"Movement Contest"

This picture captures the heart of my child...she is silly and adorable simultaneously all of the time!

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Beach Body or Bust Competition

I have started a competition, starting March 1st through June 1st with potential to go longer if the competitors want to! 10$ buy in and the highest percentage of weight loss at the end gets the pot of money!
Weigh ins are due Sunday/Monday weekly via an email to me with a picture of the scale with your name and date on a paper next to your weigh in.  I wont be sharing the photos with anyone, just be keeping track of the weight loss.
If you are interested leave me a comment with your email address and I will send you my address to send the 10 dollars, and add you to the list of other people doing the competition.
Heres to hoping that we ALL rock the short shorts this summer and make new friends along the way!

Help I need scraps...

Attention all my crafty blogger friends... I am taking a psychology of creativity class and I need some left over paper/art/fabric/etc scraps. Old buttons, pieces of plastic, bottle caps. Anything will suffice!
Anyone able to send me some stuff leave me a comment and we can talk...
Thanks in advance!
Vanessa

In a world all about others, I focus on me...

In the hustle and bustle of every day life, I think us mothers lose sight of ourselves. So I am dedicating this post to myself, all about me me me!

I shall start with some weird (or at least I think so) facts about myself:
1. I like my showers HOT. Like no cold tap on at all.
2. Anything that should be toasted, I like soft. (toast, waffles, english muffins, etc)
3. I have to sleep with my own blanket
4. I like cookie dough A LOT.
5. My favorite cereal is Fruit Loops
6. I enjoy thrillers the most
7. I listen to country mostly, but can appreciate all kinds of music
8. If I had it my way, I would be a CSI
9. I like earthquakes and turbulance
10. I am a published poet

I love being a mom, but sometimes I wonder what life would have been like without my kid. I don't think that makes me a bad mom, nor do I wish that was the case, I just have that wonder.  The past is the past, but it is hard to not think of the what-ifs sometimes. Is this a common thing? Or am I just being weird?

Miss Personality meets Santa...

So annually the fire department does a Santa's Ship toy drive. (Santa is escorted around various parts of town on various days, and sees all the little kids while collecting new toys for the unfortunate) I usually try to take Rilee, and this year the hype for Santa was fairly large! So my husband and I were excited to take her to see him this year. This is the child that was anxious to see Santa:

Mommy and Rilee

Daddy and Rilee

So excited the camera cant even keep up with her jumping!

 Starting off on a good note right? Well she did fine with mommy sitting with her...and she did ok with sitting by herself...

 And then we asked her what she thought of Santa to which my 2 year old responded, "I wanna go home" and that prompted me to snap this wonderful photo...

No mom, I don't want to see the jolly fat man again.

 Utter failure of a night? Heck no. We settled for the fact that she didn't scream while being with a big strange man surrounded by flashing emergency vehicle lights on a street corner shes never seen before in a sled that shoots out bubble like snow from a "friendly" snow man unexpectedly. We also took her here:

Wagner Winter Wonderland

Which allowed her to be more like the smiley Rilee we know:

So much better

And ended our successful "Get in the Holiday Spirit" Evening!

Another Paper Mama Photo Challenge: Blessings

Sleep after so much pain and sickness...

So I was going through all the cute pictures of Rilee for this challenge as she has been the hugest blessing in my life thus far, but I didnt find one that fit perfectly until I came across the album from her 5 days in the hospital. So this is my idea of a blessing... A moment of sleep though being so sick... She looks like a sleeping angel.Paper Mama's Contest

Wordless Wednesday

And my entry into : Black and White Contest