Valentines Craft for my baby boy's 1st Valentines exchange

So today I find out that Valentine exchange is tomorrow for my 3 year old at daycare.
Well so I had to skip sleeping before work and this is the creation.
I just love them sooooo much. They are so cute. The pic isn't very good but I took it with my phone.
I whipped these babies up in about 30 minutes. Cut, glued and Levi stuffed. Love Love Love them.
Stay tuned for my next project.
These little containers could be used for baby shower gifts, Halloween, Christmas, Easter, etc.
Enjoy..... When I have a minute I will do a tutorial.... So simple...

Yes I stole this idea but I don't remember who I stole them from so I can't even give the proper credit to. So if you may know feel free to add to the comments who deserves the credit.
These are just awesome gift containers... And stinking cute!

My face is as smooth as a baby's bottom:)

So I went to my laser hair removal today and I was kind of nervous. But it wasn't bad at all. I go back in 4 weeks but the results from today are amazing.
My face is as smooth as a baby's bottom.
I'm absolutely ecstatic.
So ZZ TOP don't worry no competition from this girl!

I'm getting old & have a goat beard! Seriously but I'm taking care of business!

So, growing up I remember my mother plucking hairs from her chin. I use to think "How gross & how weird".
Well as the saying goes "I've turned into my mother!"
Yep you guessed it.......... I've found myself sitting on my couch with a 10X Magnifying mirror plucking the ungawdly GOAT HAIRS from my chin! WTH I SAY?
Lately I have felt like I'm aging faster than Nascar's driving the INDY 500!
I wake up every morning and look into the mirror and find newly grown hairs on my face, crows feet and a wonderful frown line on my forehead.
I refuse Botox or Surgery on the face, but feel the need to fix this horrible face that is aging beyond it's years (I'm only 38 years young....o.k. ok. o.k.... I will be 39 in April but that doesn't mean I should be looking 90)
So back in December I wake up one morning and find myself in front of the mirror once again..... realizing I'm starting to scare myself on a daily basis by how much I'm beginning to age.
Well my mind starts running and later in the evening I have a client show up to get her eyelash extensions. I asked her to walk into my restroom and wash her makeup off. As I request from all clients. She walks back out and she still has her makeup on and she looks amazing. I tell her politely "Ummm you have to wash it all off, sorry" She tells me "It is all off I have my eyebrows and eyeliner tattooed".
Now my mind is going, this lady is an amazingly beautiful woman and always looks put together, she is probably old enough to be my mother and I have now decided I'm going to tattoo my eyeliner so that I can have the same benefits of being a quarter of the beauty she exudes!
So last week on Saturday I went and got my eyeliner tattooed and I'm absolutely thrilled beyond belief at the difference it has made in the way I wake up looking in the morning.
My hair is standing on end but my eyes are shining! YEE HAW! Best $300 investment I have ever made!~
Now to take care of the goat hairs...... I'm tired of the blotchy beard! Now if it was a full beard that maybe something I may consider but it's patchy.....
So tomorrow or should I say today at 11 a.m. I'm taking my trip to Mindful Women to get my face lasered and remove my facial hair from my face.
Let me tell you, I've had this appointement for 2 weeks and I was told under no uncertain terms am I allowed to wax or pluck!
Hello! What am I suppose to do? Let the damn thing grow out so I can have a ZZ Top I ask?
No honey she says... they have facial razors for women that will not give razor burns.
Well needless to say it's been the longest two weeks of my life not being able to do something about the goat beard but in 10 1/2 hours I will start my first of 6 laser hair removal treatments!
Can you say "Hallaluah" with me! Yee haw!
Stay tuned for my experience of laser hair removal to be posted....
Let us pray together that I don't have a laser malfunction and something goes terribly wrong.  I'm doing my whole face.

5 days off and moving right along

Well here it is day 5 off and still haven't managed to run but let me tell you what I have done.......
As some of you may know I am a jack of all trades. Yessum I am! Well I haven't done any candle making for quite some time but I was able to put down 46 blocks of wax!
Scentsy move over baby my freaking candles are the bomb! I love my soy wax candles. They are so fresh smelling. Today I produced the following scents:
1)Coconut Verbena Lime
2) Strawberry Jam
3) Baby Powder
4) Citrus Sage
5) Mediterranean Fig
MMMMMM my house has a nice mixture of it all. Probably stinks like butt in here but a good smelling one.
I have some scented bears I need to whip out by Thursday to take to Preston for some of my girls over there.
Whew! I was kind of a little busy bee today. I was able to get a fill on the eyelash extensions for one of my clients, took me and the baby to the Dr.'s and that was quite entertaining, whipped out the wickless candles, got my allergy shots, picked up RX's, picked Eric up in Plain City, grabbed dinner, went to Walmart to find some cute cute card stock for my cute cute new idea I'm making for friends for V-Day and I finally got to eat some grub (cold but filling), oh and talked some more to Eric's uncle Todd in Alaska about the Nook I'm going to buy. It is official the Nook Color should hopefully be in my hands by Friday. Holy Moly Macaroni do I have anymore time in this day cause I need about 6 extra hours to squeeze in some watch bands I need to make. Oh well I guess it was an ok day.

