Bisous, Brittany

Going To Monaco’s First Pumpkin Patch & Animal Farm

Since I wasn’t able to take Monaco up north this year, I decided to make the best of what South Florida has to offer and explore a pumpkin patch and animal farm here! We do have quite a few of them within the Fort Lauderdale and Miami area, so my mom, sister and I took him to U-Pick Family Farms!

He had such a great time checking out all the pumpkins, looking at all the animals and seeing people (since we don’t really go out much with him because of covid). He is at such a curious age and loves to look around and see people and be outside, so this was the perfect activity for us to do with him!

I hope that next year, I can take him up north for fall time so we can go apple picking and go to a real pumpkin patch where they grow on the vines. But this was definitely a fun activity for our family to do. And most importantly, Monaco had such a fun time. We even ate snow cones while we were there, which was an added, sweet bonus!

If you live where there is a change in season, be sure to enjoy the nice cool and crisp weather for us! We may try to go to a few other pumpkin patches down here, so we can get into the holiday spirit.

Also, I am trying to decorate our house so that it feels like fall time! I already have our fun pumpkins in front of our house. I just want a few more items, like some hay stacks and maybe another sign or wreath. I hope you all are decorating too! Happy fall time, everyone!

Nordstrom Anniversary Sale #NSALE

The highly anticipated NSALE is here, so I wanted to put together all of the items in the sale that I have and love! If you aren’t familiar with the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale, they offer new arrivals and bestsellers from top brands all on sale! If you are planning out the items you want now, be sure to add all of them to your “Wishlist” so that when the sale becomes available, you can add them to your cart and purchase them quickly. Everything goes super fast during NSALE so be sure to prepare in advance!

Dates of the sale

  • All cardmembers can shop Early Access starting August 13—shop even earlier depending on your Nordy Club status.
  • Anniversary Sale is open to everyone August 19–30. Prices go up August 31.
  • You can shop the sale in open stores during normal business hours. Online shopping begins at 9:30am ET/6:30am PT.

Shows I Have Been Binge-Watching Lately

I always love to see what other people are watching. Since my husband and I are such big TV show and movie watchers, I thought I would start to compile some of the shows that we are currently binging or have finished watching, so that I can share with my fellow TV connoisseurs. I would love to know what you are currently binging at the moment. Maybe I need to add it to my list!

This is the list of the most recent shows I have watched. I didn’t go back too far, because we watch so many shows. But I could do another list, or add to this one if you want to know more.

Light-Hearted Shows

  1. Gilmore Girls (Netflix)- This is what I am currently watching, and I can’t believe it has taken me this long to get around to watching this series. I absolutely love this small town mother/daughter duo!
  2. Sweet Magnolia (Netflix)
  3. Virgin River (Netflix)
  4. Love Life (HBO Max)
  5. Schitt’s Creek (Netflix)

Dramas

  1. The Chi (Showtime)
  2. Hightown (Starz)
  3. In The Dark (CW)
  4. Hanna (Amazon Prime)
  5. Show Me A Hero (HBO Max)
  6. Billions (Showtime)
  7. Killing Eve (BBC America)
  8. For Life (ABC)
  9. Outer Banks (Netflix)

Again, I have A LOT more shows that I have watched, but I just wanted to add the most recent ones that I can remember (since we watch so many). I feel like I have forgotten some, but I think these are the ones I have watched in the past 3-4 months. Also, because many productions have stopped due to the corona virus, so many of my shows have stopped mid series like Billions (which sucks).

Please send me any and all of your favorite new and old series! I would love to add some to my list.

Children’s Books About Equality, Inclusivity, Diversity & Kindness

Hello my friends! I wanted to share with you all some great children’s book that I had put on my baby registry for Monaco’s baby shower and that I now get to read with him! I wanted to make sure that Monaco read books that shows characters that look like him, but also characters that don’t look like him. I wanted him to see characters that include different genders, different races, different religions, different socio-economic situations, historical characters and the list goes on!

These books are absolutely beautiful and are great tools that we can use when teaching our children about respecting one another, about diversity, about equality and about kindness! Our children are the future, and these valuable and important lessons start in the home, so I encourage you to check out these books! I know there are a lot more great books out there, so if you have some you love, please share in the comment section!

Click on the below titles to be directed to the book!

  1. One
  2. Lovely
  3. Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around The World
  4. Most People
  5. I Am Enough
  6. Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History
  7. All Are Welcome
  8. Last Stop On Market Street
  9. Hair Love
  10. I Am Perfectly Designed
  11. The Invisible Boy
  12. Those Shoes
  13. Be Kind

Sending lots of love and peace your way!

Our New Home!

Right before we had Monaco, we purchased our first home! We had a new baby coming and a new home to settle into, so needless to say, we had a lot going on! We closed on the house on Wednesday, February 26, moved in on Friday, February 28, and Monaco decided to make his grand entrance on Saturday, February 29!

It has been quite the whirlwind, settling into our new home with a new baby. Nothing was in place when Monaco arrived, but thank goodness for our family, who did a lot of our cleaning, organizing, and putting things together as I healed from having the baby.

We have been ordering things little by little, and I have been sharing the updates on my Instagram (@bisousbrittany). We ordered all of the bigger items like the couches, tables and chairs, tv’s, rugs, etc. Now, I have just been adding the final decor touches like throw pillows and blankets, hanging mirrors and photos on the walls, and getting curtains up.

We do have some long term plans for fixing up the house like adding a pool, changing the windows and front door, painting a few rooms, and a few more things, but those things will happen eventually.

For now, I just want to share some of the progress we have made. If you see the before and after photos of our home, its pretty drastic because we were able to have the downstairs painted a few days after the baby arrived. And I am so happy we did, because the walls in the house were a very dark color, and not well painted. So we decided to hire people to paint the downstairs. The wall paint is by Benjamin Moore and it is called Barren Plain. It is the perfect pale gray color and really brightens up the house!

