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Tuesday, May 23, 2017

The One Where Brynn Loves the Spotlight

The month of May has been a circus in the Garner house...3 birthdays, end of school activities, ballet recital, deciding to put our house on the market, a wedding & the general chaos of life has me ready for a few slow afternoons of binging Madam Secretary! {I've got a whole season to watch and a lofty goal of taking that out this weekend, please cheer me on! ;)}

Brynn started going to dance class in March.  A local program comes to our school & she goes to dance one afternoon a week after school.  It has be so great for her! It's a really low key dance class so the recital was low key & short...hooray! {We had Jack's birthday party that afternoon so we had things to do!}




They danced to "Can't Stop the Feeling" while wearing Troll headbands! 

Also, our sweet little performer kept making her way to the front row when she was supposed to be on the back.  The teacher in me kept telling her to move back to her spot, the momma in me thought it was adorable!






She got flowers after & I don't think she's ever been happier.  She also had a giant crowd of supporters & we are so grateful for all our local family that is a part of their everyday.  We sure miss our far away family, especially on days like this!





When we got in the car with was the conversation...

Brynn: Momma, I loved being on that stage.
Me: You did so well, baby girl!
Brynn: Thanks, I couldn't have done it without you. 
;)


Come back tomorrow for Jack's party recap!



Wednesday, December 28, 2016

The One With Family Pictures {2017}

Fall family photos are pretty special to me.  I know I get tons of snaps of my kids daily, but capturing these moments while they are young & of us as a family is joy to my heart! 

Monica Higgins at Shine A Little is just incredible!  There is no one else I'd trust with our family photos.  She is professional & patient with my kids.  This is the first session that hasn't involved a crying or grumpy Brynn. Instead we got crazy town & goofy face Brynn.  But, like she always does, Monica got the sweetest images of my family.  If you come to our house it's her work covering our walls! We love you, Monica!


























Friday, November 18, 2016

The One With The Ornaments

Good morning & Happy Gilmore Girls Day! This morning I'm taking Jack {back} to the doctor in hopes of some better answers to why he's been so yucky the past 10 days. We would love any prayers on his behalf.  But you better believe that as soon as they are asleep tonight I'll be making popcorn, wearing my Gilmore Girls shirt & watching until I can't hold my eyes open! Yay!  


One of my favorite parts of decorating for Christmas is pulling out all the sentimental ornaments I've collected over the years.  I thought I'd share a few!

Family photo ornament.  
2013. 


This year!




Brynn's first Christmas
2013



The current state of Brynn's ornament from last year. She sat on poor Mary! 
2015  

This is the ornament Brynn picked out this year. So sweet just like her!



These 2 Santa ornaments were given to me by my MeMa. They are so special to me!
   

I think these are from 2014, the year Brynn was obsessed with Minnie!


I bought these for everyone in the family the year that the Rangers were in the world series.  I'll also remember this as the Christmas I found out I was pregnant with Brynn. 
2012



I bought both of these last year because we thought we would know the baby's gender before Christmas and I wanted to include these in the reveal.  Well, it was January before we found out and these were too cute to return! So I wrote the kids birthdays on the back & now they are birthday ornaments! 


I picked up these adorable gingerbread ornaments for the kids this year. 

I try to always buy an ornament from anywhere we travel as a souvenir. 
 

Family trip to Ruidoso
2014 (I think?)


San Antonio {I found this in Gruene.  It's my favorite!}
2014


Honeymoon in Florida
2009


Breckenridge
2012

Do you have any special ornament traditions? I'd love to see your favorites! Post them in the comments here or on the feed. 

Happy Decorating!