I need to focus

Well here it is January 16th and I haven't really gotten focused like I had anticipated.
Things have been absolutely crazy. But also slowed down alot to the point I'm lost and confused.
So now that life has come to a bit of a stand still I have been focusing on trying to get my hind end in gear and start running again.
Mainly because ummmmm the eating habits have become out of control.
I feel like one of those juicer *thingamajigs* that you just put the food in of large quantities and when you look inside through the clear container there is maybe an ounce of fluid in there. Well I'm believing that is what has happened to me. I put in the food and it is only an ounce in the tummy so I think I need to eat beyond no return.
My ADHD is absolutely running rampant. (as you can tell because I'm jumping from idea to idea anymore). I begin to think I'm going to go run but then I realize I need to go throw a load of laundry in the wash, so I walk into my bedroom and see that my bed isn't made, so I begin to make it and I realize I haven't heard Levi in a minute or two, so I stop making the bed and go look for Levi, I pass him playing in the hallway (which I had past him when I went into make my bed) and decide to load the dishwasher, get the dishes unloaded and start to load the dishes and realize that I haven't got my bonus points for Bejeweled today so I walk over to the computer and log onto FB and see I have a hundred notifications and then I start seeing all the responses I had and just as I click to see what someone wrote on my wall, I notice that Jane Doe's birthday is today, Oh shoot click the back button and see that I have another notification and someone just made a funny post on their status and I just have to respond to that status cause that is some funny junk there. LMAO Whew that girl is one funny chica, ok....where was I? Hmmmm oh look at that picture that Sally Sue just posted "OMG that girl just gets more beautiful with age and look at the wench she is as skinny as all get out...Uh huh!"...Oh that reminds me I was going to go run, I log off and I walk into my bedroom to get my running shoes on and realize I need to finish making my bed, I'm grabbing the pillows off the floor to stack them back on the bed, when I see wrappers on the floor that need to be thrown in the garbage, pick them up and go to walk into the kitchen to throw them away and realize "Hmmmm well maybe the garbage in my bathroom needs to be emptied, heck I will just empty all the garbages now that I'm thinking about it, then I walk into the bathroom and realize that sink is filthy, I throw that wrapper I found on the floor in the garbage and start to clear off the bathroom sink when I notice that Kylee's brush is in my bathroom...thinking to myself "That girl has been in my bathroom I wonder what she stole, I decide I'm going to investigate and go into her room and check to see if she has anything in her bedroom, I walk downstairs and walk into her bedroom when I see a million cups and plates lying around, I pick up the cups and plates and take them upstairs and put them in the sink, when I realize I need to make Levi lunch cause it's lunch time. I go get Levi make him lunch and realize I can finish those dishes I started while he is eating because I don't like leaving him alone while he eats because he might choke. So I make him lunch and realize I've really slacked because here it is 2 p.m. and I'm just getting lunch ready and Eric should be home by 6 so I'll start thawing meat out for dinner while Levi is eating. So I get Levi his lunch and look at the computer and I'm still logged onto FB and I realize oh shoot I haven't got my bonus points from Bejeweled so I sit down and click on Bejeweled and I need to wait 30 more minutes before I can play the bonus round. But look at what Mary Beth posted how cute she got her a new kitten. Ahhhhh! Oh and look at that wench UGH I can't stand that Paris O' she is a pompus biocth I've tried a million times to delete her and she re-requests me! Ugh I wish I was mean enough to just send her a message and tell her that I can't stand her and I know that the only reason why she is even got me on her friends list is so she can LURK and make snide comments behind my back cause everyone she comments to is telling me. Hmmm I want to see these trip pics that she posted with her hubby. Oh look at her thinking she is all hot in that cute outfit she is wearing. Little does she know she has a big old zit on her chin that is oozing with needing to be popped, she thinks she is just the sheetz! Ugh I have to get off her pics cause she makes me sick. Oh wait I can hide her that is what I will do. I will hide her. Go down and hide her. Oh look someone posted they just were offering bonus chips so I'm collecting "Holla".
Oh dang it it's 4:30 Eric should be home. I better get off FB, go run out to the deep freeze and grab so burger (you can throw anything together with ground beef).
Well Eric walks in at 5:15 and asks "So how was your day?" Me "Fine"  Eric asks "What'd you do all day?" Me "Nothing"
Yep I need to focus. Well maybe tomorrow.

