I need new makeup

So I have used Clinique for about, well, forever, and am really not liking it anymore. I used to use the Glow Loose Power and loved it because it had a little shimmer/bronzer in it and they discontinued it. So now I am using their basic loose powder and I absolutely hate it and need suggestions on something else!!

Sooo, please tell me what make up you use!

I'll update on little girl soon (who is now all over the place and absolutely wearing me out..), but am in dire need of something else so thought I'd post this first!!

New pics

Short post but here are a few new pictures of little girl!










I took about a billion pictures of her in each outfit but she is so hard to get to look at the camera and is much more interested in everything else going on than getting her picture taken!

Finger food help!!!

Okay mommas, I need your help! Little girl has now decided she is too big for baby food and insists on only eating things she can pick up. And she doesn't want me putting it in her mouth either. She'll push my hands away and snatch it out of my fingers and feed herself. Soo... I need some recipes/ideas for her for healthy meals she can feed herself.

I've always used this web site, but I need more ideas for her! Miss priss is even eating things she didn't like as baby food but because she can pick them up and feed herself, is enjoying them quite well, i.e. peas. Little stinker. And Emma is enjoying this too. She stands around her high chair in hopes of some food hitting the floor, which it does quite often. Have I mentioned she likes to throw everything?...

I'm alive I promise!!

Wow I'm a bad blogger, really bad. Honestly (and embarrassingly), I come up with all sorts of blog post ideas in my head and when it gets down to me being on the computer, I always choose to do something else on the internet than sort through pictures to post and write out what's been going on. Anyhow, maybe someday I'll get better about this. This is Perri's memory book of some sorts since I just won't take the time to scrap book so hopefully I can get some things documented better on here.

What we've been up to:

1. Perri FINALLY cut her first tooth on Friday, the 24th. I could see it under the gums for a while and she was being so stinking fussy and clingy and wouldn't nap and I knew it would be here soon, then finally the little sucker broke through. She's doing pretty well with it now that it's through and No. 2 looks to be coming soon. She's not gnawing the heck out of everything like she had been so I guess it's not hurting her too much anymore. Though, she is still fighting naps pretty hard. I'll try and get a pic of her little tooth soon. She is super protective of it and does not like me touching it or looking at it. Guess I wouldn't want people prying open my mouth and sticking their fingers in it either so I don't blame her!

2. She's now dropped her morning nap and taking one afternoon nap. She had been getting up at 7:30 then going back down for a nap at 9 and then another in the afternoon, but started cutting back the time on naps so I started letting her sleep later, and she's sleeping now till 9 or 9:15 and then taking just one afternoon nap. I really am liking it better because it gives us more time to be out and get things done and she's adapting to it pretty well.

3. Perri went to her first birthday party on Friday. She would've gone to one a few weeks ago for our friends Angela and Matt's daughter, Payten, but we were out of town. Our friends Hillary and Luke, who moved down not long ago from Anchorage, had their daughter's party on Saturday. Selma turned 4 and had a princess party and it was absolutely adorable. Happy Birthday Sweet Selma, we hope you had a great birthday!!
See below for pictures.

4. We've been going to the pool a lot and thankfully, little girl has taken quite the liking to the water and splashing and playing in it. The first couple of times in May she hated it and screamed and I ended up holding her the whole time but now she'll sit and play and splash and even sit in her little floaty for a while. Certainly not the old days of laying out and reading and relaxing, but that probably won't happen until we no longer have kids at home cause even when she's swimming I know I'll always be on the lookout for her. Oh well, atleast I don't have to hold her the whole time! We usually go with Angela and her kiddos and some other friends so it's always a good time talking and letting them play.

5. Last night Craig and I got the luxary of going to The Fray concert sans baby! This is seriously the first time we've been out by ourselves besides shopping since Perri's been born. That's what stinks most about having no family around and no free babysitters. My mom is in town for a while and Craig's work got tickets for the interns to go to the concert. Angela's husband, Matt, works with the intern program and told us they had two extra tickets and did we want to go with them? Uhm YES!! And mom was in town to keep Perri!! It was a fun night out and mom said Perri did beautifully and went to bed no problem. Thank you SO much mom for keeping her and letting us have a night out and thank you ConocoPhillips for the tickets haha. It was out at the Cynthia Woods Pavilion and it was so pretty and peaceful out there! It's literally in the middle of the woods and has water surrounding it and is literally the nicest outdoor venue I've ever been to. Luckily we had seats and didn't have to sit on the lawn. It was pretty hot but the seated area is covered and had huge fans to keep a breeze going. The concert was fun and they were really good live! I also enjoyed one of the opening acts, Jack's Mannequin. I'd never heard of them but they were pretty good. The Fray even did a cover of Kanye's "Heartless"... pretty good! Sadly, I didn't bring a camera so no pictures from that.

I'll try and keep updates more often so don't forget about us and keep checking back!!

