a very merry salvaggione christmas.

on sunday we celebrated christmas with chris' side of the family! we ate, exchanged gifts, laughed, danced & enjoyed time together as a family. it was wonderful. i'm so thankful for a family who loves, a family that's warm + inviting, and for family that loves on our babies like the do. thank you Jesus. 

here are some frame worthy pictures + a fun little video from the day! 

happy christmas eve eve!

^^^that's three generations of salvaggione right there :)

the christmas list they didn't even know they had...

Just a few sweet things that my littles don't even know they have on their Christmas wish lists this year! Some are already on the way + others maybe Santa will bring! They already have all that they need so it was fun to shop for a few little things that i just love + want for them.

Happy Thursday!

1. new jammies (we love hanna andersson, old navy + baby gap.. or anything striped really)

2. this hat, because i mean... (gap)

3. the best little drum set similar to this one that i found at my mom's vintage shop (vines vintage)

4. a sweet lovey (etsy)

5. B. brand art easel for finger painting + coloring! (target)

6. dinosaurs so i can listen to him "rawr"ing all day.

7. colored pvc balls for learning colors, sorting, + general fun! (walmart)

8. good movies! (amazon)

9. little tikes basketball hoop like his friend brennan :) (walmart)

1. new jammies (we love kickee pants + l'oved baby)

2. pretty rattles like her friend dagny

3. new glass bottles (lifefactory)

4. this sweet lovey (land of nod)

5. and this one (maileg, ms deer)

6. these jammies (gap)

7. this beautiful quilt that's sort of for both of us :)

8. polka dot knot hat, amen (gap)

a festive little video!

okay so i may be a little bit in love with these little videos. my siblings and i always loved watching home movies from when we were little + i'm so happy i learned how to edit these together so that OUR littles will have fun videos to watch + see how cute they were! abel LOVES watching them already, it's adorable, so i feel like i've won! 

this time.. some cookie baking, dough eating, dancing, tree decorating + a whole lot of my sweet little ones, enjoy!

lately we've been...

^^^smiling, and always.

^^^the sweetest ever + setting ourselves up for a snack (all on our own)

^^^not noticing things like this for a good twenty minutes

^^^licking the spoon + practicing the cutest cheeser grins in history

^^^picture cropping, because lucy deserved to look good too

 ^^^ugly sweater partying

 ^^^otterbox gala-ing

 ^^^christmas-ing

 ^^^learning to sit up like a big girl

^^^reminiscing on the time we had snow... since apparently we aren't having anymore this december. oh well, there's always april.

m a g i c

magic. a word I've found to be pretty accurate when describing the love + goodness of my little family. it's freezing out + dads blowing the leaves? let's join him! 

abel's love for outside has not been hindered by the cold, so we all bundle up and spend reasonable amounts of time out there if he asks us. these twenty or so minutes from sunday were just sweet. sure, by the end lucy was tired + abel kept trying to run down the hill after being told not to do so a handful(billion) times, but it was still sweet time to me that i cling to and cherish like its gold, because if there's anything I've learned in this life? it's that it goes by all too quickly and I'll never feel like we had enough days together, enough time, enough freezing cold-playing in the leaves moments, enough holding of my babies + snuggling at night, kisses from chris + staying up too late catching up on nashville because it's our only opportunity... or other nights, unintentionally falling asleep while putting the babies down. 

life is sweet, sometimes bitter too, but mostly sweet i think... either way, I want to spend it soaking up every last drop.

^^^I love everything about this. I love the finger in the ear + the smile on husbands face, the fact that it's so totally off center that I don't even want to fix it or crop it in to hide my sweatshirt and sweatpants get up that I tried hiding beneath my cute sweater, how flattering (embarrassed monkey emoji here). I love the chaos that comes with having a family + I love a self timer for capturing this magic.