Lola's First WALKING Injury

Lola's walking skills are improving every single day and she is really getting good at it - but with those skills comes injury! She was walking all over our bedroom (all by herself I might add) and was walking to the toy you see above. Right before she got to the toy, she stumbled over her little feet and knocked her forehead right on the top edge of the toy. She has a big goose egg in between her eyes! She cried for three seconds and was fine! The picture below is of her this morning after the fact, but her goose egg is still there!

This wasn't of her injury, but thought it was a cute picture of her. She was so crabby this morning (not because I put the boy in her hair either). She just kept saying "Owwwie, Owwwie" over and over. I was on the phone with my dad and had to get off with him because he couldn't take listening to her. She was also up at 4:30 this morning, so maybe she was just extra tired! Who know, but hopefully I get to pick up a happy baby after school today!

Our Day at the Zoo

Yesterday we had a much needed family day! Life has been so stressful that we decided to take a break from it all and head to the zoo! Instantly after we got to the zoo, my kids befriended the local ducks at the entrance. Lola squealed when it was time to leave them, this seemed to happen at every animal we visited!

Kyan fed the ducks at close range!

Lola was amazed at everything she saw!

Daddy and Kyan walking and talking about the animals! Kyan was all about his dad yesterday!

Checking out swans

Lola and the monkey were so into each other! Don't know who was enjoying themselves more?

Wildlife World Zoo is known for its White Tigers, but they are usually not out and about, at least not every time we have visited. Yesterday, a turtle got out of its habitat and was roaming around on the walkway in front of the tigers habitat, the tigers were pacing back and forth and were after that turtle. Someone (another zoo visitor) put the turtle back on the other side of its fence, so that the tigers would settle down. It was neat to see them in action!

Lola and daddy! Both of my kids ended up on daddy's shoulders at one point or another during the morning!

Sleepy time

Lola checking out the flamingos - Kyan was curious to know how they could just stand there forever on one leg. He even tried to stand like them, and lasted about 10 seconds before he gave up!

Mommy and Lola by rhino - he was huge!

Kyan took his first skyride with his daddy! He wasn't scared for even a second and enjoyed every bit of seeing the animals from up high! He ran to me when they got off the ride and gave me a huge hug in excitement and proceeded to tell me all about what they saw.

Feeding the giraffes. This is the coolest thing that I have ever been apart of! Last time we went, Kyan was to afraid to feed them, but another year older brings on lots more bravery! Lola just watched, we learned not to give her food from the feeding the ducks. She just held onto it and wouldn't give it up - but she was giggling when the giraffe stuck out his tongue at Kyan waiting for incoming food!

There were two baby giraffes at the park - this one was so cute, he wasn't tall enough to get fed by people, but his little head was resting on the posts, just longing for attention. It was so sweet.

The loves of my life - not sure what they were checking out?!

The zoo has a new addition that just opened up - their aquarium! It was really cool and HUGE! It was set up really neat and had several spots that allowed kids (and adults) to pet certain sea creatures and even feed the rays! Kyan was not really sure about all of it, but was willing to touch some of the animals. He wanted to feed the rays, but once he found out they have to suck the food from between your fingers, he tapped out!

Lola was all about getting her hands dirty and touching the animals!

Our last stop was the petting zoo. There were several animals that attacked you at the door for food, so we avoided those and went to the more chill animals just laying around!

This was Kyan's favorite little guy in the petting zoo!

Crazy Craft Time

I was so busy last night that I didn't get too many pictures, but will share with you what was captured by friends with my camera!

Thank you to everyone who came to the house to craft and play! The mommies had a good time (the kitchen was crazy and messy!) and the daddies got to bond a little (even though they got stuck with the kids!) and the kids had the most fun (tears were even had when it was time to leave!). The bottom bows are my creation this week - I wanted to try something other than flowers - so that was what I worked on. I didn't get too many done but had dreams last night of all the ribbon that I want to use today to make some more!

Camille is going to let me put these in her salon to sell, not sure I am ready for that, but I am excited for the offer. Susie is the bow master and we are going to look into selling these at a farmer's market by her house! We might not be stocked up in enough time for one this season, but come next October I think we will be ready!

All in all, I needed last night after all the stress that has been added to our lives lately! Again, thank you to everyone who came to hang out last night! Had so much fun!

Good Things Come in Small Packages

The skulls, stars, and skull ribbon arrived in the mail today! I was so excited to see these in person! I can't wait to make some cute barrettes and clips with these!

Friday Night Update!

Ok girls - here is the update about Friday and what I know so far!

Who is coming?
Angela and Ryan Butler (from school, going to help Cameron) MAYBE
Candis, Micheal, Camden Creel
Cameron Hodgkin (she is from my school and will be working on hair stuff for her softball girls)
Camille, Brandon, Avery Keilman
Jen, Courtney, Glorianna, her son (can't remember his name), maybe Josh if there isn't a game!
Kristen, Able, Gianni, and Carmen Casillas (from school, making what we are for her daughter!)
Susie and Jayla Garrett, maybe an appearance from Jearel if work permits!
Uncle B - not to make crafts but to hang with the boys!!!

***A possible appearance from my mother-in-law! She loves the babies and would be a great helper! (According to her son Chad, she is not the most crafty! HA! You know I love you Donna and would love your help with my little tantrum throwing daughter Lola! HINT HINT).

***Know anyone else that wants to do this? I feel like the more the merrier! Two ideas are better than one! I know it will be a crazy house with all the people and kids, but I really think that this is going to be a fun night! I am excited for my friends from school and life to meet!

