Kristin McLendon

InstaFRIDAY & an Update!

I'm still here, I promise!

I've been enjoying a little down time

with my family!

I'm linking up for InstaFriday!

A fun way to share our mobile pictures from the week

(do you have the app? If so, follow me there: kamclendon)

I also thought it'd be a fun way to

catch you up on our little family!

Christmas was spent

in Richmond Hill/Savannah

with my family and went by

way too fast!

Baby's first Christmas was everything I'd dreamed it would be!

Lots of snuggles with Nana and Grand Dad.

Lots of playing with cousin Aniston.

Lots & lots of new toys!

Road trip for the day down to St. Simons Island with Nana and baby Jude!

The ocean air is good for the heart!

Caught up with old friends and

had coffee dates into the wee hours of the night!

Highlights and a hair cut!

Flying (appropriately) with Grand Dad!

Christmas break can be exhausting!

Visit with Granny!

Four generations strong!

Back in Marietta to bring in the new year.

The hubs was playing football, so Jude and I took a stroll in the park!

We quietly welcomed in 2012....

then on January 2nd I headed to the Georgia Dome

for the Passion Conference with my High School Seniors!

45,000 18-25 year olds.....incredible.

{Not to mention I got to see some of my favorite people...

Heidi Ho & the Sheehan Family!}

And did you know that there are currently 27 million people enslaved in the world?

That's more than ever before. This generation took a stand and raised over 3 million dollars during the conference to go towards stopping modern day slavery.

{take a moment and read!}

Here's my baby. He turned 10 months old while I was at the conference. G-Nan spent the week with him and they got lots of snuggles! I drove back and forth each day and got about 15 minutes each morning with my little man (not to mention about 3 hours of sleep each night). I was grateful I was still the first face he saw in the morning...even if it was just for a moment!

We got new couches for Christmas!

Here they are on delivery day (and not a happy baby!)

We LOVE them!

Hubs bought me a Kindle for Christmas. I've spent every little extra moment I could find reading! I'm currently reading "7" by Jen Hatmaker. More on this over the weekend (and a giveaway, so stay tuned!)

Baby got sick (AGAIN) while I was at the conference. Thankfully he's better---but now the hubs is sick! Can. not. win.

Here's our pretty living room. We completely moved things around and I love it! We took out the coffee table and there's LOTS of play room for Master Jude!

So there's our update via Instagrams!I hope to have the shop back up in the next week.Lots of new things coming and I'm excited!
Do you have big plans for the weekend?We're excited to have absolutely nothing planned.We've had snow flurries already this morning,so we are staying in and staying warm!
Happy Friday Friends!

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Labels: family, InstaFriday, life

InstaFRIDAY!

Linking up for InstaFRIDAY!

A beautiful way of sharing our cell phone pics from the week!

And I have 2 weeks to share with you!

Reading our Advent Scripture:

Setting up the advent calendar that I bought from Jessi. Once I did this, I took them all down and we now put a new one up each day. Love it!

My little/big man!

Opening presents/pajama grams that show up in the mail! We love packages!

Game night with the Craigs. Jude was highly amused....and so were we!

Picking out our Christmas tree!

Jude did this to himself. I promise!

Jude was sick last week--which meant lots of extra snuggles!

Jude likes Jingle Bells!

Playing in the park for our 4th anniversary. It was beautiful.

RiverStone Staff Christmas Party tonight! The theme was Feliz Navidad....and surprise! A mariachi band! It. Was. Awesome.

I'm linking up!

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InstaFRIDAY! {and 2 giveaways!}

It's Friday! Woohoo!

Linking up with Jeannett for a fun way to share our cell phone pictures

from throughout the week!

On our way home from our Thanksgiving Vacationwe stopped in Macon to visit Robert's best friend Luke.Luke & Drew just welcomed their first baby, Lennox Sinclair.She is precious! Hard to remember that Jude was ever thatlittle!

This picture does not give the situation justice.It was on our way home from church.Must have been an exhausting day in the nursery--or just continued exhaustion from our Turkey Vacation!{Mouth was wide open, sound asleep!}

Worked on a custom order for a very special lady.

Custom order complete-and hand deliveredby another special lady on a layover in New York!

It was really cold this week!

Homemade Advent Wreaths

Made with our Cell Group

{love that group & are very thankful for them!}

Senior Dinner!We meet with our High School Seniors the lastWednesday of each month.Love this special time with them!

Hello December 1st!!!Brrrrrrr!

We took Jude to the Marietta Squarefor the big arrival of Santa Clausand the lighting of the Christmas Tree.We met up with some friends for the event& had dinner afterwards.It was a lovely evening!And one in which I think we started a new yearly tradition!

Santa arrived on a fire truckand Jude was fascinated with this man!So sweet!

And we're FINALLY going to decorate for Christmas

this weekend.

First step,

take down Fall!

What are you up to this weekend?

Linking up!

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And have you seen them?I have two giveaways going on at the moment!Mandy over at My Charmed Life is giving awaya onesie or shirt of your choice.CLICK HERE!
Secondly,Kristin's Kreations is giving away an Infinity Scarfover on Good Times Never Seem Sew Good!CLICK HERE!

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InstaFRIDAY

It's Friday friends!

And Black Friday at that!

Did y'all survive???

With it being Friday....

It's time to link up again!

InstaFRIDAY is a great way

to share instagram and cell phone

pics from throughout the week!

Look at my little snowman.

Couldn't you just eat him up?

On Saturday we had ourDreamers Gathering.First up was Outreach-Being Jesus to the City.I was so proud of my kids!

My group went into a local community

and hosted a cookout

and fun event for the families

It was a great afternoon!

And we may have grilled 200 hotdogs :)

Sunday was Global Missions Sunday.

I'm co-leading a Youth trip to Costa Rica this Summer.

My heart is ecstatic!

I feel like I'm going back to my homeland.

We may have lured people to our table with

chips & salsa.

Maybe.

Sunday afternoon it was crunch time for the ICE POP UP SHOP.This was the sweatshop....thankful for my peeps.

At one point Aunt Mia took over Jude duty....

Once the sweatshop was over,

the fam headed downtown ATL to drop off

the pop up shop inventory and

to do some Christmas shopping at

ICE

I was so excited to meet

Ellen of Handmade Recess.

She's my first bloggy friend I've met in

"real" life!

She speaks Truth.

Deeply encouraged by her!

I've been on the hunt for a stocking for Jude.Found the perfect one at ICE.Love it.Love that it's handmade.

This is my man

that now pulls up on everything

and likes to stand....

I like mail.So does Jude.We check the mail together every afternoon.He's getting good at opening up the mailbox!Thanks Nana for the cardsand packages this week!You make checking the mail fun!