Tea and Lingerie!

This past weekend, I flew out to Atlanta for my older sister's bridal shower. She will be getting married this June. Whoop Whoop!! It was a very fun and exciting moment and I really hope she felt special and enjoyed every second of it. This weekend left me more excited and so ready for the big day. Can't wait! The shower was held at my parent's home and the theme for the shower was "tea party", which I think turned out lovely. Here are some a lot of photos... Lol

The first the thing that greeted the guest in the foyer was a picture of Juliet and her hubby to be Bank...

On the Island in the kitchen, we set up the drinks and some very yummy treats. There were sliced apples, cheese squares, shortbread cookies and some delicious pastries!

Lemonade with cut up strawberries and sweet tea with cut up oranges.

These were so delicious!

Apples Sprinkled with Cinnamon.

On the breakfast table, there was more to dig into...

Cakes, Donuts, sweet rolls and salad...

Red velvet donuts? You can't beat that! Btw.. peep the tea pots :)

White roses. They were the perfect accent.

The main course...

 So I didn't get a chance to capture this before everyone dug in but I'm glad that my sister took some pictures. We went for a southern theme with the meal selections, in-line with the tea party. We had some Mac and Cheese my sister made, we ordered collard greens, potato salad, sweet potato souffle, and banana pudding from "MaryMacs", one of Atlanta's historical restaurants. It was all delicious! We had fried crispy chicken of course! What's the South without fried chicken?! Lol. We also had fruit and veggie trays and bread rolls. Can you say yum?!

The Cake...

I love the bag hanging out of the pot.

Need I say more? I think it was gorgeous and it totally captured the theme beautifully!

The happy Bride-to-be!

The Games...

We actually only played three games in all. After the initial icebreaker where we found out how long the guest had known Juliet and where they met her, the first game we played was "How well do you know the bride" to find out those who really knew her. For the second game, we put the bride in the hot seat and found out how well she knew her groom to be. Lastly we played wedding trivia, a fun multiple choice game with some questions like "what percentage of men get on their knees to propose?" Wouldn't you like to know?! Ha! 

I think she had a good time :)

Juliet and mummy

Juliet and her mummy to be.

Juliet and her bridesmaids excluding Phoebe. I just want to take a moment to really appreciate all these ladies including Phoebe. Phoebe actually showed up to help set up but she couldn't stay for the shower. She just gave birth to her beautiful daughter less than two weeks ago. I really couldn't have done any of this on my own without them. I really can't put into words how grateful I am for the role they individually played. I can only do so much as a human, so my prayer is that the God of the Universe will bless each of you according to His riches in Glory. THANK YOU SO MUCH! I mean that! 

The sisters! Of course we had to take a pic. We always do at every occasion. Lol. Our oldest sister Collette couldn't make it as much as she would have loved to. I am very grateful to her and Harriet(sitting next to Juliet) for all that they did. Harriet did an excellent job bringing our ideas to life. May God deeply bless you both. THANK YOU!!

The Bride-to-be and I :)

Had to show my babies....

Listening to the words of wisdom for the bride with Mo in my arms.

Dems with Juliet. Love it!

For favors, we gave assorted tea, and packaged them in this see through party bags.

Once again, I'm so thankful to everyone that honored Juliet with their presence, gifts, and continued prayers. THANK YOU!!!

June 14th.. LET'S GO!!!

Resurrection Sunday!

Resurrection Sunday was a lot of fun! I started teaching the kids at church earlier this year their presentation and they did such an amazing job. I was so proud of them. My friend Moji also put together a very powerful play. The message behind the play was about God being the Potter and we His children the clay. He kneads us to what He will have us be but often times during the process, we don't get it. At the end of the day, we turn out well to His Glory, but we have to let Him. It was so moving. We got out early because we all had brunch together in our reception hall. Fun times!

