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Liz Rotz

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Archives for December 2015

Christmas Cards 2015

It was a Christmas miracle that I got our Christmas cards designed, printed, labeled, stuffed, stamped, return address stamped, sealed, AND washi taped in less than 3 days. While I love all the designs on the greeting card company sites, I don’t get to design a lot these days so it’s always fun when I can do a project for us. And big shoutout to my printer who has 24 hour turnaround time with free overnight shipping. Love them!

We were able to use a picture from our Santa photo session and I love how it turned out! Here’s the front of our card!

Christmas Cards 2015 | Ellie And Addie

And I used a couple photos from our Santa session and a few from earlier this year to do a collage on the back of the card.

Christmas Cards 2015 | Ellie And Addie

I’m thrilled with the design and the photos! And like I said, I was able to get everything done in like three days! Also, the only way to seal that many envelopes is using a tape gun!

Christmas Cards 2015 | Ellie And Addie

Since our mail had already come the day I finished, I decided to take these to the post office so they would get out a little sooner. I let Jude put them in the drop box and he thought it was the coolest thing ever and actually put all of them in for me!

Christmas Cards 2015 | Ellie And Addie

And here’s our Christmas Cards from last year – Christmas Cards 2014

I’m so excited to be linking up to the Christmas Card link up party hosted by:

Christmas Cards 2015 | Ellie And Addie
Make sure to check out their blogs and see everyone who linked up!

Friday Favorites – Eating All The Fudge

It’s time for Friday Favorites!

I’m so excited it’s Friday! Today is BTR’s last day of work for TWO WEEKS!! We don’t really have much planned for break and it’s kind of awesome having all that freedom! Let’s get to my favorites this week!

One.
Thank you to everyone that entered my Santa Glass Giveaway last week! The lucky winner was Desiree (go read her blog, she has two of the cutest little ones!)!

Two.
Did you see the Christmas Pajama Party post yesterday? You still have time to link up either on the blog or on Instagram using the tag #christmasjamparty15

Christmas Pajama Party | Ellie And Addie

And also, did you see our Santa pictures? You should definitely check out Jude’s screaming face that turned happy in a matter of 30 seconds!

Three.
So I bought this sweater/hoodie at Target earlier this week (I think I’ve been to Target three times this week #dontjudge). And I’ve already worn it twice, and I’m pretty sure I want to wear it again tomorrow. So basically what I’m saying is you need to go to Target now and buy this sweater in every color. Because it’s that comfortable and it’s on sale!

Four.
Did you see the Netflix teaser for Fuller House? I seriously am excited to watch it when it comes out in February! #sorrybtr

Five.
Let’s not talk about how much fudge I’ve eaten in the past two weeks. Or how many pans are left in my kitchen that I am going to continue to eat. #blameitonthebaby

Happy Friday Friends! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend full of holiday fun planned!

And as always, I’m linking up with all the lovely ladies listed on my linkup page! And don’t forget to like Ellie And Addie on Facebook or follow me on Instagram!

Christmas Pajama Party

Welcome to the Christmas Pajama Party!

And as usual I waited till the laaaaaast possible minute to snap some pictures of Jude in his Christmas pajamas to share for today’s Christmas Pajama Party Link Up! Which is horrible because I’m even one of the hosts for the link up! Get all the details and link up with us below!

Christmas Pajama Party | Ellie And Addie

I realized two things while taking these photos last night and then again taking more this morning. 1. Toddlers NEVER stop moving. 2. I really need to take a class on how to use my real camera! Why do I need to take a class? Because 90% of my pictures ended up like this one…

Christmas Pajama Party | Ellie And Addie

Oh well, we had fun running around the house playing and reading books while snapping photos!

Christmas Pajama Party | Ellie And Addie

BTR even let him put the star on the real tree again last night, he loved it!

Christmas Pajama Party | Ellie And Addie

Also I could not love his Christmas pajamas from Hanna Andersson more! We had a zip up pair last year, but this year I got a two piece set and they have knee patches and I’m obsessed. Plus I bought them way too big and hopefully they will fit again next year! I can’t find this pair on their site, but here’s a link to the regular striped pajamas!

Christmas Pajama Party | Ellie And Addie

Christmas Pajama Party | Ellie And Addie

And this snowman cup? It was the key to any decent pictures we took this morning!

Christmas Pajama Party | Ellie And Addie

And to see Jude in his Christmas pajamas last year, click here!

Now it’s your turn! We want to see your cuties in their Christmas pajamas!

Christmas Pajama Party | Ellie And Addie

Hosted By: Stephanie – Jen – Liz – Jessica – Liz – Meghan – Whitney – Crystal

Link up with me and any of my awesome hosts and add your link below!

Visiting Santa 2015

So our visit to Santa this year went pretty much how I expected…

When Santa came into the room Jude wasn’t very impressed. He listened to the story and watched some other kids sit on his lap. But when it was his turn and Brandon took him over to sit on Santa’s lap he tried to climb over Brandon. Even with the offer of a high five (his favorite thing ever)!

Visiting Santa 2015 | Ellie And Addie

So we plopped him down and snapped a few screaming photos (how can you not?!?!).

Visiting Santa 2015 | Ellie And Addie

And then BTR swooped in and saved him! Once Brandon had him he was a happy camper so we snapped a few of all of us with Santa!

