Life as we know it...

Is changing.

In beautiful, magical, amazing ways....

I have a 1 year old... no really, he is ONE!

A whole year has passed since this crazy adventure started! It has been the best year of my life! The party went so perfectly and Landon seriously raked in the goodies. Our house looks like a toy story exploded in it! We had such a great afternoon with all the people we love the most. I wish I could capture the energy and love from his party and have it every single day. That's the way people should live... constantly surrounded by the people who love them the most.

Speaking of love...

Im so very happy, for me and for Landon. We have found someone so truly wonderful. Not just someone who is there, someone who is THERE. A partner, a best friend, a playmate for Landon, a helper, a support system. Someone who cares, and gives, and loves us with no judgement. We are so very blessed to have him in our lives.

I am so very happy.

With love,
Leia & Landon

"ain't nobody fresh as me"

Fresh.

If asked to describe my life @ the moment in one word, I would choose FRESH.

No, not "I just got out of the shower" fresh, just.... fresh.

How do I explain that...?

I'm HAPPY.

Do I sound crazy yet?! Yes.

I just feel like new things are coming at me from all different directions and it's putting new life in me. I feel like for so long I was so down and finally some things and someone is breathing fresh air into my lungs. I got my car back, I started my cupcake business, I got a new job, I'm about to have one year old (a walking one year old, ahhhhh), I "met" a new... friend (:

I feel like it's finally.... my time.

I feel like the possibilities are becoming quite endless, I feel good, I feel optimistic, I feel solid, I feel like a giddy little school girl (did i just type that?!), I feel silly, I feel like... dancing! haha!

With Love,
Just Silly Leia.

fail.

So it's been a little over a month and a half since I blogged, I'm failing at this... I'm aware.

In my defense.... SOOOO much has happened. I honestly don't even have the energy (read: patience) to type out everything that has happened. So I will just hit the highlights and leave the rest to the imagination (:

First off, I have finally done something about my cupcake obsession!

(I'm so OFFICIAL!)

&& here are a few cupcakes to spark your interest...

So check out Babicakes HERE.

Landon has been thoroughly enjoying his first summer. He loves to be outside, and I love that he loves that! I got him the cutest lion swimming pool, it has a little fountain and everything, he loves to splash around.

We also took a trip to Toys R Us which i kinda thought would be over his head, and quickly reminded me not to underestimate my little guy. He LOVED it! He really loved sitting in all the big cars and looking at anything that made noise or lit up. I always remember going to Toys R Us with my family when we were younger and Blaine and I would play with anything we could, climb into the forts and houses, pull the bikes down and ride them around. So this trip to the toy store was a little nostalgic for mommy and a lotta fun for both of us (:

My best friend Rachel moved to Corpus and I can officially say the only good thing about losing your best friend to the beach is having a free place to stay at the beach! I got to have a mommy trip and go visit her the weekend of the 4th. It was some much needed mommy time but I certainly missed my little guy. I cannot wait to take him down there, he is going to LOVE it! Splashing around in the water and digging in the sand are going to be right up his alley.

I am now planning a 1st birthday... WHAT!

I will be honest, I am planning, designing invites, picking cupcake flavors, buying monkey themed party supplies, shopping for birthday presents... and I really dont think it has REALLY hit me yet. I have this super embarrassing thought that I might cry at his party, so if your coming and I do start crying, just ignore the tears and act like everything is okay while I pull myself together (haha)

Check out this ADORABLE almost 1 yr old!

With Love,

Leia & Landon

so many ER's, so little time!

I'm really hoping I have maxed out my emergency room visits for the year...

The first was last Saturday (5/21/11). HORRIBLE night, Landon woke up at 10pm screaming and would have no part of sleeping for the rest of the night. He was totally inconsolable. All he did all night was go back and forth between screaming and whining, broke my heart. BUT on top of that I broke out in a high fever, & when I get really high fever I get very disoriented and almost delusional... So here i am all night trying to cuddle him and console him while i'm feeling horrible myself. It was the longest 6 hrs of my life. Debbi (Landon's grandma) came in @ 4 and took him while I tried to get a few hrs of sleep. Around 8 I decided we both needed to see a Doctor so off we went to the ER. I think i'm usually a pretty patient person, but waiting around for 2 1/2 hrs with a fussy baby when you feel like death is something I honestly wouldn't wish on my worst enemy! There were a few weak moments that had me fantasizing about punching a doctor or yelling at a nurse... again, fever makes me a little crazy! haha (:

Anyways, we both can home w/ amoxicillan and orders to rest and keep our fevers down. I quickly decided that I would only allow myself to be sick one day and that Sunday I would have to feel better or fake it, single mothers don't get the "luxury" of being sick.

