Cinderella's Ball

The Birthday Party was a HUGE SUCCESS!!!!! Thanks in major part to my good friend Angela who is AMAZINGLY TALENTED. She made both the big and little Cinderella Dress also Fairy Godmother, and her daughter Jaylynn who came in the best Belle costume I have ever seen. Angela's little sister Beth played Cinderella and I have to say she pulled up in the car and I about had a heartattack because I could not believe what a perfect Cinderella she made. Especially if you know that really she had short hair she looked amazing and did such a great job with the kids. Sunday at church I was laughing because two of the little girls who were at the party now in order to sit in thier chairs "Curtsy" because Cinderella taught them all how to curtsy and to spin like a little lady. Thier mothers were laughing pretty hard because now in thier sunday dresses they kept doing it... SO DANG CUTE!!! We also had some little boys come and they came dressed as little pirates one even came with a Parrot on his shoulder. They had fun and got to help lead a treasure hunt to find Cinderella's lost slipper.

Cinderella and her little Minnie Me

Disney Eat your heart out!!!! Sorry but, these little Cinderella's out do yours any day!!!!

Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother..... Sorry I do not make a great one at granting wishes???

Part of the party some of the kids had already left before we took this picture... oops.

Amazing dresses! Thanks ANGELA and thank you Beth!!!! LOVE YA!!!!

Getting Ready for the Madness...

Laken's 4th B-day was on Wed. and I felt like a bad mom once again because I was sick and probably did not give her the special day she deserved but, lucky for me she was happy just knowing it was her birthday. Thank goodness even though she thinks she is a princess and rules the house she does not ask for anything. She has not asked for a single gift and never really does. So now we are preparing for her big "Cinderella" Party. My great friends Angela and Jenn have talked about giving Laken a Cinderella party for months and Laken has told everyone about it forever she is so excited. My friend Angela amazes me with her incredible talent at sewing. I'm sure she is home today knee deep in fabric. Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother will be coming to the party. Angela asked if I could come help at least cut the pattern out for the Fairy Godmother dress last night so we went over to do that and all I can say is holy crap after staying up until midnight cutting out stupid fabric I now know why I have left the sewing and crap to my Mom and Grandma, yuck!!! The best part was Laken got to try on the little Cinderella dress that Angela's daughter is letting her borrow, she looked so dang cute in it and you could tell truly felt like a little princess. And Angela's daughter was so sweet as soon as we walked in the house she came running and got Laken so excited about her party and said "I am going to let you wear the most beautiful Cinderella dress." Laken's eye's lit up and she said "Oh thank you so much Jaylynn." It was way too cute to watch these little girls get so excited over sharing dresses together. I will be posting lots of pictures from the party hopefully if I am still standing and all these little princesses and pirates that are coming to have not killed me off.

A Better Picture to Look at...

So really I have nothing to post about at the moment. Just sick of when I bring my blog up seeing that horrible nasty picture of fat head starring me in the face. Had to stare at the ugly mug way too many years so I deserve to see happy things now. So how about this fun picture from last summer when we went rafting and half the boat fell out on this run except notice me in the green hat still rowing away! Of course the third and finally run down the river yours truly was "riding the bull" up front and managed to flip the entire boat completely over and thought we were all going to die. What an adrenaline rush!!! I'm so happy to say I found out this week that we will be pulling this marathon river running trip again down the snake river this month and I can hardly wait! I will probably not able to walk or move for the next month but, it will still be so worth it!!!

Congrats to the Happy Couple! (GAG!)

