Pink Hugs & Blessings

My First Time...[Friday Edition]

So there you have it...My FIRST!!...

[no judging on my life for this video].

And now for the exciting news...

The deets on the Mini Blogging Conference I was telling you

that Alissa from Rags to Stitches was talking about.

Roll Call!!!!....

Where are my Southern CALI Bloggies at?!?!

And in other news...

ITS FRIDAY!!!!!

And in honor of Friday...

Let's party HARD into the weekend...

Sorry Rebecca Black...but the Glee guys tore this song up!!

They actually made it sound AMAZEballs.

Linked up with

Rags to Stitches-Coffee Date

Current Crush Thursday [Girl Power Edition]

First thing first:

Do not...I repeat:

DO NOT judge my life

for this super late Thursday post.

Anybody got anything to say about this situation??...

[**crickets**]

That's what I thought...

Anywhoo...for this week's Current Thursday Crush I thought I'd do something a tad bit different compared to what the average Crush post is about [fave pins from the week, clothes, jewelry, hair styles...etc.].

My crushes this week are a few of my fave blogs. I've been on these blogs for a minute now and I must admit that I pretty much stalk them any chance I get...

[remember this is a NO JUDGING zone here].

These women are freakin' AMAZEballs!!...They're a combination of mothers, wives, small-biz owners, at-home workaholics, job-seekers, holding it down for their families all while maintaining blogs that I ~~secretly~~ now publicly HAVE to see what they're up to on the daily...

I heard that you're most like the top 5 people you surround yourself with.

And if that's the case, I want to be in the presence of their blogs ALL the TIME...

These are examples of women and blogs that I think rather highly of...

So...that being said...go check these Faithful & Fearless Wonderfully-Made

Divas out...and tell them I sent you to meet some new bloggies that I believe are pretty darn dope.

Drum roll please....

It's pleasure to introduce you to:

Lauren @ Live Love Lauren

Live Love Lauren

Brooke @ Covered By Grace

Rachael @ LaLa Lists

Courtney @ Baxtron Life

Kristine @ The Foley Fam [unedited]

Be Blessed <3

Linked with

Danielle @ Framed Frosting

[Current Crush Thursday]

Beauty Box Swap Unveiling

Beauty Box Reveal Day is HERE!!!

The darling Tiffany at {{blabbering thoughts}} was sweet enough to host a Beauty Box Swap and today is the day I get to share with you the treats that I received.

First of all, I was super excited when my package came.

I felt like a kid waiting for Santa to come to her house on Christmas.

The lucky lady who had me is Kari of Cupcakes and Bling.

She gave these cute mini nail polishes from Nicole

[the super fantabulicious glittery one is my fave of the batch]

I also received Maybelline's Baby Lips Lip Balm with SPF 20.

I LOVED this product...made my lips feel super moisturized and hydrated

for several hours before I had to re-apply...

and thank you, Kari

[by all means, go check her out and show her some love]

for not only thinking of what would be cute on me,

but for also thinking

of protecting my skin, as well.

[CLAP CLAP for SPF!!]

Now, MY wonderfully-made diva-and-a-half is Kimberly at Lush Lounge.

You should mos-def check out what she got from me...

Kim...This is the pic of the B-Boys ~~driving me bonkers~~ helping me shop for your goodies.

and major props to Kimberly on how much she pumped me

up on her post...she's over there making me blush...

[and you know us black folks don't do that].

Thanks again to Tiffany for hosting the swap and to my girl Kari for

the wonderful beauty box [smooches]...

If you'd like to participate in the next Beauty Box Swap

keep a look out

for details coming soon...early September tops!

6 Things That He Hates [& More]

Someone has some serious work to do on their self...

Proverbs Reading Plan from the You Version Bible app [website]/
She Reads Truth is a community of lovely ladies
who come together online
to soak up God's word
and to hold each other accountable to be in the word daily...
You know its easy to forget or just NOT be in it sometimes.
Feel free to join us if you need to be more in your bible
or need a means of accountability.

What are some areas in your life you need dust off and work on?

The Half Way Blog Angel Link Up...

...or in the words of Rosie "HOOTENANNY.:"

What did you say?...What's a Blog Angel?...So glad you asked!!
[What do you mean, you didn't ask...of course you did...and if you really didn't like you said didn't...then subconsciously you really did...and just don't know it.]

Blog Angels is a monthly get-together, link up, program set up by the ever-so-lovely Rosie and Katlyn to meet fellow bloggers and pretty much be a SECRET ANGEL to them. Remember the movie Pay it Forward where the little boy went around doing nice nice random things for others with no strings attached [and died...but we're gonna keep it upbeat and positive...ok?]

That's how Blog Angels is...we all had our names randomly picked by each other and in turn we do things to make their blogging experience UBER spiferrific for them. The sky's the limit with what you can do...

I was [and still am, don't get me wrong] super duper excited about participating. But finding out this is also a tad bit more difficult than I thought it'd be...I mean HOW MANY times can you show comment-love without being ~~a stalker~~ too obvious??

So, of course I'm following my Fantabulous Wonderfully-Made Secret Bloggy of a Diva... and have left heart-felt, genuine engaging comments. I believe she doesn't have a Twitter...which may work towards my advantage for when I tweet to my followers to peep her blog out.

