I love pictures. Which is why I love the idea of this Project 365. Unfortunately, I've noticed my pictures are really very poor quality. Normally, taken with my cell phone b/c I ALWAYS misplace my camera. It's frustrating to be me some days. Today is no different, except, not only do I not have my camera, I've lost my PHONE too! Argg. Hoping to buy a new camera soon and actually start taking pictures like I used to know how, since it has apparently left me out of convenience for the time being.
Besides beautiful pictures-weddings, scenery, babies, I love pictures that remind me of particular things. Friends, family, a funny moment, they take you back to that time and let you relive it again-at a distance, which is sometimes comforting and sometimes frustrating.
So no "sights" tonight, but I was reading my friend Courtney's awesome blog: www.cookingupafamily.com (read it, it's great) and thinking of all the songs I love. As she mentioned, ANYTHING Will Smith is in, is right up my alley!
Another more recent fav, is a little Flo Rida: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDAaevTq51I. Oddly enough, pretty much my whole office knows I love this song. It's totally out of character for me, especially at work, but it's one song that can change me from being stressed, to easy going, in 3 minutes and 51 seconds.
On the other end of the spectrum would be my reflecting, rejoycing, relying on God songs. "Your Hands" by JJ Heller definitely tops the list on this end. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlL8LayF0uw I first heard this song at the first of the year, and it was entirely too fitting for how I was feeling at the time. Needless to say, it will always have a special place in my heart.
Last, "You're Going to Miss This" by Trace Adkins. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0QCCNCkvzI I've felt this song since the first day I held Kaitlyn in my arms. I try to cherish every moment with her anyways, but occasionally the business of life distracts me. Luckily, I hear this song fairly often and it brings me right back to what is truly important.
What are some of your favorites?
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Friday, June 25th-Mean People
I don't understand people sometimes. How could you knowingly and purposefully steal from another person. I just don't get it. It's mean and ruins their day.
So the reason for my rant...
I came home late after a work event at the Royals game and I was so tired, I walked in and put my daughter in bed and forgot to go back down and shut the garage door. No big deal right? I recently moved to a nice neighborhood, right? Well turns out, even in nice neighborhoods, mean people come by open garages, get in their unlocked cars and steal their wallets out of their unzipped purses.
Obviously it was a kid, b/c they decided not to take my checks, my gps, my husband's bluetooth headset, work projector and laptop, etc. However, the stolen wallet, and my husband's change holder, is pretty disappointing. Cancelling all my cards, losing 60 bucks, AND my Fox and Hound punch card (1 punch away from a free lunch) was a real downer of the day. Thank goodness it was this day instead of another day as I normally have a lot more cash on me, but yep, still quite angering.
So the reason for my rant...
I came home late after a work event at the Royals game and I was so tired, I walked in and put my daughter in bed and forgot to go back down and shut the garage door. No big deal right? I recently moved to a nice neighborhood, right? Well turns out, even in nice neighborhoods, mean people come by open garages, get in their unlocked cars and steal their wallets out of their unzipped purses.
Obviously it was a kid, b/c they decided not to take my checks, my gps, my husband's bluetooth headset, work projector and laptop, etc. However, the stolen wallet, and my husband's change holder, is pretty disappointing. Cancelling all my cards, losing 60 bucks, AND my Fox and Hound punch card (1 punch away from a free lunch) was a real downer of the day. Thank goodness it was this day instead of another day as I normally have a lot more cash on me, but yep, still quite angering.
Thursday, June 24th-Enjoying the Neighborhood
My husband is out for the night, playing poker so it was time for Kaitlyn and I to enjoy our neighborhood. We got home late, of course, since getting to our house currently takes FOREVER thanks to traffic and detours. But regardless, we made it! As soon as we got home we threw some dinner in our to go bag and headed to the park!
The park is a .4 mile walk one way, so I totally round that to 1 mile round trip! Which totally makes this a workout, right? While there, I discovered my daughter is a much better eater when we are outside, and she is distracted. Normally she eats about 3 bites of dinner. Tonight she ate a bite, ran and went down the slide, ate another bite, back to the slide, etc. All in all like 10 bites! Such success. And it was fun to just play with her all night!
The park is a .4 mile walk one way, so I totally round that to 1 mile round trip! Which totally makes this a workout, right? While there, I discovered my daughter is a much better eater when we are outside, and she is distracted. Normally she eats about 3 bites of dinner. Tonight she ate a bite, ran and went down the slide, ate another bite, back to the slide, etc. All in all like 10 bites! Such success. And it was fun to just play with her all night!
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010- Arts and Crafts Time
It looks like regardless of my youth league being over now, I am still heading in to a ridiculously busy weekend. All of it should be pretty fun, just a lot of places to be at designated times...not my favorite way to go. I prefer to have a lot to do and get to do it whenever I decide to!
To prepare for some of the upcoming events, I spent a mere hour at Hobby Lobby tonight. Seriously, an hour! That place is huge, it took half the time just for me to find where things were, let alone actually make decisions.
