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I can’t believe today is December and my little princess is 7 months old! Her first year is going by incredibly too fast. I really need it to slow down.

Every year, my cousins and I go Black Friday shopping. It has become a really fun tradition. For some reason, I felt like there weren’t as many people out shopping this year. It was strange. Not that I’m complaining. Maybe everyone is doing it online now? There is just something about going the day after Thanksgiving to officially start your Christmas shopping with family and your hot cocoa in hand. It’s so much fun and you can save a lot of money doing it.

This year, I racked up on Christmas gifts! I was so excited to get so much of my shopping done all at once, but my favorite part was spending time with my family. We laughed and had such a good time and it was the perfect distraction from all the chaos that was going on last week. In addition to Christmas gifts, I snagged a new plaid scarf, because one can never have too many, right? and this adorable striped shirt! It is so comfortable and goes with everything. Everything.

Another surprise came in the mail last week – my December Rocksbox! It was a welcomed surprise and I was s excited to see what was in it this month. I never peek online because I like the element of surprise. So, I opened it up and loved what I saw! I immediately tried it all on and have enjoyed wearing it this week.

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I scored a few good deals on Christmas presents on Black Friday, but I really love Cyber Monday! All of the amazing deals of Black Friday right from my computer with coffee in hand and PJ’s on. That is my kid of shopping! I am so looking forward to knocking out some more (if not all) of my Christmas shopping today! I sat down last night and made my Christmas list, so here we go! These are some of the deals I am going to browse and some of my picks.

Old Navy – 40% off entire store.

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Gap – 40% off entire store.

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Nordstrom – Extra 25% off Selected Sale Items

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Ulta – $10 off purchase of $50 or more and Free Shipping on orders over $35.

Loft – 50% off everything with code CYBER50

Khols – Extra 20% off + Free Shipping on orders $25 +!

H&M – 20%, 30%, and 40% off + Free Shipping!

Minted – 25% off products and 20% off holiday cards!

ThredUp – Use this link to get $20 credit!

Victoria’s Secret – Free Shipping on Orders $50+ and $20 off $125 or more!

Anthopologie – 25% off every item.

Target – 30% off clothes, shoes and more!

Express – 50% off everything.

It’s Black Friday!! I am definitely planning to make a huge dent in my Christmas shopping today! I have so many presents to buy and I may buy myself one, too. We will see! I have several things on my list, but here are a few of the deals I plan to shop:

Old Navy: 50% off entire store

Gap 50% off entire store. These Gapfit leggings are so cute and I’m swooning over these bear booties for SR and this buffalo plaid henley or H!

The LOFT 50% off (almost) everything

Target 40% off all clothes and accessories

Khols: 50% off Toys, 60% off outerwear and more!

Amazon: Tons of deals on electronics

Sephora: $10 Gift Sets

Express: 50% off (nearly) everything. I love this Ombre sweater and this sweater dress!

Which sales are you planning to shop?

This post is sponsored by Voya but the content and opinions expressed here are my own.


Everyone has that one gift they always remember. The bike or the coveted boots or new cell phone. My memorable gift was the year my grandfather gave all 10 of us grandchildren stock. I was young enough to not have a clue what stock was and had never heard of the stock market. He sat us down and explained it to us and I am forever grateful for this investment.

This year, instead of giving the kids in your life a bunch of new toys hat they really don’t need, consider investing in their future. Voya Financial helps Americans plan and invest their money into safe accounts and mutual funds to help protect heir future. After reading a little about them, I found that they are even offering every baby born on October 19th of this year a complimentary $500 mutual fund. Do you know anyone with children born on that day? Let them know about it!

Voya Saving Tips:

-Budget

-Set up an IRA

-Purchase Life Insurance

-Contribute a small amount of your paycheck to an investment fund.

In a Google Consumer Survey, nearly one-third of parents said they would rather family and friends gift a financial contribution to their child’s future during the holidays. To be completely honest, I fall in that 1/3. I would so much rather receive financial support for my kids future than another toy. What about you?

