I love my little side job!!!!

As some of you may already know I have a little business. I am a Sunless Airbrush Technician. I do airbrush tanning. I love, love, love it. My sister and I started in Jan. of this year, so it's been almost 4 months. At first being the crazy person that I am wanting to control everything I was bummed that I wasn't busy. But in the last month and a half I have been pretty busy. It is so much fun. Not only have I had that opportunity to meet so many people, but it is so much fun. I love that I can be a stay at home mom and then work on the side. I usually make appointments for after 4:00pm and on Saturdays. And also being able to help financially is awesome. It's great! And being mobile I can give my clients the luxury to stay at home and I come to them. They love the fact they don't have to leave home, and most of my clients are moms so they can have there kiddos playing or sleeping in the other room. Being a stay at home mom I know how important it is to have the extra conveniences.

So if any of you fellow bloggers that live in the Inland Empire want to have a great looking tan or want to do a tanning party let me know. With the hot weather here (well almost) it's the perfect time to get a little color. I love my job!!!! Have a great weekend. * I attached a photo of myself after my tan> Just kidding I got the off of my tanning solution website to show you the great results. (hahaha I wish)

We are back and ready for some Hot Weather

We are in our final days of our Spring Break. My hubby and my son are off to school tomorrow. I can't believe they only have like 7 weeks of school left. I am so ready for summer. We have so much going on, and I love it. We have three weddings (including my little sister's)one in the Bay Area, one in Upland, and another in Vegas! I can't wait.

So we just got back from Arizona Tuesday, and it was great. We got to stay at my moms for 5 days. She loves to spoil us. Who doesn't love that? We even got to experience a little Arizona snow. So my camera is still out of service. It makes it so hard to blog with no photos. I hope to have my camera soon or a new one. I hope new, hahah. Have a great weekend.

Our treat after STROLLER STRIDES

As you know from future posts we love Stroller Strides. I love it so much because it gets me out of the house, I get a great workout, I get to talk to all my friends, the girls can play after class with there friends and once a week they make a craft. Here is Mia with two of her buddies. They love to hang out and be silly.

There they go running away. They really want yogurt. They are soooo cute.

After our hard workout we decided to take the girls out for yogurt. This place is awesome. It is a self serve yogurt shop. They have like 10 flavors to choose from. You get your yogurt, add topping ( I like the lime yogurt with fresh fruit) and then they weigh it. It's the best.

After having there treat the girls play outside. Ava even joins in. She's the little one on the left. Well, not to little. She's not even 2 and she's almost the same size. We all had such a great time. I can't wait until we do it again.

First Family Sea World Trip of 2009

Yep, we did it again. We got Sea World Passes for the whole family. You really can't beat the "buy a day, get a year free" deal. We live about 1 hour away from the park, so it's fun for us to go and get out. We love it. My camera is still not working so the pics are from past trips. We love to feed the Dolphins. I don't like the slimy fish. YUK!!!

And here is Shamu. This is still the kids favorite show. Every time they see it they act like it was there first time. So funny.

Here is dolphin stadium. The show is about to start!!!

We had a blast. We saw the polar bears, penguins, the pets rule show, sharks, star fish, sea turtles, whales, dolphins, and we even made over to the beer tasting for the adults. It was a great day. We can't wait to go back.

MY POOR CAMERA

So as you can tell by my post title something is wrong with my camera. It's doing weird things. Until then I will post with no pic's or old pic's.

I wanted to know how you all felt about t.v's in cars. I have heard so many bad things and good things. One mom made me feel horrible because I had one. Well, here is what I think "I LOVE IT". It keeps the kiddos busy on long trips, they can listen to there own music, and bottom line it keeps them calm. I would recommend every parent get one. Mine is awesome. What do you all think???

Our Sunday at Harveston

This is the beautiful community of Harveston. This is one of our favorite places to come play, exercise and just take a walk around the Lake. We have decided that this is going to be our future home one day. You know when the market turns around. I HOPE SOON!!! As you may already have seen in future posts we love this place. What's there not to love. Great parks all around, a lake to go fishing, a swimming pool, a water park, a sports park, preschool, elementary school, and so much more.

Here is Robert enjoying a few snacks after his work out. He has to get in shape for wrestling. Our View of the paddle boats from our lunch table.

Mia and Ava exploring around the park.

Ava loves to get dirty and pick up whatever she can find.

We had such a great time. I hope the weather is great again this coming weekend. I love our weekend family workouts. We all better be in shape this summer. I guess I better lay off the ice cream every night.

Bathtime fun

I'm back! I've been slacking on the blogging lately. With my Tanning business, Stroller Strides, the kiddos, sports, keeping the house up, and the daily chores I have been busy. I love it. I love to have things to do. I love to have a plan for each day. I feel like I get more done that way. So the girls got a special treat last night. I let them take a bath in my tub. I usually don't because they have there own bathroom and tub with all of there toys, and soaps over there. But they have been asking for days. They had a blast.

Ava looks so silly with all her hair around her face. The best part of taking them a bath at night was how fast they fell asleep. They were really relaxed and tired.

