Thanks!

Thank you for the private emails from the last blog post! 

My friend has decided to spend the holidays with us

so hopefully I will be able to pass along the encouraging words.

I hope everyone has a blessed Christmas & New Year!

We have 2 parties to attend tonight & 

a full day ahead of us tomorrow.

I'm so excited!

Here was our 2013 card!

We ordered it from Invitation Box because they 

had a special on Groupon to get 40 cards for $15!

I wanted to go with Minted but I am SO glad

we didn't! Apparently they had an influx of orders this year

and after reading alllll the horrors stories on Facebook, I don't 

think I would use them.

(The quality looks bad because I scanned it!)

Here's a few pics of my beautiful niece Khloe in this super cute

Chrtistmas outfit I bought her. I wish I would have taken my backdrop

with me now though!

 

6 months!

My niece turned 6 months old on October 2nd!

I did a mini photo session of her in my mom's backyard.

She's so serious & it cracks me up!

I recently decided to run an ad on Groupon for my photography business.

Within 3 days I sold over 20 photo sessions so I am going to be super busy starting today.

Still working on my insurance license too but it will probably be January 1st before I really get started.

Khloe Leigh

My niece made her debut into this world on April 2, 2013

at 6:52am!

She was 7lbs 7oz and 20 inches.

(excuse the cell phone pics)

Excited!

 I got some GREAT news this weekend!

My brother & his girlfriend are expecting a baby in April!!

I am so very excited & happy for them!

My mom on the other hand, is old school. She's semi-happy about it.

She wants them to get married of course. I am sure they've talked about it and I kind of have a feeling that was in the works anyways. My brother is already talking about trading his car in.

I know you have to give things up & make changes when kids come along,

but damn...not the car! LOL!

Saturday was a looong day.

I went to the DMV & I was in & out in 37 minutes.

Can you believe that?

There's definitely some interesting people at the DMV.

A lady sitting behind me was crying as if someone had died!

A friend called her & she was explaining how she gets so emotional in the DMV. WTH?

I don't know what that was about! 

I also had a "close stander" situation in line. 

This guy was so close to me, that our elbows kept touching.

Seriously, who stands that close in line?

Afterwards I picked my mom up & we did some shopping for Hawaii.

I got 2 new bathing suits, towels, she got luggage, some clothes, etc.

I'll be broke before I even get on the plane!

Less than 50 days to go!

After shopping I went to my friend's baby's 1st birthday party.

She really outdid herself & had a huge party at her mom's house.

They had face painting, musical chairs, ring toss, swimming, & a pinata!

The cake blew me away! 

Her very talented cousin made this:

And it tasted just as great as it looks!

After the party I was too pooped to do anything else.

So I missed the bridal shower & baby shower. :(

Sunday night was of course the season finale of True Blood!

Does anyone else watch True Blood?

All I can say is: WOW!!! What a cliff hanger!