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Sunday, 12 August 2012

Swanky

Posted on 13:32 by Unknown
My sweet friend and fabulous photographer Narci D asked me if she could use Kensington as her model for a contest hosted by the clothing line Swanky Baby Vintage. She said she needed a brown haired, blue eyed, size 3T girl and that so happens to perfectly describe Miss K.  Well, well, well...the pictures were soooooo good!  So good in fact, that I asked sweet Narci to photograph Smith as well. 

 The funny part about the photography contest was that there were 19 models and people were to vote on Face Book for their favorite.  I noticed that K was #6 out of 19 models, so I called Narci and asked her how important it was for her photo to win...I could tell that it was pretty important, so I told her I would make it happen.  What did this savvy mama do to ensure that her daughter's picture won the contest?  Well, I called my little brother of course, and had him tweet it out to all of his "friends".  Thirty-five minutes later, K was in first place....by a mile.  So thanks to Uncle Seanie, we won the contest.  Gotta love an uncle with a lot of friends who will happily help.  Thank you Narci D Photography!














































Love!

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Thursday, 9 August 2012

Mix and Match Travel Agency

Posted on 04:01 by Unknown
Mix and Match Travel Agency's blog is up and running.  Thanks to the fabulous Andrea at Slightly Askew Designs for making it so perfect!

I would love, love, love to help you with your next vacation.  Call or email me...I have the recipe for a great vacation.



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Monday, 6 August 2012

Cribs Be Gone

Posted on 13:31 by Unknown
Ohhh...remember waaaaay back when...4 years ago when I posted this about our new baby's nursery?  I was 8 months pregnant and didn't know the gender of my sweet little baby but I had a room ready.  When we found out it was a girl, we added some girl touches...then 16 short months later, we had our boy and moved the girl to the room next door, took down all of the girl touches and added some boy touches.  Now...we have a big girl and a big boy.  At one point, we had two cribs but now we have none.  Kensington (the over-achiever that she is) moved into a big girl bed when she was only 19 months old but sweet Smith stayed in his crib a little (ok, a lot) longer.  Well, last weekend, he begged and we finally decided to take down the chandelier and upgrade his room into a big boy room.  Bye-bye crib...hello big boy stuff.

This is where the crib used to be...now we have some great organizers for all of his boy stuff and his dad's Big XII Championship jersey framed. 

We have some boy accessories (come on...you know Lovie wasn't going to let us not have accessories...that's what happens when your grandma is a fabulous interior designer!).

We kept the window treatments but upgraded with a Fenway Park sign I bought in Boston.

We took down some baby stuff on the wall and added some subway art.

Since Mama got the Fenway Park sign, Daddy got the Yankee pillow to go with his new bedding.

But of course, there are Red Sox logos on the MLB sheets :).

Big boy bed!

We have one of Daddy's Detroit Lion footballs and some golf stuff on his shelf.  Remember Smith's First Par-Tee?

Or what about Smith's Ski Lodge?

And since we're discussing rooms today, I thought I'd share Kensington's room too.  This is where my big girl sleeps.



The shelf in her room...remember Kensington's Cider Mill?

And Kensington's Tangled Up Birthday...



Boy...my kids are growing up fast.  I used to be a mom of two babies, now I'm a mom of two big kids.  I wouldn't trade it for the world.  Love them!


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Friday, 3 August 2012

Family Nights

Posted on 04:18 by Unknown
At least one night a week, the 4 Shulls head over to our country club pool to swim and eat dinner.  It's such a fun family outing and a nice break from cooking for Mix and Match Mama (she needs a break every now and then!).
Love him!


Love him too!


Those dimples courtesy of his mama!


It's a shame we don't like each other...


Kisses (well...kind of...)


The one and only picture I took of my daughter that night...don't know why???  I love her too!



There is nothing better then hanging out with my family!  XOXO



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Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Fun Out Front

Posted on 04:15 by Unknown
On Monday night, our sweet friends Ebby Lee and Nixon came over to play in the little pool.  We love having the Slaughters over!!


Smith and Ebby Lee gearing up to go down the little slide.


There they go!

So fun!

Nixon liked going down backwards

Sweet K


I said "say cheese" and K busts out with a Project Runway pose...what a mess!



Love you guys!  Thanks for playing!


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Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Birthday season has begun!

Posted on 03:00 by Unknown
Yay!  It's officially birthday season for our family :).  Every single person in my family has a birthday between August 1 (one grandpa) and April 8 (another grandpa).  And we celebrate everyones birthday.  Everyones.  We have several birthdays that are 3 or 4 days a part and we still have two separate parties for each person (twice the cake!).  We love celebrating birthdays!  On Friday night, we kicked off birthday season with Ken's birthday at my mom's house.

Ken and Me :)


K and Uncle Seanie (She sobbed and sobbed when we wouldn't let her go home with him and spend the night.  We promised her that next time she could.  These two are such a mess sweethearts together.


Me and my man!


Sean, Brooke and Austin


Paisley showing me that she was wearing K's boots.


It's really hard to pose 1, 2, and 3 year olds!  Here they all are!

Happy Birthday Ken!  We love you!  Next up, August 9 we celebrate Casey's birthday :).  I just love birthday season.



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