Here are some of our favorite comfy sweaters! With the weather being so cold sweaters are an absolute MUST for us! Most of the time its hard enough to get the motivation to get out of the house let alone get all cute and ready! Leggings, and a cute sweater are pretty much all we live in these days, anyone with us!??

Calling all last minute shoppers! If you're anything like us, and you do shopping the week before Christmas, than you will be thanking your lucky stars for these store that are still offering shipping to get to you before Christmas! We usually try to get most of our Christmas shopping done at least a few weeks before the big day, but it seems like there is always someone you forget to buy for, or you just feel like maybe you don't have enough. Here are some of the stores we love to shop at, and who will still make sure we get our loved ones taken care of by Christmas!

1. TARGET - Order by 12/20 to get before Christmas

2. LULU LEMON - ​Order by 12/20 to get before Christmas

3. ULTA - ​Order by 12/20 to get before Christmas

4. ANTHROPOLOGIE - Order by 12/20 to get before Christmas

5. SEPHORA - Order by 12/21 with 1-day shipping to get before Christmas

6. OLD NAVY - Order by 12/20 to get free shipping with $100 order

7. LUCKY BRAND - Order by 12/20 to get free 2-day shipping with $75 order

8. J. CREW - Order by 12/20 to get before Christmas

9. AERIE - Order by 12/20 to get before Christmas. $10 overnight shipping with $100 order

10. VICTORIA'S SECRET - Order by 12/20 to get free 2-day shipping on $125 order

*Don't forget about Amazon Prime 2-day shipping too!

Happy Monday!! Anyone else feel like time is flying by so fast!? I swear it was just Summer, and now its almost Christmas!! We've had absolutely no snow yet here in Utah County which is pretty rare especially for this time of year, and probably even more weirdly is that I wish it would just come! Usually I'm hoping for the opposite, but this is Cece and Reign's first Christmas and we're hoping for a white one! Its so fun experiencing all the firsts with our babies, and its so fun to watch them grow up together! Since Cece is a little older than Reign, we are always looking back at when Cece did something her first time and then comparing to when Reign should be doing that same thing. Our latest comparison is about when to transition Reign to her crib instead of sleeping in her bassinet. We started using the HALO SleepSacks and HALO SnoozyPod and they have helped a lot!

Reign is still sleeping with Ash in their bedroom, and she is getting to the point where she is getting too big for her bassinet. Ash was asking me when Cece started to sleep in her crib, how it went, how she slept and so on, but she's still a little nervous to transition.  When I transitioned Cece it was when I finally got to the point where I couldn't take it anymore. That sounds bad, but she was sleeping in a bassinet right next to my bed, and was waking up every couple hours, and I was getting absolutely NO sleep! She was 6 months old at the time, and I felt comfortable enough to try it out and see how one night went. I had already talked to a few friends, and listened to their advice, and stories of what they did with their babies so I had a plan set in place of how I was going to handle the night. I knew she was going to wake up (because she always did), and I had already decided that I was going to let her cry it out for no more than 45 min if she did wake up. She was hooked on her binky and every time it came out was the reason she would start crying. My plan was to let her cry and learn to self soothe so that she didn't need to rely on her binky to sleep. 

HALO SnoozyPod
We recently started using the HALO SnoozyPod which is an all-in-one bedtime soother with vibration, night light and calming white noise and nature sounds. It is also Bluetooth enabled so you can control it from your phone. The SnoozyPod is installed right on the crib.  The babies are still a little young, and not scared of the dark, but I think once they get a little older the light feature on the SnoozyPod will be awesome as a little night light for them. The only complaint we had about the SnoozyPod is that the sound on device is very low. Cece loves to sleep with a fan because it drowns out all the sound, and I was hoping that the SnoozyPod would replace the fan, but unfortunately its not loud enough to drown out any sound. It is great for a soothing effect if your baby likes to listen to soothing music to go to sleep. Overall we would give this SnoozyPod a 4 out of 5 stars! Awesome product! You can buy it on BuyBuyBaby.com.


Here's how the 1st night went:
8:30pm - Put Cece to sleep
12:30am - 1st time Cece wakes up - (I set my timer for 45 min)
1:10am - Cece falls back asleep (I thank my lucky stars)
​3:15am - 2nd time Cece wakes up
3:35am - Cece falls back asleep 
8:30am - Cece wakes up for the day

2nd night: 
8:30pm - Put Cece to sleep
4:30am - Cece wakes up
4:35am - Cece falls back asleep
8:30am - Cece wakes up for the day

3rd night:
8:30pm - Put Cece to sleep
8:30am - Cece wakes up for the day

Needless to say, she slept better and better every night, and it was completely worth the rough first night! I know that this method isn't for everyone, and you have to find what is best for you and baby, but for me I felt like I had tried everything else, and this was my last option and it worked! After these first few nights, she not only slept through the whole night, but she started taking 2+ hours every day which was unheard of before, and overall she seemed like a happier baby because she was getting better sleep.