Earring hanger

So for Christmas my mom made this amazing earring holder for my daughter Mallory.  She has this old frame sitting around so she made this!  She took a plastic screen for the backing along with some purple fabric for the very back.  Gorgeous isn't it?!  She did an amazing job and now Mallory has a place for her earrings.  She has a bigger collection than I do! haha but I am more of  necklace collector .

Santa's Cookies

This last weekend my oldest girl was at Nana's making tons and tons of cookies and my youngest has been a crazy screaming machine so as she was taking a nap Anna and I made cookies for Santa.  She frosted them and decorated them and oh did they turn out yummy!  I had to hide them because Matt kept eating them and the girls and me........

We have a very busy week ahead of us first only 2 more days until Christmas!!!! I think I am more excited than my girls are because I cannot wait to see their faces!  

Today 23rd we have to go to a birthday party and sledding yay!

24th I have to make some appetizers and then off to celebrate Christmas with the in laws

25th Christmas!!  Opening Presents, homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast, turkey in the afternoon and board games galore!

26th we are going to my families Christmas

4 days of fun all while trying to switch out the bottle for a sippy cup.  The baby isn't liking it at all the night is very rough and then add in my insomnia.....whoa

Merry Christmas =)

What a crazy month

Hello everyone
I am sorry for my absence
It has been crazy
and will be getting crazier


We have a new temporary kitty Luna.  She will be taken by my sister in law when she gets back from job training.  She was a stray outside our home and she is a baby so we grabber her up!  She is so fluffy and cute I cannot stand it.

We have had to take off all our candy canes because well Lauren was a thief in the night, seriously she would grab a candy cane go hide somewhere and eat as much as she could before I could find her

I am also out looking for a job.  I really really miss working.  I love staying home with my kids but it is time for me to get back out there and we could really use the extra cash. 

Matt and I's 12 year is coming up!! Crazy huh?  he is my 8th grade sweetheart and I could never ask for anyone better in my life, he is a great soon to be hubby and great father to our girls.

Other than that life is life and I cannot wait until Christmas morning!

Happy Holidays everyone

I am to good for a high chair

So my 18 month old has decided that she is to good for her high chair.  If I sit her down in it she screams and yells and cries until I take her out and she sit BIG like the rest of us. I notice a lot of times also my kitty Missy is in all my photos.......she is starting to turn into a stalker.

Thanksgiving was great!  I ate with the in laws the food was delish!  I have to say how I am happy that I get along with all my inlaws I feel bad for anyone who is feuding or may not be liked by family.  I love his whole family like if they were my own, no matter how crazy they are.

Otherwise this weekend was pretty settle I took Christmas pictures of an adorable family

and oh yes we put up our tree!! tra lalalala!!!!

I love Christmas time and I love the lights!! but sigh we still don't have our carpet installed and that is getting done in Jan but I will not frown because lights make me happy and all the girls did an amazing job until they went to bed and then I fixed spots that were bare or cluttered haha

Happy Thanksgiving

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Today I don't have to cook YAY!!  We are going to my brother in laws house all I did was make the homemade croissants which turned out amazing by the way.

good news we got snow the day before Thanksgiving and it is gorgeous outside.
bad new I had to drive home in the damn snow and a 30 min trip home was a 50 min trip.

With that being said you are not an amazing driver until you drive home in one piece during a snow storm at night

yea...not safe

I hope everyone has an amazing and safe Thanksgiving.  Fill up those bellies and sleep well

Curly Hair: No heat

I love trying out new ways to curl hair even more on my daughters!  We did this video of a Victoria Secret Bombshell.  The girl in the video had her hair up for 2 hours but we did my daughters over night which made it more curly and it was very easy to sleep it!  We just made her hair damp and put some cream it in.  we did not use what the girl in the video did.

Here is our result

I am itching to start buying

I cannot start buying wedding things until tax season comes.  I have my dress picked out and everything I want for the wedding so I am itching to start buying things.  I so dislike waiting!!

I just have it all in my head.  The white curtains draped on the outside of the wooden amphitheater while everyone sits down hill in chairs on the grass

The simple food while everyone sits down and eats afterwards with white linens and burlap drapes the table

Then to head upstairs in the barn loft with the ceiling draped in lights. A pie and caramel apple table, drinking station, the cake in a birch tree cake with our initials on it with white and purple hydrangeas.

