Free Tip of the Week: Momagenda Printables



Have you all heard about the Momagenda company? They are a great daily planner for Moms and families. They also have a great planner for students and women who aren't Moms, just in case you think you can't use one of these bad boys!

They have some great online resources as well, which is what I wanted to share with you today. I found all sorts of FREE printable worksheets you can download for yourself and your family including shopping check lists, baby sitter notes, and more!

Go here, and customize your worksheets and then just print them off and keep them at home. I'm going to put mine into a binder at home for us to have ready and handy when we need it. 

Totally free, and helpful just because they are awesome!



Click the link to be taken to their site.

Also look below for coupons and special offers from Momagenda!

Blog Roll Monday: Take Heart



Blog Roll Monday is a weekly feature, where I tell you about one of the blogs I love on my reading list and hope you fall in love with it too! For a full list of the blogs I read, click here.

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Happy Monday Everyone! The weekend went by to fast, but I am excited for this week to start because I am heading to Minneapolis on Friday! Yup, my first ever solo trip sans baby and Hubby! Orion is taking care of Ava the entire weekend while I'm gone. It's going to be my first time ever leaving Ava overnight, I don't know how I feel about it yet. I know that Hubby can do it without me, they'll be fine. I'm actually excited that he'll get to experience life with her this entire weekend. This is just the first of many Daddy/Daughter times they will have together!

Ok, ok...enough Mommy gushing for one post! ;)

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I want to introduce you to Danielle, in my humble opinion you all should be reading her blog! If you aren't already. She's the Mommy extraordinaire behind the blog Take Heart. I've been quietly stocking admiring her for the last couple weeks.

Her blog is based on the scripture John 16:33 which just so happens to be one of my faves as it reminds us that Jesus paid it all for us, he's overcome already what we're going through or will one day. Her blog is encouraging as she shares her faith, fears, accomplishments, motherhood and other tid bits from her life like her amazing kitchen re-do, her children's awesome bedroom, and did I mention she makes awesome little wreaths?

I first fell in love with her blog when she was doing her 'Love Story' series, so many great inspiring real life love stories shared by some amazing women. Miss Danielle has a pretty great love story her self.

So what keeps me coming back for more? She's sweet, she's funny {at least from what I read, she makes me laugh} she loves her babies and motherhood. And when I got up the courage to ask her if she'd be willing to donate one of her wreaths, she gladly supported the project and I am grateful!

And well, wanna know my secret for picking blogs and reading them?!? I like to read blogs of women who I could actually see myself being friends.

And well, I think she'd be a quality friend to have on your side. 

Stop by her blog today, leave her some love and tell her Andrea sent you!

{Project Baby B} Winner!

I want to say a big thank you to all the vendors who graciously donated their time, talent and items to this fundraiser! It wouldn't have been possible with out you!

Thank you also to the people who donated as well. On behalf of myself and The Brookers, thank you!

Now, time for the fun part. The winner. I might add that I let my husband draw the winners name for this fundraiser, he chose:

Congrats Amy!

Please send me your mailing address to my email andreaworley[at]live[dot]com I will be forwarding it to all the vendors so they can ship your goodies to you! 

Friday Frills: My Deal with the Hubster



Friday Frills; is a weekly feature where I talk about all things fun, girly and fabulous. They may or may not have to do with the following: fashion, celebs, pretty things or all of the above!

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A couple days ago the Hubs and I had a convo that went a little something like this:

Hubs: I'll make a deal with you......

Me: yeah, what's that?

Hubs: You can cut your hair short, as long as you go back to blonde.

Me: Done!

I've been wanting to cut my hair short for a while now, only probably is that my Hubby prefers long hair. So last Fall I told him if he wanted me to keep my long hair he had to let me do something risky with it like cut bold bangs and dye it reddish brown.

To my surprise, he went for it and I did it!

Now that it's Summer I really am wanting to cut my hair. I love myself with shorter hair. My hair hasn't been the same since high school and now my hair is the longest it's been since I got married almost 4 years ago. I've been itching to cut it short for months now.

And secretly, I've been wanting to go lighter too. So it's a win-win for me and Hubby.

Here's some hair inspiration I've been collecting for such a time as this.



Source: google.com via Andrea on Pinterest

Source: skincareblog.net via Andrea on Pinterest

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Source: hairspotlight.com via Andrea on Pinterest

What about you, are you making the cut anytime soon?!? What was your most daring hair tale?

Made Me Smile

I posted this on Twitter yesterday, and I just had to post it here too in case you haven't already seen this. Wouldn't it be awesome if everyday were this inspiring. It challenges me to do just that, this video is from a little boy talking about his experience riding his bike for the first time!



Kids say the simplest things. They aren't jaded by the world yet, they are confident, honest and real. I want to be more like that everyday.

I hope it made your day too!

{Featured} Gust Post at This Is Me Thinking

Good Morning Friends! I'm excited to be guest blogging over at my friend Darrell's blog 'This Is Me Thinking.'

He's doing an NCU Alumni week series! I'm excited that I get to kick of the series with today's post on a few lessons I've learned along the way in ministry over the last six years. Stop by his blog, you can check out my post by clicking here.

Thanks Darrell for allowing me to be apart of this series.

Family Fun Day

It's a whole new world for us having Orion home with us on the weekend, one that I am enjoying so much but I'm still getting used to having him around! I've been trying to find family things for us to do these days, it's summer and I want to enjoy every moment of it. Ava is walking now, and we try to get her out of the house on the weekends since during the week she's at daycare. She's a lot more mobile now and interested in things so it makes it a lot more fun.

Tolmachoff Farms is a local place here in Phoenix, we visited them last year during the Fall for their pumpkin patch. Turns out they do a "family farm day" in the summer time full of activities. The summer heat has come early this year in Phoenix, we got there around 9 am and it was already almost 100 degrees! Yowzers! We braved it though.



Ava found this little wooden house she could go inside of and she thought it was the greatest thing. She kept going in and out of it. So cute.



Orion entered a watermelon contest, mostly because he was so hot and wanted the refreshment. We cheered from the side lines.

We stopped at the petting zoo to see some animals, played in the corn kernals, and walked around in the hay! Grandpa would be proud!



Then by 11 am we all went home, Ava napped and Hubby and I worked on refinishing some night stands. Then we stopped over to bring dinner to our friends and see baby Emery.  It was a perfect Saturday! How did you spend the weekend?