I Miss Her Everyday

She was selfless, kind, passionate, loving, creative and warm.

But above all, she was my mother and my friend.

Today, on her birthday, I think of her with nothing but love and wonderful memories. I miss her everyday.


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RIP Mom

November 10, 1949 - October 15, 2007

I'm Back....

It's been awhile, I know. I just haven't been in the mood lately to write consistently.

But I did warn you a long time ago that I wasn't going to blog as often anymore. I wasn't going to post again until something interesting or rather exciting happened in my life. Well, honestly, I would never call myself boring and potentially cool things commonly happen to me a few times a week but sitting down to write about them and publicize them almost makes them seem less important, less valuable to me. Does that make sense? Do other bloggers go through this too?

So instead of even attempting to catch you up on all the awesome things I've been doing, I decided to use photobucket (Thanks Tonya for all your help) to create a collage of some of my favorite pictures over the past few months.

Enjoy!

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Pin-Ups For Vets Teaser Pics

Here's a fun slideshow of some teaser pics from the 2012 Pin-Ups for Vets Calendar shoot last week:

Wordless Wednesdays/Picture Recap!

Two Saturdays ago, my roommate Swati and I went downtown to the Conga Room to see the French R&B Duo, Les Nubians perform. While they sing mainly in French, anyone can enjoy their relaxing music.




Here are my favorite pictures from my trip to Hawaii with my roommate Gina!






Oh and I got an iphone last week!!!!! Yay!!!!! It's awesome!!

Cupcakes Make Me Happy

I saw this amazing display of cupcakes the other day at a grocery store and I just had to take a picture of these adorable little guys. They are almost too cute and pretty to eat!

Cupcakes will always make me happy. I'm glad that I live here in LA where delicious cupcake shops are all over the places. I'll go ahead and plug Sprinkles, Crumbs, Frosted and Susie Cakes right now in the hopes of getting free cupcakes one day! : )

This post is for Wordless Wednesdays. Thanks to Alicia over at Project Alicia for keeping this meme going!

Here's What's Been Happening. . .

I'm sorry I've been so M.I.A from my blog lately. I've been busy and haven't been super inspired to post anything.

I went to Phoenix over the weekend and had an absolutely amazing time! I attended a very good friend's baby shower, a song-titled themed party and several fun lunches and dinner with old friends.

Here's a little taste of what's been happening since my post last week:









Last Monday my sister invited me to go to Disneyland with her and some of our family. Despite it being super hot, we had a really good time. I definitely love Disneyland and need to go again soon. We even got on about 6 different rides! My nephew Lucas loved it and enjoyed meeting a few characters. I loved getting a picture with Minnie!

Time with Lucas

Last weekend I had the pleasure of spending a lot of one on one time with my nephew, Lucas. We had so much fun and I was delighted to be able to spend so much time together. We went to a nearby park, ran around the backyard, played with his trains, sang songs, read plenty of books and a whole lot more.

Here are a few fun pictures that I snapped with my phone:

Wordless Wednesdays

So, I've been pretty busy lately doing all kinds of different things and have taken some fun pictures so here's what I've been up to......

The roomies and some other friends and I spent a few glorious hours at the beach on Sunday afternoon. It was beautiful and sunny for awhile and then....


it got dark and kind of eerie looking so we put on our clothes and played games at the beach instead! Hey, at least we stuck around!

Valentines Day Wine & Dessert party with my roomies!


Me with the Valentines Day hostess with the mostess, Corinne!


My roommate Swati and I at a friend's pub crawl.


My roommate Gina and friend Jennahway and I at a Pin-Up Pageant show!

This was my favorite dress of the show. I just love polka dots!


On Saturday I ran a 20 mile training run!! Woo hoo!! It went really well and I can honestly say that I think I'm ready for the Full Marathon next month! Wow, I can't believe I just said those words!

Wordless Wednesdays

As I was on a walk yesterday afternoon with the little boy Jake that I nanny for every once in a while, we came across an amazing tree with these beautiful pink flowers. Sadly, I know very little about flowers so I'm not sure what these flowers were called. Got any ideas? This photo was taken with my phone so it's not the best quality so hopefully, someone can discern what kind of a flower they are.


This post is for Wordless Wednesdays. I heard about this posting idea from my sister and she learned about it through Alicia at A Beautiful Mess. Her blog is full of beautiful photos so be sure to check it out.

The Calendar Release Party Recap!

Wow, what an amazing night the Pin-Ups for Vets 2011 Calendar Release Party was on Tuesday! Check out the professional short film that the videographer for the event made on youtube. We all very impressed with the video and it definitely captures the retro mood of the night.

Sadly the pictures below are the only ones that I have so far from the event and just about all of them I took with my own camera in my bedroom after the event was over. I wanted to capture my look and I wasn't sure how many pictures I was in from the official event photographers.

I absolutely loved my hair and makeup and must give major props to Ana and her fabulous makeup artist and sister, Linette of Classic Glamour Dolls. They also can be found on their facebook page. They are both true artists! I wish that they could do my hair and makeup everyday! For just one day, it was fun to feel what it would be like to have my hair and makeup team with me. : )

31 Day Photo Challenge-Day 29

31 Day Photo Challenge- Day 29: Post a picture that can always make you smile.

I'm ALWAYS taking pictures of people and things that make me smile. Here are a few: