You can call me "Mama Lolo".....

Taken the morning after she came home, I bought this outfit for her 8 months ago and it was so exciting to finally see her in it!! 

Yes you read that right, I am a Mother! 

Let's all take a minute and just scream with joy okay? EEEEEK!!!

Remember I told you that I was going on a long vacation in March? Well I thought that I was. 

3 days before I was going to leave for 2 1/2 weeks I got a call that I had pretty much given up on. 

It was asking if we were still interested in taking a little girl named Cheyenne (age 22 months) out of foster care. I had a really bad fever at the time and I thought I was hallucinating. I mean really, I just sat there and went "Uh huh....".  

We have been fighting for this child for MONTHS in court to be placed with us. We are distant family members and the birth mother wanted her with us too. We would go to court once a month and nothing would get accomplished and we would get more and more discouraged. Getting this phone call was a miracle, pure and simple. While still internally freaking out (but trying not to act like it)

 I learned that she could be placed with us in a week!! I called people screaming and could hardly even tell them that Cheyenne was finally coming home! One person literally thought that my house was on fire or some other horrifying thing had happened. :) 

Her first moments home were spent rocking with Mom. She took a little nap on my shoulder and woke up happy! I was in heaven.

So after having one week to get our house together for our insta-toddler, we were as ready as we were ever going to be! She came on a Monday at 3:35 and has been here for one month now. Without a doubt it has been the best month of our lives. We are so happy we walk around with perma-grins on our faces! 

A lot of people ask us how she adjusted to coming to live with us, so I thought ya'll might be wondering too. She has adjusted more wonderfully than we could have ever dreamed!! I fully expected her to cry for weeks and just be very sad (totally understandable) but she was not at all! She is the happiest little girl I have ever met! She very very rarely cries and when she does it's for a good reason. She sleeps through the night perfectly, goes down for a nap without a fuss, eats anything you give her and says "Thank You" every.single.time. you give her something. She speaks REALLY well for her age which is great because we can communicate! I could go on and on about her. She is just so much fun! 

Here are some more fun photos!

First night home in adorable Elmo PJ's after bath! 

Playing dress up, what a pretty princess she is! 

This little girl LOVES her Daddy! 

Easter. So adorable!

Our Family on Easter Sunday

First day with pigtails was last week, so cute!!

I kiss her all day long, wouldn't you?!

After seeing how adorable she is, I think you can understand why I haven't been on my blog at all since she came home. 

And I have to be honest with you. I have zero desire to do anything but love on her right now. I waited for her for so long and I'm going to soak it all in! So it will be a while until I'm back to blogging, but I will be back every now and then to post an update or a cute craft I make. Deal? :) 

Craftwell Designer Spotlight

The nice people over at Craftwell (makers of the eCraft) did a Designer Spotlight on me today over on their blog! I answered some fun questions and shared a project. Thanks for featuring me Craftwell! 

February Photo A Day Week 2

I have been having so much fun with Fat Mum Slim's photo challenge on Instagram! If you missed my pictures from Week 1, you can see them here. 

Now onto week 2....

I had a migraine on Day 8 so I really tried to avoid the sun but did eventually have to feed the animals and noticed that Pattycake's feed bucket is the color of the sun and that counts, right? :)

I work across the street from the house I grew up in and I thought it would be fun to take a photo of that front door. It still looks exactly the same!

Of course I had to forget to put make up on for Day 10 and it be a self portrait! Oh well. I was working at the cake shop and looking so fabulous ;)

Snuggling with my cute cat makes me happy! 

Yikes! Motivation to clean it. 

I got this in the mail from my Mom (see the little note above the chick?) and it has blue writing on it. I'm thinking of getting Chickens and she was very thoughtful to send it to me. 

This is my "infertility necklace" It says "You are worth it all". It's my message to my future children. Whatever we have to go through to get them will be worth it. When I took this picture we were on our way to court to try and get a little girl out of the foster care system and home with us. It didn't happen this court date but there is still hope. 

I hope you enjoyed this weeks photos! You can follow my instagram feed here. 

February Photo A Day Week 1

I've made a decision that I hope y'all like. I've decided to share more about my personal life on my little craft blog. Why? Because while I really like seeing people's projects and crafts, I realized I really like seeing fun details about their lives. 

Also, I get A LOT of requests for photos of my pig to be put on my blog. Not even kidding. He is pretty popular! :)

So, I'm totally addicted to this app called Instagram on my iphone.

 Basically you just take photos on your phone and then post them for your friends to see and comment on. They give you fun filters that make your photos look awesome. I post a ridiculous amount of photos of my animals on there :)

A blogger named Fat Mum Slim created this "Photo A Day" challenge. 

 She started it in January but I didn't join until month. It is seriously so much fun! Here are my photos from this week...

I stopped by my Dad's work to say hi. 

Anniversary 

Saw my Dad again on Day 3. I thought something was wrong with my car, turns out there was just a stick under my car. Embarrassing. 

I did a little play on words for this one. I wrote, "It gets stranger and stranger how much I love eggs lately" :)

I just happened to be in the bathroom at church at 10 am. Seriously not planned. 

I made hashbrowns for the first time ever! 

When my Mom and I adopted this cute cat from the pound 15 years ago his name was "Buttons". We didn't really feel like that name fit him so we re-named him Murphy. 

If you want to view all my photos on Instagram or follow me on there click here. My user name is "auntie lolo"