Fall Fashion: Scarves

Shopping for myself these days is pretty limited. I'm just not into spending too much on clothes I'll likely only wear for the next few months. Plus, what may fit my ever expanding belly now may not fit in another month! Accessories, shoes and bags are the obvious exceptions. With fall weather upon us, I find myself reaching for a scarf these days more and more. Good thing for me, I can wear (and buy) cute scarves no matter what my size. Here are a few that have caught my eye lately.

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I also found this awesome video on how to wear a scarf (brilliant!) on one of my favorite blogs a few weeks ago.

Make these!

We celebrated Reese's birthday yesterday with a party here at our place. Of course, I made funfetti cupcakes for Reese and the kids to dig into but these really stole the show. Be warned, they are beyond delicious and definitely addictive! Recipe found here.

Another year makes 2.

I don't know if I'll ever stop saying it but time really does fly, and it seems like every time I turn around, Reese is changing. I can't believe our baby girl is 2 years old now. She amazes us every day with all of her new discoveries and watching her really come into her own little personality.

We celebrated on her actual birthday with bowling and dinner out and are planning a small birthday party for her this weekend.

Reese is saying so many new words and putting those words together to form sentences. She loves her baby dolls and always requests to sleep with 'two babies' along with a handful of other buddies. She's also recently started daycare two days a week and is loving it. I was a little nervous about the transition since she's never really been away from us for too long. She did great though, only crying a little the first couple days when she would realize we weren't there. I was a little sad the first day but know she needs the social interaction and it is a nice break for us too. The one thing I don't love is all the extra germs that come along with it! Oh well, guess it's either now or later.

We are officially crib-free now! At least for a few months anyway. Reese loves her 'new bed' and handled the transition much better than I anticipated. Although, we're holding our breath a little as we've heard the tough times come a little later once they really realize they can escape. For now, she's doing great in her new bed and fingers crossed it stays that way.

We've also started a naughty step for disciplining. We use it with a warning first when she acts out too aggressively (hitting, kicking, etc) or blatantly disobeys. She goes on the step a little too willingly though and we're not exactly sure why. There is nothing on the step for her to 'play' with but she will sometimes run there and stays the entire 2 minutes without a sound. Then we come get her and explain why she was there and she will say 'hit mama' as if she knows exactly what she did wrong. I'm just not sure it's effective in the way we had hoped, as in discouraging the bad behavior. Um, Super Nanny, what do we do with that?!

Hard to believe how much she has grown and changed over the last two years and we're trying to cherish every precious moment!

I'm back, finally.

Well, it has been quite a hiatus for me. At first, I decided to step away just for the summer since I was feeling a little too all over the place. Clearly, that has turned into months. In any case, I'm back and happy to be blogging again.

We are back in Cardiff now and just to recap, here is how all that went down. Most of you know the story by now but last time I was writing, we were packing up for France so obviously things changed. With my pregnancy out in the open, the team was having a hard time agreeing to issuing full health insurance for the entire time we would be in France. Obviously, this was a big problem since I would have been around 20 weeks when we arrived. It was an extremely frustrating process since we had agreed and signed a contract with the team stating full insurance would be issued for player and family. They basically tried getting around this by claiming pregnancy was not part of healthcare. Really?! I mean because that would make absolutely zero sense. Insert sarcasm. So with that big wrench thrown into our plans, we quickly worked toward a settlement and began our search for a new team. Since July is late in the game (for European hockey) and with the pregnancy well under way, we weren't in a position to sit around and wait. Unfortunately a common practice in this lifestyle. Luckily, Cardiff reached out to Scott expressing interest in having him back. A deal was struck, contract signed, and here we are, back in Cardiff. Happy to be back on familiar ground most definitely.