It's May? Oh my!

 “A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2014.” 18/52

 Happy May everyone! I cant believe summer is right around the corner! I've been a blog slacker lately but the weather has been gorgeous and I've been spending all my days planting flowers and veggies for the garden! I'm really behind on my photo series project so I thought I would skip head to the past week and try to keep up with it from this point on. 

In other news, today The Collective is live! I hope that everyone has fun hopping around and meeting new blog friends. I highly suggest that you leave a comment when you stop by so that everyone can introduce themselves and spark up a conversation! Say hi, don't be shy! I love getting comments on my posts and I'm sure you all do too!

Welcome to THE monthly blog hop party! Every 1st Monday of the month, link up all of your social media and blogging accounts with us. If you're looking for your blogging tribe, this is it!

These guidelines are in place so that we can all have a successful experience with The Collective. Please do your best to abide by each one, there are only 2:
1. Follow the host and co-host's blogs: (first links in each list) If you leave a comment letting us know that you did and what method you are following with, we'll return the favor :) We greatly appreciate each and every one that does.
Your co-hosts this month are: Kelly from Our Cone Zone Katy from Chaos and Kiddos: Mommy's Survival Guide Autumn from Honeycomb & Co.
Interested in co-hosting? Send an email to peacoatsnplaid(at)gmail(dot)com
2. Get social: This hop is about creating community. Looking for your own blogging tribe? This is it. Visit as many blogs as you can and make sure you say hello!
The following are optional yet encouraged (they only help us all in the long run):
Grab a button: Using the code provided in the box, display the Collective button on your sidebar or wherever you list your link ups. The more people that do this, the more help there'll be to keep the popularity of the hop going.

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Follow the host and co-hosts on social media: We are so grateful for your follow via social media. If you leave us a short message/post letting us know, we'll be sure to return the favor.
Spread the word about The Collective via social media: Pin, Tweet, post about it on Facebook, whatever you can do to help spread the word about The Collective and what it has done for your blog is awesome! Let's get social :)

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