O-M-G!!! LANI IS 3!!!!!

I cant believe my baby girl is 3 years old today! She has grown up to be such a feisty and fun little girl!!! She has so much personality and constantly makes me laugh!

She is obsessed with princesses and super heros. Loves nail polish, lip gloss, and putting people in "arm bars" 






Her stats:
height- 32 inches
weight- 29lbs
medical- new tubes and tonsils/adenoids removed








School:
class- upper 2's
teachers- Miss Heather and Miss Kristy
knows- abc's, counting to 20 without help, colors, shapes, animals and sounds

Lani's Faves: (in her words)
color- Blue, Purple, and Pink
movie- Cinderella
fruit- strawberries
tv show- woody (toy story) and mickey mouse (clubhouse)
items in her lunch- strawberries and monkey milk (dannon smoothies, there's a monkey on the bottle)
game- elmo abc's (on the ipad)
foods- chicken nuggets & strawberries, 

animal-"flingos" (flamingos) and monkeys
song-ABC's
book- the elmo book in my room
best friend- Sophia
boyfriend- Malachi
cereal- little girl one with marshmallows (lucky charms), and the little boy one (cinnamon toast crunch)
thing to do outside- play chalk
drink- juice box (capri-sun roaring waters)
holiday- Halloween

what she wants to be when she grows up: doctor

My Dear Beautiful Lani~

I cant begin to tell you how sad and heartbroken I am that Daddy and I cant spend today with you.  But God tells us not to dwell on whats wrong in our life, but to recognize, honor and be thankful our blessings!

 I am so thankful to blessed to be your mom. I am so thankful and blessed that you are healthy and  here with us each day. 


 You are so sweet and caring, and feisty and strong willed.  i have no doubt in my mind that you will grow to be a wonderful and powerful woman one day. Each day that I wake up and see your face or hear your voice, i am reminded that miracles exist.

 I love you more than the birds and the bees and the stars and the trees! and yes, underneath the moon too!

Happy Birthday Baby ~ love mommy

Lani's 3rd bday shoot!!!

My good friend Jay from college is an awesome photographer! He took Lani's 3rd bday shoot!!!

One day we will look back and laugh....

Or at least that's what Sean's mom tells me.  But right now this weekend seems anything but funny.

It all began Wednesday night when i got home from our first basketball game. My throat was a little sore so i decided to take some night time cold and flu medicine as a preventative, considering its flu season.

The next morning i woke up feeling stuffy, but had cheer practice at 6:50 so i decided it was just best i went to work.  My mom gave me some alka seltzer cold and flu, since it helped her the week before.

I went to work and about an hour later felt horrible. l i told my principal i was going to try to make it through the day, and would stay home Friday so i could be better for Lani's bday.  but by the ti me i talked to my neighbor/buddy/and dept head 2nd period, i wasn't so sure that would happen.  And before i could make it to the front office, she had already told them i needed to go home.  One of the great things about my school is the "family" we have there.  everyone just picked up the ball, and i left!

Despite my better judgement I agreed to let Sean take care of me.  He seems to think he is invincible against   all illness and wouldn't take any precautions (hahaha... wrong).  He got me some breakfast and waited on me all day, since i wasn't able to get into the drs office until 4pm,

i pretty much slept from 10-3:30 when i left for the doctor.  When i got  there they took my temp, which was a lovely 101.5, and did a flu and strep test.

i wasn't too optimistic considering i heard the nurse tell both the rooms next door to me, their tests were positive.  And you guesses it 3rd ones the charm. The dr said i would need to take tamiflu immediately and that i was highly contagious.  i of course thought it was like antibiotics and after 24 hours i would be fine.  WRONG! The nurse informed me since Lani was still on her 6 weeks of antibiotics for a horrible sinus infection, and unable to get a flu shot.  i needed to stay away the entire 5 day.  CUE BALLING

i was so, and am still so upset.  because this weekend is Lani's 3rd bday, and there was so much left to do! i still had to make the goodie bags for her party at school...order the cupcakes... get things ready for the aquarium Saturday...make arraignments for her tea party playdate Sunday... you see, there's no time for the flu.

so i continued to ball for most of the night.  Sean took care of me Friday, but actually kept some distance.  but it was too late, Friday night his symptoms kicked in!!!

did i also mention I've never been away from Lani longer than a weekend!!!!

So talking to my mother in law, she was telling me how this would be a story we could tell Lani one day, and laugh about. but right now, it doesn't seem that funny :(

Miss Ash Loves 2 Photograph

So for some time now, i have loved photography!!! If you have followed my blog for a while then you've gotten to see the journey I've been on!  Well thanks to the encouragement and support of my family and friends, I have officially began my photography business.  So check out my photography blog and see some of my recent work!!!

I have a lot of fun things planned, starting with Sassy-Saturdays!

They will be monthly and bi-monthly Mini sessions on the first Saturday each month!

Each shoot will be themed and staged based on the upcoming month, holiday, and or season!!!

Here are some of the upcoming themes:

Feb 2~ Tea Party 

March 2~ Candy Land

April 6~ Mommy & Me

May 3~ Lemonade Stand

June 1~ Home of the Brave 

TBA: 

Under the Big Top

Old Mc Donald

Take me out to the ball game

Are you ready for some football

Vintage Pearls
Super Heros
BFFs

I have a feeling that 2013 will be an amazing year!