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I just wanted to pause for a minute and tell you how much I appreciate you reading my little space on the internet. It never ceases to amaze me how many of you read, comment on and share my posts. This year, I am especially thankful for all of my readers and everyone I have worked with over the last 12 months. I was looking back at spreadsheets during our move and couldn’t get over the fact that in 8 short months, this hobby of mine turned into a business and I don’t know what we would do without the supplement income from it. It has also been such a healthy outlet for me and has been very positive in my life. This blog has been such a blessing this year and I can’t wait to see the leaps and bounds it takes in the next 12 months.

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving, eat lots of turkey and kick up your feet. Laugh with family and hug them real tight. There is nothing in the world like family. I love you all!

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Every holiday season I begin putting together new recipes for different things. Thanksgiving, Christmas parties, Family Christmas dinner, etc. There is always a list of events that I need to cook for. I was at the grocery store the other day and saw Mezzetta olives! I made a delicious Holiday Pasta Salad recipe last year and I thought the olives would be a great addition to a Holiday skewer I was planning for this week!

Ingredients:

-1 red pepper chopped into one inch squares
-Basil leaves
–Mezzetta Green Olives (cut out the pits)
-Feta Cheese cut into one inch squares

Directions:

After cutting the pepper and cheese, place the ingredients on a skewer. Drizzle with olive oil and season with ground black pepper.

These are so easy and the perfect color for a holiday appetizer. Mezzetta is hosing a Holiday Sweepstakes where you can win an Olive Lover’s Gift Basket with a ton of goodies. Be sure to enter the sweeps here!

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What is your favorite go-to holiday appetizer?

Thank you to NBC  for sponsoring today’s post and inspiring me to try NBC TVEverywhere!

Today is officially our last moving day! We are moving the last bit of our furniture and belongings over to my parent’s house. This move has been so bittersweet. The process itself has not been fun. We have been packing and moving boxes every spare moment for the last week now and we were out of town for 9 days before that. We were bummed because we missed out on all of our favorite T.V. shows. Lucky for us, we discovered a new way to watch T.V. without the T.V. On our desktop! We were literally able to catch up on our favorite NBC show, The Voice, while we were packing – which was awesome. We even created a fun and romantic date night out of it.

Saturday we went to a wedding and my in-laws kept our kids for us overnight so that we could get some packing done. We got so much done and thought we deserved a break, so we cuddled on the couch under blankets and caught up on The Voice. See? Packing can be fun! 😉

It not only made packing a little more fun, but we also got to catch up on the show we had missed -even though we had already moved our television. I absolutely hate to miss out on The Voice and watching Blake and Adam go back and forth. They crack me up. This season has been really fun because there is a contestant on the show who has made it pretty far who is from Alabama. We love to root for our hometown girls in this state!

We had an emotional few days packing up all of our belongings from our first 4 years of marriage and knowing we are leaving our first home – the house we came home to after our honeymoon and brought our babies home to for the first time. We are so excited to begin our next adventure and find the perfect next home for us. I’m excited that even through the chaos we can still catch up on our favorite NBC shows, like The Voice, on my laptop. This show gave us the perfect musical distraction we needed through our move and I love that we were able to watch T.V. without the T.V.

Check it out for yourself and watch full episodes here! Which NBC show are you into?

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These days with young kids, my husband and I have very little time for date nights. While we have family around, they are really busy working and keeping other’s children and we feel bad asking most of the time. Sitters are few and far between and so we have to get creative when it comes to dating and keeping the flame alive.

Our marriage and relationship is very important to us and we make a point to keep it a priority. Dating your spouse is so healthy and so we try to do it as often as we can. We try to get the kids in bed around 7:30 every night and that is normally the time we get to have our uninterrupted date at home! Usually we choose to eat our dinner after we put the kids to bed and we watch a movie and cuddle on the couch. Here is how we make sure to have few interruptions:

– Make sure the kids are good and settled in their beds before we start our movie.


