Archives for February 2021

DIY newborn baby photoshoot

In this post I am sharing some of my favorite photos that I randomly took of Nevaeh (I have many more from this day). We had a DIY Newborn Photoshoot. I love taking photos, and she was all expressive so I simply couldn’t resist. As the days go by baby girl gets more and more smiley and expressive, so we thought we’d show you with some photos. We did DIY Newborn Photos at home and the results were wonderful!😍

Josh bought me a camera for vlogging and taking photos about a year ago and I have not used it much, but that’s about to change. I am going to start using it a lot more because the quality is AMAZING! Randomly I snapped a photo of Nevaeh after filming a new YouTube video for my channel (I have not uploaded it yet – still working on the blog post) and I was floored by the quality. My initial thought after was, “I should be a photographer…”

Later on this same day she had her very first blowout.💩 If you don’t know what a blowout is, it’s when your baby’s poop goes everywhere. LOL. You should have seen my face when I started to change her on our fuzzy white rug in the living room not knowing it was a blowout. I was screaming and rather frantic saying “OMG what do I do?!” all while my husband was sitting on the couch on his phone. I was also laughing at the same time. What an experience! I am glad we were home for the first blowout. In all reality it wasn’t that bad, but the poop still hasn’t come out of her white clothes so needless to say I’ll be making a Target run for some OxiClean in the very near future! LOL

“I am so beautiful”

Things you’ll need

Baby LOL👶🏽
Cute outfit (Everything looks cute on her)
Camera or Phone. We used our Sony RX100 VII Camera📷
Prop or no prop. The Boppy was just doing it for us today!

Tips

Have fun!🤩
Take different angles of things
Go with the flow
Have your significant other in the photos👨‍👩‍👧

Details

CAMERA

Sony RX100 VII

NEVAEH’S OUTFIT

Loulou lollip, H&M Kids, Carters, Gerber, and Target. I could not find her exact velvet pants or her LouLou lollipop pacifier clip, so I linked similar items below!

She is so cute😍

LOL at the last photo, I just had to blow it up big because why the heck not🙄😂😭

“Okay mom I’m done taking photos for the day…”

She kept flicking us off and then laughing. HA HA I was dying. Oh my silly baby girl!

Categories: Home

3 Tips to Plan the Perfect Gender Reveal Party

Thinking of having a gender reveal party? In this post I am breaking down 3 Tips to Plan the Perfect Gender Reveal Party the simplest way I can while sharing the details of our Gender Reveal. I am so glad I had the Gender Reveal Party. It is something we will remember for the rest of our lives. It was such a fun fast event shared with both of our families.

1. Keep it Simple

If you are on a budget keep the decorations, guest list, and food to a minimum. Even if you are not on a budget, keep it simple. It was much easier to plan a simple Gender Reveal Party vs. an extravagant over the top Gender Reveal Party. It was easier to decide for both the food and decorations. You can also decide if you want to have games or an activity for your guests leading up to the reveal. We decided to do prediction and advice on a cute little card that was in the shape of a onesie. We also passed around Ultrasound photos for our family members to see. It was perfect! Ultimately we decided to have a small gathering with just family. Both our immediate families, aunts and uncles, grandmas and grandpas. It was the perfect amount of people to celebrate this news with!💌🎊

2. Pick your Reveal Method and Place

We went with a giant balloon that said “Boy or Girl?” The giant balloon was really affordable.🎈We got ours from party city. You can buy it here. This was the easiest option to me. All we had to do was hand the sales associate our sealed envelope and they filled the balloon with the correct color confetti and handed our envelope back to us resealed.✉️ We had our reveal in the garage of my in laws (we lived here while our house was being built) because we did not want to get rained on. At this time of year it was so humid in MN and looked like possible rain that day.

3. Pick a Theme

We went with white and gold🤍, or I should say I went with that.😂 Let’s be honest, Josh did not get a say in the theme. Haha! I loved this theme in comparison to the typical pink and blue. This felt more glamorous to me!✨ I was happy with how everything turned out.

