A Fabulously Flawed Life

This post is a little late - but a couple weeks ago this is what my front yard looked like! Nope, we didn't move to Utah; it was brought to us one morning. I had completely forgotten how beautiful snow it. Usually when it snows here in Texas it's icy not powder like this. I believe we got 10" of snow that day. (Don't quote me.) The kids were in heaven! So was Lisa! She came over and we built this OTT fort with the boys and some neighborhood kids. Of course, just one fort isn't good enough. So once we finished the first one, they quickly started the second one. Can you tell they had a good time? Lisa sure did! She was determined to have the biggest snowman on the block. Of course, half way through we decided that we shouldn't make a snowman, but a Snow Angel! So I grabbed the accessories and we went to town making our Angel as beautiful as possible. {{squeal in delight}} Earlier that day Drake had his Valentine's Day party. It was my day to carpool, s...

Over the weekend I was honored to attend the Mom 2.0 Summit in Houston. Holly has a hook up with GMC and so they gave us a Chevy Camaro to drive. Whoohoo! If you're interested, you can check out our drive to Houston in our Whrrl story. We had a crazy good time. Holly and I bonded over pancakes for lunch. Holly , Me, Gwen Bell , Allison (Petite Elephant), Marie (Makes & Takes) I knew the weekend was going to be out of control when the first person I met was Gwen Bell . Yep - I'm a huge fan. She's completely fabulous and so warm and friendly. We could totally hang out in real life - except for the fact that I was way to excited to meet her and most likely scared her off. {{wink}} Marie , Jyl (Mom It Forward), Me, and Amy (Mom Spark) Thursday night was the Mad Men party and we all got dressed up in our 60's attire. Too funny that we were all in black & white. Jenny, Holly, Me, Amy, Jyl all dressed up for the Mad Men party. Rebekah (Mom's Out Lo...

Every year our church hosts an adult Valentine's dance that we look forward to, as it's our only time to really boogie down and let loose on the dance floor. However, last year there was an issue with the DJ as he wouldn't play "Thriller". Um, that's a deal breaker for us and decided to make other arragements. Therefore, I reserved our neighborhood club house as it's the perfect place to host a dance party for 20- 30 couples. I can't tell you how good it felt to be amongst fabulous friends once again! 3 events a year is just not enough time to spend with these lovely ladies. I cherish their friendship. Even though we don't get to hang out as often as we'd like, every time we're together I feel like time hasn't passed at all. We just pick right up where we left off and have a ball. We let loose, dance, laugh, are silly, and just have a flat out great time. No judgments, no competition, and egos are left at the door. This is a tim...

PayPal is doing a fun campaign through Wednesday called "Can't Buy Me Love" Sweepstakes . They are doing some fun giveaways as well as giving away special offers from cool companies for Valentine's Day. It got me thinking: PayPal can't buy me love but it can buy me... Headbands! I just adore headbands! I got this peacock one (above) and the black bow (below) from Sweetgrass Mill for the BlissDom Conference. I got the sweetest compliments. Here I am with Shannon & Tiffany at BlissDom Kimba , Me, Marie , and Allison rockin' at BlissDom This green flower on black and white feather headband was made by Bethany Lorelle . I also got the most beautiful teal one. She has so many to choose from it's hard to decide on just one. {{wink}} Angie and I at Fuse Lastly, this dark pink feather with butterfly accent was made by Tara to the T . I got it at the ETSY Dallas show. I just had to wear it at the Harry Connick Jr. concert Friday night. So now...

(Me, Amy , Stephanie right before our session started) So last weekend I had the privilege of attending and speaking at BlissDom (a blogging conference). I was on a panel with 3 other women and given the topic Connecting with Your Community of Readers . I just may have put 20 hours into the Power Point presentation alone. You know me - it has to be fabulous!! You can read all about our session over on Tip Junkie w here I've started a 3 part post on it, which includes the handout. I'm very proud of our collaboration and how well it turned out. (Me and Kimba from A Soft Place to Land ) I'm getting more comfortable speaking in front of a lot of people. SITScation only had 80 attendees, there was around 250 at BlissDom in my session. My nerves were under control - but since I was not only speaking but also moderating and lead panelist, the pressure was on. It was a little more difficult for me to show off my personality. When I'm in charge, I tend to get in that...