the blue jean skirt vs the puppy skirt vs the ballerina skirt

So one of my favorite things to do is watch old home videos.  I mean, who doesn't love it??  We have a ton!  My mom has an unhealthy obsession with wanting video or picture documentation of everything, and based on my opening confession I'm obviously thankful for this.  We do give her a hard time about how she forgets the camera is recording and casually walks around with it hanging at her side or will record a 2 hour long tap dance rehearsal. Anywayz, I'm thankful.  So with this abundance of footage, my brother in law, Matt, recently started the painstaking process of converting all of our home videos to digital files and uploading them to a private family youtube channel lovingly named, "Cuppettfamilytree."  I get so excited every time I log on and see a new video has been uploaded!  Watching these has stirred old memories and makes me cry every time I hit the play button, especially when I see one of my sweet grandpas.  Well, there's this one video of Callie at age 5, me at 3, and Maddie at 9 months or so just playing and it is HI.LAR.IOUS.  Maybe this is ultra boring and not funny to anyone but family but I have literally watched it a dozen times.  Regardless, I thought I'd post some of the fun/funny that I've been up to lately... so, here's a clip of it, better turn your volume up. Enjoy!



I think it is so funny how adamant Callie is that I wear her blue jean skirt and kind of sad that I don't think it looks good on me! Plus the music makes it more like a soap opera...

Happy Tuesday!
Hannah K.C. Burton

Family Weekend

After a couple-day blogging dry spell while the stomach flu destroyed me, I'm back to post about happy things while taking a few breaks to tend to Karl who is currently being eaten alive by said flu.  Awesome.  Just trying to strengthen our immune systems before Lucy comes :)

Here is a picture heavy post for you :) ... University of Arkansas Family Weekend is a maj Cuppett Family tradition!  It obviously began my freshman year with all 5 of my family members making the trek in the 'burban up to Fayetteville, eventually adding Karl to the mix my Sophomore/Junior/Senior years.

This year is Emma's freshman year and we had all been looking forward to Family Weekend literally since she decided to go to UofA last spring!  We always all have such a blast!!!  This year instead of having 7 peeps there would be almost 12, you know,  the 'almost' being Lucy.  Obviously.  The real family weekend happened on a weekend with a major scheduling conflict, so we created our own and it happened to coincide with Karl coming home from Korea and Homecoming- win!

Unfortunately Jeremy had to leave early for work so we really missed him for half of the weekend but we tried to soak it up for the time he was there.  It was so crazy how different {yet equally fun} it was this year and will continue to be while Emma is a student.  Having babies and husbands up there was different than years prior- we went from 1 hotel suite to 4, 1 car to 3, packed a stroller, picked activities with nap time in mind... the weekend was an absolute blast despite the change!!  We went to the game, had every meal together, shopped and ate locally, went to a corn maze and saw tiny little piglets, and just had so much fun all together.  Having everyone together is really rare with Karl's deployment/Emma at school/me & Karl here now.  I am so thankful for this weekend and feel blessed by it!  Praise God for these sweet times!!

twinkies!!

buddies

boo, pic without jeremy :(

on our way to the Pi Phi house

look at those teeth!

Jeremy :(

LOVE  Emma & my parents enjoying Pi Phi things

Matt held this pumpkin like a guitar, ha

 Look at those three!  And those northwest Arkansas trees!!

Cookie and Ollie :)

I have such an awesome family!! I am so thankful for each and every one of them.

Hannah K.C. Burton

happy days

reminded of these "unreleased" photos of Karl and I that we had done last year.  thanks, 'mate ;)  happy memories of Karl & I in our first home, in our first year of marriage last year- just us, in a tiny town in South Carolina.

Mrs. Burton

Striped Socks

This is my favorite pair of socks.  Every Fall {and multiple other times a year} my Pa would take us back-to-school shopping in pairs or small groups of his choice {a few sisters or a couple of cousins, a little girl and a big girl or two little ones, etc- I wonder how he decided who would go with whom?}.  Normally our shopping was just for shoes {like, soooo many pair- we are spoiled.} but for some reason my 5th grade shopping trip found me, Pa, and maybe my sister Maddie or London {?} in Gap Kids.  All I know is that Pa bought me my favorite outfit of that year- a horizontally striped sweater with a corduroy skirt and at the checkout he spotted a pair of knee-high socks that matched the sweater perfectly that he added to the pile of clothes and insisted I have... and that just happened to be the year that everyone was wearing skirts with mary-jane shoes and knee-high socks, so I was pretty excited.  I have no idea where that sweater is- probably on the child of a Mission Arlington customer- another of Pa's passions.  But the socks... come every fall and winter they still get worn approximately every time they are clean.  I'm thinking of retiring them before holes are worn in them.  I think about him in literally everything I do.  Fishing alongside Karl this weekend was a big one. Karl going to Korea.  Wearing my Uggs {he thought they were really interesting, haha}.  Every time I write or smile or Karl calls me "Kate."  I could go on... but for all my pregnant and hormonal cousins and sister who may or may not be crying right now, I won't, ha.