IS HAVING A GENDER REVEAL PARTY RIGHT FOR YOU?

If you want to do something fun while finding out the gender of your baby, then yes it is right for you. If you don’t really care to make it a big deal, then don’t do it. It really is that simple. I wanted to do a Gender Reveal Party simply because I thought it would be fun. Was it fun? Yes, there was so much anticipation leading up to our party. We had the 20 Week Ultrasound to find out the gender on Monday, I had a 3 day work week this week. I went shopping for a few things for our party and started prepping on Thursday. We signed off on starting the building process for our house and put money down on Friday, blew up all of the balloons and set up all the decorations on Friday, and we had the Gender Reveal Party on Saturday. It was also my birthday weekend! Finding out our baby was a girl made my birthday weekend even more special!🥳

FOOD AND DECORATIONS

We had tacos for the main course of food because everyone in our family likes tacos. 🌮 My mother in law and sister in law helped with the food and decor prep. For our beverages we had pink lemonade and blue punch for drinks – cliché pink and blue! What’s a party without dessert? Our dessert options were the following: watermelon, sugar cookies, peanut butter cookies, and lemon bars. As far as decor goes my mother in law had white table cloths, candles, and brown burlap table runners which we tied bows on the end. It all came together beautifully.✨

THINGS WE BOUGHT

Everything for our party – Special made to order cookies (my sister in law’s friend made them for us), balloon garland, Oh Baby backdrop (we already had the back drop stand from one of my Wedding Showers), balloon blower upper, baby onesie guessing cards. I also bought a dress for the event – I stuck to the cliché pink and blue theme for my dress.🎀

Since this was our first baby, we did not want anyone to know the gender prior to the party. We didn’t even know the gender, but I wanted a girl so badly. I had been praying for her for months and God gave me the desires of my heart.🙏🏾 I am a little bit of a perfectionist when it comes to parties… I wanted to do everything. Which is so me, LOL. I was very pleased with how our party turned out and that we had a girl, of course.

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*I was going to link my dress, but they are sold out of it*👗

Balloon Garland click here
Oh Baby Backdrop click here
Gold and White Tableware click here
Balloon Pump click here
Baby Onesie Guessing Cards click here

Categories: Motherhood

How to Announce your Pregnancy

There are so many different ways to announce your pregnancy.👶🏽 My best advice to you is to do whatever your heart desires! I looked up so many pregnancy announcements and how to announce your pregnancy. I wanted it to be grand. I was going to have photos taken by my favorite photographer, Madalyn Vermeer, but I just could not wait any longer! LOL. If Josh had it his way, I would have been 5 or 6 months pregnant announcing – no joke! If I had it my way I would have announced the day I found out, but clearly that did not happen. I understand the reasons behind waiting to announce, but to each their own. I did not do anything cute when I told Josh that I was pregnant initially because he already knew I was going to take the pregnancy test and we were trying, so it didn’t seem like much of a surprise to both of us. You can read what I did when I told him here in this post. I was very impatient and did not really care how great the photos looked because the news was even greater.🤍 I was also feeling pretty good this day and it wasn’t raining, so we had to take advantage of those two positives.

My heart desired confetti for our announcement which ended up being a big fail because Josh’s mom could not pop the confetti popper.😜 It definitely was not what I envisioned for our pregnancy announcement, but it turned out to be a hilarious memory that we will remember forever. It was so hilarious and I still laugh about it to this day. I was actually crying and fell on the ground from laughing so hard. We announced on May 25, 2020. I was so ready to let all of our friends and family know our wonderful news because we were keeping this secret for 2 months. Josh wanted me to wait even longer than 13 weeks to announce, and I said heck no.😂 This is the hardest secret I have ever had to keep in my whole life. I was so relieved after announcing. I felt the kind of relief that you feel after holding in your pee for hours. It was that great.😅 Please enjoy some photos from this day, and don’t forget to do whatever your heart desires when you are announcing your pregnancy. Fun times!