Monday, September 16, 2019

JEREMY ROENICK HOCKEY SCHOOL 2019

Just before school started Dylan attended the Jeremy Roenick Hockey School and had the best time.  Jeremy and his team put on a great camp with lots of time both on and off the ice.  There was no shortage of special guests and opportunities for photos and autographs.

JEREMY ROENICK HOCKEY SCHOOL

Dylan with Jeremy Roenick.

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Clayton Keller signing Dylan’s jersey.

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Dylan with Clayton Keller.

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Dylan with Rick Tocchet, the Arizona Coyotes Manager.

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Dylan with Tyson Nash.

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Last day of camp after their game.

All images were purchased by me from Fat Cake Media.

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

ALICE AND THE HOCKEY PLAYER

Happy Halloween!  This year Dylan wanted to be a hockey player and Lexi chose to be Alice from Alice in Wonderland thanks to the cutest dress around.  She chose her costume based on the dress and the tea cup ride at Disneyland, true story.  I’ll admit that I wasn’t sold on Dylan dressing as a hockey player and wearing his actual hockey uniform until they were both dressed and as soon as they were; my mama heart exploded.  They couldn’t have chosen more perfect costumes.  Happy Halloween from Alice and the hockey player!

ALICE AND THE HOCKEY PLAYER

All photos were taken by Melissa Carlson.

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

SPRING PICTURES

I am a sucker for photos of my kids. Beach photos will always have my heart, but I really love a cute set up too!

I stumbled onto Lauren a few years ago when she had the cutest Anthropologie like trees for her holiday mini sessions and have been in love with her work ever since.

This spring she had the cutest set up with a white bed and floating vases and I couldn’t book a session for the kids fast enough.  Here are a few of my favorites from our Spring photos with Lauren.  If you’re local, you can find future sessions on her Instagram here.

Friday, June 8, 2018

SUMMER BUCKET LIST

We’ve never been a bucket list kind of family but I thought it might be fun for the kids (and us) to do one this summer. And because it’s what all of the mom bloggers do, so why not? Let’s jump on the summer bucket list band wagon.

Summer in Arizona is HOT. Really hot. In addition to some of the more traditional summer activities, we also have to find fun ways to beat the heat indoors.  Here’s our 2018 summer bucket list:summer bucket list

Some of these are things we will do a million times, like going swimming.  Others are a little (okay a lot harder) like getting ice cream from an ice cream truck.  This one is really a hail mary since we don’t have ice cream trucks here (such a shame).  I’m really hoping there will be one while we are in Michigan this summer.  I’ll be sure  to have a few dollars ready just in case!  Another one I will be really impressed if we can check off is the dive-in movie nights.  I really think this would be so fun and memorable for the kids, but have to figure out how to safely project a movie outside by the pool.  If you have any suggestions, let me know!

What’s on your summer bucket list?  I’ve created a blank summer bucket list printable that you can get here in case you want to make one for your family as well.

Thursday, March 8, 2018

EASTER BASKETS

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It’s hard to believe it’s time to start thinking about Easter baskets but Easter will be here before you know it. Easter is April 1st this year and since it feels like March is already half over, I thought I’d share a few favorites for their Easter baskets.

Now that Dylan is getting older, shopping for him is a little bit harder than in year’s past. He’s six and in that age where you’re not quite sure if he will really love something or think it’s too babyish. Ugh, where did my baby boy go?!?! Luckily, they are both pretty easy to please and it’s stress I bring on myself more than anything.  They peeked over my shoulder when I was finishing this up and both have asked for everything listed below…which is good (yay! they loved it!) and bad because now I need to come up with totally different things for their baskets.

When putting together Easter baskets, my go to categories are generally:
– things for spring and summer that I would buy anyway like sandals or swimsuits
– new books
– fun things for outside play like sidewalk chalk or dive sticks or small toys for the pool
– an Easter PEZ because I always got one in my basket growing up
– a chocolate bunny because everyone needs a chocolate bunny for Easter
– a bunny stuffed animal, sadly I think we’re outgrowing this one
If there’s something small they’ve been asking for I will usually add that to their basket as well.

We’ve used both more traditional baskets like these adorable baskets from Pottery Barn Kids and trendier options like the wire baskets from the bullseye playground at Target. I think we will use our classic Pottery Barn Kids baskets this year because there’s something so sweet about a traditional Easter basket and I’m feeling like my babies are growing up way too fast!

I haven’t finished shopping for Easter baskets yet but here’s a few things I’ve either done in the past and they loved or are putting in their basket this year.

Easter Baskets

girls swimsuit | goggles| If You Give A Mouse A Cookie | Green Eggs and Ham

Dive Squid | board shorts | bunny | sidewalk chalk