Oh Barefoot Contessa!

I think we all know I am not a great cook.  I really feel sorry for my husband and child because I am not the best at cooking meals for us.  It’s something I just need to bite the bullet and do!  Our family from the U.K. got here safe and sound yesterday and they are at the zoo with Grana now ♡
When Terence’s cousin Adrienne got here she started cooking right away in my kitchen.  She just whipped up dinner for the babies last night and I woke up to eggs and toast this morning!  Talk about great house guests….I have my very own home chef right now!  I should be the one cooking for them, but I have no idea what I would even make besides popping some Pillsbury cinnamon rolls in the oven.  More than likely they will end up like this…..Oh Lordy!
One of my favorite people to watch is Ina Garten aka Barefoot Contessa.  She has the most awesome house and garden on the coast.  I would kill for her garden.  Seriously. 
And Jeffrey, her husband, apparently only comes home on the weekends?  What is up with that???
At least he always comes bearing gifts from the cheese shop or a bottle of wine!
Lucky Ina!
The most hilarious site. ever.

“Oh Jeffrey!  Lets go down to the beach and have dinner tonight! 
I’ll make your favorite and we can have cocktails and toast to your trip next week!”
“What do you do while I’m away Ina???”
“Oh I’m buying more denim shirts and working on all my new recipes honey!”

Terence and I were watching 30 Rock the other night and this dialogue was on the show….I cracked up!

I was browsing around on Etsy the other day and I found this beauty!
I really want need this because Connor as started to eat my earrings and tangle all my necklaces. 
He just loves to get into the things on my night stand and dresser! 
I am without a car today.  I left mine at the house for our fam to use.  I asked my co-worker to get me a Starbucks because I was going through withdrawals.  She happened to be going to a place right next to where I used to work and stopped into that particular Starbucks.  My old Starbucks buddy Brian wrote me a sweet msg on my Starbucks cup!  He misses me  ♡  I miss ya’ll too!!!  I used to go every day and they are the BEST Starbucks peeps out there!
Happy Hump Day!

Tuesday Brain Dump

I am clearly looking forward to meeting all my friends in a couple weeks at the Dallas Blogger Meetup!  But if I don’t stop eating this CRAP I am going to blow up into a roly poly!  I’ve got to stop this business ASAP…no more candy bars!!! 
I mean why am I doing the C25K???
My sweet friend Lauren told me about KT Tape.  It has been helping some, until last night we started week three of C25K and my knees are killing me again, even with the tape on!  I think I need to take a breather and just walk, not run.  I’ve never really been a runner and I think I need more time to build up my body to this point instead of starting this cold turkey.  I don’t want to ruin my knees and then end up hobbling around everywhere. The pain is killing me!
 Awhile back I mentioned I ordered a box of makeup samples from Birchbox.com.
You go online and fill out a profile and for $10 a month you get a deluxe box of samples.
 So this was my first box- I got samples of the above products.
  • First of all I selected MAKEUP as what I wanted most in my box.  I got skincare???
  • I received a piece of paper with flower seeds in it to plant?  What do I do with THIS?
  • I also got a plastic display of nail color selections, again what do I DO with this???
Overall, it wasn’t too bad.  This month’s theme was “green” products, so I guess it fit the theme.  I hope next months box contains more items pertaining to my profile though.  We shall see!
 I am officially finished breast feeding!!!!
Can I get an amen?  I made it almost 14 mos. and I am so proud of myself!  I am glad to have a bit of freedom back and not be chained to the pump anymore!  I can actually take a full lunch break at work, I can sleep an extra 30 min in the morning, and I can go to bed early now too!  And the best part I don’t have to wear a bra 24/7!!!! 
Random question: Does Alicia Silverstone EVER wear a bra???
Every picture I’ve seen of her she has those things swinging around like tether balls.  Once she has that baby she’s gonna have to strap a bra on because she’ll be leaking!  And you know she is gonna breastfeed because she’s all vegan & holistic like that!
 I sent my sweet Summer a mustache pillow last week 🙂
I had seen it weeks before at a local store and there was only one on the shelf.  I was just praying they still had it because I knew she had to have it!  I got there and it was still there so I mailed it off and she got it!

