Best mom EVER!

First, let me thank my friend Michelle for making me the best mom EVER in my daughter's eyes. This weekend she got to meet many of her favorite Disney TV stars! We were invited to the Radio Disney Music Awards by our friends, Michelle and her daughter Kayla, who we met when our girls were just 6 months old. It's amazing to see how these beautiful little girls have grown up to be sweet, kind 8 year olds!

They not only got to see the award ceremony, but also got VIP access to the Disney After Party! What a blast it was!

Friends forever! Sophia & Kayla

They got to go on the red carpet! Fancy girls!

She was excited to see Selena Gomez perform!

Selena Gomez! We had amazing seats! 

She got to meet many of the Shake It Up actors! Sophia was a little nervous, can you tell? She kept saying "Mom, there is so and so----- I need to take my picture with them!"

Zendaya was so super sweet! This girl is gorgeous and my goodness I was a dwarf next to her!

We even got to see a performance by Fifth Harmony at the after party!

Move out of the way - VIP's coming through! HA!!

The perfect suit

I am on the search for the perfect Summer bathing suit! After two kids, I'm one of those unlucky ones that didn't get her flat belly back. It's probably all those darn brownies I had when I was pregnant with Sophia. Who knew that gaining 75 pounds while your pregnant would leave behind some extra waves on my belly!  Instead, I get to wear those ugly one pieces mommy suits - well at least I used to think they were ugly until I found my perfect mommy bathing suit!

I have a girls birthday celebration weekend next month and so this suit will be a perfect fit with all my skinny friends! It shows some skin while covering up those extra waves! PALM SPRINGS, I'm ready for you!

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I have a few friends in mind that would look AMAZING in the suits below. Even skinny girls can wear them! HA!

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The back of this suit is soooooo cute! Too bad they were out of my size!

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This Marc Jacobs suit is so bright and happy!  Also, all the diagonal, vertical and horizontal lines could make anyone look a few pounds thinner!

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Let's talk about this suit. Would you wear it? Thought the idea was cute, but not sure I could pull it off. The whiskers position kind of freak me out. What do you think?

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Pillow talk

I am infatuated with pillows at the moment. Maybe because I can't wait for summer so I can lounge outside on my patio furniture surrounded with beautiful comfy pillows. There are so many great pillows to choose from at the moment. Wanted to share my favorites and I'm hoping to add some of these to our home collection real soon!

MY FAVORITE!!!!!

Gold Class

The four pillows above are from Caitlin Wilson Textiles. She really has an eye for color. Just looking at her pillows brings a smile to my face, can't imagine how happy I would be if I were surrounded by them. I may have to save up for a few of these luxuries!

The two pillow below are from Joss & Main. They ALWAYS have something I can't live without!

Dandelion Indoor/Outdoor 

Pillows below may be purchased at Pottery Barn. 

I can picture myself laying on a hammock on a breezy summer night, with these pillows surrounding me. AHHHH!!

This blue one would be a beautiful addition to my bed.

Julian's 7th Birthday Bash!

Julian wanted to have a small best-friends birthday bash. Usually, I like to go all out on birthday parties, but now that he has an opinion on his birthday he just wanted his top 7 "buddies" to come over for an all out boys party (plus, his sister, of course!)

He chose to have a Laker's theme party as that is his favorite sports team! Go Lakers! 

I thought, what do boys like - pizza, to play games, hit a pinata and eat cake! Easy breezy!

Here a few photos of his special day!

Ready to P-A-R-T-Y!

LAKERS! 

Balloons - makes it a party!

Birthday boy!

Mummy game!

Good try.

And the winners were.....Skyler and Bradley!

Potato sack race.

Musical chairs.

Lucky guy had two Pinatas!
Warning - these could be dangerous and cause some tears!

Basketball suger cookie for thank you gift!

Julian had a great birthday! Thank you to all is amazing friends for making him feel so special!

Blue is my favorite color!

If you ever have been to our home, you can clearly see that blue is my favorite color. How can you not love blue, it's the color that reminds me of the beach, laying on a towel looking into the crystal clear ocean, holding a cocktail in your hand. True serenity! So I decided to add some more blue to our home and I'm so happy with the end results.

I have never stenciled before and I thought how difficult could it be.....well it was a lot tougher than I thought.  It wasn't the stenciling that was tough, but the wall I decided to tackle.  It's a 20' foot wall and well, Im 5'2 and so it became a challenge. Thank goodness for my hubs!!! This was a project I was going to do by myself. Nope!  It turned out he did most of the work and I'm so thankful for his help!

First, I purchased our Birch Forest stencil from Cutting Edge Stencils. I have seen it on other blogs and fell in love with the design and feel of it - so why not!

Before. 

Now it was time to primer the wall....

Half way there.

Stenciling begins....... The truth is the first time we tried the stencil it looked horrible!!  I was mortified and so sad, but went on-line and saw that someone recommended adding adhesive to the back of the stencil as it would stick to the wall then you could peel it off. So we headed over to Home Depot and bought the 3M adhesive and sprayed away! It worked!! Made things quite sticky, but it made the stencil much more clear and sharp.  

This was a longgggg project because you are constantly spraying adhesive, measuring the stencil to the one you already painted on the wall, painting, removing the stencil and holding a hair dyer to the wall so it dries quicker. In all, it took us about 10 hours to complete the wall. Worth every minute!

Removing the stencil.

My hero!

Something was missing!

Taa-Daa!

Adding the wood mirror made it complete. I thought the wood went hand-in-hand with the forest theme. I think it looks pretty fabulous! The blue I used was from Dunn-Edwards - Rainy Lake. I also use this blue in our family room (Family-Room Makeover). It goes great in our stairway.