My Adorable and Amazing Husband!!!

My niece did this on her blog and I thought it was a fantastic idea! Plus I have this new totally hot picture of my husband and I needed a reason to post it.

M-I-C-H-A-E-L

M- MARVELOUS HUSBAND-Mike has always been great, but just lately he has stepped it up. Everyday he does a little something that either adds major sunshine to my day or makes me very proud to be his wife.
I- INCREDIBLY INDEPENDENT- Some times this makes me a little crazy, because I think things could be a little easier if Mike would ask for help. But this is a survival technique that Mike has developed over his lifetime, and because of it he has been able to achieve so much more than is imaginable. He has such drive and no matter what, Michael will accomplish!
C- CAUTIOUS- Which he needs to be married to me. I fly with the wind, and Mike always thinks through ALL the steps. It is good thing I have him.
H- HONEST- I have never questioned Mike's integrity. I know that he is always honest with me and with his job, but most importantly himself.
A- ALWAYS DRIVEN- I don't know anyone who works harder than Mike. He has worked so hard to create a business that not only is he proud of and loves, but one that people and clients can respect and appreciate. He is so very talented, and unfortunately that is not all it takes. Mike takes his responsibility to provide for our family very seriously, and he is doing everything he can to create a successful business that will take care of our family.
E- EXTEMELY TALENTED- If you haven't seen his work, you are missing out. He is an incredible photographer, and he just keeps driving himself to learn more and be more creative. He knocks my socks off. Too bad he can' take OUR family pictures
L- LOVING- This one chokes me up. MIKE LOVES ME! No matter what is going on or what I look like or what I am acting like or what we are going through, I feel his love for me. He thinks I am beautiful, and amazing and I love knowing that. And I love him right back.

We have talked about this quite a bit lately, and we both feel so lucky. In a world where everything seems so disposable, it is an amazing feeling feeling to know you are both 100% dedicated to the end.
I love you Michael and I am so happy you are mine.

Six Strange Habits

I have been tagged by jen v...
1. I am a freak about the way my towels are folded. I am a little anal about all folding of clothes. But the towels, everyone in my family knows I got issues with towels. If someone helps me fold towels, I almost always wait 'til they leave and then refold. (I have tons of towels to fold all the time, because I have a salon in my house. I go through about 40 towels a week, and that's just in the salon.)
2. I don't care if it looks like a bomb went off in my house, the beds have to be made everyday. If they are not made at the beginning of my day, it throws everything off. Why can't I be that way about everything in my house.
3. Just like Jen, I hate doing my hair. Strange I know. Maybe it is because of all the hours I have spent with a blowdryer in my hands. That is the most dreaded time of the day. I guess that is why I only do my hair every three or four days. Don't gross out. My hair is very dry and can't take much more than that anyway.
4. I am pine-sol obssessed. They used to sell it in a spray bottle like windex. But I can't find it anymore, so I mix my own and I clean every surface that I can in my house with it. There is nothing that makes you think your house is clean, like the scent of pine-sol.
5. I spray paint everything. My sister-in-law makes fun of me, because "just paint it", is my answer to everything. Almost every piece of wood furniture in my house has been painted atleast once, if not twice or three times. Right now I am in the process of repainting my kitchen table and chairs, with white spray paint. For those of you who don't know, this is the easiest, fastest and most effective way to paint something. You get better coverage and it is a fast and beautiful way to makeover something into something better.
6. I am a milk snob. I have to have good milk. It absolutely cannot come from a gas station, and some brands are just not good enough. For example, just the morning I pulled out the 1/2 gallon my husband so sweetly picked up in the middle of the night so we wouldn't be out of milk in the morning, took one swig and new he got it from the gas station. I know, silly. But it is just one of my things.
I tag Jaimi, Lori, Tinaya, and Sara B.

Somebody out there mentioned picnik.com in their blog so i decided to try it out. It is so much easier than trying to figure out elements.

Refridgerator scrounging!

So it was time to make dinner, and I had some left over turkey from dinner on Monday. So I think hm, what can I make with what I have. I think I make a pretty great chicken noodle soup, and for those of you have never used Grandma's frozen noodles, you are missing out on the best kept secret for chicken noodle soup. They taste just like big fat homemade noodles. Anyway, I decided to fake it and make the soup with the leftover turkey and I only had one package of noodles so I needed some filler. I decided to make vegetable turkey noodle soup, because my fridge was brimming with veggies, and all of those things are great by themselves, so why not all together in a big old steaming pot of soup. It looks and smells amazing. I'll let you know if it is a winner.

Creating

Tonight I found this awesome card at macaroni and glue. I had never seen this definition before and it got me thinking. I love to create things, and my two boys are the most amazing things I have ever created. Not only is it amazing that I ( along with a little help from my hudband) created them physically, but that I help create who they are becoming.

