March 2016 Birthdays!

Hi all! This past week we celebrated not one, but two Birthdays in the LaFon Household.. whew! This past Wednesday, March 1st was my Moms Birthday & then on the 3rd was my parents Foster Child Nevaehs 5th Birthday!   On the 1st the majority of the fam bam (minus the kids in school) went out to lunch at Lazy Dog Restaurant at Downtown Summerlin.  We had to do lunch because JJ and I worked at night so we wouldn't be available to celebrate at diner time.  Which Nicole ended up getting an ice cream cake to sing Happy Birthday to our Mom after dinner with all the little ones because most of them were not at the lunch.  But I digress. 

I was personally excited to go to Lazy Dog because I had been wanting to go there since it opened and hadn't gotten a chance.  My parents had previously gone one time and I am so glad they liked it enough to choose it for the birthday lunch! I got a Salad and a Chicken BLT minus the L and add Avocado! Ha! OMGSH- I also had THE BEST Strawberry Lemonade  I have ever had! Highly recommend it! The kids made their own pizzas- which they loved doing! It was a lovely afternoon- and we left the restaurant very, very full- with doggy bags to take home for later! We even made sure to tell them it was Moms Birthday so for dessert they brought over an ice cream sundae over with a lit candle on top and we all sang Happy Birthday!  It was a very lovely lunch!  P.S. Nicole got the flowers pictured below- she had wanted to get our Mom Dandelions but they didn't have any so she got Daisies instead!

*On a side note- I have a very photogentic family... At least I think so- at the very least they LOVE taking photos- just like me!

 

 

  

I love you Mom, and I hope you had an awesome birthday!! XOXO 

 Keeping the Birthday Train going, we celebrated Nevaehs 5th Birthday at Chuck E Cheese on Friday Night, the night after her actual birthday, the 4th of March!  We met up with her brother who is placed in another Foster Home.  Out of respect for both of them because they are Foster Children I will not post pics of either of their faces, but they are super cute kids- especially Nevaeh!  

Everyone had a great time.  The only one not there was JJ, but Nicole and I took one for the team and partied with the little ones! We had pizza and salad and cake!  The kids played around the in play place and Dad also got everyone tokens- which Nicole and I kept the majority of said tokens for ourselves and had the best time playing all the arcade games- in fact Nicole killed this one game- she was 3/3 in this jump rope game and like doubled her ticket count lol.  Ryder P just kept running around- I mean we would blink and he was gone- or blocking some other kid out after they put their own token in and stealing their game-play lol.. Whoops, sorry kids! 

The kids kept watching Chuck E perform on stage.  They didn't know whether to love it and sing/dance along or be scared shitless, sometimes they were all of the above lol! 
I felt super cute because Heidi did my hair- thanks Heidi!  At Chuck E Cheese we also sang Happy Birthday to N and she opened her presents! She loved them. She was a happy birthday girl! Mission Accomplished!  I also took some silly photos with Ryder & Nicole- and Heidi got a really pretty one of herself- pictured below! It was just a really fun evening and for once the kids all acted great!

 

I hope everyone had a great weekend! We spent it recouping from the Birthday Fun of last week! Now its time for a new week and new #lafonfamilyadventures Oh and if you wanna check out instagram photos of Birthdays past check out the hashtag #lafonfamilybirthdays and you can find any and all I have posted in the last few years of all of our Birthdays! 

Hope to blog again soon.. Need some inspiration on what to Blog about next.. 

Any ideas?? I have a few posts lined up to start, but we shall see! Until then...

Peace & Love
Molly

How Do You Handle Your Ex Getting Engaged?

So this year has already started out interesting.. and it has only been 13 days.  Somehow stars aligned and I was alerted to the fact that my ex-husband got engaged on Christmas Eve.  To say I was shocked, caught off guard and a little speechless would be an understatement.  I just kind of sat there for a second looking at the words "so and so is engaged to HIM" on my phone screen.  I have been divorced for almost 2 years now, and yet the idea of "him" being engaged to someone is very surreal.  If you want a back-story on all the divorce/relationship stuff read my past blog posts here:

• When I Got A Divorce
• One Year After The Break-Up
• Year 2

Well I hadn't really made this news public knowledge until now.  I have only spoke about it to a few family members and a few close friends.  One, I am sure no one really cares, and it isn't that big of a deal to the realm of the universe or whatever, but in my universe.. it's not that its BIG news it's just weird news. I obviously have all of these feelings about this news in itself, but more firstly, it totally just makes me even more turned off by marriage.  Years later now, I have not even tried to date anyone, let alone get engaged and married to someone else.  I am not ready, but the idea but he is just feels like an ever bigger disrespect to the whole institution of marriage and exactly why I do not want to get married again.  I have never done research, but I feel like there have been studies done that show more men have gone on to get married again after divorce than women.  I then moved on to some other fun emotions, like anger.  I kept saying how is this fair?  How come he gets the happily ever after?  I truly do not think he has "changed" his ways or whatever.  It is like I am trying to better myself, and it is not the right time for me to be with some right now anyway, but still, I did not do anything wrong and deserve to have my happiness before he does! Right?!  All of this started to make me feel lonely for the same reasons.  

There was a general consensus among those I shared this news with- their opinions were obvious- that I am better off, and that I will get my happily ever after someday, and basically everything along those lines... and in my heart of hearts I agreed with them in some ways, but none of them have ever been in my position so they do not understand they situation, and cant understand my fingers and where I am coming from.  I allowed to have a few feelings about this, as long as I do not set up shop and hang out in them.  Which I have not.  

All I have to say to him is I hope you get it right this time for your sick and this girls.  

And I am not alone.  I have my family who loves me and my friends who are there for me.  I have a pretty kick ass support system.  They let me vent and they crack me up, and they give me the best advice!  

I guess what I am trying to say is its okay to have feelings about it.  It is okay to upset or angry, but don't wallow in it.  Take the high road, and move on- it may be gut-wrenching, what has happened, but it is nothing worse then what I have already been through- and that is a fact!  I am choosing to just let it go at this point.  I am in a whole new chapter of my life and to be honest at this point this man seems like a whole different person that I do not know, and it is not relevant to my life anymore. 

How did you handle your ex getting engaged/married? 

Peace & Love

Molly

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year all! I meant to publish this sooner but literally the day after New Years I fell ill with some sort of flu bug for the third time in 6 weeks! Of all the luck... seriously. Anywho... I had a great New Years Eve and I hope all of you out in the blog-o-sphere did too. I spent the evening with good friends with whom I have now spent the past 3 NYE's with.  I seriously wouldn't have had it any other way, it just felt perfect, a tradition.  

We had some drinks, had some chips and dip, danced, watched the ball drop in NYC when it became 2016 (east coast time), played a couple rounds of beer pong, and just talked and hung out! It was fun and chill.  I had a great time!  Not a lot of people showed up, but we literally didn't pay no mind to it, just having fun and enjoying the evening!  We had vodka and Jager, beer and wine.  I did a few shots, but mostly sipped on my peach vodka and cranberries all night.  Thank you Loraine and Kirk for having me.  I had a fantastic time.. until NYE 2017 (lol)! 

p.s. I feel like as the night went on I felt the need to take more selfies lol, and I am just posting the non blurry ones lol!

my most liked photos for 2015 on instagram, followed by a couple snaps of me and Turtle and Ryder because they wanted to hang out with me while I was trying to get ready. 

 

The NYE CREW!

The morning after lol.. not too bad.

 And just for funnies...

Peace & Love

Molly