august snapshots

Posted on September 14, 2015 by tandem in love

ok, that just flew by and passed me up. i was sitting at home, thoughts passing through my head when i realized that i didn’t even think about doing an august recap! not one snippet of thought. i am usually preplanning, pre-thinking, pre-doing anything to get ahead and be prepared. it’s in my nature. then all of sudden – bam! it’s mid-september and i was like whaaaaaaa??!!

it had birthday{s}, parties, fun, family time, lunches, brunches, and vegas baby! it was the first month of the summer were it didn’t rain every.day. ok, it rained sometimes but our summer was seriously plagued by constant rain! it was consistently warm and mostly sunny…a recipe for success.

we were so excited to have gone to vegas. we love going every year and this year was no different. we always have the best time vacationing with our dear friends matt and johann. we love the heat, the shopping, and the pool time the m o s t!

[don’t let this pic fool you! every time is said “bedtime”, she would turn her head to the side and pretend she was sleeping. as if that would delay me putting her down. haha!]

[hi baby olive]

[c’mere my cute baby]

[chicago beer]

[pout, pout, pout away little one!]

[pool time!]

[dana and scott’s engagement party]

[always on the go]

[sweet face]

[such a cool babe]

[so happy]

[wedding shenanigans]

[happy birthday b!]

[black and white]

[happy birthday kim!]

[mmmmmm chocolate]

[vegas!]

[big foot]

[playtime]

[cousin love]

[cubs themed birthday party!]

well that was our august in rewind. we had the best time this past month. i really do love my life. i say that because i count our blessings every day. i am grateful for our health. i am grateful for my family. i am grateful for God. i am grateful for my hc. i am grateful for our precious little olive. the simple things in life are truly the best.

cheers to a fabulous september!

xoxo

july snapshots

Posted on August 12, 2015 by tandem in love

oh july. it’s always so bittersweet. it’s the month that signifies the ‘end’ of summer. it was super warm {finally} and super fun. we had the best time celebrating america’s birthday, grace’s birthday, and lots of summery stuff in-between.!

july was a complete whirlwind. i must admit. it came and went in a blink of an eye. it went by way too fast. i thoroughly enjoyed every day, every moment of july. i love the long days and warm nights. the ice cream cone moments. grilling and eating alfresco. the fireworks. birthday celebrations and overall shenanigans of these long summer days.

here is our july in pictures:

[my silly girl hanging out on the floor of the grocery store]

[grace’s 13th birthday]

[happy fourth of july // romper by littleladiesboutique]

[she loves the jersey she received from her cousins]

[stuffing her face with crackers // shirt by greatgreenroomclothing]

[photo booth at grace’s birthday]

[stoic moments while shopping // skirt shopjunepark]

[happy birthday america!]

[bang bang pie]

[hanging out, putting on lip balm]

[her new favorite thing, hiding behind the pillows then popping out and roaring!]

[eggs over easy at eggs over easy]

[hanging out and shopping]

[starbucks baby // shirt by masonblakeapparel]

[cubs win! cubs win!]

[first swim lessons]

[fourth of july goodies]

[cousins = besties]

[eating alfresco on a beautiful, sunny day at bang bang pie]

[enjoying her hot dog]

[cubs game!]

[pool time!]

[goofing around]

[happy baby…]

[because she is eating chocolate!]

[fourth of july chalkboard]

[cutie pie // shirt kidandkind]

[concert in the park]

there ya go lovies! our past july in a slew of snapshots. again, it was an amazing month of goodness. i am blessed and lucky to have such a wonderful, simple life. i am thankful for my friends and family around me. cheers to a beautiful month of august!

xoxo

june snapshots

Posted on July 21, 2015 by tandem in love

i remember june. warm days. rain. brunch dates. photo sessions. sweet time with olive. family time. a whole lotta goodness.

some of the highlights: cubs family day. we had such a blast going to that! we love the cubbies. it was fantastic to explore wrigley field and not just experience it from the seats! we were so happy to have attended the gay pride parade in chicago…especially since marriage equality became a federal law! woot! woot! we enjoyed many get together’s with friends and outings with the family. life is good. it’s summer y’all! woo!

