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Spring Fashion has Arrived

I participated in an Influencer Activation on behalf of Influence Central for OshKosh B’Gosh. I received a promotional item to thank me for my participation.

I’m in crazy love with this photo above! The flip flops, hats, and big sisterly smiles – it just doesn’t get much better when snapping pictures of the kids. OshKosh has their Spring line out, and while browsing, I could not help myself – how cute are these dresses and hats?! The colors are so bright and fun in the hats, while the dresses are a bit more mild with just a pop of color.

I couldn’t leave little Prince out, so found this dapper polo shirt, and khaki shorts for him. He was fairly disappointed that there wasn’t a hat for him, but as soon as I showed him the pockets in the pants he was sold. Little boys need pockets after all.

He still wanted a hat though, so while we were out enjoying this nice spring day, he stole a couple. First Princess R’s, and later mine.

We went on this adventure today, out to the practice field across the road, and then on to the kids elementary school playground. There was a bit of a breeze (when isn’t there in North Dakota?), but with the sun shining we had to take advantage. Our neighbor keeps warning us that more snow will be coming. As much as I love snow, I kind of hope she’s wrong. It’s so nice right now.

Big floppy hats anyone? Or perhaps a fedora with a big pink flower? You’ll find it all in child size at OshKosh. Seriously just so cute. I have my own big floppy hat, but I’m thinking I need a fedora now too. The wind made it difficult to keep the hats on, but the girls were troopers, and did their best.

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Sorry last one! I tried not to photo dump on you today, but these kids and clothes are just too stinking cute!

March 22, 2015
4 ways to wear leggings {Giveaway}

I was expecting that once fall hit here in North Dakota we’d get some pretty cool weather. So far it’s actually been extremely warm – like middle of summer warm. But I know it’s eventually going to cool off, so we’re getting ready. Grandma found us some nice coats, and then I came across these cute leggings at Girls Crochet Headbands. Princess R and I thought it would be a lot of fun to style them different ways for you.

1. On Your Arms,
Let’s just jump right into the crazy here! Put those leggings on your arms. I think we may need more leggings so we can all warm up our arms in style. Plus they’re just so cute. And of course if you have a second pair, you can toss them on your legs. Which brings us to the next style!

2. Lengthen Pants.
I seriously love these white leggings we got from GCH. They’ve got a cute ruffle on the bottom that I like to stick out the bottom of Princess R’s pants. It helps lengthen the pants too, especially the ones that have shrunk in the wash.

3. Dress Up.
Aren’t these adorable? Toss on a cute tutu, a headbow, but don’t forget the rainbow leggings. I can’t get over how much fun Princess R had in this outfit.

4. Under a Dress.
Probably the most common way to wear leggings is under a dress. Normally I’d prefer a less exciting legging under the dress, but this girl you guys. She just can’t get enough of these rainbow leggings.

WIN IT!

GCH would like to give one of my readers the same package they sent me. It will include

Turquoise Tutu Top

Turquoise Tutu Skirt

Rainbow Bright Leg warmers

White Organza leg wamers

White cherry blossom headband

Red girls hair bow

Turquoise crochet headband

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I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free using Tomoson.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.

September 27, 2014
That one time my kids chose my outfits

A few months ago my family decided to start a family “vlog”. Each week we are required to post a video. Sometimes it’s supposed to be specific, most of the time it’s just whatever we happened to do over the past week.

When we don’t post, we are punished – because when you are part of an awesomely cool family like mine, you can punish each other in good spirits without hurting anyone’s feelings. Take for example my oldest brother. He has vowed never to read The Giver – so when he missed posting a video one week, guess what punishment I doled out? That’s right, my dear brother is now going to read The Giver, and he’s not going to hate me for it.

I was doing good ya’ll, until my computer decided to take 2 hours to upload my video and it posted 15 minutes after the deadline. My baby sister was in charge of punishments that week, and I was given the task of allowing my children to pick my outfits for 4 days in a row. 1 child per day. If you recall I’m working on Finding my Fashion – so this was going to be interesting for sure.

I figured instead of just sharing with my family, I’d let you in on the fun too. Following are the outfits my kids had me wear this week. I think the real punishment in this exercise is learning that some of my children have better style sense than I do, but they could use some photography classes.

Day 1

Outfit chosen by Princess R – 4 years old

On Monday I sported an old t-shirt from Mark’s years at USU, and a nice comfy pair of Gloria Vanderbilt shorts. Due to time limits that morning, we never got around to picking out jewelry.

Day 2

Outfit chosen by Prince L – 2 years old

(and Mark because little Prince really didn’t care)

On Tuesday I wore a brown skirt (that I think might be shrinking), a light blue/green undershirt, with a plaid button up my other sister gave me for Christmas last year. Oh and low pig tails in the hair.

Day 3

Outfit chosen by Princess C – 6 years old

A dress it is! My little black dress. OK maybe it’s an old maternity dress that still fits me nicely because it’s made out of a stretch fabric. Today we also got fancy and put in some big hoop earrings, and wore a hot air balloon necklace. Here’s a little better view of the earrings. I’ll be honest, this was the day I was most worried about. As we looked through my jewelry box, I thought for sure the tiara from my wedding day was going to end up on my head all day long. We got lucky there. Awe, footwear! She knows what I like, and my flip flops were just fine by me to wear (even if these ones need to retire).

Day 4

Princess V – 7 years old

Let’s look past me sticking my tongue out, mmkay? This was the best photo taken. At least I’d prefer you see my tongue instead of weird half open eyes.

Truly though, I would love if this girl picked my clothes every day of the week. What a cute fall outfit she chose!

I’m wearing an orange maxi skirt, cute striped shirt, and black bolero.

Wait what’s on my wrist you say? Oh you know, just a blue snowflake bracelet. Don’t you think it matches the blue flip flops nicely? I also wore a beautiful sliver necklace with a prayer box (I think that’s what it is) with an evil eye charm that my mother in law brought back from a trip to Turkey one year.

I KNOW you all want to recreate these styles now, so I’ve put together a collection for you over on Resultly (it’s like pinterest, but makes it easy to buy from!)

Now these aren’t the exact products I’m wearing, because most from my closet are pretty old, but it is the closest I could fin to still create some stunning outfits. You will find an almost exact replica of the Hot Air Balloon necklace on here though.

September 20, 2014