Friday, August 9, 2013

Five on Friday



Today I thought I'd like up with the above lovely ladies for Five on Friday!

{ONE}

The Little Miss decided to wake up at 4:22 this morning. And of course it's my day off, and of course I couldn't fall back asleep (but she sure did!)... So I decided to embrace my day a bit earlier than planned. I've already started laundry, unloaded the dishwasher, and caught up on my DVRd SYTYCD and it's not even 6:30 yet!

{TWO}

MJs first birthday party planning is in full swing! Last week I started a guest list and it grew a life of its own! Somehow its has 94 people on it! NINETY FOUR people! That's almost more than my wedding guest list! Needless to say, that list will be whittled down a lot in the next few days. The theme is going to be Pink Lemonade Stand, and thanks to the lovely people at Home Depot and Pinterest, Mom and I were able to build this over the weekend:



{THREE}

My mom is insanely talented. I can only hope that one day I can do half the things she does. It was my nieces third birthday a few weeks ago and my mom made her this cake:



Seriously people. She has never taken a class. She learned how to use fondant from YouTube. Probably because she is an amateur, we got back to her house after running errands all day and discovered this (at 10:30 the night before the party):


But don't you worry, Mom prevailed. We got up super early the morning of the party and were able to piece together a new cake that still looked incredible:


{FOUR}

I am so so sad that summer is coming to an end. I like the idea of Fall and the way jeans, boots, and scarves look on other people, but I am just not a fan. Give me the sun, flip flops, and dresses any day!

{FIVE}

When I picked MJ up from daycare last night, I immediately noticed that they gave her pigtails. PIGTAILS!


Have a great weekend everyone!



Wednesday, May 1, 2013

April… May… Gan

When I saw that it was May 1st today, it reminded me of  a story from college. One of our dorm friends brought one of his friends to our room one day. My roommate and I had a dry erase board on the outside of our door and it had our names on it. This was the first conversation this friend, I believe we called him Mooch, and I had:

Mooch: Is your sister's name April?
Me: Ummmm... No....
Mooch: Oh, because it would be cool if your sister's name was April. Because then your mom could yell out "April, May, Gan" when she wanted you two

Ummmm... okay... I don't know why this story has always stuck with me, it was such a random first conversation!

I have been wanting to get back into blogging for quite some time now. I'd like to say that life is crazy and there is so much going on. But... let's face it... I am just lazy... A few updates:
  • My little princess was born on October 3, 2013. She is the sweetest, happiest, easiest baby EVER. I cannot believe that she will be 7 months old in just a few days!
  • My work is amazing. When I came back from maternity leave they came up with a way to shorten my commute from 55 miles (one way in the crazy LA traffic) to 15 miles (and I don't even have to get on a freeway)!
  • My beautiful niece was born on February 26, 2013.
  • My bestie had her sweet baby girl on April 2, 2013.
  • I have become addicted to that stupid Candy Crush game - I am very disappointed in myself for this.
  • I turned 30 - I am still not sure how that even happened!
Yep - that's about it. You really haven't missed out on much at all. Hopefully I will be able to get into the swing of things and take some time to journal out my life - I'd really hate to forget all of the sweet little moments that have been happening lately...

Until next time...