{babyKAMP is having a baby}

hi loves!!!  between teaching 6th grade, running a business, going to school for my masters and being a wife…the blog has been placed on the back burner.  but i do have exciting news to share…babyKAMP is indeed having a baby!! 

so we will be closed for a short time to move our workshop and make room for baby!  we will be under construction and will reopen as soon as we have moved to our new location (downstairs). 

thanks for your patience!  if you need me i will be available via email at maria@babyKAMP.com.

XOXO

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it’s all in a name

hi peeps!  I know, I know…same story different day.  question for all my blog momma’s out there…how do you do it?  it’s like no matter how hard I try I just cannot find the time to blog.  it’s so hard!  I think my problem is that when I think of blogging, I think of: using my brain to get creative, finding and uploading photos and then editing them and then attempting to bring it all together.  wow – I’m exhausted already.

does anyone have any tips or secrets that I am missing?  please share!  I’m desperately hanging on the to the blog world by a thin thread.

ok so on to the real reason why I’m here…I wanted to give a little shout out to Stephanie from Polos, Pearls and Pacifiers (did I mention the effort it takes to do a hyperlink?).  she is such a doll ad doesn’t hate me for being so busy that I can hardly remember my own name…case in point: we LOVE her!

anyways – check her out and enter her sweet little giveaway.  you have the chance to win a babyTEE-for big kids or a small personalized babyPAIL!

and if you are always looking for a laugh please check out the world’s funniest blog: brain surgery on a budget.  the latest post was on baby names!!  read it!!

XO

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Super Stoked

So I downloaded the Word Press app on my phone like months ago but for some reason could not get it to connect to my account…so I gave up. But I just went on tonight and it totally worked!! Super stoked! So hopefully I can blog more since I pretty much live on my iPhone!! Anyways my new obsession right now is Pinterest! If your not on it you need to be and if you are come find babyKAMP! I’m seriously addicted!!
XO.

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i just checked…there is a pulse

ohhh…emmm…gee babyKAMP fans i am alive…i SWEAR!  i have been so, so, so beyond busy i don’t even know what to do with myself…accept breathe and sleep!

seriously…i think about blogging EVERY single day.  but i have not had a spare minute to blog or even take any pics.  i know i am super behind and i am doing {excuse my language} a really shitty job at my new year’s resolution {which was to blog more…like a lot more}.  so here i am with no blog posts in sight for like 2 months.

but as a SUPER fast update on my life here is what i’ve been up to:

vegas…babyKAMP…sacramento {for a work convention…for the real job that is}…babyKAMP…san diego…babyKAMP…and going back to work {yuk} and more and more…and MORE babyKAMP – which is SO SO awesome – but holy hell i am exhausted!!!

and i am so, so behind on posting pics and new things on etsy!!

i will write soon i promise!  miss all my loves!!!

xoxo

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home tour

hello blog world!  want to know where i do all this bloggin’ and babyKAMP?  well you’re in luck!  i did a quick house tour.  hope you enjoy!!!

Home Tour

XOXO

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two year anniversary

two years ago i married the most amazing person i know.  it was the best day of my life and day i will cherish always.  we have the most amazing memories from our wedding weekend at my papa’s house in west des moines, iowa.  everything was perfect.  we really have the very best friends and some amazing people in our lives that we love dearly.

rehearsal dinner – july 3, 2009 – west des moines, iowa

dave & maria – july 4, 2009 – west des moines, iowa

click below to watch our highlights video

July 4, 2009

two years of wedded bliss…and many many more!!!

XOXO

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anniversary staycation

well our two year anniversary is coming up…don’t worry there will be an extensive post…but for our anniversary we had a mini staycation at the buttes resort in tempe.  it was so nice and fun to just get away…just the two of us.  we layed at the pool all day friday and saturday and sunned and cocktail-ed.

friday night we went to the resort’s restaurant…top of the rock.  two words: NOT impressed.  i won’t get into all the details but let’s just start with the salad.  i ordered an overpriced dinner salad and they brought out a plate wrapped in saran wrap with the salad on top…wtf?!?  so the entire time i was eating i was trying to avoid stabbing my fork into the saran wrap because obviously i don’t want to eat plastic.  so when the waitress came…of course dave had to ask why my plate was covered in saran wrap.  and are you ready for this response?  the waitress explained how it is a new presentation and it’s called a “floating salad” – it’s so the salad looks like it’s floating and suspended in thin air.  are you kidding me?  the only thing this salad provided was continuous laughter all weekend long.