The men dressed in tan with super hero cuff links and the girls in dark brown holding white hydrangeas and I hold my purple hydrangea.

*sigh* I cannot wait for my wedding day

Isn't is pretty?!

We have snow!

and it didn't melt yet.  I have to say I am usually pretty bummed about snow but when it was snowing at night and I woke up to a winter wonderland sunny day, it was quite gorgeous.  We didn't get to go out and play in it, well my two daughters did because of school but the baby still needs boots and snow pants!  There is just something about the snow.  It makes your house brighter than the sun, it sparkles like glitter, it is fluffy, it is pretty all from the inside haha.  I just wish the cold didn't come with it.  It isn't that cold right now at all usually high of 30's or 40's but come February it can get down to negative 30 and that is the cold I dread living in Wisconsin.  You have never experienced cold until you realize you can get frost bite if you stand outside for more than 5 minutes to any exposed skin.

A  friend of mine lives in Florida and it was 82* where she was at while we were experiencing our super cold drift, I told her you realize you are 112 degrees higher than we are right now?!?  It is so crazy to think of!

But for now I shall enjoy the snow while the weather is "nice".  I just cannot wait to go snow tubing!

Vox box

So I got two Vox Boxes from Influenser and I was excited to try all the products 

 I will review these in order

The First vox box was the Rimmel vox box and it came with the new Stay Matte Foundation.  I give it an A+.  It is thick, goes on amazing and is very clean looking.  I think I might be making this my number one make up.  In this picture I have a very bad red mark from irritation from my Halloween make up and it covered it well

Now for the rose voxbox.  

Dr. Scholls for her cozy cushions

I haven't exactly had time to wear these but I did put them in my winter boots because well snow will be here soon and my boots are my #1 things on my feet.  They are comfy but I cannot wait to fully wear them!

Belvita Breakfast Biscuits

They are good and a great thing to eat on the go.  They are delicious in flavor but the one thing I don't like is the chewy baby dried blueberries in them.  I am not a fan of that kind of flavoring but it is a healthy on the go breakfast or snack that even kids will enjoy

 Kiss Gradation Nail Polish

I loved the color of the one I got it was a grey/silver/black/sparkles.  It was very very pretty but the polish was half way chipped off my nail by the end of the day.  I wouldn't buy it for that reason

Vita Bath Hydrating Lotion

This was my favorite product.  The lotion is thick so a little goes a long way and it smells amazing.  I have been putting this on my hands and feet for a week and they are baby smooth.  Worth buying 100%.

Rimmel London Scandaleyes Retro Glam Mascara

This item does not clump which is my number 1 factor.  It also makes my eye lashes fuller and thicker so it does the job that is says it is suppose to do.

Lindt Lindor Truffles

Who doesn't love these?  These are the most amazing chocolate truffles on the market.  They are cream and smooth and the taste is to die for!!

I got all products complimentary from Influenster and these are written by my own thoughts and words

I didn't sneak all the suckers.......I swear

As you see above she is our sucker thief.  At almost 17 months she knows how to open any kind of sucker in less than 10 seconds but hey at least is an apple thief as well.  

Here is a mug shot to prove it

Can I say that I don't have a photo of her with out an apple in hand?  She has one on her at all times but I will not complain because it is an apple.

But she can smile/smirk.....love her

See ^^^^^^ Apple again...

Any ways Halloween was great we were only out for and hour because well our weather sucked it was 40* and rainy.  It was to cold to walk around with the baby so we stayed in the car while I followed my other girls while they were running on the side walks and then coming back into the car to warm up.  In their words it was "THE WORST HALLOWEEN EVER" but I forgot to tell them about the year I was 5 and it snowed 18" inches of snow on Halloween and my town announced on their little town of 222 people speaker that Halloween was cancelled.  Now that is the worst.

Mallory was a butterfly, Anna was Tangled and I just love creepy make up

I hope everyone had a great Halloween and make sure you take out your mommy tax out of the buckets.

Mother nature hates Wisconsin

Whenever snow comes I am just never ready for it, ever.  Now I cannot complain to much because it is all melted now but still it is to cold.  It is staying in the low 40 -30s and it is snowing all the time and melting.  Quit teasing me.  It is suppose to be a horrid winter this year and I am dreading it.  

