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.Christmas Traditions. I have been wanting to start this traditions post for a few weeks. I had not started it as I kept seeing all of these gorgeous posts from other bloggers about their decorations and traditions that seemed WAYYY better than mine. So I kept procrastinating...thinking sooner or later I would come up with some AMAZING way to show how our traditions were just as COOL as theirs. The last few days, I started thinking about it a little bit more.... I listened to a webinar with   Emily Ley & Lara Casey   about having a Joyful 2016. They spoke again about how "Comparison is the Thief of Joy". This really resonated with me this week. I need to remind myself to stop waiting to create a new post until it is perfect or meets the expectations in my head of what a beautiful post should look like. I really hope to meet these two incredible women at a Make Things Happen conference someday, but for now I will be reminded by their powerful words of "letti...

oh Christmas Tree, oh Christmas Tree... how lovely are your branches... This past Sunday, we went on our annual trek to cut down our Christmas tree! We were lucky enough to have my mother in law & father in law join us. We took my husband's old car to bring our tree home Griswold style!  The kids were visiting in the back seat and I heard my daughter tell her big brother that she loved him and gave him a big kiss.  The crazy, exhausting moments are all worth it for little moments like this.  Time for our sleigh ride out to the tree farm! We have been going to the same tree farm for the last 10 plus years!  It is an annual tradition for my husbands family. We found our tree after searching and searching the aisles of trees! Some little, some big, some huge! My husband likes to pick LARGE trees! The kids wanted to try to pull the tree back to the trimming station... Well, they attempted! They got about 2 feet! ha Mom attempted too, I got about 25 fee...

I hope you had a blessed Easter! I am having a hard time believing Easter is over, as I can't quit writing March in my checkbook. Time is just flying by lately.  Today, I am sharing some of my favorite pictures from our Easter weekend. We started our Easter weekend on Friday evening at my in-laws home for dinner & an Easter egg hunt with all the grandkids! Saturday morning, we attended another egg hunt & Easter bunny breakfast in my hometown with my mom. Sunday morning, I didn't end up taking photos of the kids with their Easter baskets, as we were rushing to eat breakfast & get dressed to church. They were in their underwear finding their baskets! ha  Sunday morning, we attended an amazing church service before heading to our family Easter festivities.   This photo of our family is one of my favorite's from Easter. We are all looking & smiling =WIN! My adorable kiddos, they are getting big so fast! This year, I bought their outfits at Carters . They had g...