She's VERY interested in graphics for her blog...so I've been living on picmonkey.com working on creating a button and an About Me graphic to go onto her sidebar...but I'm not sure about the dimensions of her sidebar...any advice on the BEST way to guestimate or go about finding out...Or just how to create the graphics without knowing those deets??

[Something to remember when you you have NO idea, WHAT IN THE WORLD, you are doing:]

[Photo Source]

[WHEW!!!...That makes me feel better...don't you??]

Anywhoo...How's everyone else doing??...I would love to here your wins and losses, hits and misses, highs and lows...what seems to work and not work for you...and does ANYONE have ANY any clue who may have YOU as an angel??...as for me, I'm sooooo clueless right now.

See you all on the 30th for our final reveal post!!

Be Blessed.

Instaweek [Week in Photos]

Blessed Wednesday, Blessings!!...

and

Boo on My Life.

I know I'm late with posts this week...

just trying to get back in the swing of things

since being back from our family vacay in Vegas.

So here's what I was into last week and over the weekend:

I thought it was gonna be a MAJOR #BooOnMyLife situation when I found out coffee wasn't made for me to take on the ride up to Vegas, but Jaybee [Hubby] had a little something up his sleeve to save the day.
Had to do another Yogurtland trip [that made 2 in 3 days] #nojudging.
First time having Nathan's...pretty darn tasty, too.

Oh, how the B-Boys wrecked my last ever-lovin' nerve as we paid CVS a visit to shop for the Beauty Box Swap.
Whatever it was...sure was good.
Landan...curious, I assume, about WHY we're still in car...
First family dinner of the Vegas trip...Jaden gettin' it in on his ice cream.
SKEE-Ball, baby!!

My Boo-Bear doing one of the things that he does best: driving too fast.
Three of my favorite guys: My brother [in the Kemp jersey], Brother from anotha' motha' [middle]...we share the same heavenly daddy...and my BABE!...I was sadly watching THEM shop.

Love. LOVE. L.O.V.E. Diary of Wimpy Kid...and Dog Days was my fix for the weekend.
The MJ Slots are the BEEZ= Kneez!!!...I need one of these at home with unlimited credits.

I want this so badly...

but not the $450 receipt that would come with it...

#nothankyou

So how was everyone else's week and weekend?

Partying with:

lowercase letters - Miscellany Monday

20 Going on 80 - Wonderful Wednesday

All Things [E] About Me

Partying with Love Kate's A-Z All About Me Blog Challenge
Covered in Grace's Monday Meet Up
Still Being Molly's #YOLOmondays

Happy MONday, Blessings!!

Kate at Love Kate is hosting an A-Z All About Me weekly blog challenge. Just stumbled upon her last night and NEW I wanted to participate the FIRST I laid eyes on her blog. I'm sure it's not too late to join in if you wish...the more the merrier.

Friday Letters

Dear Christine,
You will not waste time trying to think of a clever intro this post. You will just hop right into it since you're tired from not getting enough sleep last night because of packing for the family vacay, blogging, the early travel from LA to Vegas, and the long hot day with zero rest AND the B-Boys are still up and SUPER wired...[GO TO BED!!!!] Don't feel guilty for not having a proper intro, your readers will understand...Now...onto the next...

Super irritated with the hyperness of the
B-Boys.

Dear J-Dogg,
Please move out of my way as am I'm trying to take a pic that depicts my HIGH level of FRUSTRATION and TIREDNESS right now...
[although I believe I captured that pretty well in the previous pic].

Dear Supportive Fam & Friends,

You don't EVEN know how much your support means to me...from the encouraging tweets, comments, and recommended resources to learn more...You ARE appreciated and make me want to do exceptionally well with this...THANX Ya'll!! <3

Dear Vegas,

Happy to be here away from home. Please don't be too unbearably hot. I hope we branch out to do some things we normally don't do.

Dear Larry [my bro],

If you don't stop snoring, right now in life, as I'm typing these words...smh...you're in the adjoining suite and I can STILL hear your gag-snoring...I hope you DON'T choke in your sleep...No, for real.

Dear Jaybee [Hubby],

You. Are. Amazing. #thatisall

Dear Glasses,

Please hold on for as long as you can...I know I've had you since freakin' 2005/2006...I know your lifespan is coming to an end and I'm soooo blessed you're staying together by my clear top coat nail polish that I used two nights ago as an adhesive to save your life....Please hear my plea. I cannot afford to loose right now.

Partying with:

Nicole @ Local Sugar Hawaii & Jean @ What Jean Likes - Aloha Blog Hop

Ashley @ Adventures of Newlyweds - Friday Letters

Lindsey @ The Bargain Blonde - Friday Favorites

Be Blessed, Blessings!

Take Me Out To The Ballgame...

...Take me out to the crowd...

Buy some some peanuts and Cracker Jacks and Cool-a-Coos, and Dodger Dogs, Nachos, Soda

[my good, I'ma Fatty McFattems] AND everything on this style board, please and thank you

[in advance].

I'm an uber Dodger Fan and no judging on my whole entire life, but Mike Piazza is STILL my favorite Dodger of all time

[although Kemp, Loney, and Eithier can get it ALL DAY LONG].

My View of the game back in May 2012

Anywhoo, Victoria's Secret sells a lot of official sports wear now and its super yummy to my fashion senses, but not so much to my wallet. So here you have it: My Current Thursday Crush - Dodgers Gear [oh yeah, and the team, too]