Visiting Santa 2015 | Ellie And Addie

I think he was high-fiving in this picture too, but I love how we are all smiling!

Visiting Santa 2015 | Ellie And Addie

Big thanks to Layne at Auman Photography for having this awesome Santa session at a friend’s house! It’s so much more relaxed than going to the mall (and costs just about the same) and Jude loved the cookies and milk! Plus we get to have some family photos taken, which I then used for our Christmas card!

And for Santa photos of the past, click here!

Linking up with all my favorite bloggers for the visits with Santa link up!

Visits With Santa

Jenny, Courtney, Stephanie, Sara, Elizabeth and Laureen

Friday Favorites + A GIVEAWAY!

Hi Friends! It’s time for Friday Favorites + A Giveaway!

Today’s Favorites is more of a currently post because I haven’t done one in a while! And make sure you make it to the end of the post for a super awesome GIVEAWAY

Feeling – like a bad gift giver because I can’t keep a secret and already gave BTR some slippers I bought him. But I came up with another fun idea so hopefully I can keep that one a secret!

Drinking – all the hot chocolate and loving getting free things in the mail from Starbucks Rewards. I have no idea what mailing list I got on, but this is like the third sample/coupon they’ve sent me in the past few months!

Friday Favorites + A GIVEAWAY

Loving – the new Netflix parental leave policy! Too bad I’m self-employed so maternity leave is basically non-existent! BUT I wouldn’t trade it for getting to stay home with Jude every single day! :)

Patiently waiting – to get our Santa pictures back! We also got a few family snaps that I’m hoping will work for our Christmas card, because no I have not designed them yet. #slacker The photographer shared this one on Facebook and I’m OBSESSED!

Friday Favorites - A GIVEAWAY

Craving – this pasta recipe Sara shared. I definitely need to add the ingredients to our grocery list!

Admiring – all the shiny baubles that came in the mail from Accessory Concierge! So I might have gone overboard and placed two orders when they had their GMA specials a few weeks ago. But actually a couple are gifts so don’t judge me! And they were a STEAL at only $12 each and I hate spending tons of money on jewelry.

Friday Favorites - A GIVEAWAY

Enjoying – reading all of the traditions on this post on Savvy Sassy Moms. You might even see a super cute dude putting the star on the tree! :)

Feeling old – because when I was driving home from yoga the other night I was flipping through radio stations and just had to stop it on “Get Low” so I could jam out and pretend like I was still in college in the parlor room at the Sigma Chi House. #IKnowImNotCool

Working – on a stocking stuffer gift guide. Yes it’s basically too late for gift guides, but I don’t care I want to share it anyway!

Clicking – everyday to try and win Starbucks for life!

Crafting – all the time. I bought this adorable paper chain printable from Caravan Shoppe and it’s hanging in our kitchen!

Friday Favorites - A GIVEAWAY

Obsessing – over checking the mail. All the fun things I ordered the past few weeks from Black Friday and Cyber Monday are starting to show up and I can’t wait to wrap everything up for Christmas! Yes even things I ordered for myself!

Friday Favorites - A GIVEAWAY

Lasering – lots of wine glasses. We just opened up orders online (get more details here) and to celebrate I’m giving away a Santa glass set! It includes one “Santa Baby” wine glass and a “Santa’s Beer” pint glass! You can enter below via Rafflecopter and for extra entries tag your friends on Instagram!

Friday Favorites - A GIVEAWAY

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Weekend Fun – a little late

So before we get toooooo far away from last weekend, I just wanted to share a few cute pictures because it was such a fun weekend!

Friday we just hung out at home and caught up on work and other things. So basically uneventful! :)

Saturday was crazy busy! We woke up early to go take Santa pictures and Jude was very unimpressed with Santa. I’ll share the real photos later, but this was his face when Santa walked in…

Weekend Fun | Ellie And Addie

But we did get some good family photos for our Christmas card this year, so I’ll call it a win! Afterwards we dropped off my fudge for the Holly Day bakery booth and then came home for naps for Jude and more work for me and BTR. We stayed up pretty late Saturday night finishing work projects, and then I convinced BTR to help me make a felt tree for Jude! I had already bought all the supplies and just needed to cut all the felt. I already shared the finished project on Instagram and I’ll share all the details of it later, but here’s BTR’s picture of cutting the felt, it required a beer or two!

Weekend Fun | Ellie And Addie

Sunday I was up bright and early for the annual Junior Service Club’s Holly Day luncheon! It’s one of our biggest events of the year and it is so much fun! Here’s a picture of me and my friend Cyndi, I call her my “big sister” because she was my sponsor when I joined the club.

Weekend Fun | Ellie And Addie

I had a table with my mom and some of her work friends and a few of our neighbors. We shopped the bakery booth, silent auction, and vending and had a blast! And I was super excited that I won (okay I didn’t really “win” it because obviously I had to pay for it) a candle in the silent auction!

Weekend Fun | Ellie And Addie

And here’s a picture of me and my mom, and the very large 21 week baby bump!

Weekend Fun | Ellie And Addie

I do not remember the bump being this big this early last time…

And while we were having fun at Holly Day, Jude was having a ton of fun at the Magic House with BTR and his mom!

Weekend Fun | Ellie And Addie

Okay that was a quick post, BUT make sure you come back tomorrow because I have a really, really fun GIVEAWAY that I can’t wait to share with you all!

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