Day 16 - another picture of yourself

Thanks for making my hair pretty again Nicole! :)



day 15- put your ipod on shuffle: first 10 songs that play

1. Lose Control - Keri Hilson ft. Nelly
2. Only Girl in the World - Rihanna
3. What the Hell - Avril Lavigne
4. Ain't Thinkin About You - Bow Wow and Chris Brown
5. The Story of Us - Taylor Swift
6. Love the Way You Lie Part 2 - Rihanna and Eminem
7. Teenage Dream - Katy Perry
8. Sexy Love - Ne-yo
9. Your Love remix- Chris Brown
10. Alive - Black Eyed Peas
11. Born This Way - Lady Gaga
12. Boys - Britney Spears
13. Tick Tock - Kesha
14. Who's That Chick? - David Guetta ft. Rihanna
15. Marry You - Bruno Mars

Day 14 - family picture

My sister Megan's wedding day 7-21-07

here is one of my siblings and my parents and sis in law and brother in law and my nieces and Jaden.

My family's first ever family picture :) Kaylie's birthday 4-11-08

October 2008

April 2009 - My step dad Walt, my mom and the kids

September 2009

my sisters, my mom, my sister in law and the grandkids :)

Summer 2009

This is one of my favorite pictures of us! I love how dark we look :)

Christmas 2009 - Daddy, Mommy, Jaden, Kaylie and their half sister Aaliyah :)

 Spring 2010


I LOVE MY FAMILY!!!!!!

Day 13 - a letter to someone

Dear Harry,

I miss you a lot! I think about you often and wish you were here.  I miss playing Uno with you and listening to your stories. I love to play Scrabble and I know if you were here you would play with me all the time. I'm sure I could even beat ya a few times. :) I wish we would have had more time together, more time to get to know each other.
I know you would be so proud of me for the woman I've become. I am a mother of two beautiful, amazing children now. I know you would love them! And I know they would love their Great Grandpa Harry a whole bunch! Thank you for everything you did for my mom, Megan and I and for loving my Grandma so much. Thank you for loving us like your own and being a good role model in my life. I miss you sooo much!!! I know you are in a better place and hopefully playing Uno with my grandma and grandpa. :)

I love you Harry!

~Lauren

day 12

How did you find out about blogger and why do you have one?

I found out about it from my bff Nicole! She kept saying that I needed to get one for a few weeks and I was like nooo I'm good I don't wanna do that. But then I was hooked. :) Thanks Nicole!

I really enjoy blogging. It's an online journal and it's fun to read back on all the memories of the three of us. :)

Day 11

Another picture of you and your friends...

My friend Desiree and I. We have been friends since January 2005. We worked at Liberty Mutual together and hit it off our first day of work. We both started the same day and two weeks after we got to go to Boston together for TWO weeks with about 15 other people from Liberty Mutual. We went there for training, all paid for and everything. It was sooo much fun. Her and I got to share a suite together and we had so much fun together. She will be a friend I will have forever. She is a great woman, sweet, bubbly, beautiful inside and out. I love her tons!

She lives in California now so we usually meet every year in Arizona for a fun weekend. Hopefully I'll get to see her this spring. I miss her tons!!!

day ten

Songs you listen to when you are happy, bored, sad and mad.


I love music! I listen to it all day at work, getting ready, driving in the car, at home with the kids, etc. Life would be SO boring without it. Music makes me happy.
I love top 40 type of music, pop, r&b, hip-hop, country and some good house music.
Songs that make me happy right now are...Usher - DJ Got Us Falling in Love, Rihanna - Only Girl in the World, Katy Perry - Teenage Dream and California Gurls, Chris Brown - Yeah x3. I could go on and on.
I always love to listen to Taylor Swift, especially when I'm sad or mad. She writes some great lyrics and it's fun to sing a long to. "Now go stand in the corner and think about what you did!" ha!
Kelly Clarkson and Avril Lavigne I really like to listen to when I'm mad at a boy. :)

Day Nine

Something you're proud of in the last few days...

This morning I got to work 8 minutes EARLY. I woke up at 6, showered, washed my hair, dryed my hair, got dressed, then got the kids ready and fed and out the door by 7:18! And dropped them off to school (daycare) and got to work at 7:52 am. I hope I have many more days like this.

I'm also proud of my kids and how well they are adjusting to being back home and starting school and mommy working full time. They are still so happy and I love them soooo much. :)

Day 8

Short term goals for this month and why...

Make sure to be consistent with my kids and all of the great habits and manners they have. They ask "may I have some more please?" and many other great things they do. I need to stay consistent and be firm with them when I have to be.

Work out!!!! I need to start exercising again soo bad. I've lost a few pounds from my "divorce" diet. ha! But now I need to keep it off and get more toned.

Go to bed earlier so I'm not so tired.

Enjoy life and try not to get too stressed out. :)

DAY 7

A picture of someone/something that has the biggest impact on you

Jaden and Kaylie have made my life complete. I love them sooo much and I'm so happy to be their mom.