This weekend I have 1 baby shower to attend and 1 birthday party for 2 little girls, as well as a Royals/Cardinals game for my work.
First the girls birthday. I decided I was going to sew some aprons b/c I know the girls love being handy and my daughter loves to help me cook. But then I realized...I need to be practical. I'm going to run out of time with all the projects I have planned for this week. So I found these cute zebra print canvas kids aprons with a cute little ruffle on them. Now normally, I would not pick zebra print, but it was the only fun looking one that also had a ruffle so I decided to go for it. I wanted to embroider their names on them, but I don't have an embroider, nor do I know how to actually do that, therefore we went with the sequined, iron-on initial. I'm still working on the rest of the gift, thinking kids cook book, maybe colorful mixing bowls or utensils, we'll see.
Next, it's time to work on the baby shower gift. I really couldn't come up with something I loved from the registry, although everything was very practical on there (my kind of registry.) Then my husband said, "why don't you make those super absorbent burp cloths again, they are the best, everyone needs them." Some days, that man is a genius. I'm not sure why I forgot about those, I guess just the moving and putting the sewing machine out of sight.
So off to the races. I got some neutral, though the baby is a boy, fabric and a super soft dark brown towel and went to work. I cut each of the fabrics and towel into 13" x 13" squares. The cutting and measuring actually does take a while so I'm glad to have that done. I use this super ghetto setup when I cut too. It's one of those quarter collector's boards that unfolds. Silly, but it's the perfect size and has the binding right down the middle where I need it, just like a true sewing table would have. Luckily my husband thinks it's ghetto too and that we should move to something a little more official. We'll see if that ever really comes to fruition though!
Tomorrow I'll start sewing them together, hopefully the machine and I don't have another all out war!
To prepare for some of the upcoming events, I spent a mere hour at Hobby Lobby tonight. Seriously, an hour! That place is huge, it took half the time just for me to find where things were, let alone actually make decisions.
This weekend I have 1 baby shower to attend and 1 birthday party for 2 little girls, as well as a Royals/Cardinals game for my work.
First the girls birthday. I decided I was going to sew some aprons b/c I know the girls love being handy and my daughter loves to help me cook. But then I realized...I need to be practical. I'm going to run out of time with all the projects I have planned for this week. So I found these cute zebra print canvas kids aprons with a cute little ruffle on them. Now normally, I would not pick zebra print, but it was the only fun looking one that also had a ruffle so I decided to go for it. I wanted to embroider their names on them, but I don't have an embroider, nor do I know how to actually do that, therefore we went with the sequined, iron-on initial. I'm still working on the rest of the gift, thinking kids cook book, maybe colorful mixing bowls or utensils, we'll see.
So off to the races. I got some neutral, though the baby is a boy, fabric and a super soft dark brown towel and went to work. I cut each of the fabrics and towel into 13" x 13" squares. The cutting and measuring actually does take a while so I'm glad to have that done. I use this super ghetto setup when I cut too. It's one of those quarter collector's boards that unfolds. Silly, but it's the perfect size and has the binding right down the middle where I need it, just like a true sewing table would have. Luckily my husband thinks it's ghetto too and that we should move to something a little more official. We'll see if that ever really comes to fruition though!
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Swimming fun and Settling In-Saturday, June 19, 2010
Today was truly a great day. We had very few obligations, which is always nice! Kicked off the day with picking up the house and actually making breakfast! Then off to swim lessons. We actually have a couple of our friends in the class so that makes it even more fun. Then when we came home, we picked up Daddy and headed to the neighborhood pool.
This was our first trip to our neighborhood pool. I expected it to be too small to accommodate everyone. I could still see it being like that during some afternoons, but in the morning it was great. It still feels like we are on vacation and were just swimming at a random pool. I don't mind that feeling, makes us really appreciate that we are in this house and neighborhood that we love.
Spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning and running errands. Some friends came over for dinner, baked ziti, one of the few things I actually think I make decently (though I'm sure anyone could!) Put Kaitlyn to bed and spent the rest of the evening watching HGTV-my favorite, and browsing the internet for some design ideas for our house! The hubs is thinking of doing a red color on our great room wall, but I'm not sure that I'm on board. I found this picture online today and would really like to make it work. I love the painting above the couch and think we could use those colors to incorporate the kitchen, and hopefully someday, new dishes, as well. We'll see who wins, neither of us are very good designers so who knows!
All in all a great day!
This was our first trip to our neighborhood pool. I expected it to be too small to accommodate everyone. I could still see it being like that during some afternoons, but in the morning it was great. It still feels like we are on vacation and were just swimming at a random pool. I don't mind that feeling, makes us really appreciate that we are in this house and neighborhood that we love.
Spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning and running errands. Some friends came over for dinner, baked ziti, one of the few things I actually think I make decently (though I'm sure anyone could!) Put Kaitlyn to bed and spent the rest of the evening watching HGTV-my favorite, and browsing the internet for some design ideas for our house! The hubs is thinking of doing a red color on our great room wall, but I'm not sure that I'm on board. I found this picture online today and would really like to make it work. I love the painting above the couch and think we could use those colors to incorporate the kitchen, and hopefully someday, new dishes, as well. We'll see who wins, neither of us are very good designers so who knows!
