Thanksgiving 2015

Thanksgiving 2015 is in the books! There's something about holidays with a child that makes them refreshingly new, exciting, and full of wonder. Nancy was the cutest (and sweetest) pie at our Thanksgiving table.

 Nancy's first Thanksgiving

Nancy loved snuggling with our family all day! She is also obsessed with my brother. It's so cute. She gives him the biggest smiles and is always crawling to him.

 4 generations. These women are my rocks, my encouragers, and they breathe life into my mama heart and soul like no one else!

 Somebody loooooooovveees her Mimi.

 After playing photographer for us girls, Mark wanted to steal a shot with his boy, St. Francis.

 My Mimi always sets the table perfectly and uses her beloved turkey plates! I still sit at the kid table (seen at the back). I love the kid table. Always and forever.

 Why does it look like mush but taste soooooo gooooood?

 Might be my favorite pic of the weekend. My sissy always sweetly volunteers to put Nancy down for her naps. She's always has been/is/will be the best mama.

 Family checking out Papaw's new twin calves.

We wrapped up the day with another Panthers win. I enjoyed changing into my yoga pants and jersey for gametime. Clutch decision to pack that outfit change. It was so fun having our home team play on Thanksgiving day! After the game we ate some more (duh) and played Scrabble before heading back to our casa.

For the rest of the weekend, Marky and I tackled a "to do" list that we made on my phone. We conquered all sorts of homeowner tasks with multiple trips to Lowe's, cleaning out the laundry room closets, reinstalling doors, removing the fireplace screen, painting touch ups, painting shelves, beginning to build stairs for our patio...the list goes on. And on. And on. (I am so glad my husband is so handy.)

 

We were happy to put a pause on our to do list to celebrate this special woman. My Mimi turned 80 this weekend...perfectly timed with having the whole family in town to celebrate.

You might've caught these two in Instagram. Watching for Daddy to get home from Lowe's. These two.
All in all: family is everything, and I am so thankful for mine.

Little Things Thankfulness

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A few little things I am thankful for this Thanksgiving week...

• That my brother got into college!!!! Early decision! Wake Forest! With a crazy quick turnaround on a Friday night when none of us happened to have big plans. Dropping everything to surprise and celebrate him.
• Purchasing this 6' skinny tree (for $13.50!). It fits perfectly on our little hearth in the den. We'll have our real tree in the living room, but I wanted one in plain site from the part of the house we're in all the time too. :)
  
  $13.50 Tree | Pajamas (25% off through tonight --11/22)
• Christmas lights.
• Seeing my extended family in a few days at my grandparents' farm.
• Birthdays and birth days. 
• Christmas socks from the dollar spot at Target.
• My little family. I've been feeling overwhelmingly grateful for and in love with these people lately. 

[Noteworthy: I am obsessed with my new sweater. I mean sweaterssss. I got one in the above color and another in dark emerald. Swing style? Turtleneck? $35? Excuse me while I wear them on repeat from now till spring.]

• Baby girls in traditional smocked dresses and bows.
• Marriage in general. I'm really thankful I get to do the mundane parts of life alongside my husband.
• Our church. Our life group.
• Making big leaps and dreaming big dreams for Cheers Y'all in 2016!
• How much my mom helps me. She is so selfless. One small example? She watches Nancy every weekday for an hour so I can go work out. I can't tell you how much that helps my mental sanity!!!! 
• Hopey's cute little baby bump and that precious life she's carrying!
• Living in Charlotte around my family. The way people just show up unannounced to love on and see our little girl.
• Technology that makes it easy for our English family to keep up with our growing little girl.
• Coffee (duh).
• Nancy's new pajamas. She wore them all day Sunday too because I couldn't bear to take them off of her. Another little thing I'm thankful for? Zippers over snaps. (Can I get a mama-filled AMEN?) 
• That Nancy and I got into our pajamas at 5pm on Saturday.
  

• This song. And this song. And this one too. Singing them over Nancy at bedtime.
• Stalking the video monitor on Saturday night when Nancy woke up and Mark walked around the room with her while playing this and then this form his phone. 
• The fact that Mark and I spent Saturday night splitting a bottle of wine, eating frozen pizza, snuggling on one of our oversize club chairs, watching 4 episodes of Parenthood, and talking about our life and what's yet to come for our family. 
• Sleeping in a flannel sandwich every night.
• The way Tina and Nancy play together everyday. 
• Basically every single little thing my little girl says and does.
• Our home. Being a homebody and loving making this place our own.
• The way that Mark loves to work out in the yard and has no problem leaving all of the interior design decisions to me. :)
• A 3 day work week for my hubby.

