Goodbye February, Hello March

Second month of 2018 has came and gone and here is my little recap of how it went for me....

Sickness has been crazy in our house as it comes and go. And the weather here has been crazy for us which that doesn't help either

We celebrated a family friend son/our nephew birthday, goodbye party as he started a new journey in the Navy, as well as super bowl. Yes all on the same day!! A fun day that was! Eagles shocked everyone by winning. Everyone had mix reviews about the halftime performance with Justin Timberlake and I think he did wonderful.

We celebrated my husband 35th birthday with family and friends with a surprise lunch and a crown royal bottle cake. Epic and one for the books. Also that day we took advantage and had our second date night for the month of February with some of my husband friends. 

Two months in on doing dates and can't wait to see what we do for March.

Grandma came for a visit a surprise one at that and made some homemade for Meundo for my husband for his birthday.

My husband grandma pass away unexecpedly back in her hometown. So glad to have many memories with her, and most importantly she was just here last year meeting my son(her great grandchild for the first time). May she rest in peace!

My son had a few playdates once he was better

And I'm still going strong with working out and feeling great.

Made many more memories and can't wait to see what's in store for us in March. And I hope the weather is a lot nicer to us in March (wishful thinking, but I truly hope it is) 

So stay tuned!!

Lauren

P.S. Credit the beautiful picture above from Pinterest. 

Happy 35th to my husband

Happy 35th birthday to this handsome guy I'm proud to call my husband! I did good with surprising him with his cake and everything else!

He got to see another birthday as well as we got another birthday with him and that's a blessing. Everything I plan for him went smooth and he loved it. Lunch with friends, family and than some fun at Top Golf while our son was watch by grandma at our house. Now we are ending my husband birthday with movies at home with our son. Love seeing my husband with smile and just laughing away. He truly gets spoiled year around but today was extra special.

Love you honey so much! I pray you are bless with many more and we can continue to grow old together and watching our son grow up.

Love,
Your wifey

In 2005 this exact date we became boyfriend and girlfriend

It was 2005 this exact date that our journey started as boyfriend and girlfriend. After knowing each other for a few months the year before with many late nights up on the phone talking, sitting on the couch while he was at work when I got out class staring in his eyes when he wasn't busy, or having lunch dates with him before going home, than taking it to the next step by calling each other my boyfriend, my girlfriend in 2005 this exact date. It hasn't been easy at times we thought we were not going to make it. He was ready to call it quits and walk out of this relationship, and if wasn't for a good friend of ours to tell him to make it work it because I really did like him there would not be no us right now.

Now fast forward to now (2018), I'm truly thankful to God for allowing us to cross path, to taken it to that level and for where we are now as husband and wife. Oh trust me it hasn't been easy, but it has been worth it! I love doing life with him, love being his wife, and love having him as my husband. Life has been good to us, and I must say we are truly taking this statement Let's Grow Old together because we are truly growing old together. We have build our relationship from bottom up, we have build a home together for us and now with our son, we have live paycheck to paycheck, we had our fair shares of arguments but nothing that was not talk about or fix that same day, and so much more. Either way what we have share I'm truly blessed it's with him! He loves me for me,and shows me everyday how much he loves me. And since adding the title parents in our relationship it's been a ride that once thought wasn't going to happen, but it did. Again days are not easy but I would not have it any other way.

Thank you Honey for doing all this with me, for building a life with me since 2005, for the journey of marriage and parenthood, and for so much more. Everyday I thank God for you and for all that we have as a family. Thanking him everyday is better than rubbing it in as I know it can easily be taken away. God has been good to us and I know he will continue to be good to us.

Thank you for hanging in there with me as I know days I can be difficult!! Thank you for everything!

I love you than, now, and forever!

Planning a Party outside your home with your own touches

Planning a party? Using a venue? Want to  used your decorations ideas?

If the answer is YES, than let's talk! Now and days venue are allowing you to bring little to as much as you want in your decorations with of course rules attach to it as well. Even some allow you to bring in anything expect for the food and drinks, and some allow you to be everything.

This pass September I along with my husband was planning on hosting my son's third birthday at the house, had the theme, and all the ideas I wanted to do for the party. But than my son had grew so much interest in Chuck E Cheese leading up to his birthday that we decided to have his party there. And I must say I did have the theme, decorations, and birthday shirt including mommy and daddy shirts ready since March yes March(half birthday mark), and within the months I made a number 3 and letter J along with a fabric garland.

