August already?

The lipstick line at the factory makes 150 lipsticks a minute!


Come on now, we're in Texas... I had to do it :)

Tour of the headquarters building. Absolutely gorgeous building!

Me and my team member Chante posing in front of Mary Kay's office.

Me with my soon-to-be new car

Leadership conference for directors will be in Houston next year. Not only do we get all the perks of being a director, but they're giving us a ring, a necklace and a $1000 bonus for becoming a new director.... I'll take it! ;)

It's hard to think about Christmas during a Dallas summer but they had all of the holiday products out for display plus we got to go home with a bunch of them.

This new perfume is awesome! It's called "thinking of you" and when you open up the box you can write a personal note in it if you're giving it as a gift. How cute is that?

The Queen of unit sales being crowned on stage. Her team sold over $1,050,000 worth of skin care and cosmetics last year! She deserves that crown!

The new pink cadillac SUV. Don't you think Farrah would look super cute riding in the back of that?

For those of you American Idol fans, Jasmine Murray from the season where Kris Allen won was there to perform. Her 2 sisters are both sales directors with Mary Kay so she comes to sing at our events. She was great!

My new purse that I earned. It's hard to tell in this picture but it is really cute!

Me in the new director's suit. I wish I was that skinny! haha!

Where has the time gone? In just a couple days my baby will be 8 months. I can still remember vividly every single moment in that hospital during labor, delivery, and the days after. It's so true when they say it goes by so fast. I just got back from a 5 day trip to Dallas for our annual Mary Kay seminar and it was my first time being away from Farrah. I missed her so much. When you're with them you need a break, when you're away you miss them like crazy. I imagine this is how things will be for quite a while. My sister picked me up from the BART station when I got home with Farrah in the back seat and I hopped in and sat next to her. She stared at me for close to 10 minutes before she finally cracked a smile. I think she really wanted to make sure it was me and not an imposter. She's been a little clingy since then which I expected. These pics are from my trip. I had such a great time. I'm so proud to be a part of this company and all the good things they are doing. As we sat in the arena at the Dallas Convention Center they were literally building a Habitat for Humanity house in the parking lot. From the sales of our "Beauty that Counts" lipsticks last year alone we donated $3 million dollars to women's shelters and education to help prevent domestic violence. Those are just some of the many great things they're doing. I'm home and back to work... I have a car to win afterall ;)

7 months

At 7 months Farrah:

Weighs about 19 lbs.

Height is 27 inches

Wears size 3 diapers

Can sit unsupported for the most part. What she doesn't know is that she has limits. She sees something 5 feet away and will reach for it and then fall. But she doesn't usually fall otherwise. Isn't it amazing what limitless, big thinkers babies and kids are. They don't know any different so they just try.

Her 2 bottom teeth are all the way in. Her 2 top ones must be coming in soon because she's teething like crazy.

She loves to flip on to her stomach. And now she likes to flip on to her stomach and then immediately turn back onto her back just because she can.

Takes 2 naps a day. Usually one shorter morning nap and one long afternoon nap. And lucky for us she sleeps from about 8:30pm until about 7am.

Loves her puppy and lights up when she sees him, but doesn't quite no what to make of the cats yet. They pretty much ignore her anyway.

Loves going for walks in the baby bjorn. It's been too hot lately but hopefully we can take her out again soon.

Has strong legs, might be standing soon.

Not crawling which is frustrating to her. You can tell she wants to move but can't.

Lights up when one of us comes in to get her after she wakes up in the morning or after a nap.

Likes to turn the pages when we read... just not necessarily at the right time or in the right direction.

That's pretty much all I can think of for now. Oh and I kind of think she's the cutest 7 month old I've ever seen. Does that count for one of my facts?

