Tuesday, May 31, 2011

I will admit....

I am an coffee-aholic!

give me a cup from a good ol fashion coffee maker, or some thing fancy I will drink it.
Lately at work, it seems to be the only thing my diet consists of during the day.  ugh...  I know it's to much, but it's easy and I can drink it while doing a client and it's not awkward sipping a cup of coffee compared to shoving my face with food!
Last week I made some smart ass comment to my husband, "the day I give up coffee will be the day he gives up candy!"  He's a total candy hoarder and has a special shelf in the kitchen the kids don't even know about full of candy!  
Saturday afternoon, as I'm complaining (on are way home with a back seat full of kids screaming and all hyped up from seeing Kung Fu Panda 2) how I could really go for a coffee, Justin looked at me and said "I thought you were giving that up?"  I looked at him like he was smokin something crazy and maybe needed to share? He looked all crazy back at me and said "I haven't had any candy for 3 days now, I thought that was the deal?"  WHAT????!!!!!!  Ok well maybe next time you decide to actually go along with a bet you should tell the other person!  Now I will say a little friendly competition between husband and wife is truly needed every once in a while. ;)  So I have now not had even one coffee for 3 days and will admit (only to you, not him) I feel great!  I actually feel like I have more energy, then when I was drinking it!

Monday, May 30, 2011

the end of my 3 day weekend

what a great weekend we had!  I loved being home and spending all my time with my kiddos!  The hubby had to work, but we still got to see each other on Saturday so we got a little family time.  :)
Ending our weekend with baking today! Oh how I missed the kitchen and baking.....


plus a yummy "kid friendly" trail mix.  It was a busy productive day and I loved every minute of it!

All girl!

The fun we have when mom brings home all her polishes from work!

Makes one happy happy girl, getting her toes and fingers painted any color she wants!

Sunday, May 29, 2011

When you ask a 3 year old to clean

This is what you get!


love her to pieces, but I think we are going to have to work on her cleaning ;)

Monday, May 23, 2011

Saturday, May 21, 2011

This Moment


Sitting on the couch with my kiddos, eating popcorn, and looking out the window at this! 
I feel so lucky to have a view like this out my living room window!  
The mountains are gleaming white, with the colors of dusk and darkness blending together to make a light grey hue over the mountains, and then you see a faint light pink outlining the back of them.  
BEAUTIFUL
(wish I had a better camera to actually give you the picture I am seeing)

Life Lately...

I feel like it's been forever since I've been on here rambling about my no non sense life.  But I guess that's what happens when life gets busy and I leave my computer at home, cause I really don't have the time to chat or write when I'm at work!

Work...  Oh man..  Talk about crazy busy right now.  I'm so SO thankful I'm busy especially in my line of work but oh my goodness I'm feeling like that is all I ever do anymore!  The salon is picking up and summer is coming and that means my busy season is just around the corner!  Wait I'm already there!!! 
I love every minute of it, except when I have to drop off the kids.  :(  This sucks!  I truly don't know how you full time working mommies out there do it!  not only is it breaking my heart when my little Averee is crying at the door cause she doesn't want me to leave BUT I have no time to keep up on all my chores around the house! My laundry is so backed up it's scaring me to actually get started on it so it just keeps getting put off, until the weekend and then my wonderful husband tackles it. hehe  This time of year is my favorite time for planting and getting my outside all ready for flowers and lookin pretty.  and well lets just say that has been put off also so outside is totally not looking pretty right now.  It's sad actually....  But through this all I know I can't complain and I need to just be thrilled that I'm as busy as I am.  AND THANKFUL that my kids get to be home with daddy or get to spend time at their aunts and uncles when I'm at work.  I know, I know we are all so spoiled! But they have been my life savers lately! 

Other then work life is just busy with everyday stuff.  Ryder is all signed up for Kindergarten and Averee for Preschool next year!  Monday we have open house for Ry's new class, and can you believe he only has 3 weeks left of school!  Summer is coming upon us way to fast!  I love my son to death but I have to keep him busy or he will be bouncing off the walls not knowing what to do with himself from the time he wakes up until he goes to bed!! Averee would be thrilled just to play outside all day and wonder around in her own little world being a pretty pretty princess.  All she tells us is "when I grow up, mommy I"m going to be a princess!"  I love her to pieces!!