P.S.- Please keep Amber in your prayers. She is a sweet blogger I correspond with occasionally and she just posted that they found out she has a brain disease. Her family has already endured more than most of us ever will with her daughter Kyleigh's complications and health and now they found out Amber probably will have to have brain surgery. Visit her blog and you can read all about her little girl and keep up with their story.

Enjoy the pics!! (Warning, there are lots!)


I love this picture of her. I played with the color of it a little bit so that's why it looks like this. She looks totally bald here but her hair is actually growing quite a bit. It's just so blonde you can hardly see it. Did I mention she has super white blonde hair??Weird


Swinging at the park before we went to the pool.


A cute picture in the swing


Prunes and oatmeal. Think she made a big enough mess?


Looking out the window with her buddy Emma.


Payten stopped mid-dancing to take a picture.


The Birthday Girl.


Selma getting her castle cake.


Our Princess.




Chewing her wand.

Finally home!!

Wow, I've been gone a long time! We were in Tahoe for a week and came home for 5 days and then headed up to Arkansas for a friend's wedding. My aunt and two cousins were coming down for a bit so I decided to stay with Perri for a week, and then that turned into staying nearly two weeks.

A couple of months ago we found out my dear grandpa had cancer and was to have surgery to remove it and I wanted to stay a while to be with he and my grandma as well. These two are both 93 years old and just such amazing people. While we were in Arkansas I made sure to get some pictures of them both with Perri, as the last time we were there she was only 3 months and she's changed SO much since then.





My parents wanted to come down for a few days so instead of doing the usual meet Craig halfway, they drove us all the way down and spent some time here with us. One of the fun things we did that Perri really enjoyed was going down to Galveston for the day and to Moody Gardens to the aquarium there. I wasn't sure if Perri would like it much or not but the aquarium was perfect. She loved watching all the fish and seals and pengiuns and it was so fun watching her little face light up with excitement.


Hanging out with her daddy at the aquarium
Checking out some fish
Getting a better view
Watching the fish with her Pops

We had such a fun time in Galveston! Thanks mom and dad for bringing us home and staying a few days with us!!

Also- my grandpa's surgery went well but the dr. ended up having to remove cancer from the whole right side of his head. He's now at home and thankfully not in pain but starts radiation in a few weeks, which will be 5 days a week for 6 weeks. Please keep him in your prayers, as he is in amazing shape for 93, but still, he's 93!!

Tahoe!!

Well, we've been back from Tahoe for over a week now and I still haven't posted on it. Mainly, because I have an over abundance of pictures from it (over 600- we uploaded pics from mom's camera as well as ours) and it's tough to wade through that many pics and do a post on it all!

We headed up to Tahoe on the 6th and met up with my parents and sister there to spend a week before my brother's wedding. It was such a nice little vacation and it is so beautiful there, but really the weather nearly killed me. My brother kept emailing me and telling me what the weather had been (cooler than usual) and I guess we were just being optimistic and hoping it would warm up, so we didn't exactly pack according, therefore freezing our butts off all week! The mornings were in the 30s and the days were usually in the 50s or 60s, but down by the lake it was much cooler!

It was so much fun to go to a different little town every day and get to spend time with my brother, since he lives out West and we don't get to see him that much anymore.

One day we went to Squaw, where the 1967 (I think?) Winter Olympics were held.

Sarah, Craig, Zach, Dad, Perri and I with our Starbucks hanging out in Squaw. Notice the snow on the mountains? COLD!!

The rehearsal dinner was held outside at Sand Harbor, and while it was absolutely beautiful out there, it was so cold and we all spent most the time hovered around the fire they have in the pavilion. The warmest thing we had for Perri was her monkey suit we got her, which we bought before she was born to wear during Christmas while in Arkansas. It's a 0-3 months and is just now fitting at 7 months...

Sand Harbor
Some of the people hanging out by the fire
Hanging out with my Aunt Tori
Passed out after dinner


More monkey suit pics
Perri and I on the deck of our house in Tahoe

The wedding was on the shores of Lake Tahoe in Tahoe City and was absolutely beautiful, as was the bride! It was such a nice wedding and a friend of the family, who did Craig and I's wedding, also did theirs. It was pretty cold that evening so after the wedding we took a few pics then all rushed inside to the reception for dinner and dancing. Perri usually goes to bed around 7:30 so I was expecting her to not last too long that night, but she was so intrigued with all the noise and people that she did wonderfully and got to play with everyone and even dance with her daddy. After many hours of this she finally had enough and passed out in her car seat in a corner. Not sure how because it was super loud in there but I am just thankful for it and Craig and I got to have a fun evening.
The wedding party
Saying their vows
Mr. and Mrs. Zach Selby!!!
woo hoo!!!
Perri and I after the wedding
Dancing with dad
Craig, Zach, me, Lauren, Sarah
Our little family
Cousin Mandy, Aunt Glenda, Glenda's husband Pete, Aunt Tori and cousin Daniel.

I have hundreds (literally) more pictures I may get around to posting later, but will leave you with a sweet one of my dad and Perri at the wedding. Bless you if you made it through this whole post!