Free!!!

Today, I'm feeling free! It's the first time in five months that I have zero hat orders waiting for me to complete. It's been a week since I officially started my break from the hats, but it's taken me a while to get them all complete. This morning, the girls and I went down to the post office to mail out the last few packages and then we went to the park for a little while. I put the girls down for their naps and I've just kinda been sitting here wondering what I should do with myself next! I can't remember the last time I sat and did nothing!!!

This weekend turned out to be a fun one. On my post from Friday, I (for safety purposes) failed to mention that my Hubby was going to be gone for the weekend on a company camping trip. It was the strangest feeling on Friday night being here with just Audrey, since Alyssa was spending the night at my sister's house and my Hubby was gone too. I ended up staying up until two a.m....something I never do...but I attribute to the fact that I recently fell off the wagon in the no coffee/no soda department, and then cheated on Friday with a Venti White Mocha (my favorite drink ever!!!) from Starbucks, and then with a large iced tea with dinner. I don't know what happened...I started working on hats and totally lost track of time. I sure paid the piper when Audrey ended up waking up at 6:00 a.m., giving me a total of four hours of sleep. Ouch!!!

On Saturday morning, after Audrey and I got ready for the day, we went to pick up Alyssa from my sister's house. She had such a good time with her Auntie and cousin that she did not want to come home with me!!! It's a good thing that Yvonne and I had already decided that we were going to take the girls shopping, because Alyssa would have had a fit had I taken her straight home.

Our plan was to go to San Luis Obispo (which is only about 35-40 minutes north of here) to go shopping. SLO is a fun little college town where there's a ton of cool places to shop. Here's a few pictures from our day...

The main purpose of our trip was to go to here...

We ended up staying in there way too long, because the girls started getting antsy and we had to get moving. We decided to go to Jamba Juice to get the girls some smoothies while my sister went in here...

Although they've got a ton of cute clothes, there is just something wrong with a store that considers even size 14 an "extended size!"

I let my sister take her time while I kept the girls outside with me and we sat and hung out outside of this store...

I decided to see if I could get a few shots of the girls, but they didn't really want to cooperate with me. It was pretty hot outside so I couldn't really blame them. I'm posting this picture, because it was so funny to me to finally get a group picture where Audrey was actually looking at the camera. If I could have just gotten all the other two to look my way! :)

Here's Natalya and Audrey...

And Natalya and Alyssa being silly sitting in Audrey's stroller!

After about an hour and a half of shopping and only two stores later, Yvonne and I decided to head back home. We were pretty wiped out from dealing with the girls, so we decided to call it quits. All in all, it was a pretty good day and it was the first time all summer when the weather actually felt like real summer weather here.

Well, I think I should probably get going for now. I am so excited because today is Monday and my new favorite show is on tonight. I know I never talk about TV, because aside from the Disney channel, I really do not watch TV, but I started watching TLC's new show Cake Boss, and I just love it! Does anyone else out there like this show too?

It's all about an Italian family bakery in New Jersey. The other night, I was laughing so hard when some guys on the show dropped this humongous birthday cake and Buddy, "the boss" tells the guys, "What did you's do???" All I could think to myself was, do people really talk like that in real life? Maybe someone from the east coast can let me know! :)

Happy Monday everyone!