june’s weather was interesting. not too warm and at times, too rainy and cool. but honestly, i will take it over the cold. i do love winter but nothing beats summer and the long sunny days. ahhhhhhhh.

of course, there were so many precious moments with olive. she’s so amazing and i enjoy every moment with her. i’m such a sap…i cherish, cherish, cherish every second i have with her. i soak in every hug, kiss, and sweet smile she gives. i savor every word. every look. every quirky action. my heart breaks every time with sadness and happiness because i never, ever want her to not need me. i look into her eyes and hope that she becomes solid, strong, powerful, and finds happiness in life. the love is so overpowering and my purpose in life is so intense with this little one in it. the circle of life is pure awe!

anyhoo, please enjoy our june’s snapshots! muwah!

[she loves crawling into our just made bed…]

[dorito eating babes // i’d like to add that she was under hc’s care at this moment]

[kt and me]

[hi morning bedhead]

[sprinkle doughnut anyone?]

[holding bunny’s hand]

[starbucks mini]

[i love this pic…jodi’s face and olive’s face…]

[cubs family day]

[mmmmm ice cream at auntie kim’s]

xoxo

may snapshots

Posted on June 15, 2015 by tandem in love

yay! somewhat on time this time! hahaha! may brought us warmer weather and a lot of rain! isn’t suppose to be april shower brings may flowers?! it was like april coldness brings may showers :p

well, we celebrated mother’s day this past month, as well as our mom’s birthday! every few years, my mom’s birthday will fall on mother’s day or right around it, so sometimes it’s like a double celebration in one! we had a wonderful time on mother’s day, we hosted my family and my brother in law’s family at our house. it was sweet, relaxing, and a blast to decorate for. it was a fun time, indeed.

there was a lot of hanging around outdoors. we ate a bunch of dinners alfresco, we were able to go to a flea market we have had our eyes on for a bit, we had brunch with our friends at restaurants with outdoor open dining spaces…so many fun things to explore when the weather is nice!

as you can tell, my most favorite thing to do is eating outside when it’s warm at night and ONLY if there are no mosquitos. when we were in the city, it was so easy to do so, because there weren’t many, if any mosquitos. but here in the ‘burbs, they thrive so it’s a challenge and a battle to be able to sit outside and relax without getting bit!

anyhoo, please enjoy our may snapshots:

[i love this photo of her checking out the lady next to her!]

[peek a boo under the pillows]

[antique shopping]

[my dad’s favorite way to hold her]

[the classic oh baby olive look]

[she crawled into bed with me and fell asleep by my side. *sigh*]

[holding terry’s hand at a point where she wouldn’t hold anyone’s hand]

[eating alfresco]

[observing the scene]

[goofing around with her cousin]

[this cutie waking up from her nap on mother’s day]

[these two cuties!]

[mmmmm, waffles]

[dad’s birthday]

[sleeping away]

[hc and me!]

[her first starbucks drink! vanilla bean frappucino]

[hanging out with her favorite sister]

[me and my soeurs]

[hanging out at target]

[ahhhhhhh!]

may was a blast and i can’t wait to share all the joys of our month of june!

xoxo

flashback friday

Posted on June 12, 2015 by tandem in love

today takes us back to may 2012…

i love this picture of matt, hc, and me! we are at the bellagio in vegas. well, we just booked our trip to vegas {a week or so ago} and it is making me excited! i love vegas. it’s such a fun place to visit for a weekend. it’s got everything for a fun time. everything is 27/7, there are soooo many great restaurants, and it’s seriously the best people watching evah! there’s something so relaxing about vegas for me. i don’t know if it’s the amazing hotels and service or the spas or the pools or the relaxed attitude of everyone? i love the room service, i love the environment, i love the craziness of it all. it’s so over the top and nutty and that is what makes it so enticing.

my favorite part of vegas are the pools. we love renting out the cabanas and being lazy all day long. you get a ‘private’ pool, personalized service, and a great tan! since only a few cabanas share a pool, we love chatting it up {and maybe getting a little tipsy} with the other cabana folks!

