit but not much!
* She still hasn't mastered sitting yet.. getting close but still falls from side to side
* She loves her best friend Fin!! They both just light up when they see eachother! It is the cutest thing in the world! Cate and I are very very blessed to have Allison and Finley in our lives!
* When we are on the couch at night she loves to have a hold of my hand and Ryans, or she likes to touch Ryans face and have a hold of my hand! She has to be touching us both!
* Cate LOVES her Auntie Sarah! Sarah can get Cate to smile bigger than I have ever seen her smile! Anytime I want to take good pictures of Cate, I call her:) Auntie is soo good to her!!
* Cate also, loves the time she gets to spend with her Gammie and Poppa(my parents) I spend a lot of my days with my mom, and that being said... I LOVE it and hope that someday Cate and her children will want to spent as much time with me, as I want to spend with my mom and dad!
* My dad LOVES feeding Cate, it is the cutest thing:)
* Cate recieved her first Valentine flowers:) Her Uncle Patrick gave her a pink rose:) I have the cutest pictures of the two of them together to post!
* We tried the sassy jumper today... she loved it for about 5 minutes and then hated it
* She still loves to swing... she is awake in the morning for about an hour and then gets fussy and wants to swing and be left alone
* As I said on Monday, my daughter is a bow puller outer:) She loves to pull her bows out and her bff fins:)
* Socks no longer stay on her feet, we pull those off too:)
* She loves pulling on Halley's fur and Daisy's fur! Daisy is much more understanding
* She loves other kids... she loves staring at large loud families and smiling and seems so interested.. like she is saying, "Mom and Dad, I want brothers and sisters!" Give us some time Cate and you will, God willing, have brothers and sisters:)
* She loves going to church and hearing herself echo!! Yep we have to sit in the cry room most masses bec someone has discovered her voice echos there


We love her so much and fall in love with her even more every single day! God truly blessed us when He put Catharine Isabella in our lives! I thank HIM every night for such an amazing, beautiful blessing!
We love you Cater Bug, CupCate, Caterpillar, Caters:)














Have a GREAT weekend my sweet sweet friends;)
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Bloggy Meet Up In Cali:)

HI HI HI

While in San Fran I was able to meet up with Meagan, her husband Garrett and their precious baby boy Rowan!!! We were supposed to meet up Bubba Gumps but my Aunt, Sister, Mom and I went to the wrong place, sat down, ordered drinks and then realized we were not at Bubba Gumps! LOL! Meagan was walking all around Bubba Gumps Looking for us:) Poor Girl:)

Meagan is the sweetest girl ever and he husband is super awesome too! Rowan and Cate were instant friends! They were both reaching for each other and when Cate woke up from her nap and we brought Rowan over... she lit up:) I soo soo soo wish Meagan and I lived so much closer( as I do many of my blog friends:( ) Meagan and Garrett are going to LA this summer and we are going to meet somewhere in between:)

We took lots of pics:) YAY:)










Love ya Meagan:) Had so much fun with you and your family!! Can't wait to do it again:)

Here is a cute pic of me and Caters:) love her



Happy Thursday:)
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Monday Randomness

HI HI HI:)
Happy Monday My Friends;) I am full of random pictures today:) yay!! ha! Next week I will be doing my first giveaway ever... so spread the word:)

I got to meet this little cutie last week and I am going back to see her tomorrow:) She is Leighton Marie and she is Cate's friend! Her mom and dad are Kaitlin and Stephen. Ryan and Stephen were both FIJIs and Leighton is the most darling little girl! She is so precious and we love her so so much! Welcome sweet sweet girl!





I busted this little white furry friend yesterday:) Seems to me she was trying to get into the trashcan!!




This is now what our living room looks like on most evenings! Like a daycare:) But I'm OK with that!!




Cate's new favorite thing to do is pull her bows out of her hair! I just take them and put them right back in! Every girl needs a bow in her hair!!




Tonight we had breakfast for dinner and mimosas:) Don't mind if I do:)




We always make fun of my dad for wearing his pants up high... he says he is high waisted!! So this is what he always does to Cate! She wants to be like her Poppa!




Today at Target I fell across Sour Patch Jelly Beans! I must say they are AMAZING! I also, order in Jan a Camera Strap Slipcover and it came today and I LOVE it too:)



Happy Monday my friends:)
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