Random thought for the day:

I was thinking of something this morning….nothing in particular brought this on.  But I was thinking about some of the things I do in life and ask myself “Would that person be proud of what I am doing?”  Often times I ask myself what if my Papa could see me from Heaven living my life….would he approve of the things I do?  He’s not physically here, but if he could see me and everything I do during the day would he be proud?  And the answer to a lot of things is “No”.  Then I began to think, yes, Papa is not here but he would not be happy about it.  God is not physically here either….yet I don’t tend to value God’s opinion as much because I don’t have a memory or a relationship with him like I did with my Papa.  That is not right.  Not right at all.  My relationship with God should be just as important….in fact more important.  And I should value what God thinks of my life and decisions even more than I would Papa’s.  Which tells me my relationship with God is not as personal as it should be if I don’t even value what God’s opinion of my life is and I just shove it off and say “Well, God’s not really here so what does it matter?”  It does matter because He sees and hears everything….and I just have to remind myself that.  He is here…he is present…and that does matter.  AND GOD CARES MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE WOULD!

I often find myself spending time doing things of no value at all.  Some of those things involve the Internet and being on my phone.  I never ever want to put these material things over time with my family.  My family comes first, and sometimes I need to check myself before I wreck myself.  I love to blog and I love to tweet…Facebook or whatever….it’s just finding balance that has been hard for me.  So I may not have as much time to do the things I once did, my house may not me perfect, and my makeup may be smudged….but I’m okay with that because the decisions I am making are finally ones I am proud of.

Maybe this makes no sense to anyone but me…ha..ha..

Looking forward to family getting here tonight and enjoying time spent with them!

What are you looking forward to this week???

Weekend Wrap Up

It was a great weekend!  As always they fly by way too fast. 
So here’s a little re-cap of what we did….
I think Connor looks like such a little boy here
13 1/2 months
He’s lost all his “baby” looks 🙁

I tried to snap some recent photos of Connor while he was standing still.  The boy is on the MOVE!  He is actually the only walker in his Sunday school class.  Terence and I kept our 2 year old Sunday school class yesterday at church.  Those kids are so cute!  But honestly that has to be the L-O-N-G-E-S-T two hours of my week keeping up with 5-8 two year olds!  The Lord is preparing us for what is to come!

So Friday night I got home from work and I made about 60-70 cake balls for our friend Cy’s first birthday on Saturday.  We also went out to eat with Uncle Adam and Aunt Christa at Red Robbin.  (No photos because U. Adam doesn’t like his photo taken!)  We had a great time and it was nice having them there to entertain C-man while I was baking!  Come babysit anytime you two!!!!

It really is hard to get things done when the young-un is hanging on me like this!
“Pick me up Momma!”
 Connor’s been so snuggly lately and he LOVES to give hugs and kisses to everyone! 
 These are the finished cake balls 🙂
Cy had a puppy themed party
 Above is the birthday boy and his Momma got a HUGE bounce house! 
It was really fun for the older kids 🙂
 Connor was obsessed with this hoola hoop. 
Here are all the kids playing “pin the paw on the puppy”
They also had a dance off competition to “Who let the Dogs out” it was too cute!
 Opening presents and eating cake
Here are all the kids in their party favors.  They all got little doggy ears and noses 🙂
I am going home tonight and I have got to get my house straightened up.  We have T’s cousin and her family from England coming to stay with us all week until Saturday.  We are so excited to see them and baby Ethan!  Lots of pics to come I’m sure! 
Enjoy your Monday and eat that Easter candy because it’s the last week on the shelves!!!
ha..ha..ha…

It’s Friday Ya’ll!

It is finally FRIDAY!!! Hip hip hooray!!!
Here’s me and my boo boo before I left for work this morning
I love this little dude so much!
 Kissing his Noah’s ark animals 🙂
Today on Kelly’s Korner it’s show us your favorite books!
Guess what mine is:
DUH!!!
It’s the Twilight series!!!!

My twin sister and I are a little obsessed and I own way too much Twilight memorabilia.  I don’t care and don’t judge me….I am a 13 year old teenage girl at heart!

