Thursday, July 29, 2010

Week #11: Favorite color

If you take a good look at my house you could probably guess that my favorite color is brown. Not a usual favorite color by many, but I like it. It reminds me of the earth and the things that come from it. Two of the rooms in my house has brown either painted on the walls or on the trim and furniture. A lot of our wood choices are a dark color that resembles more of a brown that I like. My couch is brown. Two rooms have brown curtains. Most of my favorite clothes are brown. And I'm about to take on the challenge of painting our living room a light brown. So there will be even more brown for me to enjoy. =) Enjoy your trip around my house to see a few things of my favorite color.

This was the last room that was painted, and still isn't completely finished because I can't find a border I like to go with it. It used to be the girls' room but we moved them upstairs since I re-finished it. The plan for this room was to be my office but my husband moved in his bowflex and it keeps turning into a junk room. *sigh* Some day I will have a good office space.... some day....

The headboard to our bed. It's got that dark brown tone I love just like the rest of the furniture.

See brown couch, brown pillows, brown blanket, and brown in the rug too. =) And because I love this blanket so much here is another photo of it.

I heart baskets! They are all over my house and of course I love them even more because they are BROWN!




Ok thats all the brown I will put you through today. I don't know if you noticed but look through my previous posts this week and you will find lots of brown in there too. hehe.

And guess what!? I am finally all caught up! So that means next week I can hopefully get on track and stay there. Actually I already have the photos taken and blog ready for next week but you will have to check back to see it on Monday! Yay for being productive! =)

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Week #10: Things that make life easier

Here is a look at a few things that make my life just a little bit easier =)

I would die without my planner now. Seriously! Because of whatever illness or whatever it is that I have (one more week and I see the neurologist) I have brain farts quite often. I can't remember anything for the life of me and often forget what I'm doing when I'm doing it (no joke!). So my planner has become my life. If it doesn't go in here, it wont happen. So I cherish this very much to help avoid my daily memory lapses.

Ok, lets face it. We can pretty much no longer function without our computers. Well at least I can't. It connects me to everything I need. Gives me directions, makes doing homework easy, connects me to friends, and if I didn't have it then you wouldn't be reading this. I would not be able to do my job without it. And if you are looking at this photo thinking something is a little wrong here, you are right. Quite a few months ago I accidentally dropped my laptop on the tip of the screen. The screen broke but everything else was still in tact so we got a monitor, plugged it together, and what do you know I have a new desktop! HA! It works just as good but I have had to turn my table into a desk. And trust me this is a clean desk compared to my normal stack of papers, receipts, notebooks, and other random items...

Ahhhh.... Coffee! Ok, so I don't drink it everyday, and don't particularly like it black like this but it does help me perk up sometimes and get moving!

I have a love-hate relationship with phones. They do make life easier obviously, but I hate talking on them. I really don't know why but maybe it's because I've always been a quiet person? I don't know but I do know that I love to text. It's short simple and less effort than talking on the phone and distracting someone for more than 5 minutes. As much as I like to explain myself in detail on here you probably think that this couldn't be so? But it's true. The only person I actually like talking on the phone with is my mom. Don't even like talking on the phone with my husband that much, or friends. Just call me a weirdo and get it out of your system. I don't mind. =)

Everyone say hi to George! This is my 2 year old's favorite thing. Sweet ole George. You are probably asking yourself why is she putting up a picture of her daughters stuffed toy in this post? Well you see George helps me when I can't always be there for my daughter. He helps her be happy and puts her to sleep and takes trips with her when I'm not with her. So George makes my life easier by making my little girl happy and in turn making me happy. I wish everything was just that simple.

Laugh if you must but this is one of the greatest things in my house. My dog door. We have a fenced in yard in the back and before my husband left on a deployment over two years ago (he is back now, btw) I had an almost two year old and a one month old. I love my dog but it was either she was going to be an outside dog or we find something to make going in and out easier. Well that is when we bought this dandy thing. My dog (and cats) can come and go as they please and everyone is happy. =)

And there you have a list of things that make my life easier, smoother, and happier. =)

This is the last post for the day but check back tomorrow for week #11. Which will make me all caught up! yay!

Week #9: Objects that say something about you

Ok so this is kind of a tough one but I think I did myself some justice in these photos. Instead of doing a big intro into this one, I am just going to dive right in.

  This is our new kitty Pablo (chilling out on a pile of laundry) that my husband rescued from the middle of no where Missouri. My husband works out of his truck and had a job to do where there weren't houses for miles. This little guy started following him and well now he is here. I guess what I'm trying to get at here is that we love animals. We would have our own zoo if money and the city allowed. =)

 I like shoes. I really like sandals... and well... I LOVE flip flops! If you visit me at home, more than likely I will not have shoes on. I don't like my feet being restricted and I just love being barefoot. Maybe it's the dancer coming out in me? I don't know. But flip flops make my feet happy =).

I love my family and I love pictures (duh!). This wall used to be covered in photos of all my family, but then it felt like too much. So I ordered a huge print of the last time we had our photos done. Don't be surprised when I tell you I still haven't gotten around to ordering our new ones yet. But I will get it done another day that I am feeling good like today.... I hope....


I really like this sign and it sits above my closet. I like to take a gander at it every once in a while and remind myself of how I should be living my life.

I really wanted a photo of my dance shoes for this but since I am at home this will suffice. If you know me or have been following me for awhile you know that my other passion is dance. So here is my dance bag, well just one of them. I have several more that I trade off from time to time. But, yah, I love to dance! =)

So this is a long story that I am going to save for another post, another day. But I wanted to post a little bit about it here. This is a dime of course but it has special meaning. This is our sign to our family that we are ok. I have gotten 3 dimes total this year and I hold on to them because they are special. I keep them in my jewelry box so every time I open it I can see them and smile. Sometimes it makes me cry but most of all it makes me happy. So I treasure these and look forward to finding more.

