Baby Teeth

Baby girl got not just her first tooth this week, but her 1st and 2nd!!!! Number 1 appeared on Monday 6/27 and by Tuesday 6/28, number 2 was poking through too! She got the left lower central incisor 1st and the right lower central incisor 2nd...She is almost 7 months old (on 7/6/11)...Hope she cuts all her teeth as easily as this one, you wouldn't have even known she was teething!

Blogger Babe Reunion Part 2

So we woke up feeling not our best (isn't that a nice way to say hungover?) about 9:30ish..I cannot believe I slept so late, but I guess that's what happens when you stay up until 2:30 in the morning and don't have any kiddos to wake you up! Our bed was so comfy which is very unusual for a hotel, I usually sleep horribly...Anyways, after lounging around and finally getting our showers, we headed uptown to lunch at Sutt@n's drugstore..It is an old-fashioned style drugstore with a yummy grill..Plus there are tons of pics all over the place of people that have eaten there over the years...some famous folks and bball players, some just students and visitors..It was fun to look at how the styles and hairstyles have changed over the years...Here we are at lunch:



A good cheesburger was just what we all needed to feel better. We headed to the mall in Durham and just spent our time leisuely looking for whatever...shorts, bras, housewares (goodness I love Crate and Barr*ll), skin care, make-up...I did a bra fitting and of course found out I was wearing the wrong size. I found a new kind of undies that I bought a pair of on reccomendation from Susan. I really like them and plan to get more..Laura, will tell you about these, think you will like them too, they remind me of our World's Best that we LOVED. Maybe this is just a girl thing, but it is really hard to find a good pair of underwear...or maybe I am just super picky. Everytime I find a style that I love, they stop making them. This has happened to me twice now..My first love was Warn#r's Colors to Go. Then Laura and I both loved "World's Best Intimates" from good ole Wally World. Both are no longer made of course :( But there is hope...I am wearing my new ones right now and I really like them! Better go out and buy a gazillion pairs before they discontinue them!

I did an oxygen facial treatmet at Seph(ra..We had the best person from Philos*phy helping us, her name was Valencia, she was fantastic. Wish she could have gone out with us later on that night, I think we all would have enjoyed each other. I usually do not like that kind of store or the people that work in it...I walk in there, have no idea what the heck all that stuff is or what to do with it and just feel UGLY..but you know Susan, she just walks right in and makes herself at home, starts trying stuff and talking to the sales people (and made me and Meme feel comfortable too)...I love that about her. And it was so much fun! Here is a pic of me and Valencia:



After trying on bras, Susan and I headed to the cafe at Nordstr*m's for a sweet chai frozen blast thing that Susan always gets...After trying it, I see why, it was delish and gave us a little jolt of energy to do a little more shooping...While MeMe met up with her friend Stacy (they used to work together), we hit C &B. Here are some things I got..Didn't spend much at all, they have great prices. Love these little icecream/sorbet dishes and spoons, perfect for the kids to have ice cream out of (1.95 for set). I bought 3..Yes, I only have 2 children but may have 3 one day...If I don't, it won't matter if I have an extra. But if I do end up with another kiddo, he/she will need one of these cuties!



Also got these adorable juice glasses for .95 each, aren't they cute?



Ok, after all the fun at the mall, we headed to good ol' Targ@t to get little prizes to bring back for our kiddos...Then we went back to the room for some well-needed R and R before our night festivities...and that my friends will be Part 3 of the story...Good night!

Good Friends, Food and FUN (part 1)!!!

MeMe and I traveled to Chapel Hill last weekend to meet up with my college/grad school/bloggie pal Susan. Man did we have a great time! Susan and I met in Chapel Hill last spring for a speech conference. We had so much fun and decided to make it a yearly reunion, minus the speech convention! This year we decided MeMe needed to make the trip with us! Let me tell you, we ate, drank, and were very merry! We stayed at the Carolina Inn, which is right on the campus, minutes from Franklin Street. Just cannot say enough good things about the inn..If you are going to Franklin Street, please stay there. It is worth a little extra money for the TON you get in atmosphere. We started out Friday night with sushi at our favorite place. Here is a pic of one of the specials, the caterpillar roll. So yummy and pretty too!



After dinner we headed to the grocery store to get a few supplies (drinks and snacks)...we headed back to the inn and spent the whole night jabbering to each other outside..Meme went to bed a little earlier but I think Susan and I were up to 2:30 just catching up on the porch outside! So much fun and my how things have changed...10 years ago we would have been dying to go "uptown" but now are just happy to be together, talking about our hubbies, kiddos, jobs, families, etc...Lots to catch up on, that is for sure!



Sniffing to see how the flowers smelled!



My girl Suz!

Things I am Loving Right Now!

