Dresses!

I wore a dress every day in Dallas, for ease of packing mostly. It was fun! I did fail to take a picture for two. Boo, I know.

And my kids were flipping their sh!t when I realized that I didn't put my accessories on before taking pics of my dress that I wore to the wedding, so un-accessorized is all I have!

And, since I failed at pictures while out of town, here's an extra of a dress I wore out on girls' night to see Water for Elephants. Hey, it's getting hot here and I don't get out too much, so over dressed for girls' night is a-okay with me ;)

{please excuse the bit of bra showing; I hate when I forget to button back up after a nursing break. Luckily I did notice before leaving!}

PS: I thought Water for Elephants was good show! I loved the costumes especially.

Easter Bunny Pusher

This is the first year I've really done Easter at all. I almost didn't, since we were in Dallas on Easter. But, I stopped at Target, bought candy on sale and filled up a bucket while Emberly was at daycare and let her know that I *found* it because the Easter Bunny had hidden it in our home while we were gone. I thought about getting neat stuff for the bucket besides candy, but, Emberly doesn't even drink juice, I'm sure a seasonal sugar high will be just fine. I know all I really want is the candy. Thus, this year, the Easter Bunny was our sugar pusher :D




Maybe next year I'll even muster up the motivation for egg dying and a hunt!

oh. em. gee.

My toe is still kinda swollen and tender, but in general doesn't really hurt. So I tried putting on my sneaker. Felt fine. So I then decided to run. Yippee! I could feel it, in there, threatening to hurt really bad if I stepped wrong. But 6+ weeks sans running has been more than enough.
Especially when you consider how I ate while I was in Dallas.
My favorite: Babes. I don't know why it's called "Babes," but I'm going to go ahead and say it's after the pig, in the movie "Babe," cuz I ate like a little piggy there.

{my hungry little man, always thinking he's about to be fed}

{idk why they had a creepy dummy in the lobby, but I convinced my little scaredy-cat to take a picture "next" to him}

Since messing my toe up, I've been doing the 30 Day Shred level 1 workout that is free onDemand. I've been using 10lb dumbbells to keep it challenging, and I lost something like 6-7lbs just doing that in the absence of running. And being that I haven't ran in 6+wks, I could really FEEL the difference. My running tank did not ride up, as I have no little gut that I'm stretching it over. My legs seemed to glide as my thighs hardly touch each other anymore. I'm light and free. Yay running.

Happy Birthday!

Four years ago today, my mom was telling me to "stop it" because I woke up having contractions on my due date and she would not be flying in until the next day, because, you know, 1st babies never come on time.
In the same day, she can look just like my little baby AND like a teenager. Four years have flown by and birthdays don't let me forget!

Do the Opposite

Before I met Damon, I dressed how I wanted, did my makeup how I wanted, everything how I wanted. I still do, but sometimes now Damon will give me pause. I have to look in the mirror one more time and remember that really, no one cares! Throughout the years, I've also learned that if Damon thinks something is questionable, then I should definitely do it.
Remember the red lipstick? He thought I looked weird. I got lots of compliments. He'll argue that it's because strangers aren't used to seeing me how I "normally" look. Whatevs. LOL
Yesterday, I didn't know what to do with my hair for the wedding. My stylist gets my hair so bone straight with her fancy flat iron that unless I wash it and start over, it's not going to do anything else. I had the ingenious idea to google how to do a herringbone (aka fishtail) braid. After watching a talkative teen do it on youtube (wonderfully simple), I put one in my hair. Love it. But, my very straight, freshly trimmed hair would only cooperate so much and blunt ends started popping out of the braid. So it was kind of messy. However, dealing with a fussy baby, a preschooler who was supposed to be a flower girl but her hair appt had fallen through, and the fact that I really didn't have any options, I thought it was fine and was over it anyway. Damon was looking at me sideways. I should have known then it was perfect! I got several compliments on my braid. And I wasn't sweating like a stuck pig or dealing with falling curls in the Texas humidity.

Oh, and for those wondering, Emberly was a very lady like flower girl, and no f-bombs were dropped. :D

Maybe Today

The other day I was talking with my mom when an SUV came gliding into my lane, almost swiping my front quarter. I guess they thought that if they put their signal on, there'd *magically* be space for them. A few choice words spilled out, f-bomb amongst them. Knowing Emberly was in the back seat, my mom asks me has she said that yet. It's not one the words that slips usually, so I told her "No, not yet." And after a moment of thought, "Maybe at the wedding. That'd be a good time for her say that."
So, that's today. We'll see if she wriggles some profanity in to her dialogue at the wedding. I'll keep you posted.

Week of April 17th

I have nothing exceptional to say... Just some pics of a couple outfits from this week! More exciting Dallas dresses post next week!