grab a friend

I had the awesome privilege of co-hosting a Blog Hop for Noor & Areeba for the first time... so, here it is!! eeekkk :) Thanks girls!

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Welcome to the weekly blog hop , Grab A Friend 

Link up here , answer a question , grab a blogger and be friends!

Every week this hop is created with lots of love + fun . So be sure to share it to more and more people ca catch up and our lovely little hop can be large with more friends ;)

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When you go to follow your hosts , leave the answer to make their day + a bloggy present .  We all would love to share love back { will follow you back} .
 
This hop is for finding new friends & bloggy mates . So be sure to go and find yourself one .
I am so happy cheery to see you all linking up with us every Tuesday . Yip-yip , you're rah-king.
Twitter is a new addition in hop , so if you want some Twitter-holic bloggy mates so link up , hop around & grab some tweeeeeeeeter sweeties .

Q: Have you ever done a Pinterest fail?

Noor :

I have a LONG list when it comes to Pinterest fails . Once I tried to make pizza sauce with tomato and garlic paste . It took a lot of time and ended up tasting like an old mud pot . Then , I tried to make a scrap book . I couldn't handle hot glue and it was ALL over my project .

Areeba : 

Oh no, please don't ask that. I was trying to make a project in which a balloon & string + glue was needed. All I needed to do was to paster string around the balloon & when it dries, you can separate balloon and an epic beauty (almost) lace project was ready. I made it with superb energy but it never dried in proper way. It was looking like a mummy-balloon imported from Egypt :(

Katie :
I have actually done quite a few Pinterest fails, but the worst one was an angel food cake that you were only supposed to add pie filling to. It looked easy so I tried it. I added cherry pie filling to a box mix of angel food cake, and now that I think back on this I don't even know why I used cherry pie filling because I hate cherry flavoring. Anyways, I think it was supposed to bake for 45 minutes and it was still completely wet. I baked it another 15 minutes, but it formed this foam on the top that tasted like soap. It was disgusting!

Tara :
OMG....of course I have had a Pinterest fail!  I made one of those ornament wreaths two years ago.  It took me all night and I my fingers were raw from hot glue burns.  I hung it up on the wall and in the middle of the night it came CRASHING down, breaking almost all the ornaments.  So I spent the rest of the night cleaning up ornament shards.

Your turn to answer!

First Post...how original?

Okay- so first off I must admit I have been a bit obsessed with a few blogs here lately. Namely: this one, this one, this one and this one!! All of which are Moms (who seem to be great- and I'm sure they totally are!); some stay at home, some working full time and some working from home- who also enjoy some of the same things as me. Food, fun, friends, crafts...etc. Blah blah blah! So, long story short. They have all inspired me to start a blog for not only a way to vent, as a current stay at home Mom, but also to have to look back on as my son is currently growing like a weed! Hench the name of this blog. He is the reason for every decision I make. Becoming a Mother has been such a gift in itself, but knowing that I have this little person to watch grow and protect (as best I can) along the way seriously makes my heart ache. I'm so in love with this little guy it's not even funny! Therefore, everything I do is.... because of Beckham.

I really should have started this about 11 months ago...so I will just fill in the blanks from then to now.

November 2011- Found out I was pregnant. Unplanned, yes. Excited, yes. Scared, yes. All of the above.

not sure why the B and H look so light... nevertheless- it reads Beckham..duh!

bedding- Pottery Barn

January 2012- Married the true love of my life. The man I always saw myself growing old with since the day we met. It was actually kind of scary how fast things simply fell into place with us. I would say luck, but I don't believe in luck. It was more like a gift from God during a very hard time in my life. It is funny how things happen. At the time you're thinking things are spiralling out of control, and looking back on it now I can see things were actually falling into place. :)

....9 Months later... after a 'perfect' pregnancy! Seriously, I was so blessed. No heartburn, no morning sickness (ever.), no stretch marks UGH unfortunately, yes (thanks Mom!), and a little swelling at the end of a long day but other than that, perfect. My Dr. praised me every time for being such an easy patient. I'm not really sure what I did, if anything, but I thank God for how easy it went because I have heard some horror stories!

37 weeks

July 16, 2012- Welcome Beckham Dane to the world!! After a planned induction, about 3 sets of 3 pushes each- out pops the greatest thing I've ever done in my life. I made a person (with the help of my husband, of course...hehe)- wow! That's talent, if I do say so myself!

sign from Etsy

Current- At 7 weeks old, he's obviously the smartest baby on the planet, of course! :) Unfortunately, we had to go to formula after a milk production problem, or a lack there of actually. boo. But, he is doing great! No crazy tummy troubles other than the occasional gas, which he gets from his Daddy, gotta be a boy thing because girls just don't do that! :) Smiling, laughing, cooing (melts my heart), and wanting to eat all. the. time. So, I would say he's doing normal baby stuff, but let's face it, he's not normal, he's is mine all mine and absolutely perfect in every way. I'm not biased or anything.

Recap- My hopes in creating this blog is to not only keep family updated on the day to days of Beckham; but, also to vent, share, and savor my sweet memories with this precious angel so that one day, I can look back and reminisce on all the wonderful (and not so) things we did throughout the years. In closing- I'd like to simply savor everything. Life, love, and most importantly family. And it's all because of Beckham.