A Baby Beach Day.

On Monday my sister, brother-in-law, and nephew visited our new house for the first time. We spent a little time at the beach and I snapped some adorable photos of Emerson enjoying the water :)
Emerson's hair is getting so curly! Cute cute cute. He had fun trying to eat rocks and splashing in the water, but it was super hot out so we didn't last long at the beach. We came back to our house and he busied himself with banging on the table and trying to catch the cat. Babies are hilarious :)

Today Chris and I rand LOTS of errands, and spent too much money buying birthday presents for family (lots of late July and August birthdays in our lives!). I also stocked up on more awesome stuff from LUSH, which I can't wait to test run and fill you in on. We're spending the night lounging on the couch and I'm pretty damn excited about it. We haven't had a quiet night in together for quite some time!

Happy Halloween (and adorable baby photos!)

I hope you all had a fantastic Halloween! My adorable nephew Emerson sure did! It was his first one, and my sister and I worked on his costume together :) I whipped up his hat the other day and she crafted the rest out of stuff she already had. I mean, come on, how freaking cute is he??? So cute. She also sent along some photos of Emerson in the very first thing I made for him, this adorable little bear hat! (here's a link to the pattern) Look at those cheeks!!

I worked a little shorty shift today, and then headed home to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters. I wasn't going to dress up, but last night I decided to try to throw something together! I tweeted about needing some ideas, and I got some awesome ones, but a "cowgirl" was the easiest for me to do! I threw on a plaid shirtdress, a vintage scarf as a bandana, and did some fishtail braid pigtails.

I had a good time passing out candy, although I was all alone since Chris was at work. The kids were adorable, and super polite (which is a surprise, last year didn't go quite so well!). All in all, it was a nice-- if uneventful-- Halloween!

How was yours?? Did you dress up? I'd love to see your costume! If you blogged about it leave me a link in the comments!!

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Jewel Tones and Baby Love.

Yesterday I went into the city to visit my sister and nephew. It's been a couple weeks since I visited, and since then Emerson turned one month old! It's funny, I'm not normally afraid or nervous with babies, but when they're brand new it can be a little nerve-wracking. Now that he's officially one month old, though, it was a lot less pressure interacting with him. I was snatchin' him up and snuggling on him as much as I could!

Skirt, Cardigan, Belt: Thrifted

Tee: Target clearance

Scarf: Gift from my momma

Lauren and I took Emerson out by ourselves (my sister's first time out sans hubby!) and had a nice little lunch at Caffe DeLuca in Bucktown. Emerson was a teeny bit fussy, so while Lauren dealt with him I ate, and then we switched! It was a great little venture out, and I loved being out with my sister again :)

We came home and addressed a hundred or so birth announcements to send out, I held the baby as much as I could before he went down, and then I headed home, tired but so so happy. I feel so lucky to live close enough to my sister and brother-in-law that I can pop by on my free days to hang out. I don't want to miss anything in this little bug's life!!