You can tell a lot about a girl....

You can tell a lot about a girl...

just by hearing about her all girls vacation....

so here goes:

This is me reliving my modeling days..

yep,  i use to model...

errrr... once i modeled...

for a dance magazine..

a dance magazine that my now ~ mother in law

used for buying costumes for her dance studio...

little did she know she was lookin at her future daughter in law.

...they would only do shots of my backside ...

cuz i was so flat....

now i have a paid in full chest.. :)

and my backside is saggy and denty...

ahhh..

youcanthaveitallgirls.

This is me laughing hysterically...

about who knows what....

i find strange things funny...

my sense of humor is definately intact...

it is undoubtedly what kept me semi-sane

for the past year and a half of my turbulent life...

Laugh or cry???

i choose laugh.

This is where i gamble...

very few people know this about me...

but i am a bit of a big deal around Vegas...

A HighRoller, if you will.

but then again...

i also make up fantasy lives for myself ,in my head, ...

this also may contribute to the lil bit o sanity i happen to have left.

hmmmm ....

  Moving on:

this is me winning $255 SMAKEROOS

for reals...not for fakes...

i put 5 bucks in a $5 machine and

DING DING DING!

WINNER!

This is a magical fairytale like waterfall...

i wanted to live there....

but it turns out the castle is just painted on...

like a stage decoration...

bummer

this is me in front of the fresh flower butterfly statues.

the flowers were real.

strangely    though,

that means nothing to me...

i don't like the smell of flowers.

i just dont get that whole...

"stop and smell the flowers"  bit.

they just dont do it for me.

lame.  i know.

and this here is the  gondola ride at

the pallaza.

FUNNY STORY.

My mom and sister wanted to pay to ride it

and were excited to have some guy sing italian songs

to us  while floating through this river and under tunnels...

I, on the other hand,

was hating the idea of a strange man singing love songs to me.

I was hoping to get the pregnant lady that also works there.

I voiced my opinion to my mom and sister...

they didnt get it.

"it will be fun"...they tell me...

Uh huh.  right.

this is my lovely mother and sister who got on the boat first.

they chose the seat facing away from the singing man.

This is the singing man...

Italian love song singing man.

This is me. last one on the boat.  left to sit towards the love song singing man.

i am trying to look very interested in the architecture of the building around me...

just desperate to avoid

the awkward eye contact from the

singing man....

my mom had to get my camera from me and snap that shot...

just so after the gondola ride was over, she

could pull it out ...laughing at me and asking ..

"How long have you had such an interest in mall architecture?"

ugh!!!

evil, evil girls.

This is the spiderman i saw on the strip.

who's he trying to fool?

And  this is my adorable offspring that i got to

return home to after a long girls weekend.

I love being a mom.

the majority of the time.  

:)

thanks for stoppin by!

hope you enjoyed journeying with me!

xoxo  shell

gIRLS wEEKeND

I had a divine weekend away from

responsibilities...

For my sister Becca's Birthday, we took off to

LAS VEGAS

My mom and sister and i went...

We had so many good laughs!

We were very good girls ...

(i know that crossed your mind)

after all it is Las Vegas...

which translates to the devil's playground...

(not really...i made that up :)

We even spread some good Ol' Utah

charity around  Vegas...

we helped out homeless...

supported local artisans...

(NO silly!  not of the dancing arts)..

(i thought we covered that!!!)

lol

We even paid for the order of the car behind us in the

drive thru of a restaurant!

Just to spread joy and hopefully inspire!

As u can see from my pics...

we hit up the JUICY store...

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

I was on cloud  9!

We will be nesting down in a home of

our own again soon...very soon...

(which is cause for a celebration of it's own!!!)

and i am very excited to decorate again...

and ..

well..

believe it or not...

The Juicy Couture store is going to be my inspiration!!!

I'm sooo in LOVE with this look!

My hubby even approves thanks to the fact that

dead animal heads fit into the theme!!!   lol

Juicy Couture has my heart in it's hands....

more to come on the girls wknd soon!

xoxo  shell

Sweet Tooth Fairy

At The Hawker Home;

There are just some occasions that

call for cupcakes.

and well....

2 years old and potty trained is

a REALLY, REALLY  good reason

to head to the Sweet Tooth Fairy Cupcake shop!

This lil baby is diaper free!

Seriously! 

no...more....diapers...

on anyone in our home!

The 2nd best thing about no diapers...

would have to be how cute their

tiny bum bums are in their pants with no

extra padding...

We can barely keep her drawers up now!

You never seen 3 kids so excited about

(#2)

.....

the deal was...if she poo'd

in the potty...

we would all get sugar  highs!

This wall was adorable it said...

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT,

SO EAT SOMETHING CUTE!

and well...

who are we to rebel...

so we obeyed the almighty words upon the wall!

There was something delightful

everywhere you looked!

I show up to these  ingenius places

and get all ....

"why didn't i think of this" ~ish

and...

well...

i don't wanna get all

Al Gore on ya....

but i come up with these amazing ideas...

and then a few months down the road...

BAM!

iT'S opENed up and thriVING.

(sighhhhhhs)...

(multiple sighsssssssssss)

It's not enough just to imagine...

One must act!

we must be careful to not put our wishbones where

our back bones should be....

i can only dream for so long.....

now it's time to

DO!

XOXO SHELL

Camp a Diddle Doo

It's summa time yall...

so the hawkers just gotta camp out!

But this girl dont really camp...

I GLAMP!

and so...

therefore...

by transitive property...

hubby is forced to glamp also.

:)

he doesnt mind so much though...

he got to rent a boat and fish...

and hike...

and play with fire....

oh...and whaddya know...

Pyro Junior!

This here is the bano.

which translates to bathroom....

(#1 only please)

Yes friends...the hills were alive with the sound of Music.

Kenzie wouldnt stop singing.

she loves makin up songs.

MoonLake is the perfect place to camp.

A lil bit o mountain...a lil bit o beach.

ahhh good stuff!

...and them the trip to Pizza hut on the way home...

Where kenzie sang....

some more....

and more and more...

but it was tolerable due to the fact that...

we were eating Pizza Hut Pizza!!!

yummmmmm

it's so dang good!

especially after camping food...

soggy cooler food....

cooking in the dirty pan ...again...food.

yah,  i guess in hindsight, it may not have been the pizza that was sooo great...

but probly by that point...you coulda fed me

cold  fish sticks...

i do love glampin but not so much sharing food

with dirty fingernailed children....

:)

xoxo  shell

Bunko Group goes to The Game

We took ourselves to the ball game...

our bunko group went to the game...

We bought us some peanuts..but there werent

no cracker jacks...

It was a G.N.O. so we didnt care if we ever got back...

(home)

so it was me and 1, 2,3 girls...

that went  out ...

to the old ball game!!!

we had sooo much fun...

i planned a fun game for us.

I made a list of scavenger items ...

we had  a hoot finding the items to check off!

I also made a betting sheet for the 4 of us...

it was hilarious to see the predictions of each innings numbers...

Lets just say..

some of us havent been to a ball game in a while..

...and some of us picked our numbers like we never

heard of the game.

xoxo  shell