Negative:  Shoveling out the drive way, driving in it, all the slush that makes your pants dirty.

Positive: Snow tubing and sledding.  No matter how old you are when you go snow tubing it feels like you are a kid again.  We cannot wait to do it.

Otherwise we have an appt with the allergist for my daughter Anna.  She has suffered from outer hives for a while and this round got really bad where her neck,hands,and feet were twice the size so we took her to the er and they gave her 3 orals and one shot and she was on steroids for 1 week.  She is cleared up now but I cannot wait to see what makes he flair up

That is all that is really now.  Have a great rest of the week

Bossy little girls

       This is my daughter Anna to a T.  Now when I became a new mom at 19 my first daughter Mallory was the perfect baby.  Sleeping through the night at 2 months, listened very well, ate every thing in front of her, was amazing in the store, and never had horrible fits. So when I had Anna and she started growing up and realizing she is very very strong willed and nothing like her sister, I had trouble raising my daughter.

       Before the age of 1 Anna was slamming her head into the floor, walls, chairs, fridges any thing she could hit when she was having one of her fits.  She didn't sleep through the night until she was 1 year and a half, she would scream and kick when ever we went some where to this day I am surprised cops didn't show up at my door asking if she was even my daughter!  She brought us to the ER many times from being super curious, I woke up at 4 am to find her eating blocks of cheese, powder chocolate milk, spilling apple juice in my bed at 2 am because she wanted a drink.  Then she started talking well mostly screaming, stomping, slamming doors, my very first " I DON"T LIKE YOU" as a mom, talking back, word vomit of the mouth and hitting.

       She had and still has a temper.  Have I learned to deal with it?  Not completely but we are getting there.  She has to have her space when she is mad, I have to be stern but cannot yell or it will make the situation worse.  I have to bend down and speak to her in a certain tone and we have lots and lots of talks and taking away things when she hits her sisters.  She is very very bossy but very organized and that is what will make her great one day. 

       I could say hey I don't wanna deal with this or I am sick of this but I couldn't see my life with out it.  She has taught me so much in the last 5 years.  I am shy and a hide my feelings type of girl but if you don't even ask Anna she is gonna tell you what she thinks and what is on her mind and I love her for that and that is something I wish I had.  All these skills of a strong willed child that we dread but in the end they are changing us for the better in parenting skills and in ourselves and we have to remember that these skills are going to making them amazing adults.

       These will all make funny stories one day and I cannot wait to watch her grow into something amazing later in life but for now we will take things as they come and hope for the best.

I love you Anna

Love Mom

       

My dream has become my shadow

   

       Have you ever wanted to put your life on hold, ignore every one in it and just do something for yourself?
That is the point I am at.  If you don't know me I had my first daughter 2 months after graduating high school. I had to grow up fast.  I wasn't the party girl who shoved my daughter on my mom every weekend.  I started renting a house the day after high school.  I had been buying things here and there from freshman year so by the time I had my own rental home I had silverware, plates, pots and pans, kitchen table set and more. Thank god for my moms basement!

       I had the most horrid couch it was black and pink floral and it was on wheels and the landlord is a whole different story.  Anyway, I worked, my boyfriend worked and my mom and soon to be mother in law took care of my daughter for us.  I was a horrible cook that loved trying new recipes.  I was a horrible cleaner as well but I was a wonderful mother who stayed home all the time with my daughter and gave her 100% me

       I can tell you right now after having 3 girls I don't know when the last time was when I got myself a new outfit.  I haven't bought a new pair of shoes in 8 years.  3 girls make you broke but even when I do have the money to do something nice for myself I think of my girls and what they need and more.  So 99.9% of the time I think of my girls except on my birthday I go get my hair done and do something nice for myself.

       Back when I was in high school I never really though about college, my parents never pushed it nor asked about it but I always always thought about a pastry school.  It is still a dream that is far in the back of my mind but of course the only one is over 2 hours away and that is very hard to do when you have 3 little ones at home.

       I would love one day to own my own pastry shop and make eclairs, lobster tails, pies, tarts, puff pastries, and more but not cakes.  Don't get me wrong I love making cakes but I am not an artist and I am not a decorator so I will stick to my love of cookies, brownies, donuts and all the rest i said above.

 <-----my dream name

*sigh*

What is your dream?  Are you living it, are you putting it off, or are you wanting to still go for it?