This Tree!

I hyper colored this picture to give you my view point of this tree!

I am in. love. with. this. tree!

Can someone out there in the blog world tell me what kind of tree it is? I seriously want one for my yard.

Mother’s Day 2013

Did everyone have a wonderful Mother’s Day?

I believe every year with my girls gets better and better! Being a mom is so wonderful, but it seems as they get older it gets better. <3

We went to Whole Foods for a free coffee, flower, & mini pastries. It was lovely, and while we walked about, they had beautiful bouquets in Mason jars, & I had to have one! So I came home, pulled out one of my Mason jars, and started to walk the perimeter of my house. I feel like I came up with a good combo, don’t you? I wanted to put a yellow tiger lilly in there too, but held back. My husband came home later and brought me some white roses too. I love it!

Maya's Tribune

When I posted Alisa's first invitation, I felt I only give you a "teaser" view, so... here I am with "Maya's Tribune", Alisa's was called "Alisa's Times". The top image of this invite is the back and face of a "booklet". When I created Alisa's invitation 17 months prior, I said "never again!", but as all you moms know what you do for one of your children you would and do do for all :) I changed it up a little in the middle of the booklet. For Alisa's I did all her "firsts", for Maya's I did "a year", and did a little recap for each month. As for the table of contents and Maya's favorite things {my spin on Oprah's favorite things}, I did the same in Alisa's. So now you are asking about the lovely cartoon drawings to the left? That is my husband's page, complete with his hand drawings. He also did a page in the "Alisa's Times" booklet invite I made.

I have to say I am uber proud of how these booklets turned out, and I am hoping my children cherish them as they get older. They were both worth all the time and effort put into them!

Maya's First Birthday

For Maya's 1st birthday, we had an outdoor affair. Considering the weather

outside at the moment, I hope this post will be a refreshing reminder that

Spring is right around the corner... right?

Maya indulged in lots of friends & presents! Luckily, she had

her big sisters help to open all those gifts.

We went for an outdoor garden theme, but mainly it was

all about the "purple" once we found her cute dress. :)

Purple cupcakes were my highlight for the party. It was

my fun spin on "red velvet" cupcakes. They had silver bottoms, &

white icing so that it was a wonderful surprise to bite in and find Purple.

This is my husbands work! Isn't it so cute? We have the garden

theme best represented here. There is a fish, frog, bee, bunny, butterfly, &

even a mushroom. I love it! It was Maya's smash cake.

Overall it was a perfect day out, & a perfect 1st birthday for Maya :)

Wedding_boxes

When I mention wedding to my husband, his mind immediately goes to the week before the wedding. Thoughts of me running around like a chicken with my head cut off! My panic came to the for front when I realized that *maybe* I bit off too much with wanting to paint 100+ boxes, put ribbon on them and glue a monogram letter on it! What was I thinking? Lucky for me I got a very understanding husband, and a perfectionist just like me :)

My dear husband called this his *sweat-shoppe*....

I am glad we have this memory to laugh about now, and the awesome results on every table.

In the each box was my favorite candy and his favorite candy.

Mine was a Lindor Truffle & his is Raffaello.

Wedding _ Cake

So, of course I did not make my wedding cake myself...

but I did design it. I came across a picture of square cakes with the

corners cut off *just like mine* and viola! An image popped into my

mine of a cake with a monogram on the front, all off-white, just details

in design. No color just simplicity! Hope you think it is as gorgeous as I do.