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What's Going On Lily Sue?!

LiLo (Lily Sue) and I!!

Hey ya'll it's a blessing to be back to share another post with you guys.  So after getting lunch, dinner and dessert started for the family I decided to look back on the past couple months of blog entries just to see what I may have missed writing to ya'll about.  And to my amazement I realized that I completely forgot to write about our Lily Sue, so here's the low down on our beautiful girl.

For the longest time my husband and I have talked about getting a dog of our own but just didn't have the money or space to make that kind of commitment.  Early last year my husband and I found out that my mom had become extremely ill and after a year long battle my mommy went up to be with Jesus.  Her passing completely BROKE us all  because we were all extremely close for so long and all our kids, excluding our youngest, had grown up living with her all their lives so her passing was a huge hit to us all.  My mom was the best mom that I could ever ask for and with her being gone it's like there's a huge piece of me gone that I will not get back again until we see each other again.  She was my best friend and my mom at the same time all throughout my life and the ache of missing her will never cease to exist.

Let me move on before I start crying..Alright so after we got back home from laying mommy to rest, we all decided that we needed an extra dose of LIFE in our lives so we decided to bring a puppy home.  It didn't take very long to figure out what kind of dog we wanted so we went searching online, found Lilo (Lily Sue) and brought her home not long after.  She's seriously brought so much mischief and joy into our home that I could not see our family complete without her here with us.

LiLo's first day home :-) She had just turned 8 weeks old.

Plenty of thoughts raced through my mind of all the judgements that we would probably get due to us bringing her into our lives, but that didn't matter to me because I knew that we had made the right choice.  LiLo today is a huge lap dog, if we allow her to be, and all she wants to do is play and relax with her humans.  

LiLo getting attacked by my toilet paper.  Can you tell by her eyes that she KNOWS that she's in trouble? :-D

All in all over these last 4 going on 5 months she's proven to me to be the best dog that I've ever had and I wouldn't replace my sissy dog for the world!  Yes we call her sissy dog at times but there's a reason for that  :-) I'll do my best to keep ya'll updated on how she's doing because I really did mean to write about her by now and I might even do a couple of dog product reviews here as well so keep a look out for that!  Be blessed ya'll!!

Lilo at 9 weeks taking over MY comforter, so we now have to get another one.  Silly goose.

MY 4C NATURAL HAIR JOURNEY UPDATE!!

Wow I can't believe that's it's really been a little over three years since I restarted my hair journey.  Well either two or three.  Anyways good afternoon readers!!  I don't want to make this blog to long but I just wanted to share a few before and after photos of my hair from the last two to three years.

This is a picture of me attempting my first high puff a year or two ago.

 These two pictures are from today:-)

Now a lot has happened between now and then but the lessons that I've learned have helped me to retain the length and denseness that I have today.  The two top things that I practice with my hair is to 1) keep  my hair regiment simple and 2) to embrace the magical awesomeness of protective styling.  Honestly if I could wear my hair out like this everyday I totally would because I love how my hair looks and feels when it's out but I know that if I were to constantly wear my hair out in this style, or something similar,  I know that my hair wouldn't retain it's length like I would want it to.

I won't be doing a length check for a while because I want to build the anticipation up for myself for when I finally do, and I'm just trying to focus more so on the health and density of my hair more so than just the length.  So with all that said I will go ahead and sign off here because I didn't want to write this much because I have a blanket to finish up.  What's your favorite hair tool to use on your hair?  I LOVE my Eden Body Works Curl Enhancing Creme :-)

BE BLESSED!!

Protecting My Natural Hair In Style!!!

Good morning!  It's been a little while since I've updated my blog on how my hair is doing and what I've been doing to it so here's an update!!

I've been natural for almost ten years now and trying to find new and exciting styles to try without using heat has been my number one goal for some time now.  Due to it being super duper hot outside at the moment hair units and head wraps, for the most part, are out of the question so I've been working on keeping my hair out more often.

This isn't a tutorial but a show and tell of how I turned this

 very dry and dull looking hair

 into a stylish and very moisturized work of art!

To get the results that I got a stretched out freshly washed and conditioned hair over a weeks time that way I wouldn't have to worry about using a blow dryer.  I still could have done this on freshly washed hair without stretching my hair over time but I wouldn't have gotten as much volume.

Once I was ready I prepped my hair the night before by sectioning my hair in 6 sections and did the LOC method with water, Blue Magic and Eden Body Works Curl Definition Creme on each section individually.  I then twisted all six of my sections and light stretched them a little bit and secured the twists with bobby pins so that my twists would remain secure over night.

On the next morning I took apart each section, lightly sprayed my hair with water,  and picked out my roots with a pick to help elongate my hair and bring more volume to my hair.  I then took a brush and lightly brushed each section so that those sections would have a nice finished look then I rolled and pinned those sections.

 I've learned to do this over time and it doesn't matter, at least for me, how my parts are but my roll and tucking need to be as neat as possible.  Now I don't do this style every day because I don't like putting too much stress on my hair all too often, so this is a fun weekend style I love to have fun with.

Well that's all the update I have for now on my hair so hopefully I'll be back to write a product review for ya'll since recording has become difficult due to my lovely kiddos keeping me busy:-)

If you've done a roll tuck and pin hair style share your results!!

Be Blessed!

BABY BOY'S KNITTED SAMPLER AFGHAN !!!!

Good afternoon!  I wanted to write a quick entry to give ya'll a glimpse of what my progress on my sons' Christmas gift is coming along.  I really haven't seen anyone do a sampler for a baby so I wanted to try one for my own.  I currently have 8 squares and I'm working on my ninth.

All of these stitches are from the Leisure Arts 99 Knit Stitches pattern book so if you haven't checked that book out , then you might want to do so because there's a lot of different patterns to look at.

Well motherhood is calling so I must be off.  Be blessed!!

WHY I STOPPED HIDING MY NATURAL HAIR!!!

CHICKEN FRIED RICE! HOMEMADE STYLE!!!!

This is the dish I made at home, I add a dash of oyster sauce to give it a little something extra but if you do add this just add a pinch because the flavor is very strong.

Good morning ya'll!!  I've been meaning to share this yummy dish that I found on Pinterest with you for a couple of weeks now so please forgive me for being late.  If you're looking for a yummy Asian inspired dish that you want to try at home then look no further for a simply easy recipe to try!!

Here's the link! http://rachelschultz.com/2012/07/14/better-than-takeout-chicken-fried-rice/