Five on Friday + A Giveaway

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I'm so excited because we had such a fun time at our #BasicFallParty that we decided to do a #BasicChristmasParty!! This time, we will be getting hot chocolate, driving around to see the local park Christmas light display, decorating sugar cookies and playing Christmas themed games!

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Along the lines of a Christmas party, our newlywed group is having an ugly Christmas sweater party! I'm going to sound like such a loser but I've never gotten to go to an ugly Christmas sweater party and can't wait! I'm on the hunt for the perfect outfit now ;)

                   Sweater                                               Sweater Dress 

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I saw this hysterical Taylor Swift parody about Joanna Gaines and had to share it!

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We are extra excited because we get to babysit our niece overnight for the first time :) Stephen and I are pretty pumped and have some fun things planned - let's hope on Monday I'll be telling y'all it was smooth sailing ;)

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I am so excited to share with y'all a super fun giveaway! I have teamed up with CaseApp for another fun collaboration and this time, instead of doing a custom phone case, I picked cases they already had designed. I've been dying to get a palm print phone case and they literally had the perfect palm print! I was so excited when I saw it - I love the way it looks on my phone and I've already gotten tons of compliments on it.

I also tried a new case this year with getting the extra tough case in the super adorable and trendy marble print. I was very impressed with how this case turned out - beyond the marble being absolutely gorgeous, the tough case didn't add bulk or weight at all which always worries me when you go for extra protection in a phone case.

With CaseApp, you can design your own phone case or chose from hundreds of already designed phone cases or laptop skins. I was so impressed with the pre-made designs and the quality of the two cases I received that I might stick with the adorable pre-made designs from here on out. CaseApp has graciously agreed to give away a custom phone case to one of my readers - be sure to enter below, the giveaway will run until Thursday 11/16 and the winner will be announced next Friday.

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Ultimate 2017 Christmas Gift Guide: Kids

I'm joining Brittany and Owen today for the beginning of their 2017 Christmas gift guide! Today, we're covering gifts for kids and while I don't have any children of my own, hopefully this guide will at least give you some ideas :)

1. Bath Time Doll Set: Our niece is 2 and is obsessed with baby dolls right now. Someone got her a small baby doll bath set for her birthday this weekend and she loves playing with it!

2. Nerf Guns: These are definitely for the older kids but Stephen and I have these and they're so much fun! We love running around the house shooting each other with these (we are children lol)

3. LEGO Chain Reaction Kit: I saw this and thought it was the coolest thing! Chain reactions seem to be a big rage on the internet right now so why not use this to encourage your child's imagination - especially if they seem to be little engineers. I would've loved this gift as a kid!

4. Baby Doll Stroller: We got this for our niece's birthday and she loved it! Right away, she had her little babies in it and has taken them on walks

5. Foam Bath Letters: We had these as a kid and loved them. They're the perfect stocking stuffers and you can make learning letters and numbers into a fun bath time game

Weekending

We had the best weekend and let me just say, thank goodness we got that extra hour on Sunday ;)

Friday, some of our friends came over after work for a make-your-own pizza, make-your-own ice cream sundae and game night! We had such a fun time that they ended up staying till 1 am.

Saturday was so much fun! The whole family got together at Disney to celebrate our niece's 2nd birthday with a character breakfast. We loved watching Siena see the characters - even if she hated Goofy and got the biggest kick watching her tear into her gifts!

After Disney, the girls headed to the outlets while Siena took a nap then we went to see the new house my BIL & SIL are building and head to dinner at Red Robin. It was such a fun day but we were definitely ready to go to sleep. 

Sunday, we went to church where my friend, Logan, and I wore the exact same dress lol Naturally, we had to get a picture. After church, we had a nice, relaxing day and I got a lot of embroidery done.

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! Linking up with Biana

Five on Friday

We've officially made it to our first weekend in November and I gotta say, I am quite looking forward to this month! We have so many fun things planned and this weekend we're kicking it off with my niece's 2nd birthday party tomorrow! I honestly can't believe she's already 2 and we can't wait to celebrate with her at a character breakfast at Disney :)

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Stephen and I are hosting Thanksgiving this year so I wanted to have little pumpkins as the place cards on the table. I ran back to the local pumpkin patch after work on Tuesday and loaded up on pumpkins since they were all on super sale - all of this for $6! Now the tricky part is trying to keep them until Thanksgiving so I need all of your tips! I've already soaked them in bleach/water and put them in the fridge but please send any tips my way :)

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Also on Tuesday (Tuesday was filled with all sorts of activities), I got to meet one of my co-workers new baby girl! I loved getting to meet her and her mom was so sweet - she had Olivia in one of the onsies I made her :) 

This gets me all sorts of excited to meet our sweet nephew in 1 month!

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For Halloween, we kept things pretty low key. We didn't get out there and settled until a little bit later because I ran to the pumpkin patch, monogrammed a jacket real quick, made dinner and then a friend came to pick up the jacket. We enjoyed seeing all of the kids and their cute costumes and if you saw on Instagram stories, the fire truck came through with candy and some spooky tunes - that was so cool! Shockingly, there wasn't too many people this year... the whole Halloween on a weekday thing kid of kills the mood since our neighborhood seems to go wild when it's on a weekend.

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I had to share this photo of my friend's sweet baby in an outfit I monogrammed for his newborn pictures - so crazy how quickly babies grow because he was so tiny in this when he came home :)

Also, I can't handle how adorable the rolls are - I could eat him right up!

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I have officially caved and am listening to Christmas music... I just love this Pandora station so much and basically, 1 month isn't enough ;)

I hope everyone has a great weekend!!

Paint Night & Embroidery

Today I wanted to share some pictures from our girls night a few weeks ago as well as some recent embroidery projects I've done - just a random post of crafting and fun ;)

A few weeks ago, I got together with some girlfriends to do a painting night at Painting with a Twist. I love the picture that we got to paint and it's currently hanging in one of our hallways :) We had such a fun time and I'm so glad we got to break up the week with a girls night!

Dress

I've also been super busy with my embroidery company and thought I'd share a few recent things I've worked on. Next on my list is a bridal party robe order, a couple of pineapple hats and some sweet baby items for my nephew who's on the way! I also need to start thinking about Christmas items to offer - let me know if there's anything you'd like to see or think I should look into!!

Linking up with Jessi

Weekending

Really, this blog post should be titled "the weekend we binged watched Stranger Things 2". Thankfully, this was our first and last weekend for a while that we didn't have anything big planned which just so happened to be the same weekend Stranger Things 2 came out... and I'm not even going to pretend that we didn't start it Saturday and finished it Sunday after church. I do have to say, it was really good! Stephen and I were both so into it and think it was probably better than season 1 (although I don't remember too much from Season 1).

Outside of our TV watching, we had a fun little date night on Friday night. We hit up the mall for a bunch of things we needed to get - y'all it got real crazy when Stephen suggested we get another PSL on our way into Target ;) So we did what anyone else would do when you get a PSL and it's cool outside, we took some pictures lol! We spent the rest of the night shopping and finished it up with dinner at Longhorn.

Saturday morning, I woke up super early and headed over to Orlando for the breast cancer 5k with some of my co-workers. It was fun and I'm glad we were able to get in some exercise early in the morning. The rest of the day we watched Stranger Things 2, I embroidered a ton and then watched more episodes before going to bed. 

Sunday, we went to church, ran a few more small errands, finished up Stranger Things 2 and finished up another embroidery order. Overall, it was a really nice and relaxing weekend!! We are officially booked through the month of November so it's going to be a really busy, but fun month! Linking up with Biana.