– We mix Emergen-C in our drinks every so often to ensure we have healthy days and nights. With over 20 varieties of vitamin supplement drink mixes, the possibilities are endless.


– We keep our Advil tablet vial on hand at all times so keep those annoying headaches away. Who wants to deal with aches and pains on a date? Not me! Nothing’s stronger, longer lasting or better on your tough aches and pains than Advil, and nothing works on more pains than Advil (among OTC pain relievers).


– I always have one (or five) ChapSticks on hand to keep my lips moist. Especially during the cooler months to prevent them from getting dry or chapped. My latest obsession is the ChapStick Total Hydration! The advanced nourishing formula is 100% natural, age defying and clinically proven to give you healthier looking lips.


– We turn our phones off or put them on silent so others don’t interrupt our limited quality time.

Usually when we take these steps, we end up having a great date night at home with few interruptions! 

What do you do for date nights at home? 

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For years I was always that girl with the curly/frizzy hair. I didn’t really know what to do with it. This was back before straighteners. It was just a pile of mess for most of my childhood. Because of this, my hair was in a ponytail 90% of the time. I was embarrassed by it and it was just easier to throw it back and not have to deal with it. Straight hair just seemed to be the only way to go. I mean, look at the emoji keyboard! Only straight hair there.

Fast forward to high school and I fell in love with straighteners. I thought they were awesome -that is, until an amazing thing happened. More and more girls in my class began to “scrunch” their hair. Do you remember this? Even the girls who didn’t really have any curl or body to their hair began to curl or scrunch their hair because they wanted that body. Around this time and during my early years of college, I began to change my attitude about my curls. I began embracing them instead of straightening them. I found out very quickly that my hair enjoyed being itself a lot more than when I was burning it every day.

My hair began to grow faster, thicker and healthier (until I had kids, but that’s a whole other story). Now that I am a mother, I am so thankful that I have curly hair because I can jump out of the shower, run a brush through it, put a little product in it and go. No more shame. In fact, it is extremely convenient and a big time-saver. I don’t have to spend an hour on it unless I just want to and it still looks good!

Dove Hair is celebrating curls by creating the Dove #LoveYourCurls Emoji keyboard! I have been using it for a couple of weeks now and I love it! I can finally express my curly-headed self with curly headed emojis! They are so much fun and my friends who have curly hair have also gotten on board and are enjoying them as well. They are so much fun!

Be sure to Download the Dove Love Your Curls Emojis in the App Store and Google Play Store to show you #LoveYourCurls! Dove Hair is partnering with Twitter so each time women or girls share a tweet using the hashtag #LoveYourCurls, a Dove curly emoji will appear in the tweet! 


Don’t forget to share a photo using the hashtag so I can check out all of your great curls as well! Have you downloaded the Dove Love Your Curls Emoji Keyboard?

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Happy Friday! I can’t believe we are less than a week away from Thanksgiving and exactly one week away from Black Friday! You know what that means? It’s time to start making those Christmas lists! If you missed it, I shared my Holiday Gift Guide for the girls on Monday and now I am sharing some of my favorite inexpensive stocking stuffer ideas!

X Ring
Nail Polish
Wool Socks
Coffee Mug
Candle
Notebooks
Sugar Lip Stick
Kate Spade Coffee Mug
LUSH Bath Bomb
E.L.F. Eyeshadow
Urban Decay ‘Naked Basics’ Palette
Kate Spade Water Bottle
Kitchen Towels and a Cookbook
Kate Spade Earrings
Tote Bag
Books
Make-up Bag
Mini Capri Blue Jar Candle
Kate Spade Tackle Box
…and then there’s always Starbucks!

I’m including a few more of my favorites in the widget below. What are some of your favorite stocking stuffers? Do you have any other ideas I didn’t include?