Thank you buybuy BABY for sponsoring this post! This post title includes one thing I love and one thing I hate ;) It is no secret that I love traditions! I gush over them on the blog all the time! That second half is not always easy for me but it is a MUST if I want to enjoy the holidays. 2020 isn't the only holiday season that has messed up my plans. There was the december I was SO sick because I was in my first trimester with Hilde and the Thanksgiving Day we watched my nieces and ... continue reading...
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How to Make New Traditions (& keep the old)
ASK ELIZABETH Question: Do you have any new holiday traditions or do you just do your family ones? Now that I'm older & married I feel like I want some of our own. Traditions you say? I can talk about traditions forever! I am a tradition queen. Make new traditions but keep the old, one is silver and the other gold (sung to the tune of a girl scouts favorite ;) ) Traditions around the holidays are very dear to me and make this season so much more richer. I know exactly what too look ... continue reading...
Faith, Trust, & Pixie Dust
.... and the family costume is, PETER PAN! We threw out several ideas leading up to October and we were having a hard time picking which idea to move forward with & start creating. We always love a good family costume and have done Winnie the Pooh, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, & Wayne's World in the past. And I always love time to thrift, make, find, and create some homemade-ish Halloween Costumes for us so we typically start the Halloween Costume ideas early! The year we did Mickey's ... continue reading...
October Harvest Festival
Is it even October if we don't go to the Harvest Festival?!? 2020, 2018, & 2017 all say so! 2019 doesn't and that's because I planned a trip over the first weekend of October WHICH I WILL NEVER DO AGAIN because this pumpkin patch is the one my tradition loving heart as attached too! HAH! The good news is that I learned my lesson and I am very good about getting it in my calendar in enough time to not double book myself. This year the girls are a little older (a year to be exact) and ... continue reading...
Labor Day Lift Off 2021
I have countless memories of getting up while it was still dark out to load up into the car and head ALLLL the way across town to the Labor Day Lift Off with my family. Now that I am grown I realize the drive was only 15 minutes, but as a child it felt like such a magical & far away place. We would dress in layers because the sun would warm us as it rose and we would drink hot coco out of a Tupperware thermos as all six of us tried to fit onto one blanket. The field all around us would ... continue reading...
Our Valentine’s Day
Remember when I created a new tradition last year? I do! So much so that I went out to pick up valentine's donuts from our neighborhood Dunkin in negative 6 degree weather at 8 am. Now that is dedication. The funniest thing is that I don't even like donuts. I just like pretty things also here I am. Traditions are a big deal to me. I don't know why, they just are. I share about it all the time on this blog because we repeat things year after year in the name of tradition. I LOVE it and I ... continue reading...
A Christmas Tour Of Our House
Our house feels so festive this year. Last year we were weeks away from giving birth and just a couple weeks into living in this house. I was spending more time unpacking, than decorating for Christmas. We still of course got a tree and put up decorations while we were unpacking (since it is the most wonderful time of the year) but this year I actually was established enough to make our home the most festive it has ever been. This house just has a better layout for Christmas than our old one did ... continue reading...
Unique Bible Verses to include in your Christmas Cards
We got our Christmas Cards in the mail this week and now we are working on getting them addressed to friends & family and back in the mail! It is tradition to get a card out every year (and you know how I feel about traditions!!) so I don't mind all the stuffing, addressing, and stamping! This year we got our cards at Parabo Press. I picked the Joyful card because although this year has been one for the books, Joy has been abundant in our home and hearts. I also wanted to add a verse ... continue reading...
Picking out the Pumpkin
We're back at Rock Ledge Ranch for the pumpkin picking (2018, 2017)!! I've finally got it in my brain that this happens the first weekend of October so hopefully I'll stop planning trips over that weekend! ;) Last year I was so bummed to miss it. It also was a crazy time (we were closing on this house!!) and I didn't think we would make it to a pumpkin patch at all - but we found this neighborhood harvest festival so I've got photos of one year old Hilde with the pumpkins! With COVID and the ... continue reading...
