As I was going through things, I found a bag of fabric that I intended to use last year when I was making Jess some new dresses. I never got around to it, but today I put that fabric to use. First thing I did was make Jessalyn a new pillow. She’s started sleeping with one for nap and bed time. I guess that’s just another indicator that she’s growing up.

Then I took a long hard look at “Pilo’s” pillow case and decided it just wouldn’t do. You all remember Pilo from 31 Little Things #6 right? It’s my squishy huggy pillow, the one I hold on to while sleeping. It’s not meant to go under my head as I sleep. It’s an incredibly squishy feather pillow. Also? Jason’s jealous it gets more cuddles than he does, and yet he’ll steal it from me in the night.

Anyhow, the cover was looking quite ratty and faded so I whipped up a new one today.

The fabric has frogs hopping and frogs driving cars and says “Toot toot!” on it. It’s flippin adorable.

This may not look like much to you, but for me it’s HUGE. This is a corner behind our dining room table, and in front of the microwave. There’s been a basket there of stuff that has been waiting for a trip to the Goodwill for months. Heck, I think it’s been there since oh, December?

I’ve been asking Jason to take it for a month now and it just didn’t happen. So I pulled it out and put it in the middle of the room where it couldn’t be ignored or forgotten. It’s now at the goodwill and I can see the floor again!

Caitlin had a dentist appointment to get her crown put on. On our way home, we stopped at Boba Ya! for a refreshing treat. I had a watermelon slushie with boba.

Boba is tapioca pearls which is what you’re seeing on the bottom. The straw with which you drink is insanely large. This was my first boba and I can’t say it’s the best thing ever. I think I might enjoy it more without the boba.

The Hot Guy and the Pretty Girl: Supersized Edition

I had a double date of sorts. My husband Jason and our littlest one Jessalyn and I decided to have a date night. He came home from work and off we all went to Anaheim (CA) for food and fun.

Let me preface by saying, as always the pictures have been taken with my camera phone. Most of them were taken after dark and unless you can stand perfectly still, forget about perfect, crisp shots. Several of them are a little blurry, but let’s not worry too much about that ok?

So we arrived at our destination

Then we headed on over to where we were going to have dinner. You may recognize the name of the place (Tortilla Jo’s Cantina) if you listen to Tucker Tales. This is the location of my Girl’s Night Out/Margaritafest

But this time I wasn’t here for a margarita, no no no, I had my sights set on a coconut mojito.

By now you might be wondering about this so-called “Hot Guy.” Well here he is sitting across from me.

We ordered our food. I ordered the Shredded Beef Burrito with Salsa Roja and Jason had Steak Fajitas. While I was eating, I found a stick in my burrito. Really it was a little branch of thyme that didn’t get tossed into the right spot and ended up in my food. I didn’t care, it’s edible if you want to chew on a stick, but I told our server about it, not to get something for free, but just to let them know. They ended up comping my burrito and tried to get me a new one a few times. I refused a new one, mine was good enough. They were really nice about it, and I made sure to let them know I wasn’t mad or disgusted. Anyhow here’s my excellent burrito.

Now what about the pretty girl I mentioned before? She’s constantly on the go so capturing her in low light with a cell phone camera is a challenge.

The pretty girl, aka Jessalyn, spent the entire time looking at Build A Bear while we were at the table. She has never been in one and really doesn’t know what it is. However she saw from afar bright colors and cute pictures of bears. She kept asking to go in there. We ushered her away from there because we wanted to take her into the second largest Disney store in the world.

While we were there, we ran into a few friends

We also saw a very large snow globe to which Jessalyn exclaimed, “A Castle!!!”

And lastly, We found Alice hiding over by the stuffies.

After this we bought Jessalyn a Pluto stuffie to go with the rest of the Disney stuffies she has. It was getting late and we needed to get her home and to bed. So there are no more pictures for today.

I know this post is different than the rest in which I took one picture a day of something little that makes me smile, but I had a terrific night and couldn’t pick just one thing. The whole night was great fun.

Tonight I was cruising the local shopping center and saw this guy walking around.

It definitely brought a smile to my face.

If you’ve had your own washer and dryer all of your life, you will never know the joy of getting in the laundry room first.

So, while using a common laundry room isn’t exactly a “little pleasure,” getting in there before anyone else is.