Hannah K.C. Davis Burton, always a Davis

and the anniversary celebration continues... with pictures

Karl & I had a photo sesh with a local photographer a few weekends ago.  I decided that I want to prioritize pictures every single year, money-wise, and I'm so glad I did this year!  I treasure good photos!  Yesterday our online gallery became available and I'll order the CD of images this week and then have the photos in hand soon after that.  Right now, I just pulled one off her website that has her watermark on it.  I had a vision for these pictures, just wanted her to capture our life as newlyweds... getting to live life together is still so fresh and exciting for us!  There were lots that I didn't like because of how I looked, not because the actual image itself isn't great, so I did learn two big lessons: 1) ask to see images as you go on the camera screen.  If not, you could go the whole time with horrible hair or spend 15 minutes taking pictures with a pose you will hate and a double chin {cough cough} 2) make a list- and now you can all call me foolish because I said this after my wedding photos went slightly awry when I was list-less that day and now here I am, kicking myself for a few images I wanted but forgot about the day of but wouldn't have had I had a list.  Despite my two lessons learned, I LOVED the photographer we worked with, would use her again in a heartbeat, and cannot wait to get some of these images printed, framed, stretched across a canvas, and hung!!  Above is one of my favorites, forgive the watermark and check out our photographer HERE!

Hannah K.C. Burton
and how 'bout the fact that after YEARS I finally got the banner centered on the good ol blog??  aa I can breathe.

Wordless Wednesday: things-that-have-been-making-me-happy-this-week-edition

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oh karl

I LOVE hearing Karl laugh.  His laugh is so contagious.  Lately we have been watching a lot of America's Funniest Home Videos together as well as Wipeout.  I don't love either of these shows but just love how much Karl enjoys both of these shows, he laughs so genuinely and hard during both of these shows.  Similarly, there are a few commercials that no matter how many times he sees them, Karl laughs like it's the first time.  I think they are ridiculous but think it's hilarious that Karl gets such a kick out of them.  Enjoy.

Hannah K.C. Burton

Wordless Wednesday

I just can't stop the reminiscing.  Take me back.  And bring Karl with me.

Hannah K.C. Burton

Full Disclosure

Remember this post? Ya know, the one where I told you about helping my parents clean out their house?  Well, in that clean sweep we found a giant ziplock bag full of film... like 30 rolls of shot film.  My mom was dying to know what was on it but obvi it was going to be a pretty penny to get it all developed annnnd since it was so old we knew we couldn't just drop it off at Walgreens.  So for Mothers Day my dad surprised my mom and had all this old film developed at a camera specialty shop and put on a CD.  SOOO FUN, especially because we had absolutely no idea what was on these rolls!  Lately my family has been so nostalgic with all these weddings, baby cousins being born, and the passing of my grandpa so we have been doing a lot of looking at pictures and watching home videos so it was the perfect gift.  And in the interest of full disclosure on this blog, I thought I would include a few (or few dozen...) of said pictures.  Please don't judge my 11-year-old self.  I should also add that it's good that Callie is already married off as am I and Maddie is committed because it would be risky business posting these if not- two words- awkward stage.  Emma, on the other hand, never really had one.  Lucky girl is the youngest of 4 and didn't have to learn the hard way to not wear chokers or bear her midriff.

I mean is she not the cutest?

Y'all, in the other pictures of this event, I am the only one wearing a mustache.  Just normal.

Choker & midriff noted. Y'all should know that Emma was 9 in this picture.  Her tininess was no joke.

Probably 95% of my childhood centers around my cousins.  The best thing.

Just me dancing with my first boyfriend.  Obviously not mad at all about my mom taking our picture...

An average night at our house... my dad getting his hair brushed.  I have no doubt that bows or clips were following.

My sister, Babushka.

Glad Maddie's football whistle necklace made it into the pic, phew.

annnnnd the outfit.

Noel- Look!  She totally looked like Madeline!

Limited Too silk pajamas- a staple.

Just Emma in her Asian Gardener getup trying to ensure she doesn't get an ounce of sun on her.

patriot.

Maddie and her BFF, Honey.

The happiest family.  Oh man.  I have the absolute best memories!!  In a nutshell: I always got in trouble, Maddie never got dessert because she never ate her dinner, Emma was perfect (ha...) and couldn't say her "r's," and Callie was the guinea pig who was parented with an iron hand but besties with my mom... that's how I remember it.  haha

Have a happy Monday.  Maybe this post will make you laugh your way out of The Mondays

Hannah K.C. Burton