Kerry is such a sweetheart and recently looked out for me 🙂
Check out her blog (and her completely accurate new post)
xoxo
I feel like pictures taken with boyfriends reveal the best smiles 🙂
This and yap 🤍 Don’t forget to create holiday magic for yourself too! I can’t tell you how nice it was to do some gingerbread decorating without having to follow a three year old’s vision (or fight the sugar battle)! It’s fun to do it with kids, too, but sometimes you just need coffee, baked goods, and little bit of kid-free catch up time with your mom friends! Thank you for hosting @blueskyehouse!!
I wrote down a list of things I wanted to do for fun in 2024. I crossed off exactly zero of them (having a baby will do that to ya) and my only hope of accomplishing one would be to host a cookie exchange! I wanted to SO bad but I was also feeling exhausted after a long year (losing a dog, having a baby, running a business, etc.) and I didn’t know if I had hosting a party in me. I sent out the invitations and told myself I’d figure it out. There was no going back! It was SO FUN though and I will be doing this again. I feel like so much of the holidays as a mom is spent making the magic for kids. It’s Santa meet and greets, Christmas shopping, holiday pageants…. And then seeing Santa again (and again and again). THIS party was for us! 🥂
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I completley agree that photos taken with boyfriends reveal the truest and brightest smiles 🙂
you look beyond gorg in the middle picture. you look gorg in all three but the middle one is fab. you should do your makeup like that everyday. love it!
haha boyfriend photos are definitely great, but i love oens with my single girlies as well…some of my most joyful times! your eye makeup looks beautiful in that second one!
Thank you so much for the tag! You look gorgeous in all three pictures! Have a great Thursday- almost to the weekend!!! xoxo
Great pix Carly… love your blog post…of course you know that…keep it going so those of us who do like it can keep up! Great weekend coming up I'm sure!!! Later(:>)
Betsy
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hi carly! so true about the smiles. you're glowing in all the pics and your makeup looks fab in the middle one!
is it just me or does the link to "ode to nice girls" redirecting to a different random website with every click and not to Preppy Perfection?
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