That year I didn't write...

Oh goodness. There's just too much to say. It's been a year guys... a YEAR since we last wrote.

And oh... what a year it has been.

Where do I even begin? Last January (when I last wrote) I was a couple months pregnant... and a couple months scared out of my mind. I mean guys, I was going to have a baby... a BABY people!

So... I basically spent the year getting more and more pregnant... 

I was pregnant through the winter... and then we moved to a new apartment... 

I was pregnant through the spring... then we went on a trip to Paris.... 

I was pregnant allllllllllllll the way through summer (ugh.)... where I basically spent my time floating in any body of water I could find... the pool at work... Lake Michigan... my bathtub... 

And then finally had this baby in fall.

 Officially the beginning of fall. Even though it was late August it counts as early fall. It was officially early fall because shortly after Q arrived I was delivered a piping hot pumpkin spice latte to my little hospital room and sipped that drink like I'd never had one before... sigh. Pure heaven.

Since then so much has changed and so little has at the same time... 

I've just been working on getting the hang of this whole Mama thing.

It's been easy... and hard... and scary... and fun... 

I've been exhausted every day of the last six month... but goodness, goodness! It has been wonderful. Q... Q is wonderful.

Catchup

Newly graduated

a touch pregnant

Elfa and Doctor

Time line of things passed:

I've graduated. I didn't walk. I don't like to waste time.

I got pregnant. It was unexpected, and easy...and hard.

We moved to Chicago and entered the working world. This world is not the easiest to break into while pregnant.

Elfa arrived late, and in a manner unexpected, but with all of her major and minor parts intact. 

2013 was a hard year for both Kristopher and I, we learned a lot, and grew quite a bit.

2014 is going to contain more change, which is not bad.

Short post, but I'll write more later, I've got to ease into this thing.

-Rachel

Thank Heaven For Little Girls....

My sweet friend Kate is expecting a precious baby girl {coming soon this summer}!

This weekend a few of us threw her a baby shower...

We had so much fun!
I volunteered to plan the craft for everyone to do...
{Yikes!}

Thanks to pinterest, I found this incredible easy tutorial for all the ladies to do.

Obviously, I had to try it out myself before I made everyone else do it! ;)

 Of course... I just had to add some ruffles... 

Ugh. I die.

 At the shower we set up a little table with all of our supplies...

The girls and I had so much fun chatting and decorating our onesies.

I must say... each onesie turned out adorable!

To add a little something personal, each girl wrote Kate a note and clipped it to their finished onesie!

I just love how they all turned out! What do you think?

Smooches-

Hansie

I love me some back wrinkles!

You might remember that a little bit ago my friend Siv had a baby shower.

For her shower, EttaGrace put together a little baby headband making kit.

We organized a little craft corner at the shower and had the guests come up and create their own unique little headband using EttaGrace blossoms and petals.

It was a huge success and the headbands turned out so lovely.

Well, Siv had baby Sof a little bit ago. And of course... she had to model some of her sweet EttaGrace headbands...
So, get ready... baby "back fat" and all...
Meet baby Sof- Our cutest model ever!



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Isn't baby Sof the ca-utest!?!?!? Ugh... death of me... she's so stinkin' adorable!

In the very near future we'll be adding this item to our shop!

What do you think? You like???

smooches-

Hans.

PS. Don't forget about our giveaway going on! Only a few more days... so enter here!

The Weekend in Review...

This weekend was "the tops" friends... the. tops!

The Hubs and I had a pretty exhausting week and next week is shaping up to be about the same...

So- having a fun and low key weekend was just what the doctor (that would be the Hubs) ordered...

We went to bed early and took lots of naps... 

Date night-ed it up and watched summer flicks

Ate cupcakes and went out to brunch...
 Spent time with sisters and sister-friends....
Watched endless amounts of Burn Notice and drank just the right amount of iced coffee....
Ate meals on patios and cuddled ridiculously cute babies....
sigh.
We had the perfect amount of weekend-ness!

Happy Monday lovelies! Hope your weekend was perfect!

xoxo- Hansie