6 Years!!

My Timehop reminded me that 6 years ago today, I created this blog!!
In those 6 years, I have shared about cleaning, cooking, baby, family fun, and countless other topics.

I have also neglected this blog.
I have had many ideas that never came to pass -- I have shared a number of times great things are coming, and then they didn't.

6 years. Almost 25,000 page views - Wow!
How have you been? What's new?
I'd love to get reacquainted - start fresh.

I'll leave this here - or else I'll never finish, or go on wayy too long.
and just in case you want to revisit my 1st blog post -- here you go ;)

I have missed you.
Bye for now.

So Excited!!!

OMG - I can't believe it! 

So I have been tracking my page views for the last 3 weeks or so and they are just growing, growing!!! Check this out!! (I know the photos aren't great, I'd love to learn how to screen shot and then save the photo to crop :) )

On 9/11, I had 6,000 views, just about 2 weeks after my 1 year Blogiversary!

On 9/24 (just short of 2wks later), I went up 200 views!!

and Today, on 10/3 (1wk3dys later) I now have 6,403 (before writing this post!)
UPDATE: 6,420 views just after posting!!! 

I would LOVE it if I could get up to 6,500 views by 10/11 (8 days) - that would be 500 in 1 month!!! AHH as of now I was averaging 200/month (6,000 views in 12 months). Wow this is crazy! 
OMG UPDATE: 9:06am on Friday - 6,510 views!!! I just can't believe it! 

Plus my Twitter followers are sky rocketing! Yesterday I posted about getting to 300 and today I'm already at 329 (as of 11:45am)!

I have been doing a lot of Bloggy Moms hops! This week was for Twitter - hence all my new followers :) and last week I did one for Facebook and the Blog! It is such an awesome feeling to be growing like this - and people are reading my words! 
Woah wait a minute, that's kinda scary too!

Ok, Now that I've gone a bit crazy, let's get a baby update! We hit 20 weeks!!! Woo hoo! 

We don't have an appt for another 2+ weeks though, which makes me stir crazy! I can't wait to get them closer together!

We have received our first round of gifts too!!!

I just found out, officially, that the playard is from Grandma Greta!! The nursing pillow & cover is from my amazing Cousin, who is 22 weeks herself! It is so exciting to be going through this journey as FTM's together!

I bought the diapers - they were $30 for all 5! I was so excited! and YES we are going cloth, I am just ecstatic about this as well!

If that wasn't all enough to chatter on about, 

let's get to this weeks THRIFTY THURSDAY!!
I've started getting comments and I am loving it! Please do keep letting me know what you think of my Features and if you have anything you'd like to be Featured!!
Not to throw anyone off, I absolutely have a food post to Feature this week!

These Pumpkin Spice Latte Muffins look so amazing - and right up my alley!! Side note - the Pumpkin Mocha latte at DD is amaazing! I have to limit myself though, of course!

And I can't forget the Peanut Butter Pie - hubby is dying for me to make this one for him! Yesterfood has some seriously good recipes!!

I had to include these Ham & Swiss Lasagna rolls they look so awesome - I am not a fan of swiss, or cheese in general, so I would try to find a substitute :)

Just to be a little different I am adding an extra Feature - NON food related!! 
This Car Care Basic Checklist is so practical, everyone should have one!

I really hope you have all enjoyed my Features and exciting news!! Don't forget to leave me some love in the comments and please come back next week!!

Hey if you're not following me yet ~ now would be a great time to start!! Choose from Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Bloglovin, Google Friend Connect, & Networked Blogs!! Give me a shout and let me know you're my newest Friend!!

XOXO,

I can't believe it!

First off, I can't believe it has been so long since I have posted - anything! (more on that below). It has literally been a month and a half since my last post... :( 

Second, can you believe that TODAY is my 1 year BLOGIVERSARY?? Go check it out! One year ago today, I posted my very first blog ever! This calls for a celebration, but like all other things, I have waited until DAY (night) OF to write this, so I don't have any celebration planned! Maybe, one day, I will get something together! 



With all that being said, I have been saving bits and pieces of info I've wanted to shared with you all - I have tons of photos and ideas of posts. I should be able to fill the rest of the year!

I took some time off and I wish I could say it was to enjoy life and my family over the summer! The truth is I got lazy and didn't make blogging a priority, which is upsetting but I'm here to try again.


BIG NEWS!!! I am currently 14 weeks (&3 days) pregnant with a baby boy! We are so excited! I've always wanted to blog while pregnant, always wanted to be able to share everything going on, yet I dont feel like I have much to share :) 
This past weekend we did the Gender Reveal with cupcakes and shared through facebook to tell all our friends and family!

This ticker is a few days ahead. I made it way at the beginning then we started measuring a few days behind, but I really like this one :) 


I really didn't intend for this post to be quite so long, and thank you for those still reading along!! Please be on the look out for posts more often! And if you'd like to link up for Thrifty Thursday, since it just works out that way, please do below!! I will be back on top of my Features next week!!



XOXO,