Simply Yvonne's Blog

With my jewelry that is. I love my ring holder. gift from a friend A floral bowl from my kitchen I spent my whole Sunday doing laundry, cleaning and organizing. I have been meaning to organize my jewelry for quite some time now but never got around it. Putting away the ones that I don't normally wear into boxes and leaving out the ones I wear the most for work or going out. How do you organize your jewelry? I just hope I keep it this clean from now on. This is how I organize my makeup ..but it doesnt look like this anymore :(

When I was pregnant with Kaylee, I did not purchase any maternity clothes at all! Here's a post I did of maternity fashion on some clothes I wore. I just didn't want to spend a lot of money on clothes that I would wear for short period of time. I would dig through my closet and wore whatever I could fit..or buy regular dresses that I know I can wear after having a baby. My big little black H&M dress I wore throughout my pregnancy. I know you cant really tell, but my tummy was HUGE! 4 months after baby. Best $15 I spent EVER haha! Baby K just recently turned 4 months. I have been taking a photo of her sitting in this white chair every month. See month 1-3 here. I got the idea from Making It Lovely . Hope everyone had a great long weekend! Mine definitely went way too fast and I can use another 3 day weekend. Glad I have half day this coming Friday! Our friend's mom watched Kaylee for us so we went to see Transformers 3 in 3D with our friends on Saturday

I always look forward to July 4th weekend because 1. 3 day weekend! Time to clean the closet and make more headbands for baby girl 2. Fireworks! 3. Transformers 3!!!! anyone seen it? do you love it? hate it? Im excited to see the new girl since I was not a fan of Megan Fox at all!! 4. Spending time with friends and family + FOOD! 5. Last but not least..the crazy sale at the mall! I got a cardigan for $3 at Loft and other goodie stuff! I got this dress at H&M for just $10. The funny thing is that I see it all the time at the store but never care to even set my eyes on it until it's on sale :D haha! My new love for Amrita Singh ! Thanks to Hautelook , I got this not too long ago for a really good deal. You can get it here Today my baby girl is exactly 4 months! time flies! Look at her hair! haha!!!

I finally got around to posting these pictures of my sister and I when she was in town few weeks ago. We both took Kaylee to the DCPG photoshoot that day and took advantage of the nice weather to do some photos of ourselves too. Yes..you can say it, we look alike. We get that ALOT. This sweet little girl ran up to Kaylee and I and wanted me to carry her. She was super cute so we just had to take a pix of her with us. What did we do after the shoot?? we went for some Red Ribbon Bakeshop! (their Mango Cake is so delish!) She is always on her phone! Huge thank you for everyone who voted for Kaylee! She made it to rank #25 out of over thousands!!! If you dont mind, can you vote again..you can vote everyday until Sunday! Click here to vote (My husband who rarely goes on Facebook told me today that he went onto the fb games to have people vote for Kaylee..now isnt that love haha!) Dont you want to vote for this sweet face? :D

I found this beautiful drawing online couple weeks ago and thought to myself "gosh I wish I drew it!" I use to draw back when I was young but it has been so long that I'm just not very good anymore. I don't know who is the original artist is because I would love to give credit to them. I took the drawing into photoshop and play around with it. I'm going to print it out and put it in the nursery. =) btw on a different note, last Friday I was browsing through Parents.com and submitted a photo of kaylee for fun on one of their contest..this morning I got an email saying Kaylee is in the finalist for this week winners. Pretty neat! If you dont mind, can you just vote for her here ? It doesnt take very long and You don't have to sign up or anything. Thank you so much! Click on the photo to vote p.s. I honestly submitted for fun and didn't think she was going to be in the finalist, so please dont think im one of those parents that would sign my kids u

Last week Kaylee had her 3rd month photoshoot with the awesome local photographers DCPG . Weather hasn't been kind to us so we had postpone the shoot several times. Originally Cies and I came up with this cool crazy idea of doing balloons, and fruits but we ran out of time and thought it might be better if we wait to do that idea for her 6 month shoot. (yes she is going to have a lot of photos to look back to when she's older!) Here are some photos I snapped of DCPG in action! so glad that Kaylee behaved really well during the shoot! And here are the photos..Love how Kaylee is all smiles! I am so happy with the photos!!! btw If you are in Virginia Beach area, they are having a photo booth special going on right now! They are a hit at weddings! They are also having a special $325 for a shoot + high resolution files..usually high res files are like $800, so it's a pretty good deal running til july 15th! Hope you enjoy the behind the scenes pictures from

Here is a little late recap of my weekend. I recently ran the CHKD 8K race (5 mile) My goal was to just run the whole thing without stopping and I am happy to say that I did it! It feels so good to set a goal and made it! Trust me, I hate running but because I am so motivated to get my pre-prego body back and with no time to gym..running is the best option for me. I usually get up around 5am and run a mile or more couple times a week if I'm not lazy tired. My next race is the 10k this October and I really want to do the Shamrock half marathon next March if I am ready. I was kinda bummed that we didnt get to take any pix before the run so most of these are right after the race. The race was at 730AM so we were super tired and exhausted..oh and not to mention that it was in the 90s that day!! My running partner! I don't think I can run the whole thing without her. (check out her engagement photos I did for her here !) Hubby looking pretty tired..he beat me by 40 sec!!!