Category Archives: Crafting

2 Year Shoot

June 5, 2013

We were a little late setting up a shoot due to an excess of busy in the Boswell household, but I’m in love with how our 2-year anniversary shoot came out!

I literally have the best friend in the world. Kristi comes with me to 2nd shoot on almost all my weddings, and sometimes we shoot each other just for fun. It’s kinda awesome to be best friends AND photographers because we each get to document each other’s lives. :)

I got a little crafty the day of the shoot.

True story: we left this gorgeous field after about 2 minutes because we started finding a ton of nasty little ticks on us and we had a minor panic attack. Lol. There’s often a curse on pretty fields I find…

Shorts and shoes from Target, shirt from Old Navy. I have no idea where Andrew’s clothes are from, but he be looking fiiiine. ;)

Love. Him.

My dad’s car is legendary. A certain paranoia comes over me each (rare) time I’m allowed to borrow it, and I drive 5 miles under the speed limit (even though that’s a heinous and ridiculous thing to do in a corvette) just in case. He was gracious enough to lend us his baby for this shoot. ;)

I think ^ this one is my favorite.

What a stud. :)

Another favorite. Thanks, Pinterest. ;)

Now to plan our 3-year shoot…;) Haha. Happy Wednesday loves!

~Cait

Posted by Caitlin in Adventures, Crafting, DIY, Family, Fashion, Friends, Love, Outdoors, Personal, Photography, Photoshop, Summer, Tips

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Chevron Freebies

May 9, 2013

I don’t know how I’m not tired of it yet, but chevron seems to be sweeping the world…and I like it.

Here. Have some freebies. :) (Click on them, save them to your desktop, and print.)

~Cait

Posted by Caitlin in Crafting, DIY, Fashion, Freebies, Giveaway, Party, Personal, Photoshop, Printables, Random, Tips

March & April Months in Review

May 8, 2013

Yeah, I’m a little behind on the months in review…but here they are! I’m equally aghast every month when I realize it’s time to make another one…time is flying!

Here’s January and February in case you missed those. Happy Wednesday!

~Cait

Posted by Caitlin in Adventures, Animals, Cooking, Crafting, Date Day, Date Night, Decorating, DIY, Family, Food, Friends, Health, Home, Humor, Jack, Months in Review, OKC zoo, Outdoors, Party, Personal, Photography, Photoshop, Travel

Andrew’s Birthday Brunch

April 22, 2013

There are two things I love more than most other things…my husband and pancakes.

I invited our immediate families over for some celebratory birthday brunch on Saturday. I even made cute invitations. ;)

I did all the decorating and flower arranging myself…I was so thrilled with how everything came out! :) We {obviously} went with a nautical theme. ;)

Props to Homeland for having awesome flowers. I made all of the floral arrangements in the whole house for $30 altogether!

I’m SO sad that I didn’t get any pictures with all the food set out perfectly before we ate, but making breakfast food for 10 people and getting all of it ready at the same time is harder than I thought. ;) Just imagine there are chocolate chip pancakes on those super cute plates my sweet sister-in-law bought me. ;)

This is an iPhone shot after most of the pancakes were gone. Lol.

The turquoise silverware is from Target a couple years back, and I’m pretty sure I got the napkins from IKEA.

When I finally sat down, the chocolate pancakes took all my worries away. ;)

Sorry this picture is half-eaten food. Haha. But this is kinda what the island looked like before…there was another plate of chocolate chip pancakes as well, but I’m sure I devoured it.

Dad and Brad look like they’re discussing something very important. ;)

And I’m really sad I didn’t take a picture of our cute drink station either, but we had super cute straws… even if no one except Alyssa and I used them. ;)

After the feast and after Andrew opened some fabulous presents, we played with Jackers. :)

Cutie pie loves sticks.

Love my handsome birthday boy!

Haha, Jackers loves Grandpa. :)

You guys are cute. Give me a nephew. ;) :)

Jack did so good with everybody. He still gets so excited and hyper with other people, but he’s much more agreeable outside where he has lots of sticks to chase. ;) He was pretty tuckered out!

And yesterday, on Andrew’s actually birthday, his day started with breakfast in bed.

We went to church and Buffalo Wild Wings afterward with our families. Then Andrew took a super long and much-deserved nap. :) I gave him an Old School Bagel Cafe gift card and a new shirt, and Friday I’m taking him to Six Flags. :)

And to end a lovely birthday weekend, we snuggled this pooch. :)

Happy Monday!

~Cait

Posted by Caitlin in Adventures, Animals, Cooking, Crafting, Decorating, DIY, Family, Food, Home, Jack, Love, Party, Personal, Photography, Tips Tags: birthday, birthday brunch, birthday party, breakfast, brunch, brunch party, family, floral arrangements, flower arranging, German shepherd, homeland, nautical, pancakes, turquoise

A Late Month in Review

March 21, 2013

The end of February and beginning of March were crazy hectic, so I’m just now getting around to making February’s “month-in-review.” I’m working on March now…

I can hardly believe April is right around the corner…slow down please, 2013!

~Cait

Posted by Caitlin in Adventures, Animals, Crafting, Family, Food, Jack, Months in Review, Photography, Photoshop, Winter, zoo Tags: 2013, february, month in review, photoshop

Loads of Love

February 18, 2013

Let’s show you some Valentine’s Day 2013 highlights. A day that began with my car not starting, but ended with Coldstone for dinner. Win. ;)

I don’t know if there is a greater thing on the planet than breakfast. I made Hubs some cinnamon rolls and naturally, I had a pancake. An extra chocolate-y one. ;)

Puppy was looking so festive!