Who is bringing what?
If everyone could bring some sort of appetizer or side dish that would be great! We can have munchie food! Please bring your own tasty beverage - will have some to share, especially water, but for those that want to bring other things to drink, please do! Maybe when you leave a comment, let us know what you are bringing too!

Jenni (ME!) - I have lots of ribbon, buttons, sequins, hot glue, some flowers that I will be sharing! Also for the skull lovers in all of us - had special skull embellishments overnighted just for us!

Susie - She is providing the alligator clips and snap clips that we will need for decorating!

Candis - skull ribbon, star embellishments also overnighted! Any luck with the black flowers?

Camille - ribbon, flowers

Cameron and Angela - ribbon for her girls softball stuff! Any tips for her, leave a comment and give some ideas, she is new to this

Kristen - ? I still need to get with her and try to help her after school one day! Maybe an extra hot glue gun!

Jen - Camille, she text me! Thanks for getting a hold of her, maybe some more ribbon or flowers to share? What does everyone think?

Extra scissors and hot glue or fabric glue or gorilla glue (glue!) is needed! If you have these around, please bring!!!

Heaven in a Cup

I said that when I lost 30 lbs I would reward myself with my all time favorite treat: a brownie sundae from Baskin Robbins! Well, today was our final weigh in day for our Biggest Loser contest at work and I won! I have lost 31.4 lbs in 10 weeks! Today was a good day as well as a reward to myself day! You are looking at my dinner, which probably has as many calories in it as I usually eat in two days! It tasted so good, but I could not stomach eating the entire thing (something I could do before without even batting an eyelash) and put half of it in the freezer for later, but to be honest, as good as it was, I will probably just throw the rest away!

Family Friday Night with lots to do!

So I am not a planner in advance type of person, it is hard to commit to anything these days, so much going on and some of it is so very last minute, but I am going to try! So I am putting an invite out to all that want to come:

Friday evening: earlyish (is that even a word?) I am thinking 5-5:30. This will enable the mommies to get stuff done before the babies need to go to bed, trying to accommodate sleepy time schedules for the babies! Depending on who comes and how many we can figure out food and whether we want to do it potluck style or have something deli

For the mommies: Hair bow and flower accessory making! Bring flowers and ribbon for all! I have lots of sequins, buttons, and some flowers and ribbon to share as well! I also have one glue gun, so if you have one, bring it with you! I will get more alligator clips from the beauty supply store, so we have something to decorate. We can make them for our girls and make some to share with each other! We all have our own style so it will be fun to see what everyone can come up with to share! Since we are in charge of our children (come on, we are the mommies after all), we can help each other with the kids too, as I am sure the daddies will be too busy!

For the daddies: There will be things for them to do as well, along with helping out with the kids of course, we can throw on the NCAA basketball tournament and they can have beer and boy time, but still share quality family time as well! Yippee for the girls at least, they might not like it! HA!

For the older kiddos: Kyan has a room filled with toys and movies that he would love to show off and share! Kids can also play outside!

Let me know if you want to join in on the fun! If so, throw out an idea on what you might be wanting to make/share so that we don't all bring the same thing!!! Candis has talked about making some black flowers which I think would be really cool and so her style! Again, that will be fun to see what everyone can do and share! Want to try and see if we can find some skull buttons or charms! Haven't had any luck yet...maybe someone else might know where to find them?! If you don't have a girl but you still want to come and hang out, please do! Maybe you have a niece or a friend's daughter that you could make one for! Should be a fun and creative early night for us!!!

Inspired

After our little trip to the Farmers Market, I felt the need to work on some flowers of my own! Don't get me wrong, it is way more fun to just go buy these, but played with some colors and made some for my friends daughters and I have had a lady at work begging for me to make more of these for her daughter! These are not hard to make - they just take FOREVER! But, I think they turned out really cute! I made the big flowers to put on the headbands, some smaller ones that can be worn without the headband, and some little barrettes with bows on them for the girls without that much hair to sport (like my kid)!

Park West and Estrella Farmers Markets

Lola started off the morning with her stunner shades on - however, it was short lived, they didn't last too long!

Lola and I started off the day bright and early by meeting up with Camille, Avery, Susie, and Jayla at the Park West farmers market! They started at 8 so we went there first, determined to also go out to Estrella's famers market as well (didn't start until 10) to get some new hair things for the girls' headbands!

3 mommies + 3 baby girls = a morning filled with fun!

The most exciting thing for the girls at Park West was a petting zoo that they have set up with lots of cute little farm animals. The last time we went Kyan was all about it and Lola couldn't have cared less - not today! She stood at the fence for awhile before we went in! Her and Jayla loved it! Avery watched from the sideline with her mommy and even got a bunny picture (on Camille's camera) so it looked like she was part of the action! She just watched Lola and Jayla play, but soon enough, Avery will be running around with the two girls!

After Park West, we headed over to Susie's dream house to take a look! We couldn't get in, but peeked in all the windows and back yard! We are crossing our fingers that they take the offer that they put in!
After we left the house, we headed out to Estrella to check out their farmers market! I will admit that it is a bit of a drive but is so pretty out there! We went to Brandie's booth to check out what she has been making! We each got a few things for the girls hair and then we just hung out by the water and visited! Well, we tried to visit - but with two very active 13 months, we got in as much visiting as we could in between tantrums and guarding the girls from going into the water! All in all, we had a blast with our friends and can't wait until next month when we can do it again!





Above and below are pictures of Lola's little tantrum! She was mad at me because I wouldn't let her go in the lake and I brought her back to the sidewalk. She got mad right in the middle of it and threw her fit, then sat up and pouted. It was funny and I couldn't help but laugh. Crying does not bother me and if she wants to cause a scene, well, that is on her! No sweat off mommy's back!