Girls night in

Last Friday I did a girls night in with my daughters and two neices. We enjoyed pizza, a movie and manicures an pedicures compliments of me. I let them pick their own designs for toes and fingers, they had so much fun. I was so tired by the time we were finished that I did not take pics til the next morning and my neices were already gone.

4th of July fun

Fourth of July has come and gone and unfortunately school will be here soon (crying inside), as much as I can't wait to get a paycheck, I really don't want to go back to the school: that's another story though.

Here are a few pics from Lake Blora in Killeen, TX where we visited my mom. We had so much fun on the waterslide and paddle boating, after 4 hours we finally left. Enjoy!

So Much To Say So Little Time

1. I have officially started couponing, I wish I would have started this a long time ago, now it is really necessary.  I take my lunch to work faithfully everyday, school cafeteria ain't always great, my big girl takes her lunch everyday except taco day cause she does not like the food at all.  Now that my baby girl is going to kindergarten (finally) she will taking her lunch and she likes to eat so I need to make sure she gets enough to make it through the day.  Not to mention my hubby who needs food...I could go on and on about food but you get the point.
So yesterday I got my coupons and hit the street trying out my new found love.  I started at 10:00 am getting my couponing on, first was CVS for my BOGO  box of cereal and Old El Paso Tortilla Stuffers that was for dinner tonight and quite good.  They were on sale for $1.99 and I had a $1 off coupons so I grabbed a few of those. My Baby Girl enjoyed two tortillas.

Next was Walgreens and then Dollar General with the coupons cause they both had some awesome deals too. Okay so now it is 11:30am and I am headed back home to get my list together and the rest of my coupons and print some more and then head off to Kroger's...to make a long story short I spent most of my day shopping for the home finally finishing by 4:30. It wouldn't have taken so long it I would not have been searching the web for more coupons, next time I will make sure to have all this ready before hand, I am learning, regardless I did really well yesterday. If the people on TLC can do it I know I can.
Truthfully, we spend $130 every one and a half to two weeks and that is only on food, if I include household necessities that price would be more so as you can see I need to do something and fast.  Surely as time goes by I will get better and better, wish me luck.

2. I finally had the chance to wash hair, I know I just washed Saturday but last night I noticed my hair was feeling a little uuugghhh.  So guess what I dd? I whipped out the As I Am  Coconut Cowash and got to work.  I washed my hair in the twists that were already in and just retwisted afterwards using the Kimmay leave in (sorry ya'll, that stuff is just great in my hair and leaves it super soft).

On to the Cowash:  I love the cowash and the smell of it.  The texture was like any normal conditioner but the smell was amazing, not flowery but more fruity, delicious.  After rinsing my hair was so soft and still so very moisturized I was very surprised, I have to say I liked it better than my Tresemme Naturals which is the only conditioner I have been using for a while, I was really sad that the sample was all gone :(. My hair responded well to this product, definitely something that I would will be buying in the near futere, like when school starts back and I get a paycheck...
If I had 5 thumbs I would give that many thumbs up for this first time use.
Has anybody else had amazing results with this product?

My Sisters New Do

A few days ago I told you guys about my sister who I cut/combed her locs out (my wrist is bandaged due to all that stress), so she calls me the other day and tells me she is going to get a brazillian blow out cause she just can't deal with her hair.
Well yes she did it, she came by Thursday with a style she I haven't seen her in for a while, but I think it was a nice change for her. We were so tickled pink...especially when I told her I can smell her hair ;)- . Would she do it agai? Don't know, guess we will see.

There Is No Place Like Home

Just getting back from Las Vegas yesterday, I am jet lagged, and still going off the adrenaline rush of such a busy city.  I had sooo much fun though.  As the man said: it is definitely the city that never sleeps!  My legs are tired from all the walking I did, good thing it is Spring Break here so no work for the rest of the week. One thing though, I did come back with a severe sore throat and a touch of laryngitis, I am sure it was from all the cigarette smoke in all those doggone casinos.  That's right my voice is gone for the second time in the past 2 and a half months, what's up with that?  So...I just had to post a picture of what a beautiful natural in Las Vegas looks like, that's right I rocked my hair in a twist out for the past four days and was loving it. One funny thing, it was so windy on Saturday that my hair was moving in the high winds, LOL!  And yes I got plenty a looks at my big hair, I am sure it was just sheer admiration.
 First: a picture of me on front of New York New York hotel.
Second: me in front of The Forum Shops of Caesars Palace (can you say Gucci)
Third: a picture of my sister and me at her beautiful vegas wedding with her beautiful Locs.

Also, I had a video I was working on before I left but did not get a chance to finishe it, so I will surely have it available to view by this evening.