A Lovely Lewis Life

Both of my kid's first birthday parties coincided with their nursery themes. Lincoln's is way more subtle than Beckett's was, however so we didn't have a lot to use from his room as far as decor goes. As the years have gone on, I've simplified my parties (Beckett's first birthday party was amazing as far as decor, food, and theme goes) mostly because I just don't have the time or energy to plan an awesome party like I used to. For Lincoln's first, I knew I owed it to him to have a nice party. We had minimal decor, a nice set-up in our side yard with corn hole, our playset, and tons of seating.. until it started to RAIN right as the party started. UGHHHHH!!!!!!!! I should note that it was HOTTTTTT all day before the party and it was a beautiful evening. I just have the worst luck with parties and weather! We'd worked so hard in the sweltering heat to get the yard set up and then it poured and everyone was huddled up under a tent, umbrellas, and on our...

It's hard to believe that our precious baby boy is 1. He still seems like such a baby to us, so much smaller than B was at this age (unless our memories have completely failed us). The day he was born was perfection. It will always be one of my most favorite days ever.  We had very few visitors, at our request (of course big brother had to be there!) and were able to enjoy the full day together since the scheduled c section was early in the morning. It was the sweetest day and I'll never forget how special his birthday was or how happy I felt to have another sweet baby boy to love. The first year went a little differently than B's first year. We didn't co-sleep after 1 month, we only made it to 10 months breastfeeding because of the 3rd pregnancy/miscarriage (which is still a major accomplishment but B went 15 months so of course I had guilt over that), we had a TIME trying to get him to sleep at night. Weight: 21.4 lbs, Length: 29.5" [caption id="attachment_4...

On Sunday we returned from our first family vacation! Joey and I took Beckett to the beach in SC when he was just over 1 but that was work related and only for a day so it wasn't actually a vacation. We haven't taken vacation, like take-a-week-off-work-and-go-somewhere-the-entire-time type of vacation, since our 1 year wedding anniversary 4 years ago!! I think with the year we've had so far, this family vacation was so needed for us. We wanted to take an anniversary trip since we just celebrated 5 years but I was supposed to be around 7 months pregnant so we weren't sure where we'd go that would be fun and also safe for me (hi, Zika). We tossed around a bunch of ideas but we never booked anything, mostly because we didn't really want to leave the kids. I'm actually really glad we didn't because it turned out to be so nice to just set off with my favorite 3 guys. Joey and I aren't travelers. Anytime we've ever gone on a trip we've always deci...