Can not believe I am putting a picture of this ugly fat head on my Blog but, just have to vent and say Congrats they deserve each other!!!! So the past few days I have struggled with not letting that angry "man hater" inside of me creep back into my life because I really hate that side of me and feel I have worked to dang hard to get rid of it. But, I have to say men are definitely proving to make that a hard task. So let me begin with yes I found out that Paul got remarried I actually laughed and thought it was funny because a month ago he told me he would never get remarried again? Gee I know that telling the truth is an impossible task for him? But, then later that day a guy I work with was a total jerk to me and maybe I took what he did and said too hard because I was already irritated so I left work and went to visit my Grandma at the hospital. Unfortunately Paul and Eryn live right next door to the Hospital so then I happen to see that in their driveway is a Nice Grand Jeep Cherokee. That did it I was livid, I could not help but think that stupid car payment should be coming as child support or at least helping me to pay the daycare that I struggle to be able to pay? So I was on the verge of letting that Angry Man Hater girl out and thought I really just need to talk to a guy that is not a jerk to prove to me that not all men are jerks. So I send a text to a friend of mine (don't assume which friend for those of you who know!!) Anyways I get a RUDE response that tells me that I need to get over my ex!!! Poof there goes that idea of proving not all men are assholes? So I did a lot of thinking and trying to figure out why the realization of Paul being re-married was bothering me so much because I know for a FACT I am so far over him!!! Then it hit me of why I was so mad, My children now have a STEP MOTHER!!!! I can not even say the word without starting to cry, augh. Not only do they have a step "thing" but, she is currently 22 years old (yes that means she was 19 when she got pregnant) and she is a slutty Bar Tramp who does not deserve to have the blessing of my children as part of her life!!!! Paul, made a choice years ago that he did not want to be a family man and play the happy little married couple and family and I don't think he deserves another chance at it? WOW dejavu' from my past? Could I please stop mirroring my mother!!! Love you mom but, do not want to mirror your life. I'm so tired of having to fight off being that angry man hater because goodness knows my past has defiantly given me the right to be one. And so far my present life is giving me reason as well? So trying to stay positive and not break out the Angry Girl Music!!!! Trust me I know there is no such thing as Prince Charming or the perfect Man but, I would just be happy with a decent nice one please?

Dancing Queen!

As promised here is one of the video's of Laken dancing at TJ and Bailey's wedding. Sorry it is not a great film job I was laughing too hard to hold the camera still. But, you can hear everyone in the background giggling as well. Laken and Grayden cracked us all up. Keep in mind this video was taken after I had to pull Laken aside and threaten her life that if she lifted her dress during dancing one more time she would go home because nice girls do not dance like that. AUGH where on earth does she learn how to dance and give those freaking looks? Lord knows it is not from her Mother!!!!!

Little Ones Song.....

So most of you know I do not listen to much hip hop? I am defiantly a country girl for sure. I also am not a dancer so how on earth I ended up with a 3 year old who dances way crazy and can shake her little butt better then most people even on MTV scares me to death. Not sure where she is getting all these moves and songs from???? But, last night while I was standing in the kitchen all of a sudden Laken starts to shake her little "thang" and begins singing "Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me..." Oh if you could have only seen Grandma's eye's bulge out of her head on that one it was hilarious!!!!! Seriously the construction of the padded cell to lock this little diva up in away from boys is going to have to start quickly!!!!

You know you are Old When....

You know you are Old when you go away for a weekend to hang out with your best friend and you no longer take pictures of you and your friends doing wild and crazy things together instead you simply take pictures of your kids together???? WOW how fast things change. The kids and I went up to Rock Springs, WY so far that was our huge outing for the summer Wahoo are we exciting or what? It was so much fun to be able to go spend time with my Best Friend Lindsay Lou and her sweet little family. First, I just have to say Linz' Lou (as I call her) blows my mind she had 4 brain surgeries during the month of May - June and this weekend you would never know any different. She is AMAZING and my hero!!!! We spent the weekend working and hanging out at her little brother TJ's wedding. Which was beautiful and so yummy of course because Lindsay & Sister Liz & Mom Debbie did all the flowers and food so of course it was incredible. Those women amaze me they have more talent in their little finger than I have in my entire body! I got a little bummed out at the wedding and then that just made me mad that I allowed myself to feel sad because I was solo. Especially because I felt like I was finally in a place that I was so happy just being ME and I was perfectly okay being alone? Apparently I was not and that bugs me. Laken also had a bit of an emotional break down she loves Mark (Lindsay's Hubby) and he is way good to her and spoils her rotten, Laken got very jealous when he set her down and went to go dance with his daughter Gracie she broke down and in my trying to calm her down I said "Honey Mark is Gracie's daddy and she wants to dance with her Daddy." OOPS, wrong thing to say that opened up the whole can of worms "why don't I have a daddy that wants to dance with me?" UGH! And once again I have to stand up for Jerk Face and make him look good as to not bad mouth the A**. So I'm done going to weddings unless it is my own someday? So if any of you are planning on getting married anytime soon you better be setting me up fast. HA HA HA just kidding. I will be posting a clip of a video soon from the wedding though Laken stole the show and got up on stage and danced her little heart out for about an hour and a half she had everyone laughing. And her mother bright red crawling under the table because I do not know where she got some of her dance moves but, the girl on some of them needed a pole she scares me between the jealousy fit about Mark and her dance moves heaven help me when she turns 16 I will have to lock her up and keep her away from boys for sure!!!!