Our family egg-stravaganza

Easter was so much fun watching Kira collect each and every egg. She was so focused on the hunt that I don't think I got one picture of her cute little smile....she was so determined and focused. These are the best moments of life...watching your baby enjoy a holiday that you used to love so much as a child...it brings back memories and allows one to relive it again, but even better!
After the egg hunt it was time for bubbles, and what kid doesn't like bubbles?

Call 911!!!

I feel like the luckiest girl alive to have such a wonderful family. I can't believe I have such an amazing life and I am very thankful for that. Of course we are all human and sometimes forget to look at the big picture and forget not to sweat the small stuff.
There can also be life changing events in life that remind you to never forget just how lucky you are. Last month just happened to be one of those moments for me. I was getting my daughter ready for her nap and was in a hurry because she was so late for her nap. I handed the toothbrush to her as I finished brushing my teeth and told her to do the same. Against my better judgment she was walking around with her toothbrush in her mouth instead of sitting down. A minute later all I heard was crying that transformed into a scream. I instantly knew what had happened and rushed to pick her up. As I did I saw she had fallen with the toothbrush in her mouth. I picked her up, pulled the toothbrush from her mouth and screamed "Oh my god!" My husband was in the shower and jumped out immediately when he realized things were not right. Instantly she started to have a hard time swallowing which was effecting her breathing. As we both were cautiously looking at her she started to spit out a small amount of blood and that's when everything flashed before my eyes. I jumped to the worst conclusion and was picturing her having to have surgery or possibly not making it if it was worse than that. I yelled out for my husband to call 911 and he immediately did. I just tried to calm her down and slowly she started to. By the time the fire truck got to our house, which seemed like forever, she was doing ok and was breathing just fine. They came in and checked her out and they came to the conclusion that she did scratch the back of her throat and should be just fine. I feel like I'm so lucky that I got this wake up call with such small repercussions.
Things in our house have changed for sure and there is never going to be any time that walking around with her toothbrush in her mouth is o.k. Keep this in mind and realize that life is so precious and cherish the ones you love and try not to sweat the small stuff.

Pinch me...I'm dreaming...

Can you imagine going down to your play room only to find

a gorgeous play structure awaiting...who needs video games?

Cedarworks certainly has a ingenious way of combining sophistication
and fun! It's truly a play set that both mom and kids will
fall in love with. Truly dreamy!

Every Kids dream

So, remember when you were a kid and all you dreamed about is having your own little playhouse or tree house out back? These play structures built for the indoors or out are exquisitely beautiful!
You would certainly be the coolest kid on the block and everyone would want to come to your house to play. CedarWorks did a gorgeous job of mixing elegance, sophistication, and fun all into
one.

Cool Baby

Super cool in her stunner shades! Got them at Children's Place
on sale for $1.50! Just couldn't pass them up!

Kids Butterfly Birthday Party

You know Martha Stewart always has creative ideas up her sleeves. I just love how elegant and
precious this butterfly theme would be for a little girls birthday party.

Dreamy

This nursery is so adorable and I like that the blue offsets the abundance
of pink done by Tracy Garcia picture courtesy of Martha Stewart.

Fishy Friends

If you like what you see here are instructions to make me.

Wanted to share with you how to make these really simple and adorable fish balloons.
Gather all your supplies and then we can begin.

Start by blowing up each of your balloons with a hand pump. If you want
the balloons to float then you should blow up the large round center
balloon with helium and the other 3 balloons with a hand pump.

This is your chance to see what it's like to be a balloon sculpting clown by wrapping your
balloon around the "body" of the fish and twisting each end of the balloon separately and
then join them together and twist to make his tail. On this step you will first create his lips
and then his tail.


Front view of the fishy lips. After you have blown up each set of
water bomb balloons tie the two together at the ends and this will make up
his eyes and you just tuck them in between the set of balloons and they will
just rest there.

Here is your finished product with a little permanent marker completing
his eyes and I will proudly call him "Marvin!"

~Fishy fun~

A few fishy balloons from my daughters first birthday that I
made myself. You don't have to be a clown to make them they are
very simple to do.

Need a little inspiration for that special child's birthday party you are planning. I just fell in love with this....what kid doesn't like little sea creatures? So clever are these cupcakes and invitations from Imprintables.

I just might eat this car

When you say they think of everything this is a perfect example....the cupcake car is
pretty unique and sold online at Neiman Marcus for $25,000. You might be the only one
on the block with a ride this sweet!