All in all a great day!
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Week of June 14th-Please...Let it stop Raining!
Seriously, it's been raining for days, weeks even. My youth league games have been rained out 3 times in a row! I can deal with that, what I can't deal with is rain in my parents basement!
This has been the focus of the week as they are in Hawaii celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary! 35 years of marriage, just amazing. So needless to say, we are not wanting to call them and tell them they now own a houseboat and all our childhood memories are floating around their basement. We think that might just ruin their vacation. The first round of flood looked like this:
These photos are actually a bit after the initial water started draining. There was 11 inches all the way across about 1500 sq feet! That's a ton of water. Apparently the sump pump shook itself silly which ended up making it stop working.
We got all this drained on Monday. Tuesday morning my BIL went over at 5am b/c he was worried. Sure enough, another 6 inches were back! The sump pump got stuck again. Finally we determined assistance was needed and we called our grandpa, swore him to secrecy so he wouldn't call my dad, and got his advice. He informed of us the issue and my sister rigged up the fix to make it unable to vibrate into disfunction again! So far so good, but as you can imagine, the place stinks to high heaven. We have been over there every night, mopping, cleaning, throwing out treasured memories etc. This is post final flood. Working on getting the couches back in place now that they've dried out.
You know those people that get joy from cleaning? I'm not one of them, cleaning sucks. You have to touch gross stuff, there's bad smells, takes forever, ect. However, cleaning for my parents so they are not super sad when they get home, really didn't suck at all. It was hot and smelly and tiring, but totally worth every painstaking second.
This has been the focus of the week as they are in Hawaii celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary! 35 years of marriage, just amazing. So needless to say, we are not wanting to call them and tell them they now own a houseboat and all our childhood memories are floating around their basement. We think that might just ruin their vacation. The first round of flood looked like this:
We got all this drained on Monday. Tuesday morning my BIL went over at 5am b/c he was worried. Sure enough, another 6 inches were back! The sump pump got stuck again. Finally we determined assistance was needed and we called our grandpa, swore him to secrecy so he wouldn't call my dad, and got his advice. He informed of us the issue and my sister rigged up the fix to make it unable to vibrate into disfunction again! So far so good, but as you can imagine, the place stinks to high heaven. We have been over there every night, mopping, cleaning, throwing out treasured memories etc. This is post final flood. Working on getting the couches back in place now that they've dried out.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010 REUNION PARTY!
The day is finally here! Our official 10 year High School Reunion dinner. It has been a year in the making and totally feels like we were planning a wedding, only harder b/c you didn't know anyone's address or if they would come, and you are asking them to pay money to come. It was all planned by myself and two friends from High School. I love that we were the committee b/c we were totally ok with giving our opinions on things and using trial and error throughout the whole thing.
We took a financially emotional roller coaster, from thinking we were doing well and would have plenty of money to pay everything, to being completely broke and looking at paying out of our own pockets. We endured criticism, encouragement, and everyone wanting to give their two cents.
In the end, we actually ended up having enough money to pay for pretty much everything without having to come out of our pockets too much. It was unbelievable as we were each expecting to pay a couple extra hundred potentially for our last minute add ons.
The evening was great. Over 100 people attended and the food was actually not too bad. We decided to order a cake and one of the girls suggested putting our senior class picture on it. I was in charge of ordering it and therefore coming up with the picture. At first I thought, cool idea, then went to, too much work-not going to happen, then went back to, yeah, that's what needs to be done. Here was the end result:
We also had a photo booth where people could go take their own pictures and then they would all be posted online later. It was pretty fun to see everyone take cute and funny pictures. Here are a couple I participated in:
Good times. We learned a lot and if I had to do it over again, there are of course things I think we would change, but overall I think it was a good event and hope everyone that came had fun!
We took a financially emotional roller coaster, from thinking we were doing well and would have plenty of money to pay everything, to being completely broke and looking at paying out of our own pockets. We endured criticism, encouragement, and everyone wanting to give their two cents.
In the end, we actually ended up having enough money to pay for pretty much everything without having to come out of our pockets too much. It was unbelievable as we were each expecting to pay a couple extra hundred potentially for our last minute add ons.
The evening was great. Over 100 people attended and the food was actually not too bad. We decided to order a cake and one of the girls suggested putting our senior class picture on it. I was in charge of ordering it and therefore coming up with the picture. At first I thought, cool idea, then went to, too much work-not going to happen, then went back to, yeah, that's what needs to be done. Here was the end result:
We also had a photo booth where people could go take their own pictures and then they would all be posted online later. It was pretty fun to see everyone take cute and funny pictures. Here are a couple I participated in:
Good times. We learned a lot and if I had to do it over again, there are of course things I think we would change, but overall I think it was a good event and hope everyone that came had fun!
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