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Okay Ya’ll… I know that title is NOT lady like!  I know that I may have lost a friend or two BUT before you go, hear me out! (haha pun not intended)

It’s true, I’m obsessed and by the end of this post, you will be too I promise with the Poo… Poo-Pourri that is!  This is perfect Monday morning conversation ya’ll!

It’s perfect in place of our weekend recap because I spent a lot of time dishing about it over the weekend in fact!

Have you heard about it yet?!  I’m sure you have.  It’s been all over Good House keeping, Glamour, The Huffington Post and even more.

I recently found it over Christmas in a store my mama and I love to shop in for little personal touch gifts.  We were browsing with our arms filled to the brims with goodies galore!  I stumbled up to the cash register to lay my items to rest so I could fill my arms with more sparkly coffee mugs, t-shirts and hand made ornaments when I noticed a scent that was delightfully different!  It was subtle and nice and again a bit odd, not in a bad way odd just not a perfume and not a cologne.  It wasn’t a candle or atomizer it was something that was entirely of it’s own character.

On a shelf next to the register I noticed all the little gems in spray form! “Spray before you go and no one will know!”

I gently chuckled to myself as I read all the names… “Call of the wild”, “Poo-la-la”, Trap a Crap” etc!  My mama came over and we started laughing even harder with the ladies at the register but we began to take them pretty seriously as we noticed that they did smell rather nice.  I picked up a couple (Call of the Wild and Poo-tonium)  to shove in Tuck’s stocking stuffer as a little gag gift and didn’t really think anymore of it!

Fast forward a few months later and we have since purchased more bottles and more scents for every single bathroom in our house!  This stuff is no joke and it’s amazing!  I’m not kidding when I say we are crazily obsessed in this house!  Gag gift or not, we adore it!

I just bought an extra bottle of the citrus for the whole family as a Valentines Day Gift!  Nothing says I love you unconditionally than gifting for poop!

So, here’s the deal:  I live with 2 boys and I will tell you the toddler is the worst one in the house.  Thank goodness he has learned to spray 3 times before he hops up on the toilet and praise the Poo Pourri lady… our lives are changed for the good!!!

YOU CAN NOT SMELL A THING other than the beautiful scent of whatever all natural goodness flows from the spritzer in those bottles!  It’s pure genius!

Here’s 3 Reasons why YOU will love it:

  1. It’s just that genius!  It’s so easy to use and it works on everything from the mild to the unmentionable
  2. There is a “flavor” for everyone!  I suffer from migraines and scents can bring on one in a second for me!  These are subtle and can range from extra floral to mild mannered!  You choose your scent passion;  there is one for everyone’s personality!
  3. They come in adorable little packaging and are super clever!  The point is to laugh about it!  EVERYONE does it!  It’s no secret so let’s all laugh about it and then spritz away and be amazed!  

Seriously friends: Spritz, go, and no one will ever know!

This is a huge deal right now as we are showing our house!  I kid you not, we have actually had comments on how nice our bathrooms smell!

OHH if only they knew!  🙂

It’s absolutely that easy!  Spritz 2 to 4 times into the bowl before you go.  Enjoy some alone time on the potty.  Flush, and enjoy the beautiful aroma of the scent you chose!  That’s all there is.  The beauty of the spray is that it is completely all natural too, no harsh chemicals, no harsh alcohols, no parabens!  We can feel good about allowing our 3 year old to use it!

There are several locations locally here in VB that sell P00-Pourri but honestly their website is genius!  They even have little “get to know you” bottles and re-fillable bottles that you could keep in your purse!  Although, don’t even put it past me to keep a bottle of this liquid gold in my purse for a public “emergency!”  It’s THAT good and I’m terrified of public restrooms so if I feel comfortable, you know it’s just genius!

I’m dying to try to vanilla mint and ya’ll they have shoe-pourri!!  Can we just put that in all of my toddler’s shoes right now?!!

So… the moral of this story is this is my favorite product right now and it is so amazing that it is probably saving relationships one bathroom at a time!

Poop might not be the most favored of blogging topics but everyone does it, it’s natural.  So why not talk about the best thing that has happened to make this whole situation a million times better?!

Go check them out and get yourselves a bottle today!  You can find them here!!  It’s the best money you will have spent on your bathroom in a long long time!

By the way… this is totally NOT a sponsored post!  I just love it that much and I know you will too!  As mom’s we absolutely have to stick together!  I have found that there is no other way to forge your bond as a mama on your side like no other than to talk about poop.  It just happens and it seriously is the one way we can all relate and bond.  I don’t know why that is, but it seems like (at least in my personal life) once you become a mom, there are no topics off limits and poo is just the one topic we can all bond over and totally laugh about!  “Oh my gosh.. you experienced that with poop ME TOO, LOL oh my gosh your my new BFF for life”!  Has that conversation ever happened to you?  Or is that just me?!