My first gift from Andrew was given the night before V-day, and we watched it both nights. Lol. I adore this movie. I’m positive that Daniel Craig is the coolest man to ever walk the planet. I’m currently searching for his wardrobe to duplicate for Andrew.

My 2nd gift from Andrew was a pedicure! And it was heavenly. Perhaps the best four words to ever be put together are “hot towel foot massage.”

“Grand Canyon Sunset” by OPI, in case you’re curious. ;)

Andrew got some yummy goodies from me (that sparkling cider came from a set of miniature bottles, so it’s far more impressive than it looks, I assure you), and he got a frame with a super cute picture from Jackers. :)

I’m spoiled. :)

I’m so excited to watch the rest of my lilies bloom! They smell so good.

I visited my other valentine Kristi Belle at work before lunch. She was rocking her red high heels and lookin’ fly. ;)

Mom-in-law took me to lunch at Longhorn.

Sigh. :)

Yes. Andrew & I planned to have dinner at Longhorn (I could eat there for every meal), but the wait ended up being 2 hours and they don’t do reservations, so we opted to get his steakhouse burger to go, and I had a Peanut Butter Cup Perfection from Coldstone for dinner. :) So romantic, I know. ;) Hahaha.

And we got our craft on and made some cutesy sharpie mugs. :) This one is obviously mine. I couldn’t get a good picture of Andrew’s, but it says, “You’re gonna need a bigger mug.” Bahaha. Movie quote man. ;)

Our Mamas also spoiled us with gift cards and candy and goodness. I’ve got far too many Reese’s in my house right now.

And this wasn’t a Valentine’s gift, but Mom got me this last week, and I just about died of glee.

Happy Monday loves! :)

~Cait

Posted by Caitlin in Adventures, Crafting, Date Day, Date Night, DIY, Family, Food, Friends, Holiday, Home, Humor, Jack, Love, Personal Tags: 2013, valentine, valentine's day, valentines

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2012 Yearbook

February 8, 2013

Guess what arrived this week in all its 11×11 inch glory!? :)

Our 2012 yearbook! I’ll let the pictures do the talking…though I’m only posting a few so you don’t have to view all 60 pages. ;) I’m obsessed with it. Another win for Photobook America. :)

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Happy Friday!

~Cait

Posted by Caitlin in Adventures, Animals, Crafting, Decorating, DIY, Family, Friends, Home, Jack, Jesus, Love, Personal, Photography, Photoshop, Tips Tags: 2012, 2012 yearbook, DIY yearbook, happy year, yearbook

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Months in Review

February 5, 2013

Here’s an overview of January, and my little Photoshop copycat beauty of this pin! I tweaked it a tad. I’m thinking of making each one a different layout for each month.

Click on it to see it bigger.

Anyone else doing months in review? I’d love to see yours!

Happy Tuesday!

~Cait

Posted by Caitlin in Crafting, Family, Personal, Photography, Photoshop

February Fun

February 1, 2013

I can hardly believe that January is already over! But I’m a little happy about it. I’m ready to get the heck out of winter and on to spring and summer. :) I’m looking forward to quite a few things in February…

My 2012 yearbook coming in! If you missed it last year, click here to see what our 2011 yearbook looked like.

I slaved the past couple weeks away working on 2012′s book, and I finally finished it last night. I kept adding and adding pages near the end (I can’t even bring myself to confess how many pictures are of Jack), but it’s going to be worth it and so super cute!

Valentine’s Day! I’m not sure what our exact plans are yet, but I’m 99% sure they will involve Longhorn Steakhouse. ;) I’m thinking all I want is a pedicure. I miss pedicures, and my winter feet are heinous. I’m fairly certain Andrew will ask for a movie or a TV season…we’re fairly obsessed with Big Bang Theory now.

Crafting! I’ve got some new projects up my sleeves, and I’m going to try to tackle them while my photography work is still pretty slow. I found this on Pinterest yesterday, and I’m working on my own Photoshop version. I like the idea of doing this every month where I can write down events too…my yearbooks just have pictures.

Hopefully some warmer weather… My puppy is a thousand times less hyper after he’s had a long walk or a stint of frolicking for an hour in the backyard. I’m a pansy. I can’t do cold weather. He’s been circling the coffee table in the living room for exercise the past couple days. I need some walking weather! :)

What are you excited about in February?

~Cait

P.S. HAPPY FRIDAY. ;)

Posted by Caitlin in Adventures, Animals, Crafting, Family, Home, Jack, Personal, Photoshop, Winter

Partying. Christmas Style.

January 2, 2013

Firstly…Happy New Year!! :) I hope you all had a fabulous and safe New Year’s Eve! We laid low and spent the night at my parents’ house watching Dark Knight Rises and basking in the glory of Christian Bale. And we had pizza and fudge. Win win. ;)

It’s hard to believe this party was just two weeks ago…I feel like we’ve been trapped inside the sickly days for weeks! Poor Hubs caught something (not from me!) and got a sore throat last week and is just now getting over it. Can we all agree to NEVER GET SICK IN 2013!?!

Ahem.

Here’s some highlights from our Christmas party we had two weekends ago with our sweet friends. It was a much-needed night of hilarity, fellowship, and good food. :) (We did miss my dearest BFF who got sick the night before. :-/ But we sent her a get well card!)

I didn’t take any pictures of the food or our decorations because we had so much fun using our photo booth!!! I’m proud to say I made this little set up all by myself, including the props. ;) We had a blast with it. Click on the pictures to see them bigger. Enjoy!