Friday, May 15, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Finally!!!
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Viewers, beware!!
I am aware that this definitely crosses the overshare line, and I apologize upfront. But only other moms can truly appreciate the beauty that was my day. No, this is not some pureed- beef baby food. Scroll down with caution. You have been warned.
Enough said.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Playing around . . .
The weather was warm today! Hooray! By way of celebration, Aiva and I went outside (and a few inside) to take some spring pictures. This is also celebrating Aiva's cute new tutu that I won in that giveaway. Like most moms of little girls, I love to dress Aiva up and snap away with my camera. Some of my favorites:

Monday, March 23, 2009
Our busy week . . .
We had a fun week. With the warm weather, Aiva and I spent as much time out of doors as possible. We went on walks to Walmart for groceries, and went to the park a couple times.

Friday night at midnight was the release of the movie Twilight. My friend Candice and I went to "chaperone" her 14-year-old little sister at a party at Blockbuster, or at least that was our cover story. The rest is a strange combination of embarassment and pride for me. We participated in lots of trivia contests and won pretty much every one. Between the three of us, we won 2 buckets of popcorn, a bunch of candy, ice cream, a Blockbuster gift card, 2 huge wall posters (which of course we gave to my friend's sister), and a t-shirt. We also participated in the look-alike contest, and did pretty well. I think I took 3rd for Rosalee, and Candice took second place for looking like Alice. I shouldn't be bragging, but people were actually getting mad at us because we knew all the answers. Like I said, a mix of pride and embarassment. At least I'm out of the closet: I am a Twilight nerd. This photo is right before I left for the party.

Saturday morning I did something drastic . . . I dyed my hair dark brown. I have had long, blond hair since my senior year of high school. That is eight years, people. I needed a change. The mirror shock has been more than I expected, since I've been thinking of doing this for many months, but I'm starting to like it. Haha! It's not this dark in person. This is a bad picture, kind of embarassing, but oh well! I really should have done my hair before taking the photo. Hehe.
Friday night at midnight was the release of the movie Twilight. My friend Candice and I went to "chaperone" her 14-year-old little sister at a party at Blockbuster, or at least that was our cover story. The rest is a strange combination of embarassment and pride for me. We participated in lots of trivia contests and won pretty much every one. Between the three of us, we won 2 buckets of popcorn, a bunch of candy, ice cream, a Blockbuster gift card, 2 huge wall posters (which of course we gave to my friend's sister), and a t-shirt. We also participated in the look-alike contest, and did pretty well. I think I took 3rd for Rosalee, and Candice took second place for looking like Alice. I shouldn't be bragging, but people were actually getting mad at us because we knew all the answers. Like I said, a mix of pride and embarassment. At least I'm out of the closet: I am a Twilight nerd. This photo is right before I left for the party.
Saturday morning I did something drastic . . . I dyed my hair dark brown. I have had long, blond hair since my senior year of high school. That is eight years, people. I needed a change. The mirror shock has been more than I expected, since I've been thinking of doing this for many months, but I'm starting to like it. Haha! It's not this dark in person. This is a bad picture, kind of embarassing, but oh well! I really should have done my hair before taking the photo. Hehe.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
I WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, I need everyone's help! I entered a blog give-away and I WON!! I won a GORGEOUS tutu, curtesy of babyemblems.blogspot.com. Check out her website. She's got some way cute stuff. Below are a few examples of the tutus:






Am I a lucky girl or what??? (Okay, it's actually Aiva that's the lucky girl, since she will be wearing it.) I get to choose whatever color of tulle and ribbon that I want, and she will make it for me! So my dilemma is that I only get one, I don't know what colors I should choose and I have to get it right! So I need your opinions. Below are a few of the combos I've thought of that I like. Tell me which one you like best, or if you have a good idea of a different combo.
Light Green Tulle w/ Pink Ribbon (the bottom one in the photos)
Light Pink w/ Goldish-Yellow Ribon
Brown Tulle w/ Pink Ribbon
Light Pink Tulle w/ Black ribbon
Light Pink Tulle w/ Brown Ribbon
Light Pink Tulle w/ Cream Ribbon
Light Purple Tulle w/ Cream Ribbon
OR I also like the idea of cream tulle with a colored ribbon, but do you think that would get too dirty???
Thanks, everyone, for your help!! I appreciate it!
(Sorry also about the no spacing with this last part. I couldn't get it to do it. Does anyone else have this problem?)
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Finally, some pictures
After months of depressing posts, I'm finally going to post some pictures!!! Because this cute little girl is what keeps me going when the times are tough!
Is this first one not the cutest ever???
This is Aiva at my sweet mom's wedding yesterday!
After eight long years being single, she finally tied
the knot to Koji Sato! I'll show pics of
that event when I have them. Congrats mom
and Koji! We love you both!
I LOVE these cute, girlie hats!
Unfortunately, I don't own this hat. This is at
The Quilted Bear. Don't ya gotta love
that store?
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