As we continue to decorate, I will be sure to keep you updated! Make sure to follow me on Instagram @bisousbrittany for updates there. And I will continue to add our progress on here as well!

Meet The Love Of My Life, Monaco Sébastien

I want to introduce to you the love of my life, Monaco Sébastien Pruitt, our brand new baby boy! He is our Leap Year baby and was born on February 29, 2020 at 2:30pm. He weighed 7 lbs. 2 oz. and decided to make his entrance into the world about 2.5 weeks early. My due date was March 19, but Monaco couldn’t want to make his grand entrance!

With all that is going on in the world, I am so happy he decided to come early, since my family was allowed to be with me at the hospital at that time. He came very quick, which I am so grateful for! My water broke at 7:30am, we arrived at the hospital at 8am, and

How did we pick the name Monaco? Well, we named him Monaco because that was one of our favorite places we visited on our honeymoon back in 2017 in France. Our honeymoon was the best trip my husband and I ever took, and we talk about returning to the South of France all the time. We cannot wait to go back one day with our baby boy so he can experience how beautiful it is too!

I know I am posting this almost 3 months late, but becoming a new mom and creating a new routine with a newborn has been quite time consuming. Motherhood has been the most beautiful and challenging thing I have ever experienced. But I would not change a single thing. Monaco is the best thing to happen to our little family and we are so blessed for our healthy and happy baby boy!

Baby Boy Pruitt’s Baby Shower!

Baby Pruitt’s baby shower was such a beautiful event that we hosted at my aunt and uncles house. We ended up invited over 100 people. Yes! Over 100 people. How that happened? I have no idea. But I have to say, Baby Pruitt has so many family and friends who love him so much already and are so excited to meet him!

In terms of decorations, I bought almost everything from Amazon and it was delivered super fast! I decided to do a greenery, gold and white theme as the color palette, and I really love how it all came together. Of course, I was so busy that day that I didn’t get any photos, but I have compiled a few that family and friend took, so forgive me for not having photos of everything.

For centerpieces, I always go with Trader Joe flowers. They are so beautiful, they last the longest and are definitely the most affordable. We used a bunch of mason jars to place the white roses, white hydrangea’s, babies breath and eucalyptus in. I absolutely loved this combination of flowers. It went perfectly with our color scheme.

For games, my mom and my sister were in charge of coordinating and picking those. We ended up playing 3 games: the string guessing game where all the guests try to guess the size of my stomach; guess the baby item in the bag game where there were 16 items in a bag and guests have to feel the bag and guess what is inside the bag; due date game where there were two calendars and guests had to guess the date and time that Baby Pruitt will arrive (which is my favorite)!

We ended up going with Italian for food and everyone was super happy! It was a labor of love because my mom and dad did meatballs and salad, my grandmother did a whole lot of baked ziti and sausage and peppers, and we ordered garlic rolls from one of our favorite Italian restaurants. We kept it simple, but it was perfect! Also, everyone chipped in for dessert where we had cheesecake, my grandmother’s ricotta cake, rum cake, chocolate chip cookies, and a deep dark chocolate cake.

I initially wanted to only do a charcuterie board with finger foods for the main meal, but because we were having so many people, we decided to do a charcuterie board for the appetizers! My best friend’s mom came to the rescue with plating the charcuterie board, because of course, in true Brittany’s family fashion, we were running late the day of the shower. So my best friends mom and dad came a few minutes early and were plating the charcuterie board as guests were arriving.

Oh, and my dad’s fruit salad deserves an award! Look at how amazing his baby fruit salad turned out! Everyone was so impressed. That is some amazing artwork there!

Our baby boy was so spoiled and received so many beautiful gifts from everyone. I am still going through and organizing all of the amazing gifts he received to prepare for his arrival!

Lastly, I just want to say thank you to all of our family and friends who traveled from near and far to attend our baby’s shower! Your love for him is so amazing and we are so grateful to have such amazing people in our lives! And a special thank you to my family and friends who helped coordinate, plan and execute this baby shower. I love you more than anything. Thank you for putting up with my crazy party ideas and for allowing me to have a big party for my baby boy!

Baby Shower Invites With Paperless Post

We are currently in the process of planning our baby boy’s baby shower, and with only a little over a month to go, I decided to use Paperless Post! If you follow me regularly, you know that I have loved using Paperless Post in the past. I shared a post here about how much I love using them for planning parties.

They have so many great options to pick from, and I love so many of their gorgeous designs. I wanted to share a few of my favorites here with you!

What I love most about Paperless Post, is that it is easy for me to keep track of who is coming to our parties, because people can RSVP through the site. It allows me to stay very organized. Also, I am able to link our baby shower registry, which is super helpful for our guests attending.

If you are planning a baby shower, birthday party, graduation party, holiday party or anything else in between, be sure to check out Paperless Post!

Holiday Dress Season!

Over the past few days, I have been shopping for some holiday dresses for my husband’s office party, and of course for Christmas and maybe even New Years. I found some amazing dresses and most of them are on sale right now! You can find them all on my Instagram in my “Shop” highlight as well!

All of the dresses are normal sizes and not maternity dresses. If I had to, I sized up in a few so that it would fit my bump, so they are bump and non-bump friendly!

Click here for more holiday dress ideas!

A Very Merry & Minted Holiday!

I am so excited to be working with Minted once again on our family holiday cards! They make the most gorgeous designs and have so many options to choose from, it is literally impossible for me to pick each year.

But this year is extra special! Why? Because our family has doubled within a year! I am so excited to share our beautiful holiday card with our family and friends this year

click here for more on our minted holiday cards!