Love.Love.Love.

Happy Valentine's Day!

As I think I mentioned before I loooooooove this day! (Thanks Mom for cultivating my love for 2/14!) And today is also my baby boy's birthday! So much fun! Here are little glimpses of what our day will hold....

 Valentines Goodies and a plate ready for breakfast muffins!

Chocolate Strawberries (Handmade just for me by my hubby, with a love note)

Total lazy mom cookies I know, but we have a big day tomorrow!

Passing out Luke's Valentine's to our friends!

Have a wonderful day full of love, and don't forget the best kind of love is God's love, which He so freely and abundantly gives to us. What's your favorite thing about Valentine's Day?

Much love, Angela

Tired...but a happy tired!

My little man's birthday party was today, and I am TIRED! Seems like it took so much effort and energy planning and preparing for it. Everthing turned out great and he and his cousins had a great time. Totally worth the work to make him smile and have a fantasic birthday. I will be posting pictures in the next week or two of the event! Next up....Valentine's Day!

Have a great end of your weekend

Much Love, Angela

What To Do...

Ever feel like there is so much to do you don't know where to start? Of course you have! I am currently trying to ward off those feelings and tell myself it's going to be okay...it will get done. I have to constantly remind myself to just keep it simple, sometimes I try and make too big of a deal about things. Anyways, amongst my list of to do's is this small problem. Maybe to you it won't seem like a problem and you'll think...huh? So just bear with me, this is my thinking outloud space right now! My little joy baby is about to turn two, yikes how time flies! He was born on Valentines Day, the best valentines present I could ever have. My dilema is how to celebrate both birthday and valentines day for him. For me valentine's day was always my favorite holiday. That's because my Mom always made it so special. Cinnamon rolls for breakfast, a present waiting on the table, a new top or outfit to wear to school, the cutest valentines to hand out to friends (even in high school they waited for them!) and my Dad would always get me a stuffed animal or flowers. It was never a "couples" holiday, my parents made it a family holiday. I guess that's why I want him to get both, birthday and valentines celebrations. I just haven't quite figured out how to do this yet. Hopefully some inspired thoughts will arrive soon!

I hope everyone had a great weekend, I sure did! Sorry no pics for this post, just some rambling. Pictures to come soon though, a little before and after of......myself....eek!
Much Love, Angela

A Little Preview

It's been a little busy around here for me, getting ready for a special day! My little man is turning two! Two?! I can't believe it, he is growing so fast and becoming such a big boy. His birthday is extra special because it's on Valentines Day! Valentines Day has always been my favorite holiday and now I love it even more. So the day of love is for reals our day of love, the day our love was born! Pretty great huh? This year his party theme is Cat in the Hat. He absolutely loooooves him right now. I try and pick a party theme that he is into at the current moment so the Cat it is. I've been working on some decorations and planning away. I thought I would share a little sneak peak, I will post pictures of the big day in a couple of weeks.

Hope you are all having a truly joyful day!

P.S. A really great statement I read from my Jesus Calling devotional today....

Refuse to waste energy worrying, and you will have strength to spare.

Enough said I think!

Much Love, Angela

An Introduction...

Thought I would introduce my family a little more since they will be spoken of often here.

My immediate family consists of 4; myself, my husband, our son, and our dog! My husband is such a wonderful man, I am so in love with him and I don't know how I got so blessed to be his wife. We have been married for almost 8 years and have been best friends since 6th grade. Someday I will have to post our love story, it's real sappy:). Two years ago this Valentine's Day we welcomed our baby boy to the world. He is our joy, our laughter, our love. Many more stories to come about him for sure! We are a happy little family and are loving it!

There are many other special people in my life who I will introduce later...

Hope you are all having a great Monday!

With Love, Angela

Starting Over.....

So I think I'm finally ready to start over with this blog. I began this blog becuase I felt I had things to share, I wanted to share my creativity and my life. Honestly, I started a blog because I thought it would be fun! Well, it actually became just another unchecked thing on my to do list. Between being a wife, a mom, managing an office, and all my other various duties I couldn't find time. Lately, thanks to some inspiration from a friend, I have been rethinking why I wanted to do this blog. Over the last year I have been really touched, helped, and inspired by some of the blogs I read. Some of these women are right where I am at and have such insight to offer. This is why I want to have a blog, to help and inspire others. I know that somewhere there is someone who needs to hear my story, someone who I can help with my experiences. I may not post everyday and it may not be the best blog you'll ever read but I am going to go for it, one day at a time.

So this is what God has been speaking to me about lately, starting over. You know everyday He lets us start over? For someone who deal with guilt this is an amazing concept! Just like with this blog, I am not perfect, and I often have imperfect days. As much as I try and with all my good intentions some days I don't make time for prayer, I don't read my word, I don't have the best attitude, I'm impatient.....need I go on? But whether or not I had a great day yesterday, today is a new day and I can start over. You see God is after our heart, not a perfect life. So here's to starting over, God's grace and mercy, and making time for blogging!

With Love, Angela

Ahhhh...... Friday!

So.... this whole blogging while working full time and being a mommy full time is harder than I thought! As you can see I have only posted once...eeek! But, I have been busy working on some crafts that I will be posting pics of soon.

All guilty feelings aside now, it's Friday and besides being the start of a weekend, it's also the day that I treat myself to goodies I normally try to resist. Today one of my co workers brought me one of these little guys:

Yes, the pink donuts from Starbucks!

I loooooove them!

Not only are the small and cute, but they taste pretty good too!

So everyone treat yourself today, it's Friday!

With Love,

Angela