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Taytons Baptism Pictures

August 15, 2018 By Finding your joy in the journey

My third son turned 8 this summer and in our church that means something pretty special. At the age of 8 you are considered to be at the age of accountability which means you can now be baptized a member of our church, The church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. For my kids we always do a photo shoot and take Baptism Pictures in their suits before they get baptized. It’s a pretty big thing and my kids and I love the time we get to spend together being silly and taking pictures. Tayton picked out his suit and shirt as well as his bow tie. I love his crazy personality.

You can read about my older 2 boys baptisms here and here and more about what it means for our faith.
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You are enough

You are enough

February 21, 2018 By Finding your joy in the journey

We had the Missionaries from our church over for dinner one night a few months ago and they read my kids a story called “You are Special” by Max Lucado. The story is about a town full of Wemmicks, little wooden people, who go around giving out stickers all day long. They give out Gold stars […]

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Christmas Home Tour 2017

Christmas Home Tour 2017

December 23, 2017 By Finding your joy in the journey

Welcome, Welcome!! Come right on in and join me for another home tour. I’m pretty sure I’ve told y’all 15 bajillion times that Christmas is my favorite holiday, so no need to tell you again right? The past 2 years have been a bit rough for our family for many reasons… one of those was reasons has […]

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Landons 12th Birthday Interview

Landons 12th Birthday Interview

August 10, 2018 By Finding your joy in the journey

One of my favorites things to do with my kids around their birthdays are our Birthday Interviews. As my kids get older I have to adapt the questions a little bit to fit more with the older kid personality. Favorite outfit suddenly goes from being a spaceman suit to a brand like Columbia, favorite story […]

2nd birthday Circus themed party

2nd birthday Circus themed party

April 30, 2018 By Finding your joy in the journey

My youngest, Fynnock, turned 2 in April.He loves animals and music and all things sweet so when I saw a picture of a circus themed party I knew right away that’s what I wanted to do for his birthday. I kept telling myself I wasn’t going to go overboard, but that didn’t really go as […]

Kawasaki’s Disease and Aowyn

Kawasaki’s Disease and Aowyn

February 22, 2018 By Finding your joy in the journey

This month Aowyns story of her infant battle with Kawasaki’s Disease was featured in Alabama Baby and Child magazine. I realized when I was contacted to share the story with them that I had never actually really shared her story on the blog before. I briefly had talked about it but hadn’t gone into great […]

The years tell us much that the days never knew

The years tell us much that the days never knew

February 3, 2018 By Finding your joy in the journey

It’s hard to believe that time flies by as fast as it does. People always told me “Don’t blink. It will be over before you know it.” That statement has always overwhelmed me. Being a mom is by the far the most rewarding and difficult thing I have ever done. Sometimes it feels like the […]

Disneyland’s Paint the Night Electrical Parade

Disneyland’s Paint the Night Electrical Parade

January 18, 2018 By Finding your joy in the journey

I love Disneyland, I mean I have said it plenty of times so I’m sure y’all already know this very well by now. I love the rides. I love the atmosphere. I love the shows. I love the parades. Disneyland’s Paint the Night Electrical Parade was definitely one of my favorites so far. And I recently […]

Barbie Birthday Party

Barbie Birthday Party

December 19, 2017 By Finding your joy in the journey

I say it all the time, but I really can not believe how fast my kids are growing. I can’t believe that my only girl is now 6. She is seriously the sweetest thing and makes me so happy to be her mom. She is bursting with love and always has a hug ready to […]

Aowyns 6th Birthday Interview

Aowyns 6th Birthday Interview

December 10, 2017 By Finding your joy in the journey

Interviewing my kids for their birthdays is one of my favorite things. I love to see how they grow and change. They never fail to crack me up. Most of the time I think I know what they are going to say and then they say something totally out of left field and I just […]

Fall Home Tour 2017

Fall Home Tour 2017

November 17, 2017 By Finding your joy in the journey

I’m going to start off right away with an apology. Life is so crazy right now between all 5 kids, the holidays, endless amounts of travel ball games, and All star soccer practices/games that sometimes the only time I have to take pictures is after the kids are in bed…. which is the reason for […]

Halloween Home Tour 2017

Halloween Home Tour 2017

November 3, 2017 By Finding your joy in the journey

It’s no secret that I love HALLOWEEN. Every year I try to make our house as spooky as I can. Some years I do a theme (whatever our Halloween party theme is) and some years I just got with it. This year our theme was Hocus Pocus and I decided that I wanted to have a […]

Its just a bunch of Hocus Pocus: Halloween Costumes 2017

Its just a bunch of Hocus Pocus: Halloween Costumes 2017

November 2, 2017 By Finding your joy in the journey

  If you have read any of my other “spooky” October posts you know our Halloween party theme was Hocus Pocus, our party invites were Hocus Pocus and our Halloween Home tour had a Hocus Pocus theme, so it’s obviously no surprise that we did Hocus Pocus Themed Halloween costumes this year. Of course every year we don’t do […]

Halloween Jeopardy

Halloween Jeopardy

October 30, 2017 By Finding your joy in the journey

We throw a Halloween party every year and its my most favorite party to throw. You can see our past invites here and here to see some of our themes and other Halloween ideas here. This year we decided we wanted to play Halloween Jeopardy and I searched the internet far and wide for ideas, but […]

Halloween mile marker signs

Halloween mile marker signs

October 20, 2017 By Finding your joy in the journey

For years I have been wanting to make some Halloween mile marker signs but something always stopped me from making them. One of those things was the fact that my handwriting is atrocious and I absolutely was not going to hand write the words on there. Another reason I had not yet made them was […]

Why Baby #5?