Ughhh I give up

I give up on trying to blog everything in a timely manner. Finally today I decided I was going to get up at 5:30 just so I could get this entry done before Farrah wakes up. I am dedicated people. I hope you really enjoy this post because I'm sure at about 3pm I'm going to find my eyelids closing on their own accord.
Speaking of getting up early, I've been trying to get up earlier everyday for a while now. It seems like there are so many things that need to get done that don't unless I get up early to do them.
I feel like I need to get something off my chest so I'll vent to the internet world I suppose. Abe has been working a lot... like seriously a lot. Tuesdays are his days off and sometimes he gets Sundays off but M, W, Th, F he leaves here at about 8:30 and doesn't get back until 7pm and Saturday he DJ's so he leaves about noon and doesn't get back until sometimes 1am or even later. I so appreciate everything he does for our family. He does love his job so that makes me feel a little better.
Here's the problem.... I work too! Everyone's always making comments like "I hear Abe has been working a lot." or "How's Abe doing? Seems like he's been working quite a bit lately!" It's starting to get to me because, I have so much respect for stay-at-home moms and how much they do for their kids on a daily basis. For the most part, I feel like I am one, but I also have a home business that I run, and at the moment am trying to build up so I can promote myself. I do not stop moving from the moment I wake up until the moment my head hits the pillow. I am either tending to Farrah and all the things that come along with being home with a 7-month old, picking up the disaster of a house that comes along with a 7-month old, or if I'm not doing one of those things, I am on the phone, returning emails, doing a networking event, doing a facial in my dining room while Farrah's sleeping, doing one with a baby on my hip if she decides not to sleep. And the moment Abe gets home I'm out the door to do whatever work related things need to get done outside of my front door. I don't have time for TV. I'm lucky if I can catch one of my favorite half hour shows while I'm doing dishes and laundry and shoveling some food into my mouth. So, while this may come across as a bit forward, I FRIGGIN WORK PEOPLE!!!
:::Steps off soapbox and back into reality:::
So I'm sure you stopped into my blog because you wanted to see cute baby pictures and I'll give them to you. But I'll make a separate post for those because I don't find it appropriate to now include smiley, happy baby pictures after my tirade. Thanks for putting up with me people!

So many things to catch up on

Some day soon I'll be able to post more often so I don't have a mile long blog entry to try and fill you in on our lives for the past few weeks. It's 11:30pm on July 4th and I can't sleep. It's a combination of the obnoxious people setting off fire crackers and fireworks that sound like bombs going off in my backyard, and the dog freaking out because of it. Hopefully it dies down soon... I'm exhausted. Farrah is officially 7 months although I won't mention much about that or include her 7 month pictures because I'll make a separate post about that to give it all the attention it deserves. I don't think I mentioned Father's Day yet (that's how bad of a blogger I've been.) These pictures of Farrah and her daddy are from Father's Day...that's right Father's Day. I do realize it's now July 4th. Maybe by the time Labor day rolls around I'll have some July 4th pictures and stories for you. In the meantime here's how Abe's first Father's day went. As you can see from the pictures they got all dressed up and matching to have their pictures unprofessionally taken my me. They weren't going anywhere, just wanted to look snazzy for their pictures. Although Abe did get to DJ a Father's day party at a Country club later that day. He had to work in the afternoon and evening so I made sure to make our morning fun. I cooked breakfast (weight watchers recipe woot woot) and since we're trying to save money Farrah and I made his present. I know that's all he would want anyway. I decided to stamp Farrah's hand and foot prints on a piece of cardstock and write "Happy Father's Day 2010" on it and have it framed. Sounds simple enough but to try to make it more special, I thought I would video tape the whole process. So when he was at work, I set up the video camera and sat down with Farrah on the floor to try to stamp her hands and feet. Jimmy Choo came over to try to "help" but was getting in the way and trying to lick the ink. Then just as we were about to start I caught a whif of something special and smelled Farrah's bumm and realized she had pooped. I started cracking up in the video because I realized that this is our lives. Dog in the way, kid poops, then tries to eat the paper upon which we're trying to make the "perfect" gift for daddy. I didn't know it at the time but when I got up to turn off the video camera, Farrah's poop had made it's way onto my lap... HOT!

Sometimes life seems so crazy I want to cry and sometimes it seems so crazy I have to laugh.... it seems that I'm finding more and more reasons to laugh.

