Catch You Up: What we were up to in June

Here is a picture dump of our June/July since I was a horrible blogger and abandoned you all for the past 4 months:

MK and I had the opportunity to go to the Ballet at Bass Hall in June, It was amazing!

We went to Massachusetts to visit Mike's family at the end of June. The girls had their faces painted for FREE at a local furniture store during their weekly kids night event!

Memie and Gaga (Mike's Parents) with the girls at the Jordan's Furniture. Going there is such an event! It is not your everyday furniture store!

We got to catch up with some of our best friends and meet their son David for the first time. Sam and Ashley live in Vermont so we definitely took advantage of being closer for a week to meet their sweet boy! As you can see the girls ADORE him!

I had the pleasure of taking my sweet baby to the American Girl store in Natick, MA with my mother in law and best friend Pam. She got her first American Girl doll and we enjoyed a wonderful lunch at the Bistro! She is so grown up!

Me and my big girl at the American Girl Bistro. BTW, I love the booth we are sitting in! I want it for my house! LOL

I will add July soon!

Sick baby

Bria has the stomach bug that is going around...she has been sick now for almost three days.   Today she has spent most of her day sleeping either on the living room floor or in her bed.  She is looking very puny!  Makes me sad :(

That talk....

At what age do you need to start having "the talk" with your daughters? MK is still young, but I think we are going to have to do an abridged version to start giving her more of an explanation for our rules. MK is very innocent when it comes to boy girl stuff and I am so thankful for that, however, we are starting to notice that we are having to give more and more boundaries for boys and while those will still exist, I think it will make more sense to her and she will be able to use more common sense if she understands why we have these boundaries. I don't know if this makes sense, I ramble a lot in these types of blog posts. I am so hesitant to take away that innocence, honestly I am surprised that after 1 1/2 yrs in public (albeit charter, but still public) school she is still as innocent as she is, I thought she would have been exposed to much much more. I don't know. I am not thinking that she needs to know everything, but I think she needs to know something. What do you think? When did you start telling your daughter or son about "stuff"? I welcome feedback!

Yummy in the Tummy

Over the past month I have made several cakes. I love love love making cakes. It has really become a huge creative outlet for me. Check out some of the tasty treats I have had the pleasure of making.

This cake was made for a sweet friend's baby shower

A 5 year old's hot wheels/cars birthday party

A sweet 3 year old's Pinkalicious birthday party,
they match the cupcakes on the cover of the Pinkalicious book

My next cake will likely be Bria's birthday party coming up in December. As of right now, we will be having a candy themed birthday party and I am excited about some ideas I have seen for her cake.

Its been a long time...

It has been a long time. Life has been C-R-A-Z-Y!!! I owe you a lot of posts. However I don't have time to do it today. Part of my lack of posting has been that I was sooooo over the blog design and needed to refresh it with new pics, well, we got new pics done and here is the new blog design. What do you think? I love it and I will do my best to catch you up on the massive amounts of things that have been happening since we last talked in June! For now I will leave you with an oh so lovely picture or two. I have been helping my mom scan in and digitize all of our pictures starting with 1981 or 2 and on up. Oh you know there are some beuts there in the 80's! Is there anyone who is not embarassed by their pictures of the 80's? Well, enjoy, try not to laugh at me too much, you know I could talk to your mom and get some of you!!! JK

Don't hate me for Posting this Mom....Every Mom's hair looked like this in the 80's

Yeah...I am Trouble!

Yup...I am that cool! I find it funny that these sunglasses are coming back!