Friday, November 7, 2014

Five on Friday!

What a wonderful, wonderful week! So much goodness was squished into the past few days and it's going to continue through the weekend because we are on our way to celebrate 3 years of marriage in a little cozy cabin in the mountains!

So lets get down to it!
- ONE - To kick off the week I got all dolled up on Sunday for Christmas pictures by my sweet friend Lindsey Regan Thorne who is ridiculously talented at making people pretty. No seriously, I've lost more than half of my hair postpartum and my skin is borderline reptilian these days yet she worked her magic. Gosh, I love this girl and can't recommend her enough for beauty services!
Lindsey also happens to be the gorgeous and stylish mama behind one of my absolute favorite blogs ever, Be Pretty! Between her hair + makeup skills, trendy wardrobe styling, precious little boy Henry and her interior design talent, Lindsey's blog will have you scrolling through posts for hours. You can also find her on Instagram {here}!
 
- TWO - Our mini is 6 months old today!! I cannot believe it! More pictures to come from our photoshoot with Allison Kuhn Photography!
- THREE - I am really excited to make these Easy Cheesy Bacon Biscuit Pull Aparts this weekend! Calories don't count on vacation, right?
- FOUR - I missed my 3 seconds of fame yesterday. My insta-friend Hailey tagged me a screen shot of my pregnancy announcement photo on the news! And no, we weren't cool enough to have help from a rapper to announce our pregnancy. Apparently the story was Vanilla Ice helped a couple announce their pregnancy with "Ice Ice Baby" and then the news station ran a slideshow of other creative ways to announce a pregnancy afterwards.
 
- FIVE - A few weeks ago we were given a Merino Kids Baby Sleep Sack to review and it has quickly become one of our favorites. It arrived just as the temperatures started to drop and we needed a heavier sack for Caroline to sleep in at night. My favorite feature is the hidden zipper! The soft and cozy sack unzips from the bottom for quick diaper changes, opens flat for easy dressing and has the ability to be buckled into a car seat or stroller. Oh, and it's for ages 0-2 so she won't grow out of it as quickly as her other sleep sacks!
Wanna join Darci, April, Natasha and I on the Friday fun? You can link-up on any of our four blogs every Friday! All you have to do is...
1.) Write your post about five things you're lovin' this week (or any five things you want to share!).
2.) Share the logo on your blog and link back. 
3.) Link-up at the bottom of the post so some new readers can check out your five things and say hello!

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Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Sparkling Cider

I'm pretty sure this beverage is more festive than a Starbucks red cup right now. Combining apple cider, pumpkin spice, Honeycrisp apples and some sparkle, this is practically fall in a champagne flute. I promise you won't be able to have just one glass. And in case you're thinking this looks familiar you're not going crazy. I started with my Apple Cider Champagne recipe and threw in a few twists...
Sparkling Apple Cider

Ingredients
6 cups apple cider
2 cups cranberry-pomegranate juice {can also use orange juice}
1/2 cup lemon juice
1 bottle sparkling wine {or sparkling white grape juice}
2 tablespoons sugar
½ teaspoon ground pumpkin spice {or cinnamon}
1 large Honeycrisp apple, diced {optional}
Directions
In a large pitcher combine apple cider, cranberry-pomegranate juice and lemon juice. Slowly add sparkling white grape juice or sparkling wine. 
On a small plate, blend the sugar and pumpkin spice. Dip the rims of champagne glasses into water immediately into the sugar to coat. Add apple slices to glasses, slowly pour in your cocktail and serve immediately. 
Yields 11 cups (about 10 servings).
You're all invited to come drink sparkling cider with me. Seriously. 5 pm, my place?
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Monday, November 3, 2014

2014 Halloween

This Halloween was one for the books!
As soon as we got home from work we got Caroline dressed in her baby golfer outfit, packed up some beer and walked down to our neighborhood block party. We had so much fun with all of our friends and their cute kiddos.
Once it started to get dark we returned home and passed out candy to loads of trick-or-treaters. It was the perfect night and definitely our favorite Halloween yet!
Hope you all had a great Halloween!
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