Why Baby #5?

October 12, 2017 By Finding your joy in the journey

When we were pregnant with our little man, baby #5, I would get lots of weird looks when we would go places with our big family…. which ironically to me doesn’t feel big at all, and lots of fun (and I use that word rhetorically) comments like “You know what causes that right?” (my fabulous husband […]

Its just a bunch of Hocus Pocus (Halloween Invites)

Its just a bunch of Hocus Pocus (Halloween Invites)

October 7, 2017 By Finding your joy in the journey

So I’ve told y’all about my AMAZING friend Maria over at Sweet Cotton Paperie before when she made us our amazing Haunted Mansion Halloween Party Invites last year. Seriously Maria has some mad talent and didn’t disappoint this year either. I’m pretty sure it’s not possible for her to make something I don’t love.   Our theme […]

Fireplace Makeover, bye bye 90s

Fireplace Makeover, bye bye 90s

September 29, 2017 By Finding your joy in the journey

When we bought our house 2 years ago one of my key items on our “Must Have” list was a fireplace. Its kind of crazy thing to want, in Southern, Humid, Alabama of all places, but I just love the look of a good fireplace and I feel like they totally transform a space. And […]

Get kids involved in General Conference

Get kids involved in General Conference

September 28, 2017 By Finding your joy in the journey

How to get kids involved in General Conference and help them get something out of it, is an incredibly important task for most church members. We want our kids to gain something from the wonderful experience but sometimes we struggle to know how. Hopefully our trial and errors over the past decade can help you and your […]

Braddocs 9th Birthday Interview

Braddocs 9th Birthday Interview

August 20, 2017 By Finding your joy in the journey

This boy!! What can I say about him? He is just too amazing for words. He has taken an Autism Diagnosis and rocked it. He is brave, kind, loving, strong, smart and never gives up (even when he really, really wants to.) He teaches me every single day what it means to push yourself past […]

BB Frosch Chalk Paint dresser makeover

BB Frosch Chalk Paint dresser makeover

August 20, 2017 By Finding your joy in the journey

I have had this dresser since I was a little kid. My mom wrote her name in it when she was little, I wrote my name in it when I was little and my oldest joined in the trend and carved his name into it. It had been around the block and back and was […]

Landons 11th Birthday Interview

Landons 11th Birthday Interview

August 13, 2017 By Finding your joy in the journey

I can’t believe my baby is 11 already!!! Where in the world did the time go? This kid is one of my most favorite people EVER. He is so kind, caring, selfless, responsible, hard working, has a strong love for God and his family, and always has my back. He makes me feel like a […]

Pink Hombre Hutch with BB Frosch

Pink Hombre Hutch with BB Frosch

July 15, 2017 By Finding your joy in the journey

When Noah and I were first married I received this hutch for free. It was a really nasty old orange piece but we were young and broke and it worked for what we needed it too. Fast forward a few years to when we had some money and could buy something new so I posted this piece […]

Taytons 7th Birthday Interview

Taytons 7th Birthday Interview

June 12, 2017 By Finding your joy in the journey

Its birthday interview time. Tayton is so hard to pull any kind of information from and usually puts up a fight with me to answer any questions. True to form this year he wasn’t too keen on me taking him away from his fun and his exciting life explorations but we did get some answers, […]

Fynnock’s 1st Birthday

Fynnock’s 1st Birthday

April 27, 2017 By Finding your joy in the journey

I can’t believe my baby boy is turning a year old! Seriously where does the time go? I feel like all of a sudden I blinked and he was no longer a tiny baby anymore. He has a mouth full of teeth, personality for days and is the little comedian in our family. He has […]

Disney World PhotoPass

Disney World PhotoPass

March 23, 2017 By Finding your joy in the journey

Christmas 2016 we took a big family trip to Disney World. It was a bit of a family reunion of sorts which was absolutely fantastic because we all live in separate parts of the country and I miss them dearly. I hadn’t even seen my sister, Dana, since my brother Micah got married years ago. […]

Little Mermaid Birthday Party

Little Mermaid Birthday Party

December 20, 2016 By Finding your joy in the journey

Aowyn LOVES The Little Mermaid and rotates between wanting me to sing her “Ariel Songs” and “Elsa Songs”, 2 years ago she had an Elsa party so it is only fitting that this year she chose a Little Mermaid Birthday Party. As soon as she decided on a Party theme I took to Pinterest and we can […]

Aowyns 5th Birthday Interview

Aowyns 5th Birthday Interview

December 11, 2016 By Finding your joy in the journey

It’s that time of year again and I’m not talking about Christmas. Its birthday interview time. Aowyn turned 5 on December 1st so we made some time to do her 5th birthday interview. She hates for me to stop her from playing to ask her to do anything so it was like I was pulling […]

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    “Give your child a compliment and a hug; say, ‘I love you’ more; always express your thanks. Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. Friends move away, children grow up, loved ones pass on. It’s so easy to take others for granted, until that day when they’re gone from our lives and we are left with feelings of ‘what if’ and ‘if only.’ … “Let us relish life as we live it, find joy in the journey and share our love with friends and family. One day, each of us will run out of tomorrows. Let us not put off what is most important.” - President Thomas S. Monson

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