Merry Christmas and Happy New Years 2025

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Years 2025! Hope you are having a wonderful start to your New Year. It’s been a busy couple weeks for us with the holidays, being pregnant, and my husband being gone for weeks at a time as a Captain for his job. But I wanted to share our yearly Christmas card photos and share our message for the New Year. We have so much to be thankful for including finishing and moving into our new home. Plus baby number four will be arriving soon! Here is a recap of our past year below!

2024 Yearly Recap

2024 hasn’t been without its ups and downs with the death of Josh’s beloved grandmother, my third miscarriage and cancer scare earlier in the year, plus emergency gallbladder surgery! My health was definitely something I battled with earlier this year, so being able to have a healthy pregnancy has been a blessing. I don’t take any of it for granted.

Also with Josh’s new job he has been gone for weeks at a time, which honestly has been hard emotionally, but we are so thankful for all the help we have with our family and our neighbors while he has been gone. It has been harder physically with my pregnancy, but God has given me the strength to push through and I’m so thankful. I feel like superwoman some days lol!

We started home schooling Jayden in 2024 and it’s the best decision we have made. I feel like he is more challenged with the curriculum that we have for him, and I also get to have him home more. We also have a small homeschool community that we are so thankful for. Jayden is doing well in school, taekwondo, and is starting basketball for the first time this year. I don’t feel so bad when he does all these extracurricular activities because I don’t have to sacrifice the time he is with his family since he is homeschooled. We also have the best neighborhood kids that Jayden get’s to play with so he get’s tons of socialization. I’m so thankful we finally went the homeschool route, it has been the best thing for our family and Jayden.

The girls are doing well. Daisy had that second degree burn earlier this past year that we had to deal with, when hot water spilled on her at a restaurant. She has been a trooper through it all and has healed so well. She really is our sunshine baby and I’m so thankful she continues to thrive through adversity. Ella is as smart as can be, but also just as stubborn. We are in the process of potty training her and it has been a longer process than with Jayden. But we are making progress. I love her little personality though. She is too smart for her own good.

Happy New Years 2025!

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We are so thankful for our growing family. Even through the ups and downs at least we have each other. Thankful for all 2024 has brought us, the good and the bad, because it has made us stronger as a family. We look forward to 2025 and most of all bringing another sweet babe into this world!

Happy New Years 2025!

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Daisy’s Sugar and Sweets Christmas Tree

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Hope you are doing well! We are already putting up Christmas decorations, and one of the first rooms we completed was Daisy’s nursery. I have been wanting to do a themed Sugar and Sweets Christmas Tree for her nursery and I love how it turned out! I want to make sure my babies have the most magical Christmas so we always make it a priority to decorate a tree in all of their rooms. Check out more photos of Daisy’s Sugar and Sweets Christmas Tree below!

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How cute are the little donut and lollipop ornaments for her tree? I love how her tree turned out and the girls love it too! Also how cute are the girl’s matching pajama dresses. They are too cute! I can’t believe I will have three girls soon!

For more check out Daisy’s full nursery room tour with product links here!

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Mudroom Bath Reveal

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Hope you are doing well! I am so excited to share one of my favorite rooms in the house, our mudroom bath. I love the floral tile, the wallpaper, and our clawfoot tub. It is very country cottage chic. You can get an extra 10% OFF using my code DAWN on the wallpaper. This was a labor of love that Josh and I did together. You can see the before and transformation in this video here. Check out all the details of our mudroom bath below!

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This bath is conveniently located in our mudroom which makes it great for guest who come through the garage or back porch, or for washing dirty muddy children before they walk through the house. It is one of our most used common bath. We love how this room turned out. What do you guys think?

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Board and Batten Bathroom Accent Wall DIY

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Hope you are doing well! I recently shared a video of one of my first board and batten bathroom accent wall DIY I did for our home, and I thought it deserved a permanent spot on my blog. I did this all by myself when our house was getting built. I knew I wanted to add some color to our main bathroom, so I brought in the color in our master bedroom into the bathroom with this accent wall. Check out the before and after pictures below!

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The color I used for this accent wall is Escape grey by Benjamin Moore. I love how this bathroom accent wall turned out that I plan on incorporating it in our master bedroom. What do you guys think?

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Fall Kitchen Home Decor

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Hope you are doing well! I wanted to share with you my recent fall kitchen home decor! I wanted to add a little touch of fall to our kitchen so I bought a few things during the Labor day sale to add fall vibes into our kitchen. Some of the things I’ve collected over the years so I don’t have an exact link, but I will share similar styles. Check out more photos of our fall kitchen home decor below!

Found these fall kitchen towels for only $9 for a pack of three! I added some pumpkins to our open shelving and this old antique painting my husband got from his late grandfather.

Love these fall stems I got on sale. I added it to this vase I got at Target last year, and these velvet pumpkins from several years ago. I was able to find some similar ones that you can shop from Amazon!

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I love how our fall kitchen home decor turned out. Just the perfect touch to bring in fall into our home. Let me know what you think!

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Fall Front Porch Decor

It’s officially September and that means our fall front porch decor is here at our home. I have been looking forward to decorating our front porch in our new home. There were so many good Labor day sales for fall decor so I stocked up on all the fake realistic pumpkins. Check out how I styled our fall front porch below!

