Catching up....

...Just doing some back posting….was going to let them slip by and not worry about adding pictures from earlier this month…but I couldn’t. Wish I could put more words with each post…I have a lot to say :( Hope to get the thoughts out there soon. For now…gotta get to bed!

New items at Shorty Bananas…..

Sun Fun....

...Tae and the boys cooling off after our garage sale fundraiser...

Camping...

...one night...with friends....fun...freezing...exhausting!

Sedona....

...with Grammy :)Such a beautiful place!

The Party....

...just a few pictures from the BIG 5 party!!!

Just tired...

...with so many things to do...summer is fun but also exhausting! Unfortunately the blog is the one thing that falls to the bottom of the to do list these days...I know I will get the time soon but right now I am focusing on so many other things. I love my blog so I feel incomplete without it :( I have been working on several projects for fundraisers and we are all home this summer so the days are full with family time...loving that! We had a garage sale/fundraiser this past weekend and it went pretty well. We are closer to our goal then we were last week and that is a plus in my book.

Happy Father's Day to my Daddy, to N's Dad and to all the other wonderful daddys I know...sending some love to all of you.

more later...like I said...tired.


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Check it out...

Click on the button to take a peek at the store sister and I have been working on...






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The Smiling Heart...

Is ready for your attention....please stop by and let me know what you think. I have been working really hard to have it ready. The auction dates have been set for July 8-15th. Sorry for the delay, getting everything organized was way more time consuming than I ever imagined. I know that I initially mentioned a raffle, but after much research and thought an auction is much more beneficial.

Please visit us at www.thesmilingheart.com. Please feel free to spread the word about our site. We have a cute button you can actually grab if you are interested (it is on smiling heart and also on my side bar to the right). Please feel free to link to us, email us to friends and family, or even shout our website in a coffee shop!!!

The site is presentable at this point but I still have a lot of information to add so please check back with us often.

A big thanks to everyone for your love and support and an extra thanks to all the wonderful people that have donated items to the auction!




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I am so close....

to being finished with my big project...some of you may have already taken a peak but I hope to have it finished tonight...I hope!

Too Fast...

She says time is moving too fast….

She asks me why it can’t just slow down…

She tells us she can’t sit still to eat…

She points out that it will be time for bed before we know it….

And she still has so much to do…

So much to do…

And the day was...

...BEAUTIFUL…rightfully…today marks the day Tae was born. Happy Birthday beautiful girl!!!

She is looking at her Daddy, her shy side coming out; it is just the three of us, but she is a sensitive girl. I love how she smiles at her Daddy. The picture is not in focus but I can still see the LOVE in her eyes.

Just looking at her I feel HAPPINESS, being with her I am overwhelmed with LOVE, watching her I see LIFE….Pure, innocent, amazing LIFE. I am so proud of this wonderful 5 year old girl.

DUDE!!!!

I have been feeling a bit withdrawn these days, at least withdrawn from the computer. We were home from our trip late Monday and I didn’t even unpack my computer until Thursday. It’s been nice. My classes start again tomorrow and I am feeling a bit refreshed, rejuvenated. I do feel a bit like I fell off the edge of the blogging world :( but I will catch up with you soon.

N and I completed ‘Operation Organize Your Garage’ yesterday. It wasn’t as grueling as I thought it was going to be. Now I can pull my car into the garage and not burn myself every time I open the doors! N will be able to pull his car in after the garage sale we are having in two weeks (which is part of Operation Fundraising)…sweet of him right?

Today the cable man came to fix our phone (sounds weird but its right) and managed to knock out our cable and internet!!! But the main event of his arrival was when I opened the door and he verified my address, then asked me if my MOMMY and DADDY WERE HOME!!! Not kidding!!! Which you are saying I should feel flattered…but I don’t really see it that way because I had Tae standing next to me. I let him know that ‘I AM THE MOMMY’, so then he looks at Tae and then looks back at me and apologizes, but he has that tone. So I know he thinks that I am a TEEN MOM, which pisses me off, but as much as I wanted to shout “DUDE I will be THIRTY!!!” I didn’t think it was appropriate and I didn’t want to waste my words. Seriously though, this happens pretty frequently and it kind of sucks. I know I look a bit young for my age (a blessing I am thankful for) and Tae does look a bit old for hers (it’s her height that throws people off) but when did it become appropriate to call it out. Comments like “WOW YOU are her mom??? You don’t look old enough to be HER MOM” I am not feeling them. Please stop! I wouldn’t want my first conversation with someone to contain a phrase like that…???

First day of summer break over here…best to start it with a clean house…gotta get to work!!! Tae is busy trying to build a bird house out of Popsicle sticks…I’ll let you know how that turns out ;)

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