I'm a copy cat!

so this week I copied off Stephanie by adding a counter to my blog and I'm getting some hits!
I love blogging, it's like journaling and scrapbooking! so it's cool people are reading but I think I'd continue even if people stop. I scrapbook all the time and hardly anyone sees my books/pages! which leads me to my next copying thing this week, Jessica posted some of her scrapbook pages on her blog, so I'm copying of her too! so here are a couple of recent things I have done.







Enjoy and if you want to post comments - feel free, unless their mean then just keep your opinion to yourself - lol! (however I do know my sister said she has tried to post comments and it won't let her? so maybe there is a trick, not sure)

This week has gone by so fast. I have been nonstop busy organizing my house - which sadly still doesn't look that organized??? (I should have scrapbooked) I have talked to my mom a gizillion times and Blake is having the time of his life; I'm so excited to get there.

so I decided to post some pics taken a week or so ago. I love kid bath photos, they are almost timeless so I decided to b&w these, but they still didn't look right, so I gave them a little blue tint. I may frame these and hang them in our bathroom - if I ever get around to it (ironically even though I take a ton of photos I don't frame many for around the house??)

Freaking OUT!

so I'm freaking out cause Blake is in Florda with my parents, me and Ted are going on Saturday along with my sister and her boyfriend, but he(blake) is far far away from me for 4 whole days.

What shall I do with my free nights??? date nights with hubby, scrapbooking, watching movies, etc . . . well tonight we are cleaning the house - shampooing carpets and all - good times!!! Tomorrow I'm going to bingo, and then probably date night one night, actually now that I plan this out it really only gives me 1 free night and that will probably be packing for my trip!!

But I'm so excited for Blake too. I just got off the phone with him and he sounded so excited to be on this adventure with Grandma and Grandpa. What great grandparents my parents are :-)

The Circus

Today we went with Julie, Alexa, and Alexis to Bloomingtons Gamma Phi Circus. I was a little nervous if Blake would be into it since there were no animals and my answer to that question after being there is . . . lets just say his favorite part was

getting his face painted like a pirate! and then

getting this new sword, and then probably

eating popcorn, after we just had dippin dots!

He did like watching the trapese people and was really excited when they went back to their 'post' and he would always say 'yeah they made it' Hopefully he likes the Ringling Bros with animals, cause I already bought tickets to that one.

But I very much enjoyed the gamma phi circus and I'm amazed at what those people can do!

Fashion show Friday!

I found this blog a few weeks back and love it! - esp. Fridays cause she does fashion fridays (today it's about gardening - which I'm not into at all)
http://inpassionatepursuit.blogspot.com/search/label/Frugal%20Fashionista

I LOVE shopping, but don't love spending money. so I always hit clearance racks, consignment stores and have recently started shopping at Goodwill, my co-worker Ann got me hooked and we get some great stuff there.

so the fashionista blogger does whole outfits for $15. I'm not always that good usually I'll piece some of my finds with regular stuff, but this week I wore 2 work outfits that were under that so here ya go:

I got these pants at Kohls for $7! - gotta love their clearance racks, and this sweater for $3 at walmart. It's over a year old and still looks pretty good!
total outfit (minus jewlry and shoes) $10!

these pants - consignment store $8 and shirt - garage sale $1, total outfit $9!
(don't ya love my modeling poses - Ann took my photos at work!)

Baby Got Back

with Spring Finally here - kind of - I decided to put away some of the thick sweaters and pull out the shorts and capris. and let me say people are not lying when they saw your body goes downhill in your 30's

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This is the pile of shorts/crops that fit me last year that do not fit me this year, all cause of weight gained in my rear!!! I have done nothing different in my eating habits - just getting old and what happens, your metabilism slows.... not that I care about my weight. I just hate it when I have to give up cute clothes just cause they don't fit.

I'm trying to be a little more conscience about my eating habits and trying to drink more water, I know my downfall is soda, but it just tastes so much better than water. so hopefully by writing this it will make me more accountable for my actions and drink lots of water, less soda, and start walking more!

I spent my weekend resting to get over my illness - which was either the start of a cold or allergies - who knows. So as I am getting ready for the week I'm going thru these photos I took of Blake at daycare last week.
Spring/summer time is the best there cause of their awesome outdoor playground. They have the giant slides, playhouse, huge sandbox, sidewalk for sidewalk chalk, bikes, etc... But Blake told me his favorite thing to do there is 'to mow the grass'!