Morayo is currently with my sister Harriet, so she didn't spend the day with us. I can't even begin to tell you how much we miss her. This home just isn't the same without her and we can't wait to have her back! She is having loads of fun with her Aunty though, so I hope she'll want to come back to us. Lol. Some of my family members texted their pictures via our family group text and I just wanted to share. Unfortunately, hubby and I didn't get to take pictures with Demi. I didn't even think about it. Oh welly :(

Mo and Aunty Harriet! Convention of the five heads. Lol!

MoMo Boo Thang!!!

My sister Juliet. The Bride to be!

My Sister Collette, her hubby Nosa and his dad and their sons Paul and Uyi being carried.

Here are Mo and Demi's pictures with the Easter Bunny!

Clearly Mo wasn't having it but I love how my Dems was chilling like a boss! Lol. Hope you had a great time with your family and friends. 

His GRACE is the reason we are...

Morayo's 21 Months Update!

MoMo turned 22months this month but I never got around to putting up her 21 months update. I have put up an update about what she's up to every three months since she was born. You can click on the "Morayo" label to the right to check out those posts. This is going to be the last detailed update going forward. In just two months, my baby girl will be 2 and that alone amazes me. She brings so much joy to our lives daily and even when she pushes my buttons to the max, I still thank God for her.

Mo what are you up to now? Well clearly you are doing wayyy too much, but I'll highlight a few.

You still love your food and you'll try just about anything until the taste hits you. This past weekend, we were at a birthday party and daddy handed you a tomato off a veggie tray and you grabbed it from him and threw it in your mouth! I think you thought it was probably a different color grape but you learned quick. You immediately spat it out and the reaction on your face was priceless! Your face was distorted for like the next 30secs. I'm still wishing I would have recorded it on my phone instead of laughing so hard. That one was definitely for the books.

After my post on you finally calling me mummy, you stopped. That only lasted for like two days. I think daddy was really jealous and I don't know if he taught you at night while I was sleeping, but for a good number of weeks, all you said was "Daddy". I am not even exaggerating, but you probably said that word over a 100 times a day. So much so that it was driving me crazy! Daddy was so happy and he wanted me to blog about it which I never got around to. However, if he'll be honest, I think after a while he was about to lose it too. Lol. You started calling me mummy again but you also call your nanny mummy and your aunties mummy too. When we were in Atlanta you called grandpa(hubby's dad) daddy. But that's the only person I've heard you call daddy besides your daddy.

You are very intelligent. You know the tune to the "abc song" and you know where to insert some of the alphabets! You can count from 1 to 5 perfectly but when we go up to 10, you always miss out 7. Whenever you get done singing your abc or counting, you yell out "good job!" LOL! You love your books and you learn a lot from watching your shows on TV. Daddy bought you educational DVDs and wanted us to focus mainly on those but I think you also learn a lot from Dora, Olivia, Yo Gabba Gabba and your other shows you love to watch on NickJr. When I sit with you to watch them, I'm amazed by how you respond. You also know most of your body parts.

You love love singing and dancing and will never pass up a chance to shake your bum bum whenever you hear music! I LOVE it!

You are SUCH a LADY! You love getting groomed. You love lip gloss, perfume, nail polish, your bracelet, necklace, wristwatch, Sunglasses etc. Heck if it makes MoMo look good, bring it on! I can only imagine you as a teenager. God help us. Get ready daddy! Lol

You talk A LOT. My oh my!!! Some of the sentences you know how to use appropriately are "where are you going?", "how are you doing", "there you go", "stop it"(your favorite thing to say). You walk around the house all day and just carry on conversations with yourself and whoever is willing to hear.

You are very polite! You say please but you mostly say thank you a lot. Whenever I fix your hair, or wear you your shoes, or give you something to eat, or do something for you that you brought to me to help with, I always get a "Thank you" 95% of the time. You also say "bless you" when someone sneezes.
You absolutely love the outdoors. You like to play a lot and you like being chased. When we catch you doing something in the house you're not supposed to, you take off running and you are pretty fast. Hilarious!

