a few shout outs

My number one shout goes to my niece Nicole. If I never have a little girl of my own, at least I have a god daughter. Today she is 13!! I still remember her as a happy, chubby baby and I wished she was mine. She has so much life ahead of her and I can't wait to see the amazing things that will be accomplished. Happy Birthday!! Looking forward to spending the whole day with her tomorrow, and spoiling her... I mean, 13 is huge right!?

Today I also wanted to give a shout to a few fellow bloggers who are just some really amazing girl's. I do not know them personally, nor do I have any type of sponsor relationship with them.

Kristen at KV's Confessions. She is such a sweet and honest girl with some amazing design skills. Kristen's blogs was one of the first blogs I was really into (way before I even started blogging). She really is an inspiration and I always look forward to what she has to say.

TJ from His Little Lady. I came across her blog a few months ago and so glad I did. I love reading her post's about her love for her husband or her fun adventure's like going to Sundance and Germany (in a few weeks). She JUST turned 25 and right now she is hosting a whooptee giveaway... she is giving away 3 tee's that she designed.

Brenna from Life after Laundry. I only recently came across her blog and so far I love her sewing projects (I definitely want to try these reusable swiffer duster cloth). She recently nominated me for the Liebster Award, super sweet! BUT I actually wrote a Liebster post here. I wanted to say thanks Brenna and I look forward to future DIYs and sewing projects from you.

I hope you all have a great weekend!

lace collar

I have been loving those pretty collar necklaces that are everywhere but haven't found one I love for myself. They are either too plain, and I think to myself "I can just make that" or too "much" or too expensive. The other day, while I was suppose to be looking for a dress, I spotted this adorable heart printed top with a pretty lace collar.

I can't wait to wear this top with shorts and wedges, on a warm sunny day.

The cute little bow necklace is from forever 21 and it was only $1.80, they also have black and pink.

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breakfast and a dessert

Breakfast: For my next Pinterest Challenge I wanted to make Baked Egg Cups. If you have not seen these, or tried these, you absolutely MUST make them. They are so simple, easy and fast to make. The recipe calls for scallions but I don't usually have scallions so I used mini sweet peppers and tomato's as my topping's instead. I seriously want to make these every weekend.

Dessert:This was not part of my Pinterest Challenge but this is a food post, so here we go. If you know me, you might know I'm not a fan of cheesecake. But on Valentine's Day I tried the BEST cheesecake ever from Pure Cheesecakes. If you live in Los Angeles and love a good cheesecake, you have to try these ones. So since then I have been wanting to make one myself. I found a No Bake Cheesecake recipe through Pinterest and knew it had to be my first attempt. My husband warned though that homemade cheesecakes are never as good. I have to say... I LOVED it. But my husband said the texture was not as dense (it was very fluffy, which might be why I loved it so much). The only thing I did different from this recipe was reduce the lemon zest to 1 whole lemon, instead of 2.

What recipe's have you found, and tried, through Pinterest?

Random

1. I have been a really bad blogger this weekend, seriously forgot that I had a blog. I was way too busy doing the following: creating/assembling invitations for an upcoming double birthday party, attending a birthday party, cleaning my house like crazy... because my worst nightmare literally came true this past Friday. Yeah, I'll post about it once I get over that it actually happened. Then again, once I get over it I just might realize it's not as bad as think it is in my head.

2. This past weekend we went to another 1 year old party. Babe is on candy overload right now, asking for candy everyday, I don't know who he thinks he is.
He even participated in a donut eating contest... which was actually very cute to watch.

 

3. I bought the CUTEST shirt with a lace collar this weekend and can't wait to share it in an outfit post

(sorry for the tease, I know you are dying to see it)

 

4. Recently I was at Staples and noticed Martha Stewart has a line of office supplies... Sometimes I wish I was her.

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babe lately

While babe was playing in the bubbles I walked in to check on him with a Twix in my hand.
He said "hey, can I have some?"
me: no
babe: why not?
me: because your taking a bath, you can't eat while taking a bath
babe: why not?
me: because!
babe: did you say beeecuuuuz?

Babe and I were sitting at the kitchen table and he started getting too excited, jumping around (we were pretending to be characters on Blue's Clue's). he reached for an envelope and totally slipped off the chair (which is one of those bar height chairs) and lands directly on his feet as I reach and slam his hand against the table.
me: oh my gosh! are you ok
babe: don't do that. I'm fine, I'm fine. I just stand up.
me: ok, I see that you landed on your feet, but I'm more worried about your hand because I tried to catch you
babe: But you DIDN'T catch me mom!
we all started laughing.

Babe had a physical this week (getting ready for Pre-K... BUT we have to go back for shots since he isn't officially 4 yet! ... whole other story behind that but don't even get me started). He did SO good, he is such a big boy now, it makes me so sad (and excited... because he's excited) that he will be starting school.
He is growing up so fast.

And speaking of him growing up... yesterday was the first time he was able to cross the balance beam at the park all by himself! He was never tall enough to reach the bars on on the sides to help him across.

I love my Babe!

free as a bird

 

Sometimes I feel like I need to get away, from everything and everyone in life.

 

  If I were a bird, I could fly as high in the sky as I like, and as far away as my wings would take me.

 

Sometimes I feel so trapped, and other times I feel like I am that carefree bird.

 

 

 

 

the bird on my shoulder is a reminder of that

 

 

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weekend goodness

A 1 year old birthday and warm weather, that's what the weekend brought for us.

 

On Saturday my cousin had a "Dr Seuss" themed birthday party for his son and the second we drove up I told my husband "I can't wait to take pictures", lucky for me they asked if I would be their photographer for the day (I took their wedding pictures a few years ago).

 

Sunday was the perfect day for eating out, going to the park and grocery shopping.

Babe had so much fun that the second we put him in the cart he passed out.

 

We ended the weekend perfectly with my 3rd Pinterest Challenge, Strawberry Champagne. It's such a simple process and I can't believe I didn't try it sooner.

For 2 flutes:

Puree approximately 8 to 10 strawberries (remove the leaves, duh) and 1 to 2 teaspoons sugar (I used 1, and wish I would have used 2) .

Fill half of each glass with puree and the other half with Champagne. BTW my husband informed me I cannot call it Champagne if it's not officially from Champagne, France. Is that true.
Garnish rim of glass with a Strawberry and enjoy!

 You can see my other Pinterest Challenge's here (Doily Dream Catcher) and here ( a dress to a top)

Hope you all had an amazing weekend!

 

p.s. this is officially my first post on my FB page

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