Friday, September 20, 2013

Fiona the fashionista

The weather report says rain into next week, booo :( Fiona has so many cute outfits for summertime, it'll be sad to see them stuffed in the back of the closet. Most of them to never be worn again, by her anyway. We didn't buy a whole new wardrobe for school this year but I'm ok with that because she still has plenty of clothes that she can still wear. I've been trying to get pictures of her everyday since school started but you'll see, sometimes she is just not amused.
Here is the first day of school

The picture doesn't do this outfit justice, it's a really cute dress and it looks better with the cute flip flops she has but you aren't supposed to wear open toed shoes at school.

This is one of those times she didn't feel like taking a picture haha. She did actually sit up and smile for me but I thought this one was funny.I like this outfit and it was only $12 for both peices.

This outfit isn't anything special but I like the cute panda shirt and her Converse boots.

This one is about the hair, she likes the side pony. She also calls that shirt her "fancy" shirt (said in a fancy voice) it's covered in sequence.

Shes showing off the newest space she has from losing her tooth at school. Aren't those the coolest leggings tho? Who doesn't love unicorns?
Anyway, I didn't have much to write about so I thought I'd share some cuteness :)

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Moving forward

I often think to myself, what is my life going to be like in a year, two years, five years? But today I'm looking back to see what I have done with myself. 2001 was the year I graduated high school and moved to San Diego. I had a lot of fun while I lived there and made some mistakes. Since then, I worked my way up in the hotel business to assistant general manager. Then got preganant and moved to Oregon, that is when I started massage school. I had Fiona in '06 and got my massage license excatly one year from the day she was born. A month later I was working at Massage Envy and I was proud of that. 5 years later I was really fed up with the company and the people I worked with but I have to say that I am greatful for the experience. It's where I got my start and I met some really great people too. Now here I am, my own boss (even though I was thrown into it.) I always wished and hoped I would have a place of my own someday but never imagined it would come true. And its so much harder than I expected. So it comes full circle and I wonder 'where things will go from here?'
In rememerance of 9-11. Although I wasn't affected personally, its the reason I reflect each year. I feel for everyone who lost a loved one that day.

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Summer is over!

School is back in. It's been a long time since I've been able to post anything. First, I've been crazy busy with all the people coming in from groupon. Labor Day was my first day off in 2 whole weeks. The other thing is that I no longer have internet at home so staying later to blog at the salon is not on the priority list. I also need a new computer but that'll have to wait as well. So here are some of the things we did this summer:

We went to oaks park.

We had to stop this ride becuase it was a little bit too scary for her which is funny because she told me she wanted to go on it alone, and that she loooves the scary ones.

We went to the pool quite a bit.

Played balarina

Spent lots of time with the kitties.

Got some ouchies

Took a nature walk




Visited OMSI. I especially loved the mummy exhibit but Fiona wasn't that impressed. She wanted to PLAY (and she did, we were there for hours)
Visited the always lovely Krista and got some face paint.

Went to a concert.

Built a fort and had a sleep over with the neighbor boy.

Made some awesome cupcakes and played in the backyard. (Can ya tell I'm getting lazy here haha)

Whew, arent you just exaughsted from that?
We definatly did a lot, I hope your summer was just as great.