Saturday Link Party

What's everyone doing this weekend? I feel like each weekend in October is always packed of things to do here and there's no way to do everything I want. Today I have a cooking show to do later so there will be no around town activities. I love doing cooking shows though so it's still fun for me! Tomorrow after church we'll be heading to Boo at the Zoo with our little robot girl. I'll be back around here in a few days. Here's some fun links to keep you busy in the meantime:

*An awesome view of Paris around 1870 and today.

*These confessions of librarians made me laugh.

*I've never really stopped to think that the sound word "bark" is different in another language!

*I need to find a way to fit this into my budget! It's only $10 per month and it sounds amazing!

*I love seeing Disney Princesses out of their element. Obviously, Belle is my favorite here.

*Some of these challenges seem impossibly hard but I definitely want to try a few out.

*I recently became un-allergic to avocado and am making up for lost time by putting it on everything. I'll definitely try all of these recipes!

Have a wonderful weekend! Here's a cute sideways smile from Gibbie to brighten your day:

Saturday Link Shindig

Everyone has a link party, welcome to the link shindig, which is basically the same but with a more fun name!

These yogurt cookies look like a lot of fun and easy to make. I doubt I'd put the frosting on though, they look delicious without it.

Living in a household with one Buddhist, one Christian, and one little girl that loves church even if she's not sure what it's all about yet I love to read articles about people who identify as both Buddhist and Christian.

This looks so yum but I despise the fact that it's called Cookie Dough for Preggies. I'm not preggies but I still think I deserve this.

A relaxation website that guides you to calm. Unless you're looking at the beach scene. That one stresses me out because I can tell when the video stops to loop.

I want this vintage oven in my kitchen so bad. Of course, then I'd have to redo the entire kitchen. Who wants to pay?

I really love this Camp Director Tote from Mod Clothe. I can imagine stuffing some books in it and heading out to have some fun.


Have a wonderful weekend lovelies and I'll see you Monday!

Weekend Review - Birthday Weekend

Well I'm an exhausted mama. Gibbie turned three on Saturday and we had a super kick ass Hello Kitty party for her. She cashed in on some awesome gifts and it was a lot of fun having the entire family at our house for a change (they all live in the same area and we live about half an hour away).

We started the birthday out with a manicure (which is insane because I think I was 15 when I had my first manicure).

Seriously though, Hello Kitty nails! How could I resist!!??

After the manicure we went to pick up the cake and cupcakes. Lou's Guiltless Goodies is amazing!

Check out this awesome spread. Yes, Gibbie is spoiled, at least on her birthday.

Singing Happy Birthday to Gibbie. She got bashful when she realized everyone was singing to her.

She ended up with a lot of awesome clothes, a Leap Pad 2, a Vtech phone, a lot of art stuff, books, and a scooter!

Check out the super adorbs Princes Merida dress. She wore it all evening.

The next day we took a very relaxing afternoon trip up to Mesilla, NM. We love that city and it's so close we go about once a month.

It's all fun and games until she thinks hitting mama on the head is fun!

It was a great weekend and since The Hubs has today off we're just going to relax around the house and maybe work on some art!

What did you do this weekend?

Weekend Review

I didn't take nearly enough pictures this weekend. It went by so fast!

Saturday morning we were supposed to have someone over to look at our roof and walls for the water damage. My father-in-law came over to help us out because the man coming to check it out only spoke Spanish. He was three hours late. By the time he got here we already got the guy who was doing repairs next door come over, look over everything (inside, outside, on the roof), give us a quote, and chit-chat. My father-in-law had to get going so when the guy finally did show up he was pissed that neither The Hubs nor I spoke Spanish. He took a look at the back patio and said it would cost $550. That's not even what was supposed to be repaired. Needless to say we're going with the guy who came first.

In the late afternoon Gibbie and I went to a one year old's birthday party.

It was at Peter Piper Pizza so Gibbie was a happy kid. Of course she wasn't too thrilled when mama when to the wrong one and we had to leave to go to another one. Mama's good at doing that. Second time now.

Now this is the complicated part. The birthday party was for the niece of one of my old friends who I haven't seen in more than four years. He wasn't even there because he lives in Seattle now. His parents invited me which was awesome because I hadn't seen them in almost 3 years.

Cake was the only thing that could get her away from the games. I didn't get to visit as much as I would have liked to but it was still very nice to see them and Gibbie had a ton of fun so I'd say it was worth it.

Afterwards we went home. I was invited to a housewarming party by a different friend I haven't seen in a very long time but alas, I was exhausted by the time I drove all the way across town to get home.

We got home and The Hubs was hungry so we went with him to a Chinese restaurant.  Gibbie and I only had one slice each at the pizza place and a small piece of cakes so we ate enough to finish filling us up at the Chinese place.

This morning we got up and took our time getting ready for church.

Check out her cute breakfast set up here. Waffles and OJ, almost every morning! Depending on what she's eating we let her eat here on the ottoman. You flip the top and open it up and woohoo there's a table.

We went to the late service at church, then home for a nap, and out to eat with grandma and grandpa. Grandma and grandpa are heading on an Alaskan cruise next Friday and will be gone for over a week so they had to get some baby time in. I'm so glad I get along with all of my in-laws.

I never imagined it would be so ridiculous getting the wall, ceiling, and roof fixed. I'm just glad it's finally happening. I'm ready to get everything back to normal and start planning for Gibbie's third birthday party!