Best Mothers Day Gift!

This was the best Mothers Day gift I could get.  My daughter Brittani, graduated from Troy University today.  I am so proud of her. 

I am so happy my family was able to come and support her.  I love them!!!

Grill time!!

 

I am on the hunt for a grill.  This is part of my whole plan of crossing stuff off my bucket list.  lol. People who know me, know that this has not been a favorite of mine.  I really don't have a real good excuse as to why.  In my mind grill seems like a lot of work...and I don't like a lot of work...lol  But here I am out looking for a grill.  I am having a cook out next week, and right now there is no grill on my deck.  Did you know that the grill doesn't come already put together?  I was so upset about that.  Trying to find someone to come put that together is going to be impossible.  I think I will pay the extra $79.99 to get someone to bring it to my house to assemble it.  I think I will try it out as soon as I get it...you know do a test run before next Saturday.  I am so excited!!!!

Squat Challenge - Day 1

Today was the first day of the 30 day squat challenge.  My thought...so far so good.  I think when I got to squat 40 I started feeling the pain. But I know if I want to see some results I need to put in the work.  I gained all 15lbs back that I lost but funny enough I am still in a size 10.  I don't know, maybe I was in a size 10 all along and just didn't realize it. Today was the first day and I didn't have anything bad to say about this challenge...I will keep you posted on my journey to 250 squats.

Bantu Knots

So I have put it off long enough...I came home and did some bantu knots on my hair.  I have watched several videos on how to do it....I hope this turns out okay.  If not then back to the drawing board.

I think I parted it to wide....but we will see..

 

well I tried...

side view

yeah...spaced too big

"Puffing" it today...

I was unable to twist my hair last night, so I decided to go to a favorite style of mine.  The puff! I remember when I was praying to the hair gods to allow my hair to grow so I could have one...lol

Twist out...Night out

 

I am feeling some kind of way tonight!!! lol.  This is my twist out using Curls Unleashed.  I wish I would have taken the pictures of my twist before I took them apart...oh well.  I was heading out to a birthday party...Don't I look good!!! lol  

 

I am enjoying being natural!!!  I don't know why it took me so long to join the team :-)!

Trying a new product: Au Naturale

Of course, the product junkie in me has to try something new.  This is the product I used to twist my friend hair and I love the way her twist out looks so yes I wanted to use it on my hair.  I was forgetting the most important thing...not to expect the same results as her...why you ask?  Because our hair is two different textures....so I didn't like my hair when I first took it down...first because I twist my hair bigger than I normally do, then when I untwist it I tried to leave it the same like I always do. The only other thing I didn't like about this product is that it was more like a gel and my hair felt a little crunchy..but my twist looked great... Wrong thing to do.   The pictures below are the results of the twist out...

 

 

 

As the day went on I started to like my hair.  I think I am going to give this product another try,  but I am going to twist it a little different.  This time I will take my time and part my hair smaller.  I feel like that will make a big difference.  More pictures below...Also I wont pull it apart that makes it very frizzy...