This little spray is genius and if you have a potty training one in the house, oh my it’s lovely!  Teach them to spritz and like I tell Linc your future wife will thank me! 😉

Tomorrow I will be back with my usual pretty images but I just wanted to share something with you that is super helpful; especially as a mama!

In the meantime… here’s my little one in all his goofy glory!

365 day project, spiderman in waiting

Spiderman here was waiting on some dinosaur eggs to hatch!  It’s so hard waiting!

xoxo

B

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Good Morning friends and fellow mamas!!

It’s ALMOST Valentines day so you know what that means… it’s time to start the festivities!!!!

Yesterday I was able to spend the morning with some of my favorite little cuties!  We shared some Valentines donuts and wore our tutus and our glitter headbands and danced and twirled and jumped on the beds!  Ashley and I drank our coffee, slowly, which is amazing when you think about the morning we spent with two wild ones;  but we talked about motherhood and the wonderful wildness it is to have two incredibly independent strong willed three year olds!

We left glitter dust in our wake from our extra girlie powdered donuts and I was able to capture some beautifully tender moments between mother and daughters!

What better Valentine gift could you ask for as a mother?!  A morning spent in the arms of her two tiniest loves, kisses that are filled with magic and unconditional love, and a boundless joy that makes a mother’s heart sing with wild abandon!  These are the gifts that a mother knows and longs for;  these are the gifts that allows a mother’s heart to burst with pride and allows her to feel just as wild and free as her children!

These are the moments that are imprinted on the heart forever more!

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Doesn’t Ashley look like such a classic beauty here?!  I feel like she’s such a Jackie or an Audrey!!!

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Oh Waverly… you crack me up!!!

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Avalon went down for a nap and so the rest of us girls had ourselves a little time of rest! Ashley and I chatted about our plans for the big day on Sunday! I adore her plans by the way with her husband!!! I won’t spill them, I will let you read about them on her blog if she decides to post them 😉
Waverly decided to snuggle up with her best friend and catch up on her stories! Because our every day moments are sometimes more meaningful than the ones we intentionally set out to capture, I had to steal these of the two BFF’s!!!

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I hope everyone has a wonderful Valentine weekend with their big loves and little loves!

xoxo

B

  • February 12, 2016 - 8:44 pm

    ashley - Love you and these SOOOOOOO very much!!!!!!!!!! You are the best!ReplyCancel

Happy Afternoon Friends!!!

So this is a spur of the moment post, but it’s one I am hoping you will find helpful and also one that will encourage you to go out and get shooting!!!

If there is one thing that I have learned this year shooting children and families alone… it’s to LET GO of perfection!  I mean Hey ya’ll… that’s my life motto:  REAL is better than perfect!  Gosh, it’s THE mark of my business, it’s my phrase right?!

Seriously though, this is the biggest take away I have and I’ve transformed that from the motto to my sessions….Spur of the moment sessions will ALWAYS be way more touching, brilliant, breath taking, more meaningful and more enjoyable than anything I could ever style or plan hands down time after time!

So what does this mean and what do I want YOU to take away from this:

When you are shooting your children, whether you are a mom or a professional photographer don’t WORRY or become stressed out about a theme or the props or the styling!  JUST GO FOR IT!

I know we all love the pinterest posts and those ideas are so darn cute, but in reality bless all of our hearts, 9 out of 10 ten times they won’t always turn out that way.

Gosh in my experience with my own son, it’s taken me 3 years to realize that even as a professional photographer I should be on the list of pinterest fails!!!!

The best photographic moments I have had with Linc and with my clients are the ones in which we just show up!

We may come together with a very loose game plan in mind but we shoot for fun and we let the magic unfold!  We let the kids be kids and the only thing we really “plan” is the location and lighting!

I wanted to share this today because Valentines Day is coming this weekend and this is a real opportunity for you to take a fun little holiday that is prime for adorable photo sessions!

There are so many things that you CAN do to bring the style… but just keep in mind this is another option!  You can just play and have fun and realize sometimes less is more!

Here is just a small example:  My girlfriend and I got together for a momma date and I brought over some duck donuts for the girls!

We had the right scene and let it fly!  All it took was a fun cheerful attitude, a white bedspread, open windows and a little patience and some farm animal noises!

I’ll be sharing more of their shoot tomorrow but until then here’s a sneak peek!!

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Just remember:  Children and Family Photography isn’t always about capturing the details!  There is a time and place for that!  It’s mostly about just capturing the essence of YOUR CHILD and the magic they leave behind!  The best way to do that is to free yourself from the stress of planning the perfect session and just ENGAGE with them.. camera in hand!

That’s what we did and all we used was the bed and a snack!

What can you use?!