That following Thursday (5/26/11) Landon broke out in a really high fever and had these red dots covering his whole body. He had seemed to be getting better the days before this so I freaked out and back to the ER we went. We waited 3 hrs for them to come in, look at him for 2 min. and tell us it was just a side effect of the fever... my first reaction was annoyance that we had just sat there for 3 hrs for THAT, but then I quickly realized how grateful I should be that it was nothing. I felt so bad for my poor baby, this was his first time EVER being sick and he really got hit hard.

Saturday was Rachel's going away party... sadness. But I made some delicious cupcakes (:

In the making: best strawberry cupcakes you'll ever eat... true story.

chocolate LOVE.

After dinner (and cupcakes), Rachel & I decided to go out to our friend Clat's for a water balloon fight. It seemed only fitting... 5 years ago Rachel & I met at a water balloon fight at Clat's, so it just seemed right to send her off that way.

Epic Fail, and so came my 3rd ER visit of the week...

Rachel was running through a dark backyard and fell in a hole, twisting her ankle BAD. It got so huge so fast! I have never even seen anything like that... pretty scary. Off to the ER we went ):

Well, thats the story of all my emergency room adventures! I really think I should have gotten like a frequent visitor wheelchair ride or something...

Here is Landon LOVING mommy's cupcakes (:

With Love,

Leia & Landon

mothers day, cupcakes, & a 9 mo. check-up

This year was my first mothers day! Technically it was last year, but this year I got to cuddle and love on my little man rather than get a swift kick in the bladder for mothers day. It was just another day but it really made me reflect back on this beautiful little journey of motherhood i'm taking. I am SO blessed.

My mothers day present to myself was an ADORABLE necklace from Say What Creations. Add her facebook (Say What Creations) or check out her Etsy here (Say What Creations). Landon helped out with the laundry...

What a sweet boy, haha (:

Right now we are back @ Debbi's for awhile, my best friend Rachel is moving so we are staying here so we can spend more time with her before she leaves ):

I really do have the 2 best friends in the WHOLE world (:

So while we are here, we are getting into all sorts of shenanigans w/ Aunt Rachel! We've made cupcakes, Landon has had his first REAL slice of pizza (loved it), & he ALMOST talked Aunt Rachel into letting him drive us home... almost.

Today was Landon's 9 month check-up, & he is still recovering from his first ear infection so he was kinda cranky. They had to clear some excess wax out of his sore ear (yikes) and draw blood for some standard blood tests. He was NOT a happy camper. They put a little penguin band-aide on this finger and he TOTALLY turned on his paci. He wanted nothing to do with it, the only thing he wanted in his mouth was that finger! Right now he weighs 18lbs 14oz (25th percentile) and he is 28 1/2inches (50th percentile), which is right about where he's been growing at all along! She said his teeth should be popping out any day... uh ya, i thought they were coming out 2 months ago!

I REALLY can't believe I have a 9 month old... wasn't I typing this same thing, sub the 9's for 8's, like uh, yesterday?

Mommy is tired, goodnight!

With Love,
Leia & Landon

intermission

Im right in the middle of writing my Mothers Day blog and have been for a few days. I keep getting busy so I save it and come back...

Anyways, i just had to pop in here real quick and share a little somethin'

Blogging Mommys, GET READY....

Thats all (:

With Love,
Leia & Landon

Love & Lemons

It's been over a week since our last update, but we've been very busy...

The beginning of last week consisted of me making jewelry night and day since I let this last month slip past me and had almost no inventory for Canton First Monday Trade Days. So I stayed pretty busy, Landon was so good and played very independently so that mommy could get her work done. I know I say it all the time but I am SO blessed to have such an easy going child, He truly is the light of my life. He stayed busy trying to help me, and going to the park with Papaw.

"helping" mommy:

@ the park w/ Papaw:

We had an ok weekend in Canton, we didn't sell as much as we wanted and we had a couple scary/crazy experiences that I will not relive here, lol. But i will say that we moved into a better location & we LOVE our new booth!

The best thing about this trip to Canton was we split the weekend in half, so I only had to be away from Landon for 2 days instead of the full 4. That made it so much easier! The saturday after Canton we went back to Salado w/ Rachel & Daniel (last minute trip) and ate @ the mongolian grill again, its kind of like a tradition now, haha. Landon tried a lemon for the first time... LOVED IT! He's such a cutie (:

With Love,
Leia & Landon