This one melts my heart. You are an awesome big sister! You love you some Dem Dem! You smack him every once in a while but you love your baby brother. If he's playing with something you think he should not, you tell him "stop it", collect it from him and hand it to me. You also don't like other kids around him. It's actually pretty funny, how you drop everything and run to his rescue when they're around his car seat. Two weeks ago in the morning when you got up, I had already taken Demi to your nanny in the living room and when you didn't see him, the first thing you said when you sat up was "Where Dem Dem?" I was like AWWWW!!!! Lol. Whenever his crying you tell him sorry and if he's napping in the room and wakes up crying you start yelling at me to go get him. As far as the smacking goes, I figured in just a couple of months, you'll learn very quickly not to put your hands on him. I'm waiting...

Just two months away from 2. Words will never be able to express just how much you've changed my life. I love you MoMo!

HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY!!!

These Moments...

Last night after putting the kids to bed, I joined hubby in the living room. He was laying on the carpet on his laptop working on a presentation for work. I sat on the couch and also got on my laptop to do some work. I was out of the office in a class half of the day and I wanted to go over somethings and also check emails. I usually try to leave work at work.

Anyways, hubby had the TV on MTVJams and they were playing some really good throw back slow jams. Lauryn Hill's "Turn your light down low" came on and hubby put his head up and said "would you like to dance?" I don't even know if he meant it(lol), but I said "Sure, I would love to". To my surprise, he actually got up and stretched his hands to me, so I put my laptop away and reached for his hands. We slow danced to the song and while I held him close, I thought about how good this felt and how this moment was the best part of my LONG day! Of course hubby and his silly self threw off my thinking by putting his hands probably where they belong ;)

After the song, I told him thank you for the dance. He got back on the carpet and I sat back down and we both continued working. All it took was less than five minutes. Sometimes we both get so caught up in our day with work and the children, and we think planning a getaway either to the movies or maybe out of town is what we need. Those are awesome and gahlee! I look forward to them and need them in my life! Lol. However, some of these moments, unplanned and unexpected leave longer lasting memories...

Here Today And Gone Tomorrow

I moved to a different department at work about two months ago. Generally, the cross functional parts related to each team in the department all sit within the same space. I met everyone on my new team besides the person that sat right next to me. He was in our MLP(Merchandising Leadership Program), which is the route one would take to get into merchandising, and his temporary seat was with my new team since he was learning our business. Apparently, he was offsite taking classes. The following week I came in the office, they had taken his name plate down and were going to move him to a different seat. A cross functional part we lacked got promoted to my team so we needed her to sit around us and that's why they moved him.

I just got back from Atlanta on a mini vacation and prior to leaving, the MLP associate stopped by my desk to see me. He said he just wanted to introduce himself since he was out when I came onboard. We chatted for a short time, he told me a little about his background and so did I. I thanked him for taking time out to come see me, and he went on his way. Yesterday, while working, an email came through announcing the passing of an associate. I looked at the email confused, read it, and was left in a more confused state. I knew that name very well but I was hoping it was not who I thought it was. I turned around and asked one of my colleagues who the email was referring to and my fear was confirmed! He was the one, the MLP associate! I was dazed.

Apparently, the day after I went on vacation, he got out of work that day a little late preparing for a presentation the next day. He was perfectly okay when he went home. He went to bed that night and never woke up the next morning. According to what I heard, he was breathing on his own but had no brain activity and that was his condition until he passed the day before the email was sent.

Several things ran through my mind when I turned back around to look at my computer. How fragile is this life? This to me brings relationships into perspective. How do we manage them? And what message are we passing across? What if that message good or bad is the last message? There are no do-overs, once this life on earth is over. I appeal to you as you read this to take inventory of your life. Make every wrong right, follow your dreams, and get to know God.

I thanked God for His Grace and managed to continue my work. My prayers are with his family. May they find comfort in Christ.