so after our overpriced dinner we were still starving and went and got in ‘n out and brought it back to our room.  we enjoyed fries and milkshakes while laughing hysterically about the floating salad.

after dinner we went to the jacuzzi that was at the very top of the mountain.  it was so awesome and secluded and you could look at the entire city.  it was amazing.

today – dave golfed with his friend frank and then frank and his fiance becky came over along with kent and his dad and we all bbq’d.  it was a great weekend.  hope yours was amazing and filled with lots of love and laughter…and no floating salads!

XOXO

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viva la britney

well i am home sweet home. it feels so good to be back in my own home and with my pups. but most of all i missed dave like crazy!!!  i had the most amazing week with my very best girlfriends.  the only friend that was missing was christina (my az bestie).  but here is my backwards-semi week in review.

thursday

got to vegas early thursday morning & went to breakfast at the cracked egg with millie & kristen.  it was so fun to be all back together again!  millie’s sister was getting married this weekend so she had a ton of family stuff to do.  after breakfast kristen and i went to coffee (starbucks-our favorite place) with meghan.  meghan just got married in april so it was fun to chat and catch up about wedding stuff.  after coffee i went back to kristen’s and we hung out and watched crazy people on you tube and made fun of people on facebook who take their own pictures in the mirror but try to act like they aren’t.  and they take the SAME picture over and over and OVER again.  i can’t remember the last time i laughed that hard.  we then went to meet up with all the girls (the funky bunch) at chipotle.  it was awesome seeing: kristen, meghan, naama, alisha, millie and megan.  after chipotle i went back to megan’s and we drank a bottle of wine and talked until 1 am.

{on the way to the airport…in plaid of course}

{i know you all have that super annoying “friend” – i use that term very loosely – on facebook who acts like they just happened to snap a picture of themselves not smiling…as annoying as they are they do provide hours of entertainment}

friday

friday was kristen’s birthday and megan had to work so kristen picked me up and we went for coffee (obviously) and to the dmv to renew kristen’s driver’s license.  it was great people watching!  then we went to get bagels with millie.  after breakfast we went over to meghan’s for a funky bunch pool party.  erin, alisha, flavia and sara came over and we had lots of sun and lots of laughs.  after a day filled with birthday celebrations kristen dropped me off at megan’s so she could do some family birthday stuff and megan and i went out to dinner.  we went back to megan’s and got ready to go to blue martini for kristen’s birthday party.  of course we rocked out to britney all night long.  it was such a fun night and all the girls were there.  after lots of “beverages” we went back to megan’s and stayed up and chatted until 3 am.

britneyday saturday

saturday finally arrived!  megan, lillie (her ADORABLE 9mo old daughter) and I went to get pedicures, went out to lunch and then went shopping.  it was a jam packed day with a montage of all things britney including ALL britney songs (on repeat…ALL day) and watching ALL of her videos - it was fabulous.  after all our errands we started getting ready for the show and her husband steve dropped us off at mgm.  we started the night with ALOT of cocktails.  it was megan’s first time seeing britney so she asked me: what kind of people are at this show?  and i said: megan these are our people.  if the world ended tonight all is right in the world because we are amongst our people.  we got to the show and nicki minaj opened and then it was britney time!  EVERYTHING about the show was phenomenal.  words cannot even describe and my writing will not do it any justice…so I’m just going to leave it at that.  after the show we went to nikki beach where britney was hosting an after party.  we got all the way to the front of the massive crowd and realized that megan lost her wallet.  so we went all the way back to the mgm and some how stumbled upon this guy who worked for the tour and he took us backstage to go to the security office.  we got to see nicki minaj (see blurred pic below) and i got visually assulted by her body guard.  long story short…we found megan’s wallet and decided to stay at cocktail-it-up at the mgm.  we cabbed it home and were snuggly sound in bad dreaming of britney by 4 am.

