Baby L Gender Reveal

Three parties.

One week.

Yes, yes that did happen. 

Remember THIS post ? If not, just know that I LOVE throwing parties.

If you give me a reason to celebrate, I will give you a party. It's just that simple, folks.

Well it just so happened that we had THREE reasons to celebrate within one week, 

so party we must! Times three. It started with Bryan's Mom's surprise 50th (HERE),

and then my sweet Pampered Chef's mini Baby Shower and theeeennn, two other

girls and myself decided to host Kyle and Lyndsey's gender reveal party.

Lyndsey was my college roommate and one of my best girlfriends. 

A few months ago she shared the big news with me and

we immediately started talking about gender reveal options. 

Knowing that I had done reveal cakes in the past, she asked that I do the honors

for Baby Landmann. SO. EXCITED. 

SO... if you have ever seen a gender reveal cake done (or braved doing one yourself!) 

you know the drill, the unknowing parents go in for their gender ultrasound and 

one of the nurses will let you know BOY or GIRL.. or Pistols or Pearls in Baby L's case.

 Just plain ol Pink Lemonade for Momma!

Should anyone ever need a gift idea for me - THIS.

This beverage boat from Pottery Barn is everything. I need one.

 

 Lyndsey and her hostesses (tall and small)

It's a....

BOY! 

So excited to meet this sweet little boy in 4 short months! 

S'mores Dip

If you live in Florida, I won't need to tell you twice but,

Summer is here, folks! Temperatures creeping up to 100 degrees, 4th of July

RIGHT around the corner (weeeee!), kids out of school, everyone and their Mom

is taking a vacation, families going camping... wait, what?!

Yeah, no. You won't catch this girl camping in Florida mid-June. You crazy?!

I have actually always wondered why camping was categorized as a Summer activity.

I mean it. is. hot. Who wants to spend a night in a tent bundled up in a sleeping bag

on what is likely the World's most uncomfortable air mattress (if you have the luxury of an

air mattress that is), let alone partake in the latter activities when it's a hundred dang degrees out?!

No, I'm a Fall-campin-kinda gal. Bryan officially asked me to be his girlfriend one night

in November on a camping trip with a bunch of our friends so I guess I just tend to

associate camping with Fall... and being "asked to be a girlfriend."

Ohhhhhh, memories! 

Anyway, back on track here, the point is, people do it! 

People still brave the heat and load up the whole fam dam and head to the nearest campground

and plop their butts there for days at a time in their 10-person tent (another thing I don't understand..

because camping is much more enjoyable when you cram everyone in one tent right?).

The one thing I *DO* crave this time of year? S'mores.

I loooove S'mores. 

Fun Fact: National S'mores Day is August 10th!

#truestory

However! You don't need to find the nearest campground to enjoy this

Summer favorite... heck, you don't even need a campfire!

S'mores Dip

You Will Need:

Mini Marshmallows 

Chocolate Chips

Sweetened Condensed Milk

Graham Crackers for Dipping

Directions:

1. Combine chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk

2. Microwave on high for 2 minutes or until melted

3. Add mini marshmallows and pop in the oven {on broil!}

for 2 minutes. Make sure you keep an eye on how quickly

the marshmallows brown. Some ovens are quicker than others!

4. Allow to cool. 

5. Grab your graham crackers and dip em on in!

YUM.

Campground style S'mores, minus the sleeping bags. And 10-person tent.

Enjoy and happy {almost!} weekend!

Easter Weekend Recap

Ello Ello!

Hope everyone had a fabulous Easter weekend filled with tulips and chocolate covered Peeps

and bright colors and Easter egg hunts and honey glazed ham! 

Or was that just me? 

Spring is officially the cutest season ever and I was taking full advantage.

Here's a quick recap!

Saturday night was spent crafting Easter goodies (in a jar!) for my niece and nephew.

And okay mayybeee polishing off a bottle of Southern Red?

Sunday morning we awoke to this darling alarm to get our butts up

and start getting ready for Easter service.

Then THIS beauty of an Easter basket greeted me when I walked

into the kitchen to make a cup of coffee.

I have been obsesssingggg over the "Southern Darlin'" tees & koozies

they just started carrying at A Cut Above, a local boutique here in town.

I still can't believe Bryan even step foot in that store. Proud wife moment!

Find the "Trophy Wife" tee here!

...aannddd it didn't stop there.

I could not WAIT to give Bryan his man basket.

I would say a step up from last year's.

Just what every fishin' guy needs! 

(Seriously this was so much fun to make.)

Did you think we would forget about Jake?!

He wasted no time in pulling out the only thing he actually cared about- the duck.

Pay no mind to the sweet little biscuit that was tied with an Easter bow.

#priorities

Mom came over later that morning, we snapped an obligatory Easter photo

in our obnoxious outfits. Then, off to church we went.

After church we poured ourselves a glass of champs, stuck a Peep on it

and voila! You have yourself an Easter cocktail!

My parents and Bryan's family came over for Easter dinner and I

stuck to my usual job of setting the table.

I seriously love a good tablescape.

I swear I missed my calling as "professional table setter."

I had been Pinteresting (that's a word, right?) Easter tablescapes

all week and I was ready to set my linen napkins on fire during the process

of figuring out how to fold them into bunny ears.

Next year, bunny ear napkins, next year.

Claire is Three: Tinkerbell Pixie Party

My sweet little nugget niece turned THREE!
Okay, I'm a few weekends late per usual... 

My sister in law gave her options on what type of party she would like this year,

she was pretty adamant on Tinkerbell/Pixie/Fairy party (aren't they all the same thing?)

so Tinkerbell/Pixie/Fairy party is what she got!
#auntrinnydelivers

{ IDEA } Dress up plain ol' plastic silverware and paper napkins

by folding them up and tying them with a bow or twine!

That FACE :)

Click HERE for Claire's 2nd Birthday Party - Hello Kitty
Click HERE to read Claire's story

Healthy, happy girl :) Makes my heart so full.

DIY Easter Garland

Happy half way through the week PEEPS.

Yes. That was a tad cheesy... I can't help it.

But speaking of Easter!

Let me share this super quick DIY with you.

My SWEET, beautiful niece, Claire, celebrated her 3rd birthday this past weekend,
so after I share a recap on that I PROMISE I will be getting around to wedding festivities.
On an even more exciting note, we should have all of our photos back by the end of this week.
Contain your excitement.

Last weekend we started painting Bry's office which meant a trip to Lowe's.

Lowe's does NOT suck lately. Either I'm hitting the early stages of

growing-up-syndrome or I'm starting to lose it but I love a good Sunday trip to Lowe's.

A trip to Lowe's meant.. PAINT SAMPLES! 

When life hands you sample paint swatches, you start Pinteresting.

However, life did not hand these paint samples to me.
I went to each and every shade of color and grabbed handfuls and quickly shoved
them into my purse like a sketch ball. Bryan was in the process of having the paint mixed
and looked over at his klepto wife and said, "We are NOT painting anything in the house
that shade of yellow." The deer in headlights look must have been an instant giveaway to
the man helping him, "Ma'am, those are free. You're fine."
Caught. 

Anyhow, swallow your pride and go in and grab yourself some dang paint samples.
Apparently, yes, they are free.
I printed a template of an egg and traced and cut out each one.
You can either hole punch or hot glue them to your ribbon or twine
(I hot glued because my hole puncher was too big so they would be sliding everywhere).
Voila!
An ADORABLE, practically free Easter DIY!

Enjoy!