12...

today is my girly's actual birthday day!

she is now officially 12!

mr. L ran to dunkin donuts for birthday breakfast.

per the birthday girl's request.

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just a couple of favorite things she

was gifted today.

unfortunantly, she caught my fetish for purses/bags...

ah hem...i mean "pocketbook"..

that's what it's referred to here in the south.

big brother got her a notebook and some colored gel pens

showing her godmother dulce and uncle joe

 her new converse shoes that

they sent via mail!

she wore them today and absolutely hearts them!

birthday dinner at  qdoba's mexican grill...

and having her favorite steak queso burrito...

birthday girl with her handsome dad

this last pic is for all of you...

 dear family and friends...

who sent birthday cards and gifts...

ya'll made her birthday very extra special!

today also marks the end of month 3, 

90 days out of 365 days done!

(flickr project365)

however, in all of the busyness this past week,

with family visiting, entertaining and my girly's birthday...

i completely forgot to take a picture of my monthly cupcake : (.

in celebrating month #3!

i think i will try and do that tomorrow...

it'll be one day late.

...linking this post to sweet shots @ darcy's place.

tradition...

tomorrow is miss girly's birthday!

we spraypainted the school spirit rock

here's how it turned out.

thankful that big sis picked out the colors and

big brother was around to help 

get it done!

on another note,  my guy interviewed for chick fil a

this afternoon.  now we just sit tight until he gets

a call back to let us know he's been hired

or to say "thanks, but no thanks".

our hope is the first and not the latter.

please continue to keep that in your prayers.

celebrating and goodbye's...

we celebrated my girly's birthday tonight with the family

visiting from california.

her actual birthday is on wednesday!

she chose to go to red robin's...

she loves burgers and fries!

the dinner wasn't only a celebration dinner but a farewell dinner as well.

grandma fly's back home to california

and the rest of the crew will be doing the drive up

to washington d.c. and they will be flying back to 

california from there.

with the arrival of uncle v and cousin a today.

we have a total of 13 peeps in the house!

whew!

sunday set in pictures...

our sunday in pictures...

we took the visiting family on a scenic tour

of the queen city aka charlotte.

it's quite late lovelee friends...

i am falling asleep at the keyboard...

i am going to cut this post short.

see you tomorrow.

a day with my girls...

while mr. L and my guy took the guests/family

on a little day trip to duke university and chapel hill,

the girls and i hung out at home in the a.m...

went to my girly's first basketball session,

headed to south park mall for a bit to browse,

and then i took the girls on a surprise 

manicure and i got a pedicure.

what a treat!

in a previous post i mentioned i'm not big on prettying my

nails but since both of my girls love 

pretty nails

it was a nice surprise for them.

miss bling picked turquoise...

my girly picked green...

and i picked a coral/orange color for my toes!

in the car we had the radio blasting...

we sang to the tunes...

and even danced while driving...

girls day ended with 

mocha freeze and chocolate/vanilla swirl yogurt.
a loveLee, simpLee, loveLee day
today with my two
beautiful girls!

family+food=good times

cousin H and auntie K flew in today all the way from 

"the city by the bay"

(san francisco)

into the

"Q.C"

(charlotte aka the queen city).

and with them they brought two bags of round flat fortune cookies...

2 dozen sponge cakes

some chinese pastries 

and all of which came from san francisco's chinatown.

can you believe that? they lugged all of this with them.

thankful that they did because these are hard to

come by in these parts.

they also brought some spices and noodles to make the

vietnamese noodle soup called pho.

which was on the menu for tonight's dinner.

enjoyed some time playing a german card game called legretto.

the girls made some chocolate chip cookies for dessert.

and we watched the movie "blind side" which i have waited to watch 

for like forever.  i don't like to pay theatre prices so i often wait for movies to come

out on dvd.  i've heard nothing but great things about it and so i bought the

movie at target the other day.  i'm glad i did and i have to say it is now

my favorite movie of all times.

i'm such a sucker for feel good movies...

i heart that's it's a true story.

and it truelee is extraordinary

and such an inspiration.

the evening ended with the girls camping out in the loft area.

they pitched a tent and managed to all squeeze in there.

sweet.