Cheers to 3 Years

This past weekend/week Noah and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary. We took our young padawan and spent Friday night at the glorious Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City. We first ate dinner at Ruth's Diner, one of our favorite restaurants, up Immigration Canyon. Finn loved it there. We ate out on the back patio under globe lights, with live music playing, it was pretty perfect. Plus, their deep fried macacroni and cheese appetizers are the bomb diggity. We then went to Dolcetti Gelato, the best gelato shop in town (actually ever) and chatted with our friends/the owners. We then went back to the Grand and all snuggled in the giant king size bed. The next day we went to the opening day of the SLC Farmers Market and got the usual mint limeade and Volsen's bread loaf. It was a short but fun little weekend getaway. 

Our actual anniversary was this past Wedesday, the 12th. We didn't do much because our precious ball of chub stayed up most of the night so mom and dad were super tired. But yesterday we took the annual trip up to Millcreek Canyon and had a cookout near the spot we were married. We had tinfoil dinners, s'mores, and I took hundreds of pictures. Grandma even came along! 

I'm so glad we've made it a tradition to go up to where we got married every year. It's going to be fun to see that log fill up with more little people as the years go on.

DIY Father's Day Fisherman Kit

Well hello blogging world. Can you believe it's already June? We have been basking in the sunlight and keeping quite busy over here. Last year Father's Day crept up on is super fast and I feel like I just threw something together for the Fathers in our lives. This year I put more thought and time into the gifts. Noah's gift is going to superb but I can't go into detail yet cause he reads this here blog and it's going to be a fabulous surprise.

For the other dads we put together a little fisherman's creel. Both the fathers are avid fisherman so we decided to make something to go along those lines. I found the creels at Hobby Lobby and we went to Sportsman's Warehouse and stocked up on fishing goods.

Here's what we used in the kits:

Fisherman Creel
Elk sausage
fishing line
fishing flies
Guide to Fly Fishing Knots
fishing frame/fishing sign
candies
fly box
snacks
Father's Day Card

Really, you can throw anything in there that's fishing related. Super fun, easy, and not too pricey. And isn't that card to die for? I found it at a new shop on Etsy called Flower and the Song.

 Happy Father's Day fellas!

Where The Wild Things Are GIVEAWAY!

It's giveaway time my friends! I've teamed up with my cute and very talented friend Carly who has the most amazing Etsy shop filled with one of a kind threads for your nuggets. Remember the antler leggings that we hold so dearly at our house? Yes, those were from the shop carlymegan. So hop on your Insta and follow both of us @lysszemke and @carlymeganshop, share and repost the above photo (on both of our IG's) and tag #wildthingsgiveaway and you're in it to win it! And head on over to Carly's shop to check out her new line of baby skinnies and organic baby blankets. They are seriously to die for! And while you're there, I have a few new prints up in my Etsy shop so be sure to check those out too.

Good Luck!

Homeless

I promise I have a great excuse for my lack of blogging lately. We're homeless. Don't worry we aren't living on the brutal streets of Salt Lake City, my grandma has kindly taken us in. As you know we sold our house in Salt Lake and we were supposed to be moving into a new house in Holladay but it turns out the seller has a lien against her which prevents her from selling the house. They think it can be resolved but it will take the IRS about a month or so to decide if they will drop the lien or not. We should find out next week if things are looking like they will be in our favor or not. We really love this house so we are hoping it turns out. So what have we been up to lately? Well feast your eyes...

Moved out of Milton and moved in with Grandma.

Went for a day camp at Rockport Reservoir. Finn is the camping champ of the world.

We've been spending lots of time with these new babies in our lives. Bestie Jensen and cousin Gracie

And most important, Finn and I do a whole lot of snuggling (especially since his molars are coming in).

Finn's First Birthday!

It happened. He actually turned one. How did this even come about? I swear he was just born, and I know that's such a cliche mom thing to say but I really am flabergasted about this growing up business. His actual birthday was Sunday the 21st but we had a big Mountain Man birthday bash for him on Saturday. We invited all his friends and family and they spoiled him rotten (seriously, thank you everyone for your kind gifts, we love and appreciate all of them!)

We had to go with the mountain man theme because we just like the mountains, you know? I didn't put as much planning into the party as I thought I would due to our big move this weekend. So I kept it pretty low key and it was a blast! We had mountain man food. Hot dogs, burgers, trail mix, granola bars, chips, s'mores cupcakes (mountain men eat cupcakes, no?) For decor I mostly took things from his room and used it for the party decorations. I did make a felt ball garland special for the party and I made his antler cake toppers and an a frame tent (tutorials coming soon). We got his gluten free/vegan cake from City Cakes, which I think is starting to be a tradition because the cakes are just so dang good. We sang happy birthday to the nugget, then my helper Nikson helped open Finn's presents. Finn then fell asleep in Uncle Regan's lap and the rest is history. 

Looking back it has been the craziest year with a capital C. There have been a lot of ups and downs with Finn's development and other issues and we are hoping for a more relaxed year with hopefully some progression and answers. We love our big boy 1 year old (so weird he's actually 1)!

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