The post this week is all about us Loring Girls. Just a few items of business to attend to...enjoy!
Suzy Homemaker
...is on vacation it seems. I must admit I have been so busy with work and relaxing and enjoying the nice weather lately that I just use all my extra play money to buy dinner for the family instead of making anything. It sure has been fun though :-) No pics for this section this time. Try again later please...lol!
Hair Update (Fun fun fun with Kanekelon)
I love Kanekelon hair. It's soft. It's manageable. It looks like really healthy blown-out natural hair. Yet best of all---it's cheap!!! Lol! I've tried my hand at crocheting it in and I really need to get better at not putting so much in that I look like Chaka Khan...lol! I have gotten pretty good at doing some ponytails and up do's with it though which is coming in right on time with this 90 degree weather here lately. The first pic was just a braided ponytail. Nothing special just a long braided ponytail. It would look so much better if I wasn't having to do it myself. I could probably make it look so bomb on someone else's head...but oh well...practice will just have to make perfect. The second style was inspired by a faux-hawk I saw on YouTube. I modified it a little to fit my taste and I really like it! I'm wearing it as I type this post and I've received soooo many compliments on it :-) It's super easy too. I did the style on blown out and flat ironed hair and had to moisturize my hair what seemed to be too much to get it to match well with the Kanekelon. However, that's part of what makes it such a good protective style. At night I just wrap a silk scarf around my edges and cover my head with a satin bonnet and when I get up the next morning I spritz a little oil on my edges and I'm good to go! Lovin' it!
Family Portraits
Uh oh...guess I lied. I see a boy one one of these pics...lol! Just wanted to be sure to include the family photos we took at church on Mother's Day now that I have them. Oh to think that one day all the girls will be old enough to all look at the camera and smile at the same time....
Impromptu Girls' Day Out
One of the joys that come along with having a small child (and probably a child at all) is having to buy all new clothes each season because they've outgrown the ones from the year before. So, although I shopped heavily in Branson for summer and fall stuff somehow I did not shop heavily enough when it came to sandals and shorts so Brook and I had to do a little sandal and shorts shopping this weekend. Still got good deals though...y'all know I won't have it any other way!! Brooklyn asks for flip flops every year and every year I foolishly buy them and get them home and she's too uncomfortable with the strap in between her toes to wear them. So this year, I finally was smart enough to make her wear the flip flops while we shopped in the store and since I heard no complaints we finally are wearing flip flops this summer! Guess it put her and I both in the shopping mood because we hit up Payless for sandals galore for her after that as you can see in the pic below.
All that shopping left us both pretty hungry so we stopped and had a little dinner in the mall before we headed home :-)
A Bittersweet Night
This past weekend this girl got out and about...what???!!! I know...it rarely occurs these days but it did. It was bitter because it was to celebrate a new job a friend is taking that's requiring her to move away. While I'm mentioning that special shout out and congrats to Dr. Yolanda Page and her new endeavor becoming the VP of Academic Affairs at Dillard University in New Orleans, LA. She's always followed my babysites and blog posts and when Brooklyn was younger she was always full of advice and funny stories as she has a little one not too much older than Brooklyn named Brooke coincidentally. Although she'll be missed, I'm so happy for her! She's the one seated in the pic below with the tan jacket on.
No that's not her in the one on one pic you see below either...lol! That's my crazy friend Michelle. This few sentences is my test for Michelle to see if she really reads my blog. I'll let y'all know by the next post if she passes...lol!
Brooklyn's Buddy
Now isn't this just the sweetest little pic. For her time over at her BFF's this past weekend the girls went "swimming". She's creating such fun memories :-)
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