Yummy things and Neat kid things

Yesterday was full of yummy things and fun things. I had some bananas in my fruit basket that were pretty brown and I knew nobody would touch them. So I pulled out one of my favorite cook books Bettty Crocker and found a yummy recipe for Banana Bread. It was so good, it's just about gone. Yummy in my tummy. We also got a few packages in the mail. I sure love to get goodies in the mail. One of my friends from Stroller Strides had this cute toy for her daughter. It's a I spy bag. Similar to the books but in a little compact bag. It has a clear window and a list that is attached. It keeps the kids entertained just about anywhere. I love that I can take the list off and ask Mia to look for stuff for me. There are over 40 items to look for. Everthing from a birthday candle to a seashell. This is our new favorite toy. I found ours on ETSY. If you would like one the sellers shop name is: lostartdesigns.etsy.com

Our next thing we got in the mail makes my life easier and the girls love it. They are called snack-a-long bags. They are so cute. They are bags with a handle and are lined with a a easy to clean inside. Since I go to stroller Strides 3 times a week these bags are going to be great. I always take a cooler bag with me with a whole bunch of snacks for the girls. They always seem to fight over the bag. And then I came across these. They each can have a bag with there goodies in them. They are big enough for a drink and sandwich and small enough to fit anywhere. And when they get dirty I can throw them in the wash. Don't you love the prints? I also got this on ETSY and this sellers shop name is: mojacreations.etsy.com

Pretty neat, huh?? So if you haven't yet noticed I love ETSY. I wish I was crafty enough to have a shop on ETSY. Maybe one day.

Mommy's little helper

So as you all may have read in my past post's, Ava is some what of a trouble maker. Her new thing right now is to carry around her sisters stool that is for a vanity, and she climbs on everything. She uses it to get things on my kitchen island, to push buttons on the dvd player and turn off and on lights.

Here she trying to help with the dishes.

And now she is so happy she got up. I have no idea how she's staying on that little stool. So her fun lasted for a few hours, and now that cute princess stool is up high in the closet. Sorry Miss Ava.

By the way....

Um speaking of beans I had some yesterday and since I am breastfeeding the baby cried for an hour straight . No more beans for us .

A BEAN POEM

BEANS BEANS THE MUSICAL FRUIT...THE MORE YOU EAT THE MORE YOU TOOT....THE MORE YOU TOOT THE BETTER YOU FEEL....SO LETS HAVE BEANS FOR EVERY MEAL.
author (Barry Turner)

Back from Nebraska

Well we went on an unexpected trip to Nebraska. It was so great to see my husbands family. Aside from my sisters my 2 sister in law are my best friends. It is nice to have that. I hadnt seen them in years so it was great. We only stayed 2 days. It was a 22 hour drive there and then another 22 back. Mabey more. It felt like 100 hours because the girls had to keep getting out to pee every 5 minutes but we got through it. Not to mention my 3 month old baby . I hate to admit it but he was out of his carseat attatched to my boob most of the trip. I was paranoid the whole time. Forget the ticket but what if we had an accident? It was hard traveling with a baby so small and 2 little girls but well worth it.
The bad part is is that the girls have a cold and Lizzie has a terrible cough. Well I will post pics of our trip tommorow. I am very tired. We got home Wenesday and I havent stopped since. My house looks pretty clean but I have some organizing to do.

Hello friends and family

We had a great weekend. My hubby was off and we just got to hang out, go shopping and spend some time playing together. I do need some advice about POTTY TRAINING. Mia was just about trained when she was 2 1/2 years old. She was doing really great and then she slipped and her rear end fell in the toilet and she was so upset. She then wanted nothing to do with the potty. SO now we have been doing it everyday, we have a potty chart, a cute dora toilet seat cover and she is still kinda scared. I know I have to have patience with her but it seems like she takes one step forward and then one back. Do any of you fellow moms have any advice for me? Any tips?

Happy Love Day

This was pretty much our morning. The girls and Rob loved there goodies. Have a great day!! My Favorite Plant . It's been around for 7 years. I can't belive I have kept it alive this long.
The girls made these at Stroller Strides.
Our cards , we are loved.
Ava loves her stuff.
Mia has crazy hair.

Bronze Beauty

Some of you may know(and for those of you that don't) my sister and I have started a little side business. We are doing sunless airbrush tanning. It is so great. I have always loved tanning. Before I had my oldest daughter Mia I would love to go tan in a tanning bed on my lunch break from work. I loved the glow it gave me. But after years of reading how bad it is and meeting several people who have had skin cancer, I decided it's not worth it. And then about a year ago I was watching a new show on the E channel Sunset Tan. It really caught my eye, on one of the episodes the employee went to tan someone at there home for a special event. It took about 10min to setup and tan. It was great. We researched it, took a class, we have our machines and we are now tanning. I love the idea that we are mobile it gives moms just like us the flexibility to stay home, give us a quick call and in about 10min be tan for the summer, or a special event. I am so excited, in a couple of weeks I will be doing my Stroller Strides "Moms night Out". I will tanning the ladies and we will relax and have food and drinks. I can't wait. I wanted to make them a little goodie bag to take with them. I added a little thank you, some before and after instructions and some yummy body scrub. The body scrub is a sugar scrub. I have two different scents, Hawaiian coconut and Pineapple Orchid. I hope they love them. I hope to get some more ideas for my goodie bags to make them even cuter. What do you think of them?? Have a great Valentines day!! Spread the LOVE!-Vickie