Raising Malia: Weekend Recap

Can someone please tell me where my fall has been? I'm so ready to wear all my fall outfits with my boots and dark colored tights. I also want to be wearing my burnt orange peacoat and my mustard and olive colored scarves, but I can't bring myself to do that when the weather is so stinkin' hot! It looks like cooler weather is on its way though, and I'll be quick to pull on my leggings and boots.

We had an extremely busy weekend, which started with Dayton Days (I worked our church booth) on Saturday and holy cow! Who knew that chicken tenders and taco salad would be so popular!?! Oh, and did I mention my aunts homemade apple fritters? I ate so many of those addicting little things that I'm not so sure that my insides haven't completely turned against me. Besides the fact that the weather was like working in a furnace and there were what seemed to be like a whole countries worth of people there...it was fun. I also found some really cute goodies for little Mia for next summer. I love homemade hair bows, headbands, and dresses..and there was plenty of that to go around at DD this year. We also went to a corn maze and a bonfire that evening..and to my surprise I LOVED the corn maze. Malia fell asleep like ten minutes into it, but I didn't mind because I was having so much fun enjoying it myself. I don't know if it was the fact that I was with some of my closest pals, while we acted like complete children (and maybe even complete idiots), or the fact that it was so much more of a challenge than I expected. After making it out the first time, I left Malia with a friend while I went back in a second time! Half way through my second trip in I realized that it was a total mistake and that I was also a big loser. It was pitch black outside at this point and I had no map with me and NO IDEA where I was going. TOTAL FAIL. two broken shoes, muddy knees, and a face plant later I was out of the freaky corn mess and on my way to a bonfire. The bonfire was a blast of course..I mean they always are, and it turned out to be a great evening spent with friends.

On Sunday it was a beautiful day and I felt that it was oh so tutu worthy, so I put little Mia in her first tutu onesie and I think that I might have died and went to baby heaven because I could not get enough of that little nugget! Every time I looked at her as she pulled, sucked, and chewed on her little tutu outfit I melted. Never in my life have I felt so proud of something, but she makes me one proud mama! It's all the little things that make her so special to me... like how she has figured out that there is a toy on her carseat and she has endless staring contests with the pink critter, or how she is now a rolling baby! and not to mention the fact that she laughs, like REALLY laughs now. I'm pretty sure that is one of the single best sounds I have ever heard. We spent the day with both of our families yesterday (meaning our actual family and our church family), and it was a great end to a not so fall like weekend. But now it is back to reality until it is time to relax all over again next weekend..