No More Bow Breaks!!

I say that because you all probably were overjoyed from the break of me talking about bows, but I recently went to one of my favorite hair sites and she is now selling bows as well and I know I can make the ones she is making just as well as she is (at least I hope I can...I mean there are alot more resources in the US, but I think I can). Anyway, she asks for colors schemes that people like and would think were pretty colors together. So with the next little flea market thing around here coming up...I'm asking all those Girlie Moms and those that have boys that kinda secretly wish they had girls...(just kidding, our boys are great!!) for some opinions and color combos that you think people would like and match alot of little girl's clothes!! Okay, thanks for looking and hopefully giving me ideas as well!! ;)

My Family Sticks Together

Though we don't have a family picture for this year I thought while writing this post that it was important for my "readers" and myself to be able to look upon my children as happy, go-lucky children doing crazy things and just being themselves!! FYI Dalin was not hurt in this picture...it was on the flightline field trip where the kids got to experiment with all the "goodies" that the medical team had to offer!! Anyway, everyone has bad days come now and then and some are worse than others. Well today was one of those really "worse than ever" ones and at the end of the day it leaves Chris and I wondering how some people live with themselves and the way they act/make others feel. Isn't one of our purposes for being here on earth supposed to be uplifting others and making others feel better. Well as far as I can remember all my Sunday School lessons, I know that tearing others down and making life miserable for another person or in our case a family is not one of those key things we need to strive to do "better at." Though the vast majority of people that we have been privileged to know while here in Osan have been wonderful acquaintances and dear friends, there are the few that just SEEM (notice I said SEEM, I don't know other people's thoughts, obviously or I'd stop alot of their thoughts dead in their tracks) to exist to hurt our family.....one by one or as a communal whole these "dedicated" few seem to lay in wait so to say to find reasons to fault our family in whatever we try to do. And so I say to you very few, that my family will never cave to your threats or accusations and we will NEVER stray away from each other's strength and love just to appease your sensibilities of what you think is right or wrong for OUR family!!
Now with that said, on a happier note I would love to send a virtual thank you to those wonderful, and dear friends that we have made here whether in the past, and you have moved on to "bigger and better things" (The Bartles,Riekers,Ellers, etc.) or those that we are just now getting to know and absolutely realizing what true friendship can mean!! (Sariah,Tammy,Kelly,etc) You all have been such strengths and inspirations in our family's life in getting through any tough times that we may have gone through and I do think you very deeply from the bottom of my heart for being true friends!! You will always be remembered fondly!!

Whoops...Did I Really Just Do That??

Well I took these pictures probably a week ago on Dalin's first day of school, but the funny situation that spurred the title here is that I saw a friend's kid from the ward lined up with her class going in to school when what did I notice...she was wearing one of MY bows!! I kinda figured her mom had bought one from me at the flea market because she felt sorry for me and felt "obligated" to get one, but there it is all pretty and fluffy in somebody else's kid's hair!! YAYYAY!!!! There's another one of mine on her blog which I just found today, so rock on portable advertising!! ;) Oh and the reason that I said "Did I really just do that" is because I took this little girl's picture first and proceeded to leave for home when Chris said, "Aren't you going to take a picture of Dalin??" Well, of course not...why would I care about my own child's first day of school when I could take a picture of my "product" in action!! DUH!! ;)

And One More Thing!!

You know, I check all the people's blogs that I have linked on my site quite frequently and when I go to leave some funny quip or one-liner on their comment section, they already have like 10 comments!! Am I just the ugly fat kid (sorry not politically correct, I know) of the blogging world that nobody leaves me comments on a regular basis!! I get blogger envy everytime I see all these wonderful ladies' comments on how beautiful their children are, and so forth and so on......Now I'm not asking you to tell me my children are beautiful because well I'm already a little biased but I do LOVE to wake up in the morning to a myriad of emails telling me that people have commented on my blog.....so if the 4 or 5 people that even read my blog would comment more often, it would greatly be appreciated because then I'd know that all my info and pictures of my family weren't out in cyber space for just anybody to see, they'd be there for you few AND the psycho internet stalkers!! See how nice that is!! I'm a needy person, what can I say!! ;)

Bozo's Hair Accesories Inc.

The reason I ever became interested in bows for my kid's hair was because of one little girl's puffy poofy over-the-top hairbows that nearly engulfed her entire cranium that I saw one day in the BX and so it's all downhill from there. The main reason (there are so many...hot glue to the fingers one too many times, ribbon won't cooperate, etc. and so forth) I say downhill is because I'd never been able to recreate them and these bows are no different, BUT they are VERY large and poofy to say the least. So at least I accomplished the engulfing the skull type of bow that I've been wanting to...yeah for that!! But they do "vaguely" resemble a certain circus performer's bow tie or accessory, don't you think!!??...but I just loved the polka dots and from there it just spiraled into this big cluster of moosh...complete with fur even!! Anyway, if you see my child walking with these in her hair please don't laugh at her too hard and just pick her up off the pavement where she's fallen over from the overwhelming weight on her head!!

First Day Jitters....You've Got to Be Kidding!!!!

Do you see any fear in this child's eyes or exuding from his beaming smile!! Yeah, didn't think so!! Armed with his blanket and brand new backpack he's ready to take on the scintillating new world of preschool!! How many of us wish we could go back to that day and age and play with sand/water all day and the hardest thing we had to master for that day was staying out of the dreaded...OH HORRORS OF HORROR....Time Out Chair!! I capitalize for emphasis!! Well the top picture is of his first day and then you'd think maybe after having such a grueling day of playing with new friends/things and avoidance (of that previously mentioned seat of naughtiness) that he might be a smidge bit bewildered so to say about whether this was "the right place for him" but as you can clearly see....there's none of that on the second day either!!

Recognize Me!!??

Not the child, of course but the fabric!! While up finishing Dalin's blanket....the lateness of the time and the realization that I was still going to have to get up at 6 AM no matter when I went to bed must have thrown me into a creative whiz because I thought up this little doodad for Destinee's hair...I thought it turned out very cute even though she's sideways!!