Thursday Cuteness

​Some goodies from a quick trip to the mall during my lunch this week!

ONE - this sweatshirt was the prettiest color and soooo soft! 

TWO - such a great smelling candle for the holiday season - fresh balsam and cedarwood!

and I'm still obsessed with this one that my friend gave me last year!

THREE - cutest tree glasses! They also have these in pink which are adorbs. 

FOUR - slip hair ties in this little packaging would be a welcomed gift for any 20-50 year old gal on your list!

FIVE - maybe next time i can get the shirt off the rack and take a better picture?! This is such a flattering style of shirt and looks good tucked in or not.

SIX - one more - I saw this bow bowl and thought it was such a fun hostess gift. Kinda pricey but maybe you're going to a couples party and need a little something more than a candle?

Random Christmas Things

​1. Order your Christmas card stamps from usps now while they have the cute designs! You have to search for Holiday when you're on the stamps page to find the entire selection!

2. I've started a list of things I'm going to buy on Black Friday so I don't have a brain freeze and forget what I need to get on sale. 

3. Yesterday while the kids were off, they got out some Christmas decor in their room. A few years ago I instituted one bin per kid room and they're labeled "Grady Christmas" "Molly Anne Christmas." The bins live with all of the other Christmas junk in our attic but I plop each one down in their rooms and their short tree and they decorate their own rooms. It's a big win in my book and their same decor comes out each year. The light up tree they made one year. A hobby lobby tree they each got one year. Etc etc. Ta da!

Grady's First Baseball Ring

Grady got his first baseball ring for 7u challenge! He was soooo excited and def thinks it's real gold, diamonds and sapphire. I have the cutest video of him saying, "they're real diamonds!!!" I'm so proud of allll of the hard work he put in this year!

OIB

​We finally had a weekend off of baseball and were able to get to the beach. Coming over the bridge on Friday evening. 

View from the back porch. 

Headed to Maria's for dinner and Spilt Milk for ice cream. I even ate ice cream which I never do! I always prefer popcorn!

Grady and Kevin went fishing with our neighbor on Saturday. Molly Anne and I shopped and got our nails done. We went everywhere and it was so fun!

Alllll of the nail art - hearts, bows, plaid, chrome and cheetah print. Molly Anne was THRILLED with a new nail place we found in Shallotte! 10 year old nails here we go!

The 4 of us went to the playground when the boys got 

On the way to dinner on Saturday night - Sharky's of course. 

Molly Anne and I walked at the east end on Sunday morning while the boys fished off the dock. Sooo pretty down there. 

Back to the hood and grady loving life playing football with a bunch of neighborhood dudes. Love it for him. 

Happy Monday!

Some Different Things

Found some random cool things this week!

ONE - flag football season is coming and it's COLD. I cannot justify a Canada goose jacket living in North Carolina but this $55 one from Amazon is going to do the job!

TWO - found this gorgeous faux arrangement including the vase for $45.

THREE - this sweater

FOUR - bowls like this make me so happy to have cottage cheese in, put a quick appetizer in, anything! Fun gift that you would necessarily buy yourself $18 for 2!

FIVE - my neighbor let me try one of these this past weekend and it worked - no headache! You take it before you have some drinks and no hangover the next day. It doesn't taste bad. And I'm not a very big "take anything" kind of person but this was legit. We ordered a pack!

Fun Party

My friend had such a fun party for her husband's 50th birthday! Here are some pics... She had a band, Charlotte's Favorite Bartender, delish food catered, babe and butcher charcuterie. SO good!

Halloween

Halloween in pictures that are out of order haha! It was so fun being on a Friday night. We went to my office in the afternoon for a party there then came back to our hood for the big night.

Both kids had a great time. Grady was lost for a short period of time (felt like 2 hours) which made me crazy but I found him walking down the street heading home to go to the bathroom. He had left his friends so he could do that. Ahhhh! Not winning any mom of the year awards over here! Chat soon friends.