This Oz Life

Time for my favorite shopping season...spring! I know, I know...the fashion world is already discussing fall clothes. But it is still, oh 40 degrees in Columbus, so I am timely in these parts. Here is what I am excited to wear this spring. What will you be adding this season? 1. Spring scarves. It took me forever to feel out this trend, but I am a total junkie now. It takes a tee to a polished outfit and makes me feel more put together. 2. Coral! Most of what I bought with my birthday… Read more

Though I adore cake pops and would love to be the person who makes owl cake pops complete with feet, eyes, and beaks (oh wait, that's my mom), I am not. BUT, this, my friends, I CAN do! And so can you. So, here we go with Oreo pops that can match any party theme. Easy Oreo Pops (makes 16) 1/2 package of Double Stuffed Oreos (the stick won't fit into regular ones) 1 bag of Wilton melts 1 TB canola oil sprinkles pop sticks Push the sticks into the Oreos, almost until the stic… Read more

Well, the first birthday party is over. Our guests left about 5 hours ago and the house is still not put back together whatsoever. Oh well. "Great Success!", as Borat would say. They enjoyed their food, my DVD actually worked, and...AND...LARKYN WALKED! In front of everyone. I immediately burst into tears and had to disappear for a few minutes. Girly loves an audience, and she waits for one so she can pull out her latest trick. The party was a Twinkle Twinkle Little star p… Read more

365 days ago, I was ready to push. For real! It was 10:00 (when I started writing this) and I was in love with the epidural that let me sleep through the night. Now I am in love with my one year old. Last night, I packed up all the baby bottles and the enormous amount of crap that goes along with them. As I was bagging them up, I of course started sobbing. To me, the bottles symbolized my baby needing me. I clearly remember the first time I gave her one...the moment that I went from a… Read more

Ohhhh my chest just tightened when I wrote the blog title. She's not technically one until Saturday, but I have taken a picture every Thursday for 52 weeks and wasn't about to stop this week. I am not even sure where to go with this post. I think this one will just be about the past week, as usual. Saturday, I will get sentimental, and then later I will tell you all about her first birthday party. We gave up bottles this week. We were down to 2 small bottles, and I kept noticin… Read more

One week left til the big day! Well, if you haven't already seen our one year photo session, click the link to the left. Heather did such a great job for our first year package and we have so many sweet memories to look at all over our walls. Here are some shots of Easter Day at our house... And here is little miss with a little surprise for us on Monday... And here she is, in her second to last weekly photo. It has been fun for me most of the time, but if you could only see the E… Read more

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If you saw last week's post, you can see the Easter outfit in detail. Pay no attention to the screaming child wearing it. I made it for today's outing, Larkyn's first Easter egg hunt! Last year, we brought her home the night before Easter. This year, I thought she'd be a little more into it. We had a gorgeous day for it, (thought it was supposed to be way cooler, so we were sweating!) Read more

I love an easy treat to give to people I see during the holidays. This one is fast and simple, and the only catch is that white chocolate chips are a little pricey.  My recipe comes from Pinterest, via yourhomebasedmom.com Bunny Bark (makes about 5 sandwich size bags full of broken bark, so I double it to get 10 and use up my ingredients) 14 Golden Oreos, twisted apart and broken in 1/2 (so you get 4 pieces out of each) 1 1/2 C small pretzel sticks, broken in 1/2 (I left many intact) 1… Read more

Can you spot the teething child? Well, that is what we are up to this week!  Hopefully on Saturday, I will get some non-violent pictures of her in this Easter outfit I made (and was sure she would love ). Naturally. Read more