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September 6, 2012 by: Kara Noel Lawson

Insta Update

Summer is over. Blarg.

It was busy. A good kind of busy. The kind of busy that means I don’t get to update here as much as I would like. But that’s part of the reason I officially made this a personal blog. Here is a summer recap… with a HUGE biz update at the very end!

We had our annual Back to School Feast last night and Eli started Kindergarten today. I didn’t cry but I sure did miss him. The feast was awesome and I’ll share details in another post soon.

   Back to School Feast Back to School Feast

cookies

We had the bestest time at Pageant of the Masters with our friends! (The crazy girl behind me is my friend Amber, check out her foodie web series at The Stomach Rules!) It was a great time without kiddos for a night. We were blessed with a night at the St Regis. Where they have butlers. Butlers who organize all the makeup thrown on the counter.

Pageant of the Masters Pageant of the Masters St Regis

As you know, I’m embracing the Invisible Work that comes along with motherhood. This involves cleaning and moving furniture. My husband loves the furniture part, as seen on a screenshot of our texting.

   butcher block countertops text with hubby

Scenes of Summer…

Ladera water park Salt Creek Ladera water park

Backyard heaven Salt Creek Sunset Hike 

photo 5 Backyard heaven nutella

Dinner with friends Backyard heaven vbs

Dinner with friends Sunset Hike Sunset Hike

Mothers helper In-N-Out Burger In-N-Out Burger

My favorite summer pic…

Sunset Hike

A lil’ biz update…

  • Thank you thank you thank you for all the support with Henry – buying Fedorables and by spreading the word about his fundraising! I’m excited to share, the Hill Family received almost $2,500 in the iPad raffle. I’d like to think our kick a&$ video made all the difference.
  • We were featured on BabySteals. I love them. Thanks for all the kind words you put on their awesome FB page about us during the steal. It means a lot to me. REALLY. I love BabySteals so much I hope to do a lil’ secret surprise with them in January-ish.
  • Speaking of secrets… I can’t reveal it all, but samples for our newest Lid are in route. (Squeeeeee) 
    Many colors. (Squeeeeee)
    And you get to vote on the two we decide to sell. Voting involved. (Do you like that idea or is it lame?) 
    Maybe a new site… 🙂 It will be rad

   Eli's Lids charity    Eli's Lids on BabySteals

August 15, 2012 by: Kara Noel Lawson

Henry Update!

I got to write a check today.

A check to help bring a lil’ boy home.

Not just any lil’ boy. This one…

Bring Henry Home

People get ready.

Henry is coming home.

To his forever home.

I love this.

This is why I started Eli’s Lids.

Really.

Henry’s family is close to their $$ goal. (SO CLOSE!!!)

You’ve helped a lot by buying Fedorables. (THANK YOU!!!)

Wanna help some more?

You might win an iPad.

Henry’s family is holding a contest for the month of August and the winner will win an iPad. There are also 2nd, 3rd, 4th place prizes (maybe some Lids in that mix soon).

Tickets are only $10 each or $40 for 5 tickets! (ONLY! Only $10 and you can be part of something big. Bigger than we may ever know.) AND if you share on FB you get a free ticket. EASY. And you should just share on FB anyway because, really folks. REALLY!?!?! (old SNL reference) Read this post for all the details, but you basically just decide on an amount to donate then click on the “donate” link in their blog sidebar.

Our kids separate a portion of their money to give away. They get to decide when, to whom, and how much (approved by us, of course). Tonight at dinner we talked about Henry (again) and gave them the option to donate. They decided to use all their money to get 2 tickets. Here they are talking about it… (Cora Jane mimics Eli the first half then you get to see them bicker… a peek into my daily life.)

Are you wondering how much we were able to donate to Bring Henry Home?

I’ll tell you…

Eli's Lids donation

Yep, $350!! That’s 25% of our Fedorable profit!

Holla!!

And in case you forgot the adorable-ness of our Fedorables…

Eli's Lids Eli's Lids Fedora  Eli's Lids Fedora Eli's Lids Fedora

 Eli's Lids Fedora Eli's Lids Fedora  Eli's Lids Fedora Eli's Lids Fedora

And they are on sale now. See!

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