Happy Weekend!

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Happy Friday, everyone! Are you finishing up all your holiday “to do’s”? Yeah, me too. I have a few gifts left to wrap, cookies to bake, crafts to finish and a super fun video to edit and then I’m done. Put a fork in me. A week from tomorrow we are heading off for a family vacation in Colorado, and I couldn’t be more excited. I won’t be posting that week, but I have some rad guest posters lined up for you that you’re gonna love! Just call me Santa!

Here are some fun links to get you through your weekend:

I wrote about one of my favorite Christmas memories over at the Zesty Digest.

Love is such an incredible thing.

Um, Khloe Kardashian posted a slideshow of her favorite Kardashian Christmas cards and I have to say…well, I don’t know what to say. But it’s worth the click over! (Matching motorcycle jackets? Okay then.)

Have you tried the Portable North Pole? We’ve done it the past few years and the magic hasn’t faded for Lucy. This website (with a new app too!) will make a specialized video with Santa talking to your kid, complete with their own name, photos of them and specific gift requests. Best of all, it’s free!

A great holiday wish list from my friend Nicole over at Petit Soul. I would like one of each, please.

I want to visit this swing art installation in NYC!

Last minute gift idea: Printable treat bags! Fill with goodies for your neighbors, teachers or postman. Easy peesy.

Another cute (and quick) neighbor gift, DIY candy checkers. Comes complete with printables. Hooray for easy!

Love this post from Andrea on the importance of being at choice.

It’s hot toddy season! Here’s a great recipe.

Oh Cinque Terre, I miss you so.

2012 in pop songs. Let’s dance!

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Here are some recent Instagrams of our lovely, little life! You can follow our adventures over at @crazy_bananas on Instagram.

An afternoon at the park. #latergram #swing #shadowDay 11 - Sweet: Spider-Man jammers in the morning... #fmsphotoaday

My favorite thing about our holiday card pile this year is seeing my images smiling back at me :)From behind the Menorah... #hanukkah #day2

Day 8 - Someone I Love (Part 2) #fmsphotoadayDay 8 - Someone I Love (Part 1) #fmsphotoaday

Santa success!!!I found Rudolph, y'all. He's cuter and more into pink than I remember....

At the Dollar Tree for stocking stuffers. I'm turning into my mother.Day 5 - Looking Up: we are turning our normal decor in to holiday decor. #merry #fmsphotoaday

Tis the season! #salvationarmy #givingDay 4 - Black and White: He's obsessed with the broken, $5 Christmas carousel from Walgreens. #fmsphotoaday #clearancerack

Day 1 -  8 o'clock: Watching Elf in bed with my favorite girl. #fmsphotoadayFlip flops in December? #weird

Cookie baking party with @stinads! I am now full of sugar :)He's got his football and his dad...happy boy.

We are adorable. #sorrynotsorry #trentloveshashtagsKansas City, you are adorably festive.

The 2012 Crazybananas Holiday Card!

This year, since my favorite family photographer moved to Denver, I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to get a great shot of the kids, Trent and I for a holiday card. We can be (ahem) a bit difficult to work with, and I knew the stress of it all wouldn’t be worth it this year. I was browsing the all knowing Internet for a solution, when I found the awesome Etsy Shop, Local Honey. The artist, Kelly Christine, is a photographer from Texas who moonlights as a pretty fantastic illustrator. She will take photos of your family and draw a custom portrait just for you! I contacted her about wanting to do an illustration for our holiday card and she was totally on board. Didn’t it turn out adorable?! I love it so much and have the original hanging in our home.

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On the back side I used a few Instagram images I love, Tate riding in the wagon at the farm, Trent and I in New York City and Lucy at soccer. I wrote a little note detailing our year (which pretty much everyone knows already due to this here blog) and thanking our friends and family for being so amazing. We used Minted this year for our cards (read more about why here) and I love the quality.

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Warmest Wishes, from the Crazybananas Crew!

Holiday Gifts by Crazybananas

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2012 has been a fun year creatively for me and other members of the Crazybananas family, and I’ve been fortunate enough to have received a few inquiries about some of my work being up for sale. In the past, the idea of selling anything I’ve made has sounded pretty darn horrifying, but since it’s the holidays (and since I am now jobless…eeek!) I figured it’s a good time to make some items available!

You can buy the book that documents the NYC + KC project, with photos by myself and my best friend Theresa Frey, over at Blurb.com. The book is an awesome gift idea, comes in both hardcover and softcover, and is even available as an ebook (for $4.99…a total steal)!

The second item up for grabs is a print of a photograph I took (and posted a few months back) of a rainbow during a storm in Gove, Kansas. I have a limited number of 8×8 prints for sale, and a few have already been snatched up, so if you’re interested, please send me an email at megan@crazybananas.com.

Thank you again for all of your support this year! 2013 is already shaping up to be incredible, and I can’t wait to share all of my upcoming plans. Hooray!

Happy Weekend!

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Hey, hey, it’s Friday! It’s the end of the first week of my new life, and so far, so good. We’re still adjusting, but I have a good feeling that this is the best move I’ve ever made. This weekend will be a busy one, full of shopping, holiday parties and the start of Hanukkah. Last year Lucy requested we celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah, since she had friends who do both, and we decided we didn’t have a good argument why we shouldn’t. I mean, we’re not technically Christians, and yet we find ourselves with a tree in our house covered in lights, so why couldn’t we add a menorah to the mix. We are doing our best to be respectful, have done research on customs and ceremonies, and plan on using this as a teaching tool for Lulu. While I was raised Catholic, my school and family always highlighted the importance of Judiasm to our religion, and I studied Abrahamic religions in college, so I’m hoping we can keep things kosher (Get it? I’m hilarious.).

I hope your weekend is full of fun as well! Here are some links from around the web to help entertain you in those quiet moments:

Chocolate chip Nutella candy cane cookies. That is all.

I posted on Twitter about spinning around in my office chair and dancing on my first day home. Here’s the playlist that set it all off. Let’s dance.

One of my favorite bands, The Rosebuds, has a holiday album out! You should probably buy it.

Jimmy Fallon, the Roots and Mariah Carey remaking a holiday classic using only children’s instruments. Sounds awful, is, in fact, amazing.

Jay Z rides the subway, adorably explains who he is to an old lady.

I want to make a Feel Good Jar. Sometimes you need a reminder of all the little goods in your life.

I wrote a post on Sweet Lemon Magazine’s Zesty Digest on giving up and how doing it can make everything brighter.

Finally, I was lucky enough to do a super fun photoshoot last week for some new projects we have coming up on this here blog. I will share more soon, but I wanted to post this particular photo, because it conveys exactly how I’m feeling right now. And a lot of that is because of you. Thanks for making life so damn fun! (Photo by the insanely talented Christina Gepner)

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Our Thanksgiving

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Our family Thanksgiving in my hometown was such a fun, long weekend of family, joy, gator rides, good food, wine and more fun. I sing the praises of my awesome family quite a bit on this blog…so this time I’ll just let the photos speak for themselves. Hope you all had a relaxing weekend as well!

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