Holidays ~ Archives With Southern Love

Almost Christmas

December 20, 2016 by Katrina Leave a Comment

It is almost Christmas! We are in full swing Christmas prep over here making snacks, food and wrapping gifts. Whitney is in full swing unwrapping gifts too. If you get a gift from us and it looks like the paper has been taped back together, it probably has!

Monday the kids and I hung around the house waiting for someone to come and fix our heat. It decided to only work sporadically.

I served the girls breakfast in our bed where it was warm and toasty. They had a little iPad time while they ate, I folded laundry and this handsome fella crawled around the room.

Lucky for us the man who was coming to repair our heat made it over here pretty early so the kids had a “second breakfast” at the table while he was crawling around our attic.

It was a quick and easy fix and he was here and gone pretty quickly. We have been warm and cozy ever since! We played a little more…

I was watching the girls and thought how they were so cute snuggling up together

Until Libby dumped Whitney out of the chair

Where’s Emry

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My mother-in-law sent the girls these solar powered Christmas decorations and Libby loves watching them move in the sunlight.

Lee’s mom also made these cute pillow cases for the girls to add a little Christmas to their room. I love how they match the colors in their room perfectly!

As I was cleaning up lunch I realized that Cinderella was watching me

Lee came home and brought a pizza for dinner. We ate, played some more and the kids went to bed kind of early. I made homemade Chex mix to go with our cornflake candy. We are stocking up on all the holiday snacks!

For a Monday, it was a really good day!

Mother’s Day Weekend

May 9, 2016 by Katrina Leave a Comment

Happy belated Mother’s Day to all you momma’s out there! Mother’s Day weekend is bittersweet for me. I love getting crafts from Libby at preschool and being loved on a little extra by my family. It is also hard celebrating not having my momma. I know how great of a mom she was to me and I can only imagine how much she would love her grandbabies. We kept her on our hearts all weekend and celebrated with her in mind.

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Libby filled this out at school and brought home as part of a book for me. I am 5 years old and my jobs are feeding Emry and washing dishes. Haha!! I love it! #sheforgotlaundry

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Friday Libby and Emry had ophthalmologist appointments. To be honest, I always dread these appointments. Libby hates to have her eyes dilated and the appointments usually last so long that she gets silly by the end which makes it hard to get a good screening.

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This was after an hour of waiting in the waiting room. I packed a lot of snacks, so we had a little snack time while we waited. I have to say the kids did great! Emry slept most of the time and never cried. Whitney was entertained just walking around and looking at the fish tank. Libby did so great on her screening! My heart could just burst at how proud I was of her bravery. Overall it was a great experience and we are very pleased with our new ophthalmologist here in Tennessee.

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Have y’all tried Shipt yet? We have been using their services for a few weeks and had a delivery scheduled for 8am Saturday morning. Well Mackenize, our Shipt shopper, brought me a Mother’s Day card! How sweet was that?

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I was nursing Emry before we headed out and Libby came in to show me her stripes she had drawn on herself. She decided to be a tiger and needed stripes.

I swapped a pair of shoes at Nordstrom, window shopped at Tory Burch and looked at Apple watches…because a girl can dream! Then these cuties and I had lunch.

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Up next for our fun filled Saturday, the park. The girls played their hearts out and Emry slept his heart out.

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I am loving this sign I picked up from a little local store. Lee was sitting in the car while the kids slept and I ran in and looked around. I texted him this picture and he texted back “that’s your motto!”. The sign came home with me, it was meant to be!

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I love our church! Yesterday they loved on all of us mommas a little extra. We took a picture after church, they had a stand with pastries, tea and lemonade set up, and an area where our kiddos could plant a flower for their mommas in pots they decorated in their classes.

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Lee and the kids gifted me this sweet bracelet. I love it and will wear it daily.

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We spent the rest of the day relaxing at home enjoying family time. It was a great weekend!

Jumping into the New Year

January 5, 2016 by Katrina Leave a Comment

I don’t know how you celebrated New Year’s Eve, friends, but we partied hard! Yeah right!!

Lee got to work from home on New Year’s Eve and we spent the day hanging around playing with the girls and made a quick trip to Whole Foods. I love going to Whole Foods but it is always so crowded I end up not being able to browse and shop the way I’d like. I feel like I’m going to get run over if I stop to look around.

After we got home from our little outing I made smoked Gouda grilled cheese sandwiches. Hello pregnancy cravings!

We celebrated New Year’s Eve with the girls around dinner time. Libby and Whitney liked the blowers, hats, and poppers we had picked up the day before.

The girls went to bed at their normal bedtime and Lee and I got settled in to watch Alabama take on Michigan State in the Cotton Bowl. For New Year’s 2011 we traveled down to Orlando to watch Alabama and Michigan State play each other on New Year’s Day. Five years later we were watching the same two teams play. After Alabama’s victory I went straight to sleep. I commented the next day to Lee how no one around us had popped any fireworks. He laughed and said that yes there had been fireworks, I had just slept through them.

New Year’s Day Lee and I planned to take the girls to Pump It Up inflatable playground. During the week they have preschool hours for younger kids to play, so we thought that would be the perfect time to take the girls. Libby has never met a bouncy house she didn’t like and she had a ball playing in all the inflatables they had.

Whitney was a little timid at first. If I put her down she would cry but it was just the new environment coupled with the fact that it was her nap time. She eventually found a ball to play with and once she got down and walking around she decided to try out the jumpys with Lee and Libby. She ended up having a great time too!

We were there for about an hour and a half and that was enough time to wear my three jumpers out! We headed to lunch to refuel. Then we stopped by Academy on the way home for Lee to pick up some new workout pants.

When we got home everyone took the longest nap. What a great way to start the New Year…with a long family nap! Around 4:15 everyone started waking up, except Libby. She slept for another hour! Whitney and Lee played downstairs while I laid on my heating pad {third trimester back problems} and read a book next to a sleeping Libby, who finally woke up.

We ate leftover spaghetti for dinner and spent time playing as a family before the girls went to bed.

Lee and I laid in our bed {I was back on my heating pad} and watched the first episode of Making of a Murderer on Netflix. Y’all…if you haven’t watched this show go now and watch it! It was so good!

Before we went to sleep Libby came in and asked to have a sleepover with us. Who are we to turn down a sleepover on New Year’s? So she snuggled up and the three of us fell asleep.

We had the most laid back New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day we have ever had. We spent our time doing fun family activities and I wouldn’t change a minute of it. Here’s to hoping 2016 is chocked full of fun family activities.