The Kids:

Ryder: My talkative, outgoing, all smiles, and loving boy.  all he is in to right now is Lego's!  Everything is Lego's!  I think this next year I'm actually going to get him in to a Lego/Mechanics building club cause I really have never seen another 5 year old that can build what he can!  
He seems to finally be growing!  this sounds silly but my little Ry guy is the second littlest in his class and has always been on the lower end for height and weight.  He finally is in a 5T!!  We have been having some issues with his tummy for the last few months.  the poor guy has been having some really bad reactions to sugar.  I know it sounds wonderful to most moms.  Yay no sugar!  but it's hard and we are taking it day by day and have taken him off all refined sugar and slowly cutting out processed foods.  Seems to be working cause we haven't had any problems for a couple weeks now.  Wish us luck, for the whole family is slowly making these changes and lets just say it's a little easier for some then others.  ;)

Averee:  My shy, sweet, caring, sensitive, fashionista!  She is all about shoes and strawberry shortcake!  She still isn't to talkative like her brother, but is slowly figuring out if she wants to be heard or get a word in edge wise she has to be loud.  LOL  you will all of a sudden hear this sweet high pitched voice yelling over her brother "it's my turn to talk!!!"  I can't help but giggle every time this happens, cause Ryder is so me with his loud voice.  Averee is all girl, and all about what she wears and having her hair done daily, having her nails painted, and matching accessories!  Opposite then her mommy, but I love the girly things she brings out in me everyday.  :)  She is still growing like a weed and is only about a quarter inch shorter then her bother.  She also is in a 5T!  I get asked at least once a week if they are twins!!

I wouldn't be able to make it through the last month, month and half without my wonderful husband!  He is picking up all the slack at home and always has a smile on his face when I roll in around 10 o'clock at night from the salon and just want to go straight to bed.  He picked the kids up, feed them dinner, picked up any mess, bathed them, tucked them in to bed and has all my favorite shows recording so I can catch up on them later.  What more could a girl ask for!?

Now that I'm a little more caught up on here hopefully I can keep up on my daily/weekly blogs!

Sister Date!

Last weekend I had the chance to actually take the time out of my crazy busy schedule and have a little.. "much needed" sister date! (it was about 9 o'clock at night, late for both of us!) We had a great dinner then headed to see a movie. 

Hilarious movie!!  A must see!

For my sister.
 
Yeah I know that there is pain
But you hold on for one more day and you
Break free, break from the chains 
;)

Totally Chic

What I do for a living I absolutely LOVE and this is why.
I could wear this "polish" and no one would think twice about it!
In love with this look!
Totally chic.  Well I guess in my little beauty world.  haha

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Catch up time!

The weekend is coming and guess what? I'm finally going to have the weekend off and I'm going to have a little time to actually catch up on my blog!!!

But for now I will leave you with my new little joy. 

It's nothing fancy, but I'm enjoying it so much!!
It's the little things that make me happy, I'm just a simple girl.  :)

Thursday, May 5, 2011

A little "extra" Vitamin D

I know it's been awhile.  But we have been or should I say I have been SO BUSY at work lately when I get home all I want to do is crash.  On top of being super busy at work, it seems everyone I mean everyone in our family has been super sick.  First it was Ryder, then Averee, then both my sisters, husband, brother in law, brother, and all 4 of my sister's kids.  Yup I was the only one that did not come down with this nasty nasty stuff!!  Easter was filled with a bunch of sickies but we still have fun.  The kids started to get better, but ended up having to take Averee in for an ear infection (first one of the season!!!) turned out to be a double ear infection, and while we were there she wanted to look at Ry's ears and he had his FIRST ear infection ever!  Got them on meds, and they are doing great.  Justin is still fighting it, but I'm sure it's cause he hasn't slowed down at all to let his body recover. 
 
Today was the first day I feel like I may be coming down with it.  SO....  I have decided to start the Emergen-C, and all the reading I have been doing I'm loading I mean LOADING up on Vitamin D for 3 days and they say it should kick it with no problem!  Lets hope!!  I can't get as sick as everyone has.

Here's to a few "extra" bottles of liquid Vitamin D!
Let's hope it works!!