And that is it for this one today but I will be posting week #10 here in a few minutes!

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Week #8: Roads, street, signs, traffic, etc....

Ok I apologize for this week in advance. It is pretty lame to say the least, but I am doing my best attempt for being extremely behind on these. But before the week is over I will be caught up and I even have next weeks all ready to go! Yay me for being productive today! Anywho, back to this week..... This is mostly just signs and a few you may have seen before, well a version of it anyhow. So sorry for the crappy post, but the next few will be better. I promise!

I promise...

I will get back to my 52 weeks of awesomeness project within the next day or two (if not today). Sorry for the lack of entertainment here but we will get back to that soon!

My next 25 years....

So guess what!? My birthday was this past Sunday and I am officially a quarter of a century old! This year happened to be my golden birthday (thanks Kerri for pointing that out cause I had no idea lol) and for some reason I am extremely ecstatic about that. I have no idea why because some people dread getting older. I know most people would love to go back to 25 too lol. But I don't know. When this year started I said it was going to be my year and I was going to take over my life finally. Well a lot of things have gotten in the way and I have had too many things set me back that were beyond my control. So it's time to refocus and find that ambition I had the beginning of the year again. Time to get back on track... But you know for some reason this year I am thankful for those set backs I've had (well sort of). I think they have made me appreciate who I am and realize how much I love my family and everyone in my life. So I kind of wanted to do like a new years resolution sort of but for my next 25 years =). I am also starting a new 101 in 1001 list soon since I kind of lost my last one and so much has changed when I started it. Plus now I think I have a clearer view of what I want and reasonable things that I can manage to make possible. So much can happen in a year that we loose perspective of our goals and I think it is important to keep a list nearby so you can remind yourself. Plus to be able to accomplish something and to be able to mark it off is amazing! And I'm very excited to do that!

Ok so here goes. These are some things I'd like to change and do in my next 25 years:
  • Try not to be a debbie downer. Silly I know, but sometimes I feel like I complain too much. I have had a lot happen and problems the last few years and sometimes I think when I complain I just make my situation worse let alone put others in a bad mood. I don't know if this is entirely true, but a good goal nonetheless =)
  • Be a better mom. I think this kind of goes with the above. I think I get into a bad mood and then I take it out on my kids. Not fair to them and I don't want them to remember me as a nagging mean mommy. I'm sure they wouldn't but sometimes I feel that way..
  • Be a better wife. Long story I could get into here but I am very stubborn. I know my husband loves me and we have our problems but I could be more understanding and not so stubborn with him. Maybe let him win a few fights lol. But don't take that to your head babe ;) love you!
  • Get rid of the negativity in my life. Life is too short to be mad! Nuff said!
  • Be happy! Easier said than done right? Well I think with working on everything else I will be happy.
  • Loose the rest of my weight and spread the motivation! Lost 40 lbs and now time to get started on the last 20!
  • Stop and take time for myself. I think we all need to do this from time to time.
  • Hang out with my friends more. I have learned now that I've lost too many and want to cherish the ones I have! And hopefully make some new ones!
  • Continue to eat healthy. But I think I'm going to go a little further with what I have been doing. I am going to take some things out of my diet to see if it improves health. I will post more of this adventure later =)
  • Love more and hate less. I think I do this pretty good already. I like most people and think I'm a nice person. But I do hold grudges and just need to let them go. Like I said, life is too short to be mad and that negativity needs to go!
  • Just be myself. I am who I am and I shouldn't have to change that for others!
So there you go. This is my quarter of a century resolution, hehe. Hopefully we will all still be around when I make my half century resolution. =) Cheers to the next 25 years!

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Slacking...

So I'm a week behind on my project and haven't even gotten to this weeks yet either. Yikes! I don't like excuses but I have not been feeling well a lot lately. Been to the doctor a few weeks ago, a CT scan and some blood work later I'm being sent to a neurologist because I just can't shake this for some reason. Not sure what is going on but will be seeing the new doc in a couple weeks. Hopefully we can figure out what this is and it's not something serious. So please keep your fingers crossed for me and bare with me and my lack of posts lately.....

Sometimes....

I don't always pay attention to reflections....


OOPS! Thank goodness for photoshop! ;)

The Smith Family

I met up yesterday with this cute little family at their home in Cummings KS. I love it when I can take photos at my clients homes especially when there are little ones involved. They are more comfortable with their surroundings and also it makes it easy for clothing changes! I have TOO many awesome photos of these cuties that it was hard to decide and narrow down favorites to post on here! But I will do my best to not make this extremely long =).

We will start with a good one with the whole family...

Aren't these kids adorable!?





These boys were too funny!


I just loved this little girl. She was just a happy, joyful little lady!



But we can't forget how adorable these boys are can we?




Ok, ok, one more of the little miss before I end it with the best photo ever ;)

Now these next two are by far my favorite of the day. LOVE these and so glad their mom thought of doing this!

 Doesn't that just melt your heart? sigh!

Thank you very much Smith family for letting me into your home and take photos of your beautiful family! Can't wait to see you all again!

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Celebration

Just wanted to share a few photos from our 4th of July celebrations =)


I pledge allegiance


to the flag
of the United States of America

 
and to the republic
for which it stands


one nation
under God


with liberty
and justice for all.



Hope everyone had a great Independence day and took the time to remember what the day is really all about!