So with that being said we had it outside our home and at a venue and before booking I ask all the question I needed to ask, what we could or not bring. Once booked 60 days out I had more of an idea what I wanted for him, and everything we bought back in March was used.

Chuck E Cheese allows you to bring in your own cake, ice cream, goodies bags, plates, napkins, and decorations. My mom helped with the centerpieces, we had a paw patrol birthday book for the guest to sign, I ordered paw prints crayons from fun shaped crayons along with paw patrol coloring books. I also got water bottles from dollar tree and my mom made vinyl paw prints to put on it. A sweet mommy friend made a few cutouts for me, and made the cake when the dogs on the cake from the dollar tree. Oh and I must say she did a very good job and it was a very tasteful even better the next day with a cold glass of milk. 

Than after our party, and we saw how much my son and the guest enjoyed themselves we were not disappointed, and actually glad we choose to have it at a venue. I still was able to make it our own by adding the touches but at the end it was memorable for everyone who came. Everyone who came saw the tables when they came to the back and gave me so many wonderful compliments. I couldn't help to smile because I so wanted to have it at the house because I thought I was limited having it outside our home but I was not. Oh yeah and daddy sat back and let me do my thing and was there to put his opinions in.

Fainlly, let's go back to the questions from the beginning: Planning a party? Using a venue? Want to use your decorations ideas? 

I'm here to say go for it, its less stressful  well kind of! Ask your questions whatever venue you are going to use! Once done have fun planning and making it your own!!

Lauren

P.S. Here are some pictures from my son's 3rd birthday party at Chuck E Cheese!

9 years of marriage and still the best decision

Saying "I do" to you 9 years ago was, and still is the best decision I made. Within the last 9 years wonderful memories have been made for us, and I can't wait to see what's store for us in the future. We have had our differences, but at the end we have come out stronger. A few times our marriage had been tested, but we have overcome it. And after everything the love we have is still there for one another, and it's only getting stronger from here on out.

Thank you for loving me the way you do!
Thank you for making me your everything!
Thank you for spoiling  me everyday!
Thank you for all you do for me!
Most of all thank you for making this our marriage so worth it!

Happy 9th Wedding Anniversary my love! I thank God everyday for our marriage, and for you. Everyday I get with you is such a blessing that I look forward to the next day and the future.

Here is to than, now and forever!

Love you forever and always!!

Colortime Crafts: Halloween Tote

Colortime Crafts and Markers offer fun and easy crafts to do with your child or children. Make it fun by seeing everyone create they own masterpiece and see it come to life. We had the opportunity to test and create our very own masterpiece with the Glow in the dark Halloween bag. My 3 year old even got to help me and we both enjoyed working on the bag. I even love how it came with three fabric markers purple, orange, and green...easy to use to easy to closed for myself my son needed it help. It also look so fun seeing our work finish and glowing in the dark. We had our bag, fabric markers and instructions on what do before coloring our bag. A fold a paper towel in half to stick inside the bag and color away. On the instructions it says you can used paper towels if you liked and let me tell you it worked!

Here are my pictures

 

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Hello October! Goodbye September

September was a memorable with ending August with a bang thanks Hurriance Harvey(posted coming soon), than celebrating my son's third birthday as well as making many more memories together. And of course finishing off September with a first visit to the Renassicane festival for opening weekend for my son and for us with a child. 

Now Hello October! I'm in Texas and waiting for the cooler weather to come our way, enjoy the fall festival that our city has to offer, and lots more outside time with my little guy! It's the first of the month and I'm already excited and can't wait to see what this month has to offer. As well looking forward to making memories visiting the pumpkin patch, and seeing my little guy dress up for Halloween and going trick or treat! Than of course one step closer to the Holidays I love Thanksgiving and Christmas, but first counting down to our 9 year Wedding Anniversary a month from today. We started October with a bang attending our first football game for my son and I, we are cowboys fan and we went to cheer for the Texans, and they won. Hope we can end October great and start November off even better.

Beside that I'm on a weight lost journey I refuse to celebrate our Annivesary with the extra weight I put on. New month, new journey, new goal, stay tuned to see if I do become successful with this!

Lauren

P.S. Picture from wonderful Google!