A Sweet message to all Women from the First Lady...

Dear Friend,
There's no way I could ever measure all that my own mother has done for me. She is my rock. She pushes me to be the best professional, mother, wife and friend I can be.
As a mother myself, I've come to realize that being a mom isn't always easy and that no one can do it alone.
My husband understands the many challenges facing today's mothers and their families. His Administration has taken steps to level the playing field and ease the burden.
The first bill the President signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to ensure that no women face the same discrimination and injustices that Lilly did after 20 years on the job. When women make less money than men for the same work, families have to work harder just to get by.
The President signed an Executive Order creating the first-ever White House Council on Women and Girls to ensure that all Federal agencies take women and girls into account in their daily work and to ensure that our daughters have the same opportunities as our sons.
Through the Let's Move! Initiative and the President's Task Force on Childhood Obesity, we're helping to provide parents with the knowledge and tools they need to make healthy choices for their children and teach their children to make healthy choices for themselves.
This week, we are celebrating Women's Health Week to promote steps women and girls can take to lead longer, healthier and happier lives.
Mother's Day is about showing our gratitude for the mothers and mother figures who have influenced our lives. The President and I would like to extend our warmest Mother's Day wishes to all of the mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters and friends who have inspired a child.
Happy Mother's Day!
Michelle Obama

Father Daughter Dance ;)

Giving you a little info about a future post, my computer finally died and is unfortunately holding ALL of my pictures HOSTAGE!!!!

I never saved a single picture anywhere else, and now I am paying for it :(

I wanted to show you all of the pictures that the girls, and their Daddy took of the night.  I did however manage to save a few to my photobucket account, because I was in the process of making a slide show, thank goodness for those moments when I had absolutely nothing to do, lol.

Well I am going to do my post, lol, and we will pretend that these are ALL of the pictures I have of the night, because I want my old computer to know that I am not sitting down waiting for her to let me off of the hook ( let me off the hook? yes, i told you I would tell you the story soon, lol)

So on February, my "little" girls were given a surprise by Mommy, one that I had secretly conned Daddy into  muahahahaa lol

see, in 11 years that Daddy has been in the Military, he has never taken Mommy to a Navy Ball, or had ANY pictures with the Family in his uniform, none of my begging has worked either, SO I decided that I was not going to let this pattern continue.

My Daughters are SUPER proud of their Daddy, the fact that he is in the Navy is so "cool" to them ;)  Like their Mommy, they too have begged for pictures with Daddy in uniform and have lost the battles, lol.  

Let's get one thing straight, this 5'3" shy blogger lets a lot of things slide, but when I become determined about something, it happens ;)

Thinking about the fact that we will be moving from California soon, I thought that it would be great for the girls to finally get to go to the Father/Daughter dance escorted by a "Sailor" (giggles)

I asked hubby if he could buy the tickets for the dance, but to keep it from the girls because I wanted to surprise them, after a lot of "mummbing" he agreed, I decided not to tellhim that it was MANDATORY Uniform attire for the evening ;)  I know, I'm bad, lol.

He took one day off of work and we went and bought the girls their dresses, keep in mind it's still a surprise to them.  A week before the dance, I asked hubby if he had his uniform ready

Daddy= "I'm not wearing a uniform are you crazy? I'll find something to wear"

me= "umm, hun, it's formal service member attire"

Daddy= "like a suit?"

me= "no, like "dress blues" (dress blues is the name for the Navy formal uniform)

daddy= "what!!!?? you didn't tell me that, I would have said no"

me= "you bought the tickets, didn't you read the writing on the bottom? it says "Navy= Dress Blues"

daddy= "man, if I read that I wouldn't have said yes"

me= "oh, I thought you knew"

muahahahaaa I know, I'm a bad girl, lol.  I am ok with me going without the memory of my hubby in his uniform, but if it's something that my daughters will treasure, I will make sure it happens, lol.

Daddy got his uniform ready, and the day of the dance I surprised the girls and told them they were going out with daddy, they would find out where too, once they got there.  When they saw their dresses and Daddy in his uniform, they were SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!

When it was over, daddy and the girls stopped at the grocery store and bought different treats to go into home made sundaes, "Daddy's idea of a perfect ending to a perfect night ;)

Ta-Dahhhh, here are the pictures.....................

Here are the girls in our extremely "un-mowed lawn" lol, think of it as a "forest setting" ;)



Here they are with Daddy


Party-pause for "cheese"


Dancing just like Daddy ;)


Kiera with her "1 bring home item" she conned daddy lol



Lily always being Lily, lol


AaAaaaAaawWwwwwwww...


I hope you enjoyed being part of this memory ;)
 
Disclaimer, none of daddy's feelings were harmed in the plotting of this event, at the end of it, he admitted being happy he did this ;)

crazy times making costumes

so this is my 4pm to 1am craft run. note that this is the first time i ever sewed in my life, lol, so my fingers were not that fast, lol.


this was the garland i bought.

then i de-flowered it lol.

then i had to sew the garland to the belt


yay i finished sweing the belt

then i started gluing a million flowers at a time, lol

look at my wonderful sewing pattern, lol lol


next step was making the head pieces

done and starting on the coconut bras

next came making the garland necklaces


after so many "owww's!!' and "omgg!!!!!!!!!' lol i finished making 2 of everything. at 1am i finally finished and went straight to bed.

it was so worth it when i saw the finished product

i hate crowds!!!

i HAd to leave my house yesterday to get food and things i needed to finish the girls costumes for their dance recitals, i hated it.

i just dont have anymore what it takes to be out right now, i was trying so hard to not have an anxiety atttack in the middle of walmart.

on a better n ote, today i finally got everything i need and for the first time in my life i am about to sew, lol.

i have to sew the garland to a belt and a bunch of other things, lol, my daughters are in a hawaiian/polynesian dance class and on Weds. they are having their Christmas show.

i will definetly post pictures of the costumes comming along, lol, or comming undone, lol.

i havent posted in the last couple of days because i had a migraine attack and i was just out of it. i did post about contests and i won one ;)

a $50 dllr off gift card of a $100 dllr purchase. i am happy!!!!!