I love being their mother. What an amazing blessing it is to be a mother, and I hope they will some day truly understand how all encompassing my love for them is.

I am insane!

So this is my kitchen before I got the crazy idea that I needed to paint it today.I have had a paint swatch on my wall for over 6 months and I guess today was the day. If you scroll down you will see the progress I have made and there is also a swatch of adorable material that I am going to cover my bar stools with. I'll let you know how it all turns out. I doubt I am going to finish tonight, but I got 3/4 of the room done. I have to work tomorrow, so I probably won't get back to it until Wednesday. That is going to kill me.
Oh ya , I also bought paint and fabric to redo Mike's office. I truly am insane.

I've been tagged!

WHAT'S MY THANG?
I wish it were one thing. I am one of those people who's thing changes weekly or monthly. I guess it could all fall under the crafty heading. At times it has been salvaging a piece of furniture and painting it and distressing it. I have painted almost every piece of wood furniture in my house and salon. Last year for about three months I was obsessed with making magnet boards. I was always on the search for coordinating scrapbook paper and matching ribbon. I probably made over 50 of them. People who knew me or came into the salon were placing custom orders. I have also been completely obsessed with online scrapbooking. I have logged plenty of hours on shutterfly.com. The past couple of weeks it has been making nursing cover-ups (hooter hiders). And of course my newest time consumption activity is blogging. I just wish I could get obsessed about the gym. If I could put all the energy that I put into creating, into a workout, I would be one hot mama.

Ta Da

We won't know for sure for a couple of days. But Mike and I tag teamed the fridge and I think we got her fixed. It is amazing what you can do if you really want to.

p.s. the repair man who gave me instructions on the how-to, asked me if I had a blow dryer. Do I have a blow dryer?

random

I know that this is all in a random order, but I was just trying to get started.

Newly converted blogger!!!

Wednesday, March 26, 2008


I am new at this whole blogging thing. I truly am going to try to be better. We have a bunch of adorable pictures from our trip to St. George, but I have anxiety just thinking about trying to get the pictures on here. I need to practice so that I don't need medication to update my blog.
For those of you who don't know, I am very new at the computer thing. Yes, I know I am a little behind the times , but I am trying to catch up. Atleast I now know how to e-mail.

Proud computer moment !

Thursday March 27, 2008

I wanted to change the template on my blog and my friend Jen sent me a link so I could find new templates. I got a little nervous so I asked my husband to help me, because I didn't want to screw up our blog. Well he wasn't feeling to confidant about the whole thing, so I just decided to do it myself and I DID IT! Amazing what you can do if you just try.

I am in love!

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Isn't she lovely!
My beautiful new well deserved sewing machine!
I can't wait to put a few miles on this thing.
I have been feeling kind of bad because I haven't been putting pictures and such of my kids on here. But my amazing photographer needs to convert the pictures from raw files before I can do anything with them. I have some great pictures and great memories to share. Hopefully this weekend.

Another Proud Moment!!!

Monday, March 31, 2008

This has been a tough month for things going south in our house. At the beginning of the month we had our fireplace fixed ($115), and I am not kidding you, 2 days later our furnace went out($400). Or fridge has been on the fritz for months, and then this past week our dishwasher broke. Seriously? Well, I got up this morning with a purpose, fix it, or buy a dishwasher with the money I have diligently been saving for a sewing machine. After having a dishwasher it is hard to live without one. So I figured the sewing machine could wait. I went by the place we go for repairs and the guy wasn't in. So I went to RC Willeys, and found a dishwasher ($398) and fridge ($1069), and I just thought I would figure it out (financially). Well, I tried the fix it guy one more time and he explained in great detail what I need to do. So I purchased the parts ($9) I needed, which included a new power cord (he threw that in for free).
You will never believe this, but after a few hours, a couple of blood blisters and maybe a little cursing, my dishwasher is fixed. It has a new water line, new power cord and the drain pipe is unclogged. I 'll let you know how the fridge goes. I am getting the part ($39) on Wednesday.
I am woMAN, hear me roar!
p.s. I am going to pick up my sewing machine on Wednesday.

Welcome

I decided to create my very own blog, just for me. My husband is adamant about keeping our family one by invite only. It has kind of been a pain. So I decided to do my own and just use it for my do-it-myself stuff and anything else I feel like sharing with whoever I want, whether they are personally invited or not.

The reason for the name of my blog is that my husband is always saying that I live in the land of sunshine and lollipops. Well that name was already taken so I decided to just flip it.

I welcome anyone who would like to join me there. It is a great place to hang out in this amazingly crazy world.

I am going to try and copy and paste some stuff from my other blog. wish me luck.