Last night I saw a divine concert from MY FAVORITE AGGIE. That seems like an oxymoron to say “favorite aggie” but it’s true He is simply a wonderful, humble, disgustingly talented performer and artist. If you have never had the pleasure to see him live, do yourself a favor and catch him when he’s back in town next time. I promise you’ll be so glad you did.

Can you imagine losing this? I cannot. Give your babies extra big snuggles and kisses today. Have a little extra patience and LAUGH. That’s what I’ll be working on this afternoon

Last thing, as Lyle would say…”dance right where you are.”

Well. Ahem. Seems so much has happened since last I wrote. Here’s the deal. Lily’s birthday was a pretty rotten day. She threw the kind of tantrum where she ripped my shirt while screaming at the top of her little lungs for what seemed like forever. To add to her emotional meltdowns (which have skyrocketed in the last month or so) we’re in the midst of potty training and I am stumped. Gently guide her, forcefully guide her (I know this is a no-no, but man it’s hard not to), or give up? PLUS, Sweet Natalie fell off my bed on this same rotten day while I’m trying to work in between naps. So basically I was feeling like a Grade A failure for so many reasons. So so many reasons. I’m generally in a bad mood all the time. I’m trying to juggle everything (like all of you) yet I seem to have such a short fuse these days. So, I’ve decided to REALLY, really let things go.  I always try to remind myself how very lucky I am for so many incredible reasons. Not the least of which is my amazing Lily. Challenging, stubborn, emotional, observant, smart, strong-willed, still such a baby, Lily. Here are some of her on her big day (that got better by the end.) I’m blaming the quality of these pics (not good!) on the fact that “it was a bad, bad day.”

Her favorite part of any day. Cake. Chocolate, please.

This is how her attitude was for most of the day. Only multiply it by 40 bajillion.

Maybe my favorite picture ever of her below… 

The happy fam. Do I look good or what? I was sooo done at this point.

Anyway, I’m trying to be the new and improved and more relaxed Sara…wish me luck! 

but so far – it sucks is not going so well couldn’t be worse on all fronts. Today is Lily’s 3rd birthday and I wanted to post all sorts of cute happy pictures of her…except…she’s not so happy today. Nor am I.

Good gracious, send good thoughts. It’s a rough one, folks. I’ll try again tomorrow with some happy snaps.

(are you sending good thoughts yet?)

one more just for her. she’s wonderful.

Baby smiles…

Together!

Sweetest time of day…

I love his freckles…

Mid speech…as always…

The one, the only – Gigi the kangaroo – Lily’s constant companion. A real member of our family I tell ya.

A. Real. Mascot. (take that Ags! No collie dogs here!)

My Mosaic, originally uploaded by saraluna14.

Holy cow, this is cool. I stole this from another blog. You need to have a flickr account. What? You don’t flickr? You MUST. http://www.flickr.com
Answer these 10 questions:
The questions:
1. What is your first name? (Sara)
2. What is your favorite food? (Mexican)
3. What high school did you attend? (Spring)
4. What is your favorite color? (Orange
5. Who is your celebrity crush? (Jeff Buckley
6. Favorite drink? (White Chocolate Mocha)
7. Dream vacation? (Bora Bora
8. Favorite dessert? (Tres Leches)
9. What do you want to be when you grow up? (Famous Photographer)
10.What do you love most in life? (Mi Familia)
11. One word to describe you. (Emotional)
12. Your Flickr name. (didn’t work, so I used saraluna)

Here´s how you do it…

Type your answer to each of the questions from above into Flickr search, using only the first page, choose your favorite image, copy and paste each of the URL’s into the mosaic maker (3 columns, 4 rows).

Send me the link to your mosaic!

My 5-year wedding anniversary is in a couple of weeks. I would like to go to a fabulous dinner and a fabulous hotel for the evening. Any suggestions? I would prefer something a little off the beaten path. A boutique hotel? A small, quaint restaurant? A bed and breakfast within a 2 hour drive? I dunno. Help me! You’ve been somewhere fabulous – I just know it!

For posting sake…here is a hilarious picture Lily took of the three of us. I LOVE it. Really! See my new short haircut peeking out? It’s very similar to Posh Spice’s do. Yep. I am so. posh. spice.

There is beauty everywhere. Found this lone weed in my front yard a few weeks back. She was all by her lonesome…and look how gorgeous she is. Ya know what else is gorgeous? Rainbows. No pictures for that one…but I make it a point to always go rainbow hunting with Lily whenever I see sunshine and rain at the same time. Always stop and make time to look for rainbows.