Via

Happy Thanksgiving week, y'all! I am so grateful that I get to share my life and my heart with each of you! xx

Paint Pen Pumpkins

I don't know about y'all but I wasn't ready to part with my uncarved WalMart pumpkins just yet. (Sidenote: who knew WalMart had such pretty pumpkins?! Anyway!...) I saw this picture on Pinterest from the Glitter Guide. Feeling inspired, I grabbed my trusty gold paint pen, and now these pretties are sitting beside our fireplace.

 

 

You could also do this with the fake pumpkins they sell at places like Michaels and Hobby Lobby. That way you could use them annually!

P.S. Confession: I feel like this post is a guise. The truth is that all weekend I've been asking myself the question, "So when do I bust out the Christmas decorations?" 

P.P.S I never wait till Thanksgiving. Christmas is my favorite time of year...I have to have all my favorite decor out for longer than a month!!!!

Cheers to the season!

5 on Friday!

Cheers to the lovely lady creators of this 5 on Friday link-up (hiii Darci, April, Christina, and Natasha!)!!

SLUMBER PARTIES

Last year Mark and I spent many a night on the sofa bed beside the tree. Kind of because we wanted to but also kind of because we watched 2 seasons of Downton Abbey in a 4 day span. Regardless...we've kept the slumber party by the tree tradition alive this year!!!

Trying to capture and soak in priceless little moments like these.
Thursday marked night 4 in a row by the tree...
Never knew we'd be the ones using the sofa bed so much! :)

FAMILY PICS

My Uncle Jesse (Yep. I have an Uncle Jesse like in Full House. It's awesome.) takes amazing pictures. He shared the ones that he took over Thanksgiving with our family this week! I adore them!!!

My [hot] hubby + the 3 Davis kiddos

(SO WEIRD THAT MY BROTHER IS TALLER THAN ME IN THIS!!!!!!!!!!)

My sweet Mimimama on her 78th Birthday with all of her grandbabies!

...Including the picture on a stick who is in Spain! :)

THIS GOODNESS.

I bought this a couple years back, and I keep bringing it out every Christmas season. It is the best smelling lotion in the whole wide world. Hands down. And (truth) I often sniff my hands repeatedly after putting it on.

  You can buy the soap + lotion set here. OBSESSED.

MOUNT AIRY ART WALK

You may remember reading here that Mt. Airy is my adopted hometown. I couldn't love Mayberry more!!! Lizzie, my bff and an amazing artist, convinced me that I should sell the Cheers Y'all canvases at the event. I definitely don't feel worthy, but I will never pass up a chance to spend a weekend in one of my favorite places with some of my favorite people!!

 A little Art Walk preview that Lizzie created!!

(P.S. You should check out her work on her website!!!! Do I have the coolest friends ever or WHAT?!)

#CCFAawarenessweek
For my sister, Hope. If you didn't check out my post earlier this week, you should! Hope snuck a few words in there too!!

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Thanksgiving Style

--For Mark--Cardigan (Polo - Confession: We bought it in Turkey...I only see similar ones on ebay. ;)) // Button down - got it for 75% off at Belk! (Nautica) // Khaki-colored jeans (Calvin Klein - similar pair here)  

P.S. ...The love for cardigans is all Mark. I have to admit...I had to warm up to the idea of them on guys at first. And now I'm obsessed. He could not look cuter in them!!! He won me over a couple of years ago by looking so stinkin' handsome wearing his cardigan in some of our engagement pictures!! (And the way he says "caahh-digan" is also precious.) Now I'm the man cardigans #1 fan.

 --For Elise--All of these are several years old and not found online anymore! Dress (Nanette Lepore - And it's my sister's. I give credit where credit is due :)) // Crochet Leggings (Forever 21) // Boots (Jessica Simpson) // Necklace TBD (from my mama's closet)  ---------------------------------- 

I had so much fun packing for us to head home for Thanksgiving!! I pack for all of us (Amelia included). I can admit that I love having control over the outfit situation for the hubs. But it is mutually beneficial for us because he'd rather not have to pack anyway. Win-win. :) I'm sure one day far away when we have lots of little Houston kiddos running around, I won't appreciate packing for everyone as much. But for now...I'm loving it!!

Confession: Pinterest inspired my outfit...

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1) Because I always love ANYTHING leopard.2) Because I am also planning on incorporating champs into my life on Thanksgiving. Cheers!3) Because the leopard dress I chose is flowy, comfy, and who doesn't want to wear leggings on Thanksgiving?! 4) ...And I am hoping to borrow a fancy necklace of sorts from my mama's jewelry drawer to complete the Pinterest inspiration look!  Can't wait to see yall's Thanksgiving looks too!  

Safe travels to all of you who are heading here and there for the holiday!!