It's a Busy Life

Life has been really busy this last month. Places to go, people to see, balancing family life with work. We've had our 3rd busiest month with the pendant business since we started one year ago (May 5th). We've made & shipped over 2,400 pendants this month of April and it's not over yet! November was our biggest month, followed by December. November and December we had help. Now, we are doing this alone. However, we've figured out ways to improve our pendant quality while working quicker and smarter. Also, right now, we have more wholesale business than ever. That's the great thing because they reorder!

My challenge has been to balance my work time with the family, as I mentioned in an earlier post.

Here's what we've been up to. The girls love to dress up. One day they came out of their room dressed up for ice skating.

The funniest thing was watching the little one do exactly what her older sister was doing. So very cute!

We went on a mini vacation to Carlsbad. Here are the girls being silly in the hotel while having a snack.

We stayed at the lovely Lake San Marcos Resort. What a beautiful view we had. Just wish there weren't so many mosquitos.

On Easter Sunday, we went to Orange County. We had a great visit. However, our oldest one had a little stomach bug and had to stay home from church. We got to decorate eggs in the back yard, which was fun.

The little one was "catching bugs" with the fish net.

One of the shops who carries our pendants is in Encinitas. This was the basis of our trip - to visit her and see how the pendants were doing for her. The shop is filled with all kinds of stuff. We realized how tough it is to find a necklace the size of a postage stamp in a shop filled with goodies. But we found them - right on the front counter.

The weekend we went to Carlsbad was the weekend of General Conference. It was great to listen to the messages on the iphone in the car. I just love technology! We enjoyed listening to confrence & I am looking forward to taking President Monson's advice and to study the talks when the new Ensign comes out next month.

We went to the pier at Oceanside. This pelican was resting there too.

The girls had a great time in the sand and water.

After all the traveling and fun, it's nice to snuggle on the sofa while watching a little TV.

One weekend, two of my sisters-in-law and our niece came down to visit. The girls had a lot of fun playing with their cousin's makeup. She's such a great sport, isn't she?

Another way I try to have quality family time is to have fun meals once in a while. So I purchased this great heart shaped waffle maker. I've only used it a few times. Just yesterday even. The little one was asking daddy if he wanted some "marfles" and then she called them "momfuls"! Isn't that cute?

It was my birthday last month. We celebrated by taking the family to dinner at Babe's at the River in Rancho Mirage.

Check out the cheese on that quesadilla!

Once you take out the cookies (delicious chocolate chip cookies!) - out of the little pig, it oinks at you! There's a little motion sensor in it that goes off everytime you reach in to get a cookie. The girls just LOVED that!

We've had a great couple months. Busy but filled with some good memories.