In under the wire...

I was getting ready for bed when I realized that I had not done a post for today.  Ha!  But here I am with 59 minutes to spare!!!

Not for lack of good intentions - it has been a really long day!  Up at 5:30 - get dressed, get the princesses dressed and off we go to school and work.  I spent my lunch hour with Savannah reading to her class.  Then meetings at work in the afternoon. 

After work, I headed over to The Red Fish Gallery where I have some of my hair clippies for sale.  They were having an open house Friday evening and I needed to drop off some cards.  Then, I went to the pet store to pick up dog food for the canine royalty that so graciously lets us share space with them  Amazing what I can find to buy in a pet store when all I really needed was dog good!  I have no idea when I seem to think our dogs needed two MORE types of doggy treats, but I assure you, they do.


So, by then it is 6:00 and I am off to join my mom at a jewelry party she is presenting.  She sells Premiere Jewelry and it is gorgeous stuff.  Of course, I found a bracelet that I just HAD to have.

I finally got home about 9:30 and found the two princesses and thier exhausted daddy all asleep in our bed!  Poor Prince Charming - those girls keep him hopping when he is being Mr. Mom!!!

I got thegirls all tucked in and picked up some around the house, get the dogs and FINALLY got to go relax in the tub!!!

That is when I remembered that I had not done a post today.  Well, now I have. 

Tune in tomorrow for our new regular feature, Savannah Saturday, a double feature that will be combined with Tara Tuesday.

What is Savannah Saturday, you ask?  I will let you know when I figure it out...

Catch up post - AKA - more shameless showing off of the kiddos...

What better way to catch you up on everything going on with me than to say it with pictures...

First up is my little cowgirl...yes, I realize that is a dog she is on and not a horse, but hey, we improvise around here...

YEEHAW!!!!

The 16th was my 37th birthday and the girls (and Dan) made cupcakes for me...heck, who am I kidding...for them...

ALL DONE - YUMMY!

Just silly girls...

Our first every Halloween Pumpkin - the girls picked a kitty cat design...

Last Saturday night, I took the girls to Zoo Boo - an annyal thing at the Memphis Zoo that Savannah has been begging to go since about this time last year.  So, we went.  Cost was $37 for me and the girls; we had to park way out in the middle of BFE, there were hardly any exhibits open - all the animals were asleep.  It was so crowded and cold...  But the girls had an absolute blast.  I guess that makes it all worthwhile.  My mom made thier costumes - they turned out so cute!

My pink cowgirl princess...

My Little Pony...  (Savannah was really not having the pictures for some reason...)

Her swishy pony tail...

Why is this little guy important?  Tara loves to play with Play Doh.  This little elephant is the first thing that Tara has ever made that actually looks like what it is supposed to be... 

Just cuz she is cute...

This last picture is special becuause it is Savannah showing off her pearl whites...including a very, very loose one that is about to fall out.  Seriously, any day now my first baby will be minus 1 baby tooth.  I don't know who is more excited - me or her!  I am a little sad too...from now on out, all her firsts will be about bras, periods and boys...  I don't think I will ever be ready for all that - thankfully, I have a few years to psych myself up!!!

All done!  Ha!  Suddenly the crazy day I had a work seems faded away...  I love my girls...but you knew that already...

America's next top model...

...well, maybe if I wasn't 36!!! So my mom is a great seamstress and she recently came across a "how-to"
online to make a version of the dress generally know as a Le Sac dress. It is basically a sheath dress with a tie at the top that you can wear several different ways depending how how you adjust the sheath and the tie. She made me two (I love being a daughter!!!!) - one in black and one in lilac. I told her I would model it different ways to show the different ways you can wear it. I used the black tie with the lilac dress in all the styles so that you could see how each is tied. Some of them I think will look better with a tie of the same color. Anyway, here you go:

This is a Grecian style:

This is a more basic style:

This is a halter style. I used a rhinestone clip-on earring in the center of the "V" in the front.

And another halter style. This is one of my favorites:






I love this dress! You can really play with the fabric - pulling and tucking it to get the look you want to get. There are several other ways to wear it and I will try to post those later.

Now I just need someplace to go...