the last few years, we have been going with our dear friends matt and johann. matt’s wonderful sister, liz, lives there with her husband and two kids and we love visiting them every time. matt and johann are the best traveling buddies…they are laid back and flexible on what we do and want to do. ditto for us. we are pretty open when it comes to our schedule and what we will do…we are just happy to be there {with them}, anything is possible!

anyhoo, i can’t wait until we go. it’s going to be a fabulous time no matter what. what trips do you have planned for this summer/fall? any favorite places you just love visiting? well, lovies…i hope y’all have a fantastic friday and weekend! muwah!

xoxo

april snapshots

Posted on June 8, 2015 by tandem in love

oops, i totally forgot to post my april snapshots. i mean, like i never even bothered. i didn’t remember. i never realized it until about a few days ago, so i thought, eff it, i’m going to post one anyways. only because i love to keep order and document everything!

it’s so funny to type about easter and such, because it feels like it was soooo long ago! my how time flies by. it was a fun month of trips, holidays, and get togethers. a few of april’s highlights were our trip to antique archaeology, visiting andrea and jamie to see their newborn baby girl, easter, and hc’s birthday!

we also hit the first anniversary of buying our house! what a milestone for us. it’s been an amazing journey buying & living in this house. it’s had it’s ups and downs {the remodeling drives me bananas!} but in the end…it is our home and there’s nothing better than home sweet home.

anyhoo, april was a busy busy month for me and olive. we had non-stop activities, lots of photo sessions, and plenty of play time together {hello pto!}. i love spending my time with this sweet baby girl. well…here’s our april in rewind!

[it’s blurry but i love this pic!]

[bubbly bath time]

[sipping water and watching the telly with dada in our hotel room]

[her easter basket]

[little chunker watching her favorite movie]

[in-between her photo sessions]

[our beastly, only pretty in spring, bush]

[i love this little bugger face]

[baby annabelle grace]

[visiting our favorite antique shop]

[one of my favorite pics of late]

[she makes my heart melt]

[lunching with dada]

[hc’s birthday]

[opening up her easter baskets]

[nom nom nom…strawberries]

[black and white theme]

well there, my april snapshots are done. haha…now it’s time to post our may snapshots! i swear, i won’t post it in july! or maybeeeeee. april was a great, fun month full of lovely activities.

xoxo

flashback friday

Posted on May 15, 2015 by tandem in love

today takes us back to…2010.

here we are at a dear friend’s wedding {pam & ryan!}. it was a lovely, warm day in may…a perfect day to get married! we are just outside the church, after their ceremony, and we already cheered the bride and groom when they came out for a sneak peek.

i love weddings. is it a bad or good thing that we really don’t go to weddings anymore?? or does that mean we are just getting older {we are an old married couple with old married friends? or does that mean that we don’t really have any single friends? or whatever. i love ’em. although, we do have a couple of weddings coming up this year…yippee! we can’t wait to celebrate our friend’s upcoming nuptials.

i love this pic of me and the hubs. he is seriously the best husband ever. he is sweet, loving, caring, patient, kind, funny, helpful, thoughtful, did i say loving? he is so many wonderful things, there are not enough words to describe him! he balances me out, he calms me down, he brings me back to reality, he reminds me that we are in this to win it! i knew life before him but i now cannot imagine life without him.

marriage is wonderful, a lot of work, compromise, full of love, arguments, patience, laughter, repetition, balance, respect…it has it’s up’s and down’s and always turns around for the better as long as you have two people who are committed and positive, having similar dispositions helps too. we definitely have our moments, but what couple out there doesn’t?? in the end, we absolutely love each other and only want the best for us and our family. true happiness comes from the simple things in life!

ok…enough babbling. it is wedding season! i’m sure someone out there is heading to a wedding this weekend! enjoy and happy friday y’all!

xoxo

flashback friday

Posted on May 8, 2015 by tandem in love

today takes us back to 2013.

i am about 7 months preggo in this pic. ahhhh, i just remember being big, tired, and that belly being h e a v y. and i was only seven months pregnant! ha! that 3rd trimester was just starting! little did i know how heavy that belly was really going to get!

