Bow Giveaway

I have an amazingly talented friend named Chantel that makes the most adorable bows!! She sent an email out last week asking if anyone would be willing to do a giveaway on their blog for her bows. And I thought why not?

The Darling Daughter is the name of her company. Check out the website. She makes awesome boutique looking bows, way cute fabric flowers, the cute knit hats (my gals LOVE these), cute headbands for little babies, and she has started making posh petals. These are a new twist on the flowers that you see everywhere. These are interchangeable! So you pick the colors you want and then you build your own flower to match the outfit your little one is wearing. How great is that? You reuse, rebuild, and create lots of different flowers. I LOVE this idea!

Posh Petals

Another great thing about Chantel is that she will custom make any of the bows to match your daughters outfit perfectly. She has made a lot of my gals bows to go with their Easter and Christmas dresses! If you aren't sold yet, the prices will sell you on these bows! I have seen similar bows to the ones she makes sell for double or more of what she charges!

BUY IT

Head on over to The Darling Daughter and buy your favorite bows. (You will have a hard time choosing.)

WIN IT

The Darling Daughter is giving away a $20 GIFT CERTIFICATE for hair accessories to one person from my blog!! That is awesome!

MANDATORY ENTRY

Visit The Darling Daughter website and tell me what your favorite bow is.

EXTRA ENTRIES (leave a seperate comment for each entry)

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4 Entries: Post about this giveaway and include a link back to my blog (please put the link to your post in your comment)

Giveaway closes December 12th at Midnight

Winner will be chosen using Random.org & announced the following day

(Open to U.S. Only)

GOOD LUCK!

(Remember to include your email in one of your posts or have it available on your profile so we can contact you of your win)

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Shutterfly Chirstmas Card Giveaway

I have been thinking about my Christmas cards for quite awhile now. I was excited a couple weeks ago when I was looking at one of my favorite hair ideas blog and she had a post about an AWESOME giveaway from Shutterfly. This giveaway is for bloggers you go here- and follow the instructions and can get 50 free Christmas cards!! Who doesn't love getting things for free and I usually end up spending quite a bit of money on my Christmas cards. Although I have never used Shutterfly I am excited about this website because there a lot of choices to choose from. It is going to be super hard to pick which one I am going to use for our Christmas card. They have other great products to- like calendars and cute invitations.

In the things I have been seeing lately, bright colors are really in for Christmas cards- I love this one.

I love browns and I thought the presents were so cute!

I love the folded styles they had!

Fun in the Leaves

A couple weeks ago, when it was still warm, the gals got the rake out and played in the leaves. I have so many fun memories of playing in the leaves. My parents have a big maple tree in their yard and we would get a lot of leaves from it and our neighbor Donna had an awesome leave tree. My sister and I and the Christiansen gals made some epic houses out of leaves. We would make walls and rooms and have so much fun. The gals had a ton of fun playing, raking, and jumping in the leaves.

A 6 Year Olds Declaration of Love

My little Brooklyn is so boy crazy- I don't know what I am going to do with her. This is her conversation with me on the way to dance.

Brooklyn: "Mom, I have a boyfriend and it isn't even Justin. His name is Peydon."
Me: "He isn't in your class, how do yo know him?"
Brooklyn: "We chase each other all the time at recess. He had another girlfriend before me and she broke up with him. I told him I am SOO not breaking up with him."
(Imagine her using a dramatic voice, head bob, and rolling her eyes and such)
"And mom this is not just a crush- I like like him. And when we pass each other in the hall I'm like 'Hi, boyfriend' and he's like 'Hi, girlfriend'"

Heaven help us!!

HaLLoWeeN

We had a great Halloween this year! We started our festivities on Tuesday when our Ward had a Trunk-or-Treat. Then on Saturday we went to Sean's parents for a little party, did some trick or treating in Wellsville, and then ended our night at my Aunt Paula's for the annual party. The gals decided on what they wanted to be this year. Gracie wanted to be Tinkerbell (and we already had the costume- score!) Brooklyn wanted to be Dorothy and my good friend had the cutest Dorothy costume she let us borrow. All I bought this year for costumes was Brooklyn's shoes- yay!! The gals looked so cute and are loving all the candy they got. Sean looked awesome in his mullet wig and I told the gals I was dressing up as a mom (I am a dud and don't love Halloween)!

Fall Happenings

I have been in somewhat of a blogging slump lately, so I have a lot to get caught up on.

Sean celebrated his 30th birthday. We had a little party at our house and then him and I went out. It was low key, but a nice birthday.

We have also reached a very happy milestone with Gracie. She is POTTYTRAINED!!! Most milestones kids reach are kinda bittersweet, but I can't think of anything sad about her getting pottytrained.

The gals played doctor one day. It was way cute!! They got all the gear out and Gracie was having a baby. She took it very seriously, as did Brooklyn being the doctor. These 2 are the best of friends and I am so glad. They play so well together (most of the time).

The Petersen men made their annual trek up to the mountains to try and secure food for the winter. The gals and I headed up one day after school. The gals were so excited to go on a horse ride. Brooklyn even got to ride her own horse. She was a little scared, but my uncle Ron led and they had a great time. They are still talking about the horsey ride.

We also went up to Stone to visit Sean grandparents. They are so good to us. The gals talked grandpa into taking them on a ride in the tractor and then in the Ranger. I was sad I failed (again) to get a picture of grandma. :(

Tonight we painted pumpkins for FHE. Brooklyn decided she wanted to paint them instead of carving and Sean and I were more than happy to go along with that. The clean-up is so much easier. We also made caramel apples- they were delicious!

This fall has been BEAUTIFUL!!! I love the fall and it seems like it never lasts long enough. I feel like it was perfect this year. It was warm and sunny and dry- until the past 2 days. And we have paid for it. Our window started leaking yesterday and we have a mess! The paint down the wall has bubbled and looks bad. Here's hoping for a perfect winter!

Merry Chirstmas Mom and Dad

For Christmas this year, my siblings and I decided to give my mom and dad family pictures. My sister-in-law Sher's sister Carrie took the pictures and she did a FANTASTIC job. We are so happy with how they turned out! Here are some of my favorites of about the 5000 that were taken.

Brooklyn had a picture that she just had to have done and it was on the loveseat in the back of Carrie and Derek's truck and she is absolutely thrilled with this picture