happy little things #12

our weekend was really nice. we hung out with kelly anne and the nuggets. it is one of my favorite things, just chilling and acting goofy with them. we played in the bath, got our portraits done, and swam at the pool and even made a cute little friend named payten, who was the sweetest little thing ever (she is the one with the beautiful blond curly hair and full jump suit)! i just love my little clemie-buns and how cute she looks in her swimming suit, i could cuddle her forever <3

it has been so much fun watching them both grow and become more human each time we see them. i love being an auntie and being surrounded by such cute nephews & nieces, i feel so lucky! what are your favorite moments with family?

xo,
cb

super silliness: a photodump!

ha! hope you all had a fantastic weekend! this weekend we celebrated kelly-anne and her husband's birthday. it was good times, super good times :) it is actually her birthday today so pop on over and wish her a very merry birthday!

so if you are ready....let me commence the silly yet oh so amazing pictures!

starting the night off right with some yummy champagne!

 we walked to the bar it was super close, so why not!

 met up with kelly-anne's friends at the bar. her and pitty have been friends forever! aren't theys sooo cute! kelly makes me want to dye my pink! so pretty

 tom sporting the crazy cat glasses

 these last few pictures is our walk home from the bar..... :D

 i stole a orange cone for our enjoyment home....i'm such a rebel, HA!

as i went through all our pictures there were so many opened mouth pictures! not sure what was up with that...we ended the night finishing our left over burritos and watching human centipede, luckily for me i feel asleep. i don't do well with horror films :(

the next day we all woke up super happy, well except for boz, poor guy but there is nothing like a little thrifting & super yummy locally made ice cream to chase those hangover blues away. sadly, i got skunked at the thrift store so no gems to show you today but tom scored some really cute 50's style button ups, he looks so handsome in them!

HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAY MY LOVE!! i miss you terrible already and can't wait to hang out again! lots of love.

xo,
kiki
(p.s. kiki is the name clemie, my niece and kelly-anne's daughter called me when she first started talking)

p.s.s. as a big thank you to all my readers, i think it might be a giveaway time! anyone interested in contributing shot me an email!

snippets

let me first say that it should be made mandatory to have the week off after christmas. one day to spend with family just isn't enough sometimes. christmas eve and christmas day were awesome! i had such a great time at both family celebrations. both different and both excellent in their own ways :)

the night before the festivities, i decided to do some festive nails, this is my rendition.

my brother makes the yummiest appetizers: trix, tuna, chedder cheese topped with a jalapeno. pop those bad boys in the oven and way-la! they literally do not last long when put out.

we played a couple of rounds of scattergories and can you believe this was our first holiday picture as a family? after desert tom and i headed up north to his parents house and called it a night.

we woke up super early on sunday and got down to it! we were all still pretty much asleep, clemie-buns face is priceless and bowie-man's just cracks me up.

kelly-anne made me this deer hat that i had been drooling over for a while and it is so awesome! she loved it so much she made one for herself too! aren't we so cute, hehe. she makes other really awesome hats and when her shop opens up again, you should check em out! what you also can't see is she made me a lace collar and i love it!

we hand make most of our presents and almost every year tom does a drawing for everyone. i showed you what he made us and this is the rest of the family. they turned out so perfect, he is just so amazing!

we got clemie a bamboo log cabin and the men trying to built it. it came with no instructions but they finally got it :) i think they liked it more then she did. hehe

we sat around watching movies in our pj's for the rest of the day and then it was dinner time, dave's famous tacos! tom made him a sign for christmas so we could keep track of how many taco's we eat.  the rest of the night was filled with champagne drinking and the boys playing a couple rounds of trivial pursuit and then it was nightie night for us.

i had to work early today so tom's dad made us breakfast and coffee and then were on our way. tom has been saving money for a surfboard and he came back to the shop to surprise me with our newest addition :) now for a wetsuit and we can catch those winter swells! here we come santa cruz!!!!!!!

hope everyone had a fantastic holiday!!

xo,
cb

a little peek in to our thanksgiving weekend!

hi peaches! how was everyone's weekend? for those of you in america i hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving and at LEAST gained 10lbs! hehe, i know i did! it was glorious and so so worth it!

tom is the one on the left and i'm on the right.

tom and i left wednesday night the moment i got off work and headed straight to kelly-anne's house and clementine is always soo happy to see us. she made us block portraits...i think they look pretty accurate, no? hehe

and then uncle tom gave her a ride around the living room. it makes my heart melt when i see them play together. tom is gonna make one fantastic dad!

the next day we all got fancied up and headed over to tom's side of the family where we hung out for a bit and caught up with family. we then headed back to kelly's so we could eat what we like to call "thanksbacon". we made it up last year, it came from a conversation kelly & i were having and every dish had to have bacon in it and we had so much fun last year with it that we did pretty much the same thing this year! the turkey wore a nice warm woven sweater of bacon which kept it super juicy.

 kelly-anne makes the BEST water chestnut wrapped bacon appetizers....they didn't last long...

 i was in charge of the veggies this year and the pumpkin pie :D i was so excited when tom came home with a stalk of brussel sprouts!

with thanksbacons comes champagne...those two pretty much go hand in hand.... if they ever make bacon flavored champagne my life may be complete.

i really out did myself this year...literally, moments after stuffing myself, i feel asleep on toms shoulder for a good 10 minutes...that tryptophan really did a number on me!

we were all pretty much slugs for the rest of the night but we all managed to eat pie somehow...i am not sure were it went but i put it in my mouth and it was good.

 the rest of the weekend was spent eating, being awesomely lazy and hanging out with the little nuggets.bowie loved helping me scroll on the ipad. i couldn't complain because he is so darn cute and just really the happiest little man.

we had a really great weekend and still more to come!
xo,
cb