Craziness

Without being a Debbie Downer... this week has been almost more than I can handle... and yet here I am, Saturday afternoon and the week is almost over and I'm still here. I survived. Farrah has decided that she no longer thinks 7:45pm-7am is an appropriate sleep schedule for nighttime and has instead replaced it with 9pm-5:30am. She has taught herself how to use the railings on the crib to flip herself over onto her stomach. At first she hated it and would cry (you would think she would learn not to keep doing it but no), but now she thinks it's a pretty fun game so she'll flip herself over and laugh and then I come to flip her back over again and she smiles her big toothy smile (yes we have 2 bottom teeth!) and the process repeats itself all over again.

My Mom-in-love made Farrah the most adorable sundress and matching hat. When I opened the package my jaw dropped because I had no idea what a talented seamstress she was! ps mom if you want to start your own little side business let me know because I have 2 whole blog followers so I could take care of all of your advertising with this blog alone ;) We took pics of the dress and then had Farrah try it on and it's a little big still but will be perfect for those really hot days we get here in August and September!

As if this post couldn't get anymore scattered, I'd like to close with a line from my new favorite song by Francesca Battistelli called "It's your life"

"It's your life, whatcha gonna do? The world is watching you. Everyday the choices you make say what you are and who your heart beats for. It's an open door. It's your life."

Life update

In case you were wondering what's new with us since I've been somewhat of an M.I.A. blogger recently here goes:
I'm still doing weight watchers although with everything else we have going on I promised myself I would get started because I was tired of being large and not so in charge after having Farrah, but not go over the top and be too stressed about losing a lot of weight quickly. I just wanted some guidelines and some accountability.
Here is a picture from my wedding 10/08



And here I am Easter of this year



Not quite where I want to be. And for some reason at my wedding I felt like I was nowhere near where I wanted to be with my weight and now here I am wishing I was back to that weight. I started weight watchers a couple months ago and have lost 8 lbs. Not bad considering I really haven't been exercising on purpose (aka carrying Farrah around and going up and down the stairs all day long.) It's going to be a slow process and I guess I'm ok with that... just wish I had more clothes I could fit into!
Abe got a job for the summer since he obviously won't be teaching. He will be working in the office at the DJ company he DJ's for on the weekends. I'm really excited about this because I know how much he loves that company and the people that work there and although I know he's not an office kind of guy or a 9-5 kind of guy he will make an exception for this company because they're fabulous! If you're in the Bay area look them up www.djay.com
We're staying positive that things will turn around and teachers will be in demand again but it's nice to know that he has this job as a Plan B.
I am still working it with my Mary Kay business ;) I can't wait to put Farrah's car seat in my new Chevy Malibu that I will be done qualifying for in a couple months! Not to mention I can't wait to go to the dealership for my car party with my team to pick up my free car and just sit in it and stare at it. That will be a great day.... until then I should get back to work ;) Check me out at www.marykay.com/kristaperry
Ok I guess I'm done shamelessly plugging both of our businesses ;) Here's a cute pic of Farrah in here Polo dress... what a fashionista!

Half a year

How has it already been 6 months since my little ball of joy came into our lives? And yet, strangely, part of me feel like I can't believe she's only been in my life for 6 months (well + 9 months in the belly but you know what I mean.) I will warn you there were so many cute pictures during the 6 month photo shoot that I am bombarding you with pictures... you have been warned. She's still only rolled over about 3 times (that I've seen anyways) and she can't quite sit up on her own just yet. She likes to take her sweet time I guess. No rush! She's still sleeping through the night and her naps are hit or miss so she keeps her mama very busy during the day! I don't want to say she's brought so much happiness to our lives because it's not like we didn't already have so much to be happy about, but she has brought more joy than I could have ever imagined possible.

Tried to get her to sit up but she's not quite there yet. At least with no support.

She's really sturdy though if there's some support!

Her blank stares say so much!

"Yeah I'm cute... deal with it!"

GQ baby pose

happy girl!

get a load of those chubby cheeks and legs!

The prettiest eyes I've ever seen... and it's not just because I'm her mommy!