Friday Favorites {11.3.17}

Happy Friday! In my house, we are officially feeling the beginning of the holiday season and loving it! We have our thankful turkey going, we are getting ready to celebrate an early Thanksgiving with Josh’s family next weekend and I’m starting to watch all the Hallmark Christmas movies I can get.

Just like every Friday, I’m linking up with Erika, Narci and Andrea for Friday Favorites!

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Last weekend, we had family pictures taken in the cold, cold weather. It was 35 degrees when we started and our kids were such troopers to be marching around outside without coats! I absolutely LOVE how they turned out.

Our sweet photographer is so amazing that you can’t even tell we were freezing and Luke and Reid were really, really crabby.

If you are local and in need of a photographer, send me a message. I would love to recommend her!

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I bought these boots for our photos on a whim and I seriously love them. I’m fairly tall (5’7″) so I struggle to find boots that don’t make me feel like a giant. These have enough of a heel that they are cute but I barely notice it’s there. Plus, I have never owned a more comfortable boot. I wore them all around the zoo the other day and loved them!

three

Last weekend we squeezed in all the Halloween fun we possibly could. We finally made it to the huge corn maze I’ve been wanting to go to even though it was freezing. We all bundled up and had a great time!

We made it through the 20 minute maze in only 5 minutes, so we figured we would try the 40 minute maze. An hour and four cold kids later, were still at checkpoint 3 of 8 and realized we made a poor choice. Haha!

We had Halloween movie night and watched Spooky Buddies. It was actually really cute and a little spooky without being too scary for our littlest boys.

The older boys and Josh and I hit up a Halloween parade and lucked out to find a perfect spot that was always thrown gobs of candy. Somehow, we only got a few trick-or-treaters on Halloween which ruined my plan for giving out the tons of candy we did not need to keep. I hid a ton of it in the freezer to keep myself away from it! (I clearly have no self control.)

We carved our pumpkins and watched football together on Sunday.

It was the coldest Halloween here since 2002 so our trick-or-treating was cut a little short but we still all had a great Halloween!

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I’m a brand new contributing writer for Twiniversity and I wrote a post for them last week on 5 Simple Ways to Keep the Spark Alive in Your Marriage. Even though it’s written from our perspective of having twins, it absolutely applies to any couple in the trenches of raising children in any number ;). Josh and I have definitely struggled during different seasons of life with our children to find time for each other. We are always a constant work in progress!

We snuck in a shot of us while the boys were running around like crazy during our family photos. I love having pictures just the two of us.

five

Every year I sign up for Allrecipes Pie Countdown emails. They email you a pie recipe a day from November 1 through Thanksgiving Day. I always bring pies to Thanksgiving and I look forward to these emails every year for some new ideas! I have gotten some of my very favorite pie recipes from this countdown! Plus, I would never say no to 23 days of pie. Obviously.

Those are my favorites this week! If you missed my Confessions post on Thursday, you can find it here. I revealed a pretty ridiculous secret … it’s okay if you judge me. I judge me too. 😉

Hope you have the very best weekend!

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