Some days I think I'm crazy other days I know I'm crazy!

Well I'm finished with our Halloween Adult Costume Party and it was an amazing success. It is so nice to have just "Adult" time. Don't get me wrong I love each and everyone of my children dearly but I also like to have "ME" time!
Well Another month down for this year and you would think realizing that this year is almost over I would just mellow out? But no.......... I'm sitting here thinking of the million and one projects I have in mind. But mainly I'm thinking about my 3 year old son's bedroom which I really want to redecorate to my taste, but then I stop and think about being a child and the fond memories I have that I would never forget til the day I die and I thought "You know he is only going to be 3 for a year and he is only going to have the imagination and the innocence for just about 8 more years if we can help it so I thought about doing a mural in his bedroom.
He loves loves dinosaurs and dragons.....not my idea of fun but he is an All American BOY! And he loves loves love the movie "How to train your Dragon" so I thought to myself "Self, you need to decorate that child's room like a dragon fortress or something of that effect.: So here I am creating in my OCD/ADHD mind an idea of what and how to create his own DRAGON CAVE.......
And this my friends is when I realize I AM CRAZY!
My husband is going to completely thrilled. YEE HAW! Stay tuned!

Serious? I really have a little guy that has no supervision

So today is one of those days as usual. I am going non-stop and today is no different than any other day. I sleep for a couple of hours after coming home off grave yard. Take the little monster to daycare and come back to catch a few zzzzzz's before another night of grave yard. But hey no big deal because I'm off this weekend and have lots of plans. Day of watching my 13 yr old in the playoffs, then a rendevous with my hubby on an overnight excursion. It's all good. I can handle tonight even though the sleeping could have been more.
So as you know my hubby and I have very demanding jobs. They are professional jobs that require alot of PR....it's all good I can charm with the best of them.
So the hubby man is doing what he does best and is charming those that line our wallets and I'm preparing to get ready to line mine. Well I'm showered half way dressed and the 13 yr old child is off to football. Well I realize the hubby man is not home yet. So I call him and he has lost track of time. He is 3 hrs out by the time he finishes up and I am about to go on duty in 5 minutes. Well the daughter child (18) is not home. But we are still looking at the time. There is plenty of time to get someone here.
Oh and my pretty little neighbor girl loves earning the extra dollars. So I will just call her to run right over and we can get this show on the road. Well my pretty neighbor girl can't do it today. YEP! She is unavailable. I'm like WTH!? So I frantically call my sister that is across town, she doesn't answer. I frantically call the neighbor lady, she is at her part time job! I frantically call my cousin, she is off to the gym. Ok I'm stressing it's getting closer and closer to the time I have to leave. But wait the phone is ringing..... Yay it's my sister.
Me: What you doing?
Her: Brushing my teeth so I can head to my dental appt.
Me: Dang it
Her: Why what did you need?
Me: I don't have a sitter and I have to go on duty in 10 minutes. And no one is here to relieve my motherly duties
Her: I'm just going to the dentist. He can go with and he and the girl niece can play
Me: Oh really? Are you sure? *privately hoping she doesn't say No I really can't*
Her: Yah that's fine.
Me: Can you come get him *cringing because I am depending so much on her to disrupt her busy life*
Her: Yes I will be over in a minute
Me: Ok thanks
Hang up the phone and hear "MOMMY! My tummy hurts! I pooped in my underwears!"
What? are you freaking kidding me? This child hasn't had an accident in a long time! What in the heck am I going to do?
Walk into the bathroom and low and behold the child is sick. He looks like he must have the flu.
OMG! Serious? No daycare, my sister has two children; ages 6 and 6 months and my son might have the flu. Not good. Ok then *pick up the phone and dial my Sgt.*
Me: Sgt *BlanK* Ummm I'm having a bit of an issue a little emergency with my baby. Umm I'm not going to make it in tonight *cringing because I don't ever call in sick*
Sgt. *Blank* Ok have a good night
Me: thanks
Wow...... that easy huh? Well time to clean the child up. Run the bath water and get him in.
Nice, what in the heck am I going to make for dinner?
Dominos.....yep good old fashioned Pizza! YUCK!

My life as I know it.....

