More Vegas.

Another blog post!  I like it!  :)

I sat on my couch tonight and made myself edit pictures.  I am so consumed with orders that so many things, including my blog become an after thought.  I don't mean for it to be that way.  But it is what it is.  I am trying to be better about it.  My girls come back on Friday, so I won't have the time I have now.  I am trying to take advantage of that!

So... how about more pictures from Vegas?  :)

I loved the Venetian!  It was like I walked out of Vegas and into Italy.  

I about died over these umbrellas hanging in the mall of the Venetian.  

I just LOVED them!!!

Then there were the dolphins at The Mirage.  :)  I adore dolphins.  I mean.  How could you not?!

I want to swim with dolphins.  Maybe one day.  :)

The Mirage also has many other exotic animals.  Tigers, Alpacas, Lions, a panther and more!  So amazing to see these WHITE lions there.  Of course they also had white tigers there as well.  So baby tigers too.  So adorable.  Unfortunately all of the other animals besides the lions were too far away or behind something for me to get a picture.

And here is a ginormous bridge they are building over the Hoover Dam.  This bridge was just huge.  I can't even express the sheer bigness of it.

That's all for now!!

How is your week so far, my friends?

Dear Beach Part Deux

I still miss you so. ;)



Here are the rest of the pictures I took. Thanks for the love on my last batch of beach pictures, and it's good to know that many of you don't mind being assaulted by my many many photographs. ;) Feel free to leave me more love in the way of comments. How I love them so. ha! What? Just admitting to something you know you all love... comments... knowing who is reading. So, please do. ;)

No more words... just pictures. [remember... Angelina avoided me most of the time... I had my camera, and she just gets tired of me pointing it at her... she isn't in this post, which makes me sad. :( ]








[Mike's partner's youngest son. he is adorable! Heartbreaker #3]










Another one of Mike's partner's sons whom I might just say is going to be a total heartbreaker in high school! Heartbreaker #2



And yet another of their sons. He is going to be a heartbreaker as well. Maybe I should name these photos that. This is heartbreaker #1.



I think the girls are in trouble with these boys! ;)

Mike's partner...



And their only daughter... dad needs a gun!



more seaweed [yes, I know I said no more words. oops]









Zoe's footprints...















And this pelican was my model! I have never seen one so close before. He was waiting for me, I just know it. I know this because minutes after these were taken, I looked back and he was gone. ;)





I wrote this ole blog's title in the sand [maybe a new header soon?]



And then it was washed away...

P.S. I will be announcing what's going on for my shop's Birthday month next month on Sunday!! Stay tuned!!

Dear Beach,

How I miss you so.

We had SO much fun at the beach! I did not want to leave. The weather was simply AMAZING! I felt like I dropped into heaven. I was actually able to roll down my windows in the dead of summer. ;-)

Here are the pictures I took... get ready... you are about to be assaulted with pictures!

On the way to the beach, I had to stop and show my girls the windmills in California. I remember seeing them as a kid... I was mesmerized then. It was fun seeing them mesmerized as well.



Here is the house we stayed at... it was HUGE! Our room was facing the ocean... we cracked the sliding glass door each night so we could hear the waves crash.




Zoe LOVED the ocean! She wanted to stay in forever. Maybe she's a mermaid? ;-)



I didn't get a ton of pictures of Angelina, because she was a bit more leery of the water. Plus, she was having fun with Mike's partner's kids. :)





And dragging a gigantic monster piece of seaweed to shore...







And building sandcastles...





Then watched as the ocean demolished her creation...



She and Zoe lay on the shore together...



And then the water came to soak them...



And lastly she let the ocean touch and drench her jeans...



Meanwhile. Zoe didn't want to wait to put on her "babing soup". She dragged daddy right in...

















Then she decided to just gaze at her new found love with adoration...









And reflect on where this love has been all her almost 3 years of life...



She slept on it, and then the next day, she didn't care about where the love of her life [the ocean] was her whole almost 3 years of life. Instead, she had me put on her "babing soup" and decided to just Jump In!



And she got dirty...



And loved every single second of it! ;)


More tomorrow!










P.S. This is my 200th post!!!