Beauty & Smiles

Friday, March 30, 2012

Too much partying with the big dogs

I am one tired girl. My crazy sisters kept me up way too late last night. Bodey was awake til past midnight, he refused to go to sleep. And i'm paying for it tonight. He's a grouch! Tomorrow I want to go to Babies R Us and buy something for the new baby. Maybe some gender neutral receiving blankets? Or I could be wild and crazy and buy pink ones! That way, if its a girl, we'll have them already. If its a boy...eh, pack them away. Eventually we'll have a girl, right?? I'm also gonna vacuum my house again tomorrow. (Loving my new vacuum!!)*Sigh* SO. so. sooo. sleepy. I'm too old to stay up as late as I did last night. I'm getting ready for bed and heading off to beddy-boo-bye-bye land.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Girls night

Parents are out of town for their 21st anniversary. The boys are having a sleepover with uncle Micah. Us girls are having girls night!! Cake pops, pizza and Disney movies!! Fun stuff. Now time to catch some zzzzzzz's....
Happy 21st anniversary daddy & mama! Thanks for being such a great marriage role model for us kids!!

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Stuffed bell peppers, vacuum cleaners & 1st birthday cakes

I made stuffed bell peppers for lunch today. They had corn and rice in them, they were yummy but both Jeff and I decided it was too much bell pepper. We decided next time I need to turn it into a casserole with the bell peppers simply chopped up inside the meat/rice/corn mix. This afternoon I went to Costco and bought a vaccuume cleaner. I can't figure out how to put it together, so I'm going to bed feeling very irritated that I didn't get to try it out. I found Bodey's 1st birthday cake on pinterest today. Its an all fruit cake--round slice of watermellon with some cantelope and kiwi fruit decorating it. I'm excited, because now he can have a birthday cake to smash up, blow out a candle (well, more like his daddy can blow it out...) but its still safe for him to munch on afterwards. The big people can eat real cake. But I'll kill the 1st person who tries giving him a taste of frosting. I stayed up way too late tonight, I am sure I will regret this tomorrow morning :( I'm off to bed to snuggle with Bodey.

280Daily

Hi everyone…remember me?? I know its been a while. I’m a little embarrassed to even crawl my ashamed face back over to my poor neglected little blog. Please forgive me?

I have an exciting post in store for you though :-)

Several months ago my mom sent me a link to a website called 280Daily. Basically it’s an online diary, with only enough space for 280 characters. Short, sweeet, to the point. Just enough space to messily jot down (think texting lingo…) what my day held.

I am proud to say, that since before October, I have faithfully 280’d every single day. (okay, that might be bluffin…I’ve missed *maybe* 2 or 3 days since then?) But still! That’s a pretty good track record, considering all my broken promises to my poor blog to “I promise I will blog daily,” blah blah blah.

So I’ve been thinking, why is it I can 280 every day but I can’t keep a promise to my poor blog for anything? And then I realized the whole 280 character concept was so easy and unintimidating compared to coming up with a fun, lengthy and interesting read.

With that being said, here is my new, revised and very easily keptable (yes, I know that isn’t a word) promise:

I hereby promise, that from now on, I will do my best to every night when I do my 280daily, to also hop over here and write a little somethin-somethin for my blog readers as well. (Do I even have blog readers anymore…?) Sometime I might simply copy and paste, other times I might write something and finally, there might be days where I only post a picture.

Small print: My posts will not be long. They might not be complete sentences. And they might be incredibly boring. No complaining, be grateful that I’m even blogging.

Okay!! That’s my exciting post. So…til tonight…ttfn Smile

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Peek~a~Boo!!!

Tonight Jeff was playing peek-a-boo with Bodey. Bodey kept grabbing Jeff’s head and shoving it down. At first we didn’t know what he was doing, then we realized he was trying to play Peek-a-boo with his Daddy. :) I ran to fetch our video camera…but of course…the second I turn it on, B was more interested in staring at it than being adorable with Daddy.