here we are at d.o.c wine bar, just having a girl’s night out. i definitely don’t get to see these girls enough and now it will be even less because miss marina is moving away! yes, she and the fam are heading to boston {jelly…i hear boston is fabulous!}. i think it’s pretty awesome that they are making such a huge transition, but of course these situations are always bittersweet. it’ll just be another fantastic reason to visit beautiful boston {we have never been, soooo….}!

i love these ladies! can you believe we have known each other for such a long time?! miss carol is our connection but i love that we have remained in touch since carol moved to seattle. every so often, we will get together {dinners, parties, pregnancies} and catch up on life’s happenings. i’m sad that this will no longer happen so easily! oh life, the loops and curve balls you always throw at us will always keep us on our toes!

anyhoo, i hope you create some great memories with some dear friends this weekend. life is too short to not love the little things. life is too short to not revel in the simple, loving moments. life is too short to not tell someone that you love them.

simple phrases that are sometimes forgotten and sometimes hard to always follow. i hope that i succeed in living out the above phrases and i hope you do too! happy friday y’all!

xoxo

flashback friday

Posted on May 1, 2015 by tandem in love

today takes us back to…2013.

no, this isn’t from that long ago but a fabulous blast from the past {if i do say so myself}. this was taken at hc’s big birthday party that i threw him. it was at a bar in chicago, in wicker park…right down the street from us. a perfect walk home {a necessity if you’ve been drinking…but we don’t drink 😉 haha!}.

i had the best time planning this event. i wanted to incorporate everything ‘him’. i purchased fun balloons & tissue tassels. i made menus and favors {all candies from his birth year}. i had the bakery {from across the street…alliance bakery} make him a pabst blue ribbon beer cake! it was ah-maze. a very, very good time. you can check out the post here.

well, of course, we had invited friends and family to help us celebrate his big birthday! it was pretty awesome to have a big group of people join in on such a fun event. i was pretty grateful that so many people had made the trip into the city to celebrate {some peeps don’t live so close!}.

here is a pic of me and my sisters with our childhood friend, lan. i love this photo because it’s impromptu, it’s cute {um, we’re cute}, and we are genuinely happy! there is something special about this picture that makes me smile just by looking at it. it’s so crazy to think that we are sisters and yet soooooo different. whether it be by style, personality, humor, or looks. it’s pretty amazing that we all came from the same two parents but yet we are all so unique and quirky in our own way. it totally makes me think about nature vs. nurture…how it leads you down the path that you are on, to be who you are.

[at hc’s big 4-0 birthday bash]

okay, enough deep thoughts…it was a grand ol’ time! we had the best time celebrating his big birthday with a fantastic party, with the most fabulous friends and family! muwah!

xoxo

flashback friday

Posted on December 5, 2014 by tandem in love

today takes us back to december 2008.

our friends and family gathered together at 10pin for a holiday bowling party. nerdy hc and me decided to get matching bowling shirts personalized with our names on them {from strange cargo in wrigleyville…i love that store!}. ha! it’s a shame we have never worn them since. i guess that means we need to go to another fun, bowling party soon. dust off the duds and roll some balls!

we had just started dating here, barely together for two months in this photo! look at us! we look so fresh and happy; i’m loving our ‘looks’. anyhoo, we met up with everyone {my sisters and a bunch of friends}, bowled our hearts out, and noshed on some yummy not good for you food.

it was a swell time. we were loving our bowling shirts and loving each other. ah, the start of our relationship is so sweet to reminisce in. when we first met, it was quite rocky {at least on my part…as many of you know, i didn’t take to hc at first} and then we fell hard. december was a wonderful month for us. it was full of love, laughter, good times, and newness.

so, a bowling party like this was a fabulous memory we now revel in. we got all geeked out in our shirts and had a great time bowling with everyone. or at least i tried my best to avoid getting my balls in the gutter 😉

[heine and deuce]

what are some of your favorite memories with your significant other?? what holiday pasts have you done that brings you joy? hopefully nothing bad that the ghost of christmas past will remind you of {not scrooges allowed}!! i hope it brings a smile to your face when you reminisce! happy friday y’all!

xoxo

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