PUMPKINS| RUG| DOOR MAT| PLANTER BOX| WREATH

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I love how our fall porch turned out. Simple yet classic. The perfect touch of fall for any home and affordable too. I got most everything on sale so that was a plus. What do you guys think?

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Baby #4 Gender Reveal

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Today I am sharing this fun gender reveal we did with the kiddos. Let’s just say I was dead wrong with my mother’s intuition on this one. I thought we were having one gender, so I got everyone coordinating outfits to match the color I thought it would be. I couldn’t believe how wrong I was! Check out the full reveal below!

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Ya’ll I can’t believe we will have another precious girl to add to our family. We are going to have our hands full! Jayden was hoping for a boy, but it seems as he will be the only boy in the family so far lol. The girls didn’t even care, all they cared about was the cake! Well on the plus side expect more cute mommy and me outfits coming soon with my cute little girlies!

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Baby #4 Coming Soon!

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Surprise! We are expecting baby number four! I can’t believe it. Especially since we will have three under three! We are going to have our hands full. We have been keeping this secret all summer long. I found out I was pregnant early June right after moving. It was an unexpected surprise especially with everything going on, having a previous miscarriage in January, and emergency gallbladder surgery in April. But we are thankful for this blessing and can’t wait to add another little one to our family. Check out these beautiful pregnancy announcement photos we took at our neighborhood park.

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Thankful for this growing family of mine. It’s been a crazy whirlwind of a year but we trust in God’s timing. We know this won’t be easy but it will be worth it. Can’t wait to share the gender soon!

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Daisy Is One Year Old

Today is officially my sweet Daisy’s first birthday! I can’t believe it. It seemed like yesterday that we were bringing her home. Read her full birth story here. I know I say this all the time but nothing puts time in perspective like watching your children grow. Daisy has been such a ball of sunshine, and never not smiling. Just a happy babe no matter what gets thrown her way.

My first:

1. Word – Mama

2. Kiss – mama

3. Crawling – 9 months

4. Taking steps – 12 months

5. Walking – not yet

6. Bobo – second degree burn at 6 months

7. Beach – 9 months

8. Trip – Nothing out of state yet

9. Tooth – It’s barely coming out.

10. Smile – 3nd day after she was born

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My sweet little babies. Thankful for each one of them. Happy birthday to my sweet Daisy girl. We love you so much!

Check out her first birthday celebration here.

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Kitchen Family Command Center DIY

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I am so excited to share with you our kitchen family command center DIY. I created this space because we didn’t have a space in our kitchen for our magnets since our refrigerator is fully paneled in a refrigerator cabinet. I wanted a space for our family calender, weekly menu, and kids chore chart. This kitchen family command center was super easy to do, and an inexpensive DIY. Check out the step by step below!

First we pasted this magnetic dry erase chalkboard sheet we got from Amazon. Then we got this PVC trim from Home Depot and cut it to frame the sheet. I painted the trim to match the color of our cabinets which is Ashwood by Benjamin Moore.

After the paint dried I used clear construction adhesive to glue the frame on the wall. I then used small round velcro strips to secure these magnetic calendars to the wall. Unfortunately the magnet was not strong enough to hold to the sheet, but the velcro worked perfectly! We also got this cool chore chart for the kiddos too!

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This Kitchen Family Command Center was an easy and inexpensive DIY that helps us stay organized as a family. Plus the kiddos love playing with the magnets. It’s a great solution if you have a paneled refrigerator. Let me know what you think!

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Daisy’s First Birthday Party

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Hope you are doing well! Today I wanted to share details of Daisy’s first birthday. We had an intimate celebration with our family and really played into the Daisy theme. We wanted to keep it simple and easy so we did all the decor ourselves. Check out the details below.

For the balloons we found these daisies and balloon arch from Amazon.

How cute is this number one flag cake topper!

Daisy’s high chair banner and dress is also from Amazon. Such cute finds!

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Thankful to celebrate our sweet Daisy girl with our family. I can’t wait to show you her first birthday photos when she turns one next week!

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Daisy’s Secret Garden Nursery

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Today I am so excited to share, one of my favorite rooms in our new home, Daisy’s secret garden nursery. It is the nursery of my dreams! I love the grand millennial flare with french accents and my favorite color yellow. It was only fitting to have a room full of flowers for my Daisy girl. I just feel like this nursery fits her personality perfectly. Check out more details of this nursery below!

How cute is Daisy? She is just the happiest smiliest babe. As you can see below we used this beautiful chinoiserie wallpaper mural to add picture frame panels in her room. We bought this trim and added it around the wallpaper for the the finished look. For the rug, I found this eight foot round rug last minute after several rectangular rugs just didn’t look right in in her room. This rug was the perfect addition in the nursery and it is washable too! For the curtains I found the cutest daisy curtain holders that added the perfect little detail to her window treatments.

The crib, glider, and dresser were passed down from Ella’s nursery and it worked perfectly in Daisy’s room. It was a great investment that has lasted me with multiple babies.

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I love how this secret garden nursery turned out. It was a labor of love and everything I could have dreamed of. There is nothing that makes me happier than coming in the morning and seeing Daisy’s smiling face in her crib. Since she has been sleeping in this room, she has slept so good and sleeps twelve hours just like her sister next door. I can’t wait to do Ella’s big girl room next!