Eight Years Together
On August 18th we celebrated eight years of marriage. Literally as long as our high school + college years combined And I have to say these last year's have been the best years of my life. Not to discount those 24 years pre Mayberry but sharing and making a life with Bruce Mayberry has been one of the Lord's sweetest gifts in my life! As we were driving to dinner we were pointing out the empty car seats in the back, expressing our shock over how fast things can change, ... continue reading...
Our Easter
Easter itself brought us snow and 20 degree temperatures but the day before we were outside all day in the 70 degree weather! You can even see that storm rolling in! HAHA. Millie turned three months old (you can see the official post here) so we had to take those montlhy photos. Like always, it turns into a family affair! I love these photos of our days this weekend. This beautiful view is a short walk from our house which makes me feel so spoiled. This Easter is nothing like normal yet so ... continue reading...
Easter Baskets for the Girls
I wasn't going to do Easter Baskets this years because the girls are young and we were going to do other things to celebrate Easter. But in lieu of the current state of events in the world, I changed my mind to make this season more fun. We wont be doing Easter Egg hunts or family meals and the thing I am most dissapointed about is that we don't get to have Millie baptized this Easter like Hilde was last year. I thought it would be fun for them to share the holiday as a second birthday. I know ... continue reading...
Happy Valentine’s Day
I love Valentine's Day! Growing up we always made it a fun day filled with treats, crafts, and a Chinese food picnic on the floor. My parents always made sure it was a day to celebrate love between family and friends and not just romantic love. As a lover of holidays and finding any reason to celebrate, Valentine's day is a fun light in the middle of long winters! HAHA! Now that Hilde is a year and a half, she is understanding a lot more which makes it even more fun to celebrate the holidays! ... continue reading...
Christmas Bucket List + Free Download
I know Autumn isn't over yet but I've added a second bucket list to the mix! AND IT IS CHRISTMAS!!! We'll get a Winter one going once Autumn is over and recapped, but I just had to make one for Christmas all on its own! I love this time of the year so much. I used to be a bit embarrassed about wanting to start planning and celebrating early, but now I just rock it. Bruce and I are not exactly on the same boat when it comes to this but we compromise. We do tree and house decorations after ... continue reading...
Louisburg Cider Mill in Louisburg, KS
This fall has been nothing like I expected. Well, a little bit like I expected but with a lot of unexpected mixed in! The ironic thing is that this is the year I shared an Autumn Bucket List because I had so many plans that I wanted to make happen (and was planning to make happen) and it looks like quite a few things on that list will remain unchecked. I'm learning to just run with it! If you are not on our newsletter, you may have missed the memo that we are closing on a house. Things still ... continue reading...
Baby’s First Easter Basket
Growing up every Easter morning, we would wake to find an Easter Basket sitting at the end of our bed. My mama was always so intentional about celebrating holidays. She always included an element of fun while also making sure we understood the meaning behind each holiday. With Easter coming up, I started the hunt for Hilde's first Easter Basket. Passing on traditions is one of my favorite things about being a mama. Thanks to an Instagram ad (they work! haha) I found Hallmark Baby and fell in ... continue reading...
Christmas Eve
Merry Christmas Eve I've got way too many Christmas photos on my computer so I have to dump them somewhere! In years past I was already thinking about all my New Year's Content at this stage in the year but not this time. I'll be posting Christmas well into January. haha! I think it all has to do with being a mama this year - one part because everything takes longer to do (including getting blog posts up) and the other because I've taken WAY more photos than I have of Christmas' past. This ... continue reading...
Five tips to Photograph the Holidays
Ask Elizabeth: How do capture such great Christmasy moments? I always forget to take photos until after we finished opening gifts. Every year you have so much fun content and you are already showing off great photos of Hilde looking festive! Tell me all the secrets!! YAY! This is such a fun Ask Elizabeth! The holidays are one of my favorite times to take pictures and I may be going a bit overboard with photos of Hilde's first Christmas! HAHA! I'd love to share some quick tips with you! Have ... continue reading...