I have been to a Twilight party HERE.
Look he sparkles!
I can’t wait until the new movie comes out in NOVEMBER!!!
I also enjoyed the Shopaholic series, the books are way better than the movie was.  I have also heard the Hunger Games is a really good book series.  If I ever have a moment to read again that is what I’ll be reading!  I don’t have as much time to read as I used to. 
In other news : Terence and I are on day 6 of couch to 5K and my knees are killing me!
We eat a fruit bag and an egg for breakfast and are trying to diet again…..Lord help me!!! 
I LOVE FOOD TOO MUCH!
Hope ya’ll have a great weekend 🙂
Live, Laugh, Love….Enjoy!

Sunshiney Day

I got home from work yesterday and we didn’t want to go to the grocery store, seriously we have no food in our cabinets.  We went to Red, Hot, & Blue because I had a buy one meal get one free coupon (score!)  So we used that and ate up some BBQ!  On our way home we drove through Braums and got some ice cream.  We were pulling in and saw this truck with about 1400 post-its on it!!! Ha..ha..ha…I would have been so mad if this was my car!  Someone got punked on their birthday….poor dude!  It was pretty funny though!
 Eating my chocolate double dipper
Perfect summer day….eating ice cream with the windows rolled down….ahhhh!!!
 Connor is tearing up some biscuits, mashed potatoes, and BBQ chicken
And he is FINALLY drinking out of a sippy!  It’s the ones with straws in them 🙂 
We still have a bottle, but are slowly graduating to the sippy permanently.
I’ll be so glad to get those bottle racks off the counter and it will free up so much space!
Tomorrow’s Friday ya’ll!!!
Whoopidy Doo 😉

Mom’s Night Out

I met up with some gals last night at Chimys for some mexican food and margaritas.  I know all four of these girls from Twitter/Blogging.  It was so nice to meet them and visit with them.  It was kind of hard to talk and hear each other with the loud music, but the weather was great and these gals were all just as awesome in person as they are online 🙂  Thanks ya’ll and I hope we can get together soon because every now and then Momma needs a night out right???
 Me, Ashley, Erin, Jenn, & Bronwyn
Okay- So every morning I roll outta bed looking like poo.  I always feel like a chicken with their head cut off.  Trying to get myself ready, Connor ready, his meals packed for the day, both of us dressed….blah…blah…blah….
So curious what is your morning makeup routine?
 So this is moi ready to slap on some makeup before I got my hair fixed this morning…..
(I do have foundation on though!)

The is my explosion of makeup.  Some stuff I haven’t even worn in months!  I have several things I like and then there are things I only use on occasion. 

And then there is the twisted and knotted up cords for all my curling irons.  My hair is very curly and I usually straighten it or go over it with a big rod curling iron.  I love my Ginalli iron too for days I want to wear it wavy.  Options! Options!

Right now I am using the Makeup Forever line for my foundation and so far I really like it!
I’ve also used their HD Foundation and I think I liked that better than the mat velvet.  I love Nars, Chanel, and Clinique for my eye shadows.  And I have a Chanel bronzer that I am in love with because it goes well with my fair skin.  I hardly ever wear lipsticks or lip gloss…that’s probably why my lips are always dry!
So what is your makeup routine?  Favorite products??? 
And just FYI – I’m having trouble with pop ups on my computer, so that is what is causing the issues with commenting.  If you have a pop up box for comments on your blog I cannot comment for some reason 🙁 So please link your email to your profile so I can at least email you back!
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Glamour Shots!

Do ya’ll remember Glamour Shots?  I used to think they were so fun.  Bonnie and I had them done at 14, 16, and 18 years old.  I found some on the computer the other day and just started laughing.  I think the whole Glamour Shot store has changed now and the pictures aren’t so cheesy looking anymore.  I’d love to do a link up and see all your past Glamour Shots if you had them done 🙂 
This was 18 years old
Me, Bonnie, and my best friend Sara all went to the mall to get them done
16 yrs old
Don’t you love the patriotic vest???
Ha..ha…ha…ha…!!!!
Me & Bonnie together 🙂
ADD YOUR GLAMOUR SHOTS BELOW!!!