Wasn’t that heart melting??? I love my boys.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Attitude of Gratitude wk 3

a Family pictures
chipotle
family movie nights
veterans
Shelbie’s delicious popcorn
gifts
being on time to church
going out to lunch
leaves
watching Bodey explore nature
photo editing software
clean diapers…opposed to dirty ones
good cameras
surprise visits from my family
sleeping in with Bodey
good parenting books
crock pots
mexican food
clean dishes
Bodey’s squirlyness
A quiet house
working cars
a house heater
fish tanks
balloons
sisters
Christmas tree lane
payday
daddy
birthdays
birthday cakes
shopping with grammy
not being old
exciting news of a pregnant friend
naps
rainy dreary days
cozy pj’s
snuggling up for devos
tracking numbers
mail
Friday’s to look forward to
cabbage salsa
going to a friends’ house for dinner
taking my family’s christmas card pictures
diaper catalogs
fellowship
watching Bodey play with his bestest buddy
Christmas time

Friday, December 9, 2011

A week of gratitude wk 2

Ladies Luncheons at church
Little Girls Choirs
Warm baths
Christmas parades
bridal showers
baltic amber necklaces
fresh home laid eggs
Colored pencils
warm ovens
devotions at night with Jeff
comfort food
baby beanies
baby feet
slippers
tiny bread pins
fun socks
shopping with my parents
job opportunities
surprise blessings
the way Bodey gets excited when he sees himself in a mirror
fuzzy baby socks
devotions with Bodey
Bodey’s big blue eyes
Driving through Christmas tree lane
Feather blankets
Bodey’s warm body next to mine at night
heaters
bed times
uncles
birthdays
Lynette’s amazing ice cream cake
Baby ears
warm banana bread
bringing smiles to the elderly
tandem babywearing
looking forward to payday
Bodey learning how to splash in the bathtub
Bodey discovering music (he discovered maracas this week!)
Naptime with Bodey
Lemon tea bread
Chilly nights
the Christmas story
Journey through Bethleham
Snuggling with Bodey at night

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Co-Sleeping

I saw this ad a few weeks ago, and it ticked me off.

I've been planning to write a blog post about the benefits of co-sleeping since I saw that stupid ad, but haven't gotten around to it. Yesterday, I found the following video, and it pretty much said everything I was going to say. So instead of spending 2 hours typing out a post most people probably won't sit to read (;-)) I'll just let the video speak for itself.

Vaccine ABC song

My cyber friend Zhandra posted a status yesterday in which she talked about a friend of hers needing to write a poem that included at least 3 names of vaccines in it. Upon hearing such a challenge, Zhandra sat down and got to work on a poem of her own, which ended up being the vaccine version of the ABC song.

It made me giggle and was too good to not share. :)

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A is for aluminum, the first poison in the shots.

B is for your brain, which can swell, bleed and clot.

C is for chickenpox which causes itchy spots.

D is for death, which can happen a lot.

E is for emergency room, where they tell you not to worry.

F is for fetal cells, which they dismiss in a hurry.

G is for Gardasil, which kills the most of all.

H is for Hepatitis B- sex and heroin for all!

I is for injuries, which are reported to VAERS.

J is for jackpot, Glaxo-Smith-Kline are millionaires!

K is for karma, the doctors will get theirs.

L is for liars, like the CDC.

M is for money, that's all they see.

N is for neurologist, the one to fix your brain.

O is for outcry, don't let it be in vain.

P is for pertussis, in a combination shot.

Q is for qualms, your parents have a lot.

R is for response, a baby's immune system doesn't have.

S is for secrets, hidden by the staff.

T is for tetanus, a very rare disease.

U is for un-vaccinated, which does displease...

Those fear-mongering scientists who are

Very Very mean.

W is for wishing, our bodies are kept clean.

X is for eXcused, which you can certainly be.

Y is for You, innocent and sweet.

Z is for ZZZs, go and catch some sleep. ♥

Friday, December 2, 2011

A week of gratitude

After dinner on Thanksgiving, my mom handed everyone around the table a little paper book. She explained that there are 7 pages in the book and she challenged us to every day for a week find 7 things to be thankful for. It was a challenge to find the little silly things that people don’t usually see to be thankful for (for example…q-tips, but really, what would we do without them??) but it was also a lot of fun. It opened my eyes to all the many small and large blessings God daily drops in our path. I enjoyed it so much, I’m starting a new little gratitude book today to do for this next new week.

I encourage you all to try it for yourselves. You’d be surprised at what you find to be thankful for. :-)

Attitude of Gratitude week 1…