 

{EXTREMELY small sampling of brit pics}

sunday

sunday was a little rough so we just vegged out all day.  made a coffee run, hung out with lillie, went to grab some lunch and then lounged some more.  we mentally replayed every detail of the show and i worked on some babyKAMP ordering and emails.  sunday night megan, lillie and I went to sushi with kristen.  then we decided to take it easy and went and had some coffee time until about midnight. 

monday

monday we had a girls day.  megan, lillie, millie and kristen and i went down to caesar’s palace and went to lunch at serendipity.  if you have not been there you MUST go.  i had been once before because megan had her rehearsal dinner there.  if there is any decor that could describe me…seredipity would be it.  the atmosphere, the food and the dessert are all phenomenal.  after lunch and our ice cream induced comas we went back to megan’s and watched the wild and wonderful whites of west virginia.  which is absolutely crazy and wrong in so many ways…very pathetic and comical all at the same time.  monday night i went over to millie’s and we hung out together at her house and grabbed dinner together. 

{frozen hot chocolate = amazing}

tuesday

megan had to go back to work (but really didn’t because lillie got sick) but kristen picked me up in the morning and we went and got coffee together.  we then met up with millie on her lunch break and went out to lunch.  then kristen and i went to target where i showed her all my cleaning secrets for my chores (a post coming on that soon).  after that we went to nordstrom where we got matching wallets.  after a long morning we need to caffiene it up for one last starbucks visit where we chatted and reorganized our wallets.  you know that you are best friends when you both could not be happier having coffee at starbucks and reogranizing your wallets.  seriously so much fun!  after that it was time to go and kristen took me the airport. 

it was such a fun girls weekend and makes me miss my girlfriends so much.  i love that i have summers off and can take the time to go see them.  i am happy to be home to dave and my home.  i am getting caught up on babyKAMP and getting ready to celebrate our 2 year anniversary!!!  hope you all had a fabulous weekend!!! 

XOXO

 

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leaving on a jet plane

okay blog friends – i’m off to vegas in the morning to visit my besties and see ms. britney spears!!! i’ll try to be in touch and take lots of pics! i’m a little sad to leave dave and the pups but miss my bff’s so very much!!!  shipped fourteen orders this week – all pending orders will be completed when i get back!  hope you all have a great week & weekend and happy summer!
XOXO

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{my week recap…oops}-{week 2}-{GIVEAWAY}

okay so i was REALLY bad this week.  i didn’t take any pictures!  maybe like three…actually that might even be pushing it.  for some reason this week just seemed crazy.  i’ve been doing “summer” cleaning on my house – so everyday i went to the gym, cleaned & organized, worked on babyKAMP…repeat.  (see…not exciting!)  here are a few pics of the week. 

see…i bet you thought i was lying.  you were probably thinking…oh she’s just saying that!  nope.  okay so at some point this week we planted flowers in our backyard and installed hardware on our kitchen cabinets.  if you don’t have this you MUST do it!  it’s seriously like jewelry for your cabinets.  but don’t let the peeps at home depot fool you.  if i hear, “it’s so easy…you just screw them in!” one more time, i’m gonna seriously lose my shit!  so it is ALOT of work – the cabinets are way easier than the drawers (don’t have a pic of those-those handles are SO cute).  and they do sell templates at home depot (something we learned about half way through the process).  you need hardware (duh), a drill and a screwdriver.  if you want to the details just comment and i will answer your questions.  when it’s all said and done it is worth it – i think if i just knew how time consuming it would be prior to starting it would have been a little better.  the four trips to home depot we made on saturday…did NOT help!  okay and the last pic is my (step dad), dave and my two brothers on father’s day.  such an awesome day with my family. 

okay so in lieu of my sucky-ness at taking pics this week – there are two giveaways you MUST enter!!!  and you have to do it ASAP! 

Buy By Mom is featuring a giveaway for a free personalized babyBLOCK!  It’s super easy to enter & today is the LAST day so HURRY UP!

babyBLOCK GIVEAWAY


A Good Life is featuring a giveaway for a free set of babyBEAN BAGS with your baby’s name!  Again…SUPER easy!!! 

babyBEAN BAGS GIVEAWAY

okay so go click-ity click and enter these awesome giveaways!!  happy monday!

XOXO

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