So I have been living in the fast lane. As you can tell because I haven't posted in a long time.
Yep you know the whole usual of working full time, picked up a part-time job making bank for a short period of time, remodeling the house, trying to find a costume for our Halloween party, dealing with my teenage son getting suspended from school, cooking, cleaning, doing another part-time job or hair on the side, being a wife & mother.  But hey it's all for a good cause right?
So the last two weeks I don't know if I'm coming or going. I have become the basket case that everyone has thought I was. So I "Use" to have this dirty little habit and quit it approximately 4 years and 1 month ago. Well I decided to pick that dirty little habit up again and I'm beginning to hate myself. I hide from my husband and kids. I know I shouldn't but yes I have picked up the "oh I can't even say the word".....
Anyway I just don't know how I'm going to quit again. I worked so hard in staying away but this time it took over my life. I plan on quitting after this pack but I really enjoy it. I always did. I only quit because I was going to try and get pregnant.
Well I have been attempting to keep myself busy to try to quit but it's not working.
I'm hoping that after this week my life will be back on track but I really doubt that.
I have a closet to mud, tape, sand and paint before our Halloween party on the 29th, I have a headboard to finish, candles, watches and signs to make all before Thanksgiving and some shelving to pull out and put new in. I'm thinking December maybe a great month to look at quitting that dirty little habit.
What do you think?

Tomorrow's a new day for my baby boy

So, we have finally decided that we are going to take our second child out of public school and put him into a private school.

It was a very hard choice to make and he cried uncontrollably when we told him.

It broke my heart but it is something that we have to do.

He is such a good kid, but he is a chameleon. He fits in with everyone.

If it's a bad situation he is there full force and the leader of the pack.

If it's a good situation there he is again Full Force ready to be the leader once again.

We have chosen to put him in a Christian school. It is going to be good for each and everyone of us.

They have bible study every day, they have chapel every Wednesdays and the classes are small.

Yeah!

Well tomorrow is the day and we will see how all goes. Hopefully it goes well. I am so excited.

Holla the shelving is done!

WOW! I'm totally amazed with my creations. There is no better feeling to have than to think up an idea and it turns out alot better than I anticipated.
So my closet in my bedroom was a total mess! Seriously? Who thinks of these stupid, impractical closet organizers? It must be a man because they do not have many clothes.
So I'm the one in this household that does any remodeling or organizing. I'm an organizer about everything, I'm so organized that I'm disorganized if that makes any sense.
So I'm sitting on my bed one day trying to take in how messy my room has become since I remarried. He blames me, I blame him. I look at my closet and think what a bunch of wasted space. So I tell him, I'm going to rip out the shelving in the closet put rods in and re-shelve. He's like whatever....(cause he's thinking if she's doing it I'm not having to & that means more John Wayne movies)....
Well I pull everything out of my closet and begin....Only problem? I don't have the strength. WOW what in the heck did they use concrete slabbing to hold them in place? Geez. So he comes home to a disaster and wants to know why I haven't got it done. Well sweet cheeks I need your braun, so will you get in there and tear out the shelving and I will do the rest?
You can see the tormenting pain in his face. But he says he will. A week and a half later the bottom portion is out. I put in the closet rod and shelving to the bottom portion and he comes home last night and is totally impressed. And he is willing to help me with me other ideas....to include framing a wall in....HOLLA!

Back to work and didn't get everything done......

Well the Labor Day vacation is over. I only have to work 2 days but I didn't get everything done that I had anticipated. I'm attempting to get my bedroom closet re-organized. I have pulled out the shelving & am putting a bar completely across. I have way too many clothes to include my husband's and not enough room. So I have decided to design something more practical which entails ripping out the old shelving & replacing it in a different area. Stay tuned for my pics. I'm actually embarrassed I did not take a pic before but rather after I started tearing it apart. UGH *note* my closet doesn't look like this normally but I feel like it looked this way so I decided to change it up......
I only work the 2 days and then I'm back to the grind stone of organizing this house!

Labor Day Weekend 2010~

Well we had an amazing Labor Day weekend.
We left Utah on Thursday to join my family in witnessing my cousin and his new bride confirm their love at their wedding. This event took place in Washington.
It has been a bit of an interesting trip with 3 kids ranging from 3 to 18 driving 8 hours straight through. Needless to say Thank the Lord for DVD players (3 to be exact), lots of junk food and a cooler full of drinks.
We decided to make it a bit of a family vacation.
I really enjoy the time I spend with my mom's sister Bonnie. I miss her so much and am not able to see her alot. Everytime I walk away from a weekend with her, her husband and her children I think I need to take more trips to see her.
The wedding was beautiful. Courtney was a beautiful bride and Beau was a handsome groom.
We are now on our way home from our festivities and should be home around 4 a.m.
We could not take ourselves away from our family but figured we better because Kylee has to work graveyard tomorrow night :(
I keep holding onto the fact that I will be retired in 7 years and 10 months and then I can make Washington or Oregon my permanent home. Ya buddy.
Well I better put the computer away, it makes it hard to drive....kidding, I'm the passenger.