I am addicted to the little anti-bacterials from B and B! Right now I am using the 4th of July line, red apple, blueberry pancake, smores...Just love these and they are so cheap and fun to splurge on, only $1 and sometimes even cheaper if you catch them on sale! I got 8 for $5 at the last sale!! These make being clean FUN!



This beer is FANTASTIC and perfect for summer. Zach (my bro) introduced me too it and I just love it! Not so heavy that you can't drink more than one...but not watered down like some yucky light beer. Just perfect. Refreshing and YUMMO. Try it!



I have used the same moisturizer for years. The Wally World generic version of Oil of Olay Sensitive with SPF 15. Never really saw a reason to try anything different. It was cheap and seemed to work well enough. Until I began couponing...which has led me to try a lot of products that I previously ignored because I can get them for cheaper than the generics. I LOVE this moisturizer! My face is VERY sensitve but oily too. A weird combination. I always think my skin looks irriated and reddish and it usually feels irritated too. This stuff has really made my skin FEEL so much better. May not look any better but it feels great. Just love it!



Okay, same brand as the moisturizer...Can you tell I have found a new line of products that I really love...These face wash pads are AWESOME! They are rough on one side to exfoliate where you need it. Just put a little warm water on them and they are ready to go. You don't even need a washcloth! These are great at night when I am lazy and really don't feel like washing my face, just one step and you are done. I love the way my face feels afterwards!

Blog Blahs

I have the "blog blahs"...I am sure if you blog, you know what I mean. I just don't feel like blogging too much right now...I don't want to give up my blog because I am hoping this is just a phase that will pass as it has before. And I really like reading your blogs and I get mad when you don't post....But really I am just not into it these days. Probably just because I am so busy and the blog feels like one more thing that I need to get done that I don't have time to do...Kind of like the Christmas stocking that I HAVE to cross-stitch for Elizabeth before December, because I cross-stitched one for Gabriel back in the day before I had a kid and things like cross-stitching were fun and not a chore:( I really have to start working on it but damn I just don't want to! If I could find someone, I would probably pay them to do it for me, and pass the work off as my own..isn't that horrible? I love having kids, it is the best thing in the world..but let me tell you...make sure you are ready for things not to be all about yourself anymore before you have kids...have your fun and be selfish while you can...not that you never get to have fun anymore, but it is fun in a different way....I remember when we had just gotten married and Cedric was always at work at night and on the weekends...I was always trying to stay busy and find things to do to keep from being bored...yeah, that has happened in 3 1/2 years...I would LOVE TO BE BORED!!!!!! But I digress...

Things here are good. Cedric is plugging along with nursing school and will get a summer break in mid-July when we will be heading to the beach. He is working his ass off, I am very proud of him. The kiddos are out of daycare for the summer as of this week, and staying with grammy and papaw full-time. They are going to be ROTTEN by August! My job is going well, just keeping my fingers crossed that my program doesn't get axed in the new budget. Elizabeth is 6 months old now. She can sit up on her own and loves playing on the floor with her toys. Still no teeth. She had a great 6 month check-up. She is eating lots of fruits and veggies and drinking water out of a sippy cup. Saying "da da" and babbling lots of other things too! She is really a lot of fun these days! Gabriel is full of energy and loving summertime. He spends most of his time in the pool or playing outside. He has swimming lessons next week and is really looking forward to those.

We are looking forward to celebrating Father's Day this weekend. Then next weekend, MeMe and I are hitting the road to Chapel Hill for a Blogger Babe Reunion weekend with Susan! Cannot wait to get away and have a little fun (and maybe a few drinks too)! Last year when I met Susan in Chapel Hill I was preggo so no good Japanese beers with my sushi...but this year, bring on the Sapporo!!!! After that it will almost be July 4th, beach trip in mid-July, 4 seasons reunion in late July...campmeeting...Wow, fall will be here before I know it!

Stay cool and I hope to find some inspiration soon :)

Morning Time Around Here

Here are my two kiddos this morning before going to school. One is a morning person like me...Goes to bed early,gets up early, feeling bright and bushy-tailed. The other is NOT a morning person. Would stay up til 2 in the morning if you let them (like daddy). I will let you guess which description fits each child! Love them both so much!!!!

Cute Cupcake Clippies

Here is some information on my new business venture! I have been selling my bows on eb*y for a few months now and have decided to start selling on Et&y as well. I have lots of cute hair bows, hair clips, and mini snap-clips that are perfect for babies and older girls! This all started with Elizabeth having hardly any hair. Because I could not find any bows that would stay in her hair (or lack thereof!), I started making my own designs for her using tiny snap clips. They work great for babies and are really the only thing I have found that will stay in her hair for more than 10 seconds!

This is the shop address, please check it out!

www.cutecupcakeclippies.etsy.com

If you are local and would like to order something, just email me or message me on here (that way you won't have to pay shipping!). And I am happy to do custom orders if there is something particular you are looking for. Thank you for your support :)