Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Who is your dish?

I guess you could say I have a thing for redheads. This man my friends is known as Kevin McKidd. Otherwise known as Lucious Voreinous from the HBO series Rome. That is where he first caught my eye, way back when we lived in Ogden and stole cable.

Then he popped up on Grey's Anatomy, which is all to great for me because my stud rocket of a celebrity crush is now on my favorite show. Yeah, life is good.

He has a striking similarity to Red, don't you think? I guess when you have a type you have a type.

See also John Cina. He's a dish too!

So tell me friends, who is your celebrity dish?

Monday, March 23, 2009

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Battle Of The Beds

What your looking at here is our own little domestic terrorist. All 13 pounds of her.


When Red comes home from work everyone is drawn to him, we all fight for his attention and affection, he has some mighty big shoes to fill. Well this last week Red was home for his whole week off, he hasn't had his time off since January, we all felt neglected.

Anyhow, have I ever told you he is Tally's person? Well he is without a doubt. So much so that she smothers him when he's home. She appoints herself to be in his lap whenever she can, she goes into the bathroom and patiently waits on the floor till he's done doing whatever bathroom business he needed to do. She sneaks into his truck when they are outside, and she works with him around the house wherever he is working at. In a sense she's his shadow. She turns into this love-sick puppy and lives and breathes for him.

Her dog bed is on the same side of the bed that Red sleeps on. When he's home, she waits until he start to breath heavy and jumps on the bed and curls up in the small of his back, or the curve in his legs. To many times to count Red has woken up stiff or with a sore back because of her.

This last week she earned the nickname Tally-Ban, and was coined the domestic terrorist. She has persistence, I woke up probably eight time for five nights in a row when she'd jump up and Red would wake up and make her get down. He made it his mission to keep her off the bed

Her persistence paid off, she was on his side of the bed every morning! And Red was curled around her.

You gotta hand it to her, she has determination that most humans don't.

The best part is it's so funny to me, because when it's just me at home we all sleep in our own beds and nobody is bothered all night long.

Monday, March 16, 2009

A whole new look.

Alrighty, Red has been home for a week and it's been so nice, because he hasn't had much real time off since January. We started this little remodel project way back in the first part of January. We wanted to make a nursery out of the bigger bedrom upstairs. I took these pictures tonight after we got most of the room put together. Now keep in mind there are still some things missing, toys, decorations, and all the little knick-knacks that find there way to flat surfaces in any room.

I'm not sure about this picture, but if you look close you can tell what's going on. I already put my baby to bed so I'm not about to try for another picture. This is Rowdy's side of the bedroom.

This as baby #2's side of the bedroom.

Red replaced all of the trim, the doors, lights, outlets, ceilings and the door frames. Pretty much everything in this room has been replaced.

I think he did a great job! He's always been handy and he's done small projects before, but never an entire room from top to bottom. I'm so proud of him for all the time he took and his attention to detail.

I think it looks great. Now I just need to figure out where to put up the wall decor that I've got. I also need t wash all of baby #2's lothing and get it organized and rearrange the dresser's. And let me not forget the big project f the closet.

Let me know what you think. And if you have any good tips for organizing this room throw them my way.

P.S. This is how we plan on remodeling the rest of the house. Not blue walls, bt the doors, closets, moulding, ceilings, and window treatments. I can't wait! I seriously need to win the lottery.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

For A Good Time....

Get a free balloon when you go birthday shopping for your first born.




Put the free balloon where your ferocious attack dog can try to kill it.




Let dog loose and stay out of the way.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Holy 100th blog post Batman!

In honor of my 100th post, you get to learn 100 random things about me.

Warning <<<>>> It's a long one.

1. I love fish and chips. Don’t underestimate this. I whine to the hubster that he doesn’t take me to fish and chips often enough. Like it’s his soul responsibility to make sure I get taken to fish and chips.

2. My toenails should always require polish. Or a fresh pedicure.

3. I really wish I had a maid

4. I change my mind constantly, this drives my hubster nuts.

5. I only have nieces, and I think they are all beautiful.

6. I’m living in a place I never thought I would live.

7. A few years ago I really made fun of blogs and bloggers.

8. Now I am one, and when I get an urge I’m a really good one.

9. My kid brother is going on an LDS mission this summer, it makes me sad he'll be gone even though it should be a good thing.

10. My dream job is to be a white-water river-raft guide.

11. I love rivers.

12. I’m ¾ hippie at heart.

13. I think dreadlocks are beautiful. I’d love to have them now. I gt them after highschool.

14. I just don’t think it’d go over well when I take my kids to school, and I don’t want them to be judged because their mom is different.

15. Grape Gatorade is my favorite drink.

16. Some days I feel like I’m not as exciting as I used to be, that scares me.

17. My hubster is my best friend.

18. I don’t like conforming. To anything.

19. That’s why you’ll never see the usual blog lingo here, like DH, MIL, BIL, DD, DS. Not going to do it. But, I don’t think it’s wrong when I see it on others blogs

20. I wish I could be outside all the time. Good weather permitting of course.

21. I think its dangerous to be extreme in any area of your life. Medicine, school, work, religion, politics, diet, exercise, hobbies.

22. You don’t have to ever agree with me, but please respect that I don’t have to agree with you.

23. Being a mom has taught me a few things never to do. Don’t comment on the way people parent, just think it to yourself. Don’t brag about your child, because no matter how much you love them we all know they are still a kid and they aren’t perfect, so its pointless to brag.

24. And one thing to always do. Do offer your help whenever you see a mom look like she could use a hand.

25. My hubster is an old soul. I sometimes love it and sometimes loathe it.

26. When people tell me what to do, I secretly put them on a list of people who think they can tell me what to do, then it takes a long time for me to take them off that list.

27. It bothers me when people think they know me really well. Because I feel like they only know the Stacy they want to know and not the other pieces of me.

28. I have 7 sisters-in-law.

29. Only two of them make any effort to talk on the phone with me or text or email. I’m not gonna lie they’re my favorites.

30. I think it’s funny when I fart. It’s gross when the hubster farts though.

31. Living away from my family is the absolute hardest thing I have ever done.

32. I got postpartum depression when my baby was a month and a half old. I tok care of it and my little family survived.

33. I’d like to ask Heavenly Father why that has to be a part of anyone’s existence. Especially mine.

34. Yummo- to McDonald’s ice cream cones.

35. My hubster doesn’t share, not with me and not with my baby. Nope he likes his ice cream and candy all to himself.

36. I share. I was told better.

37. I like to always have a drink when I’m driving.

38. I probably should feel bad about the way Tally came to be a part of my family. But, I have no regrets. I'd do it again in a heart beat.

39. I love Tivo or DVR, they both make life just a bit nicer.

40. I enjoy hanging out with my parents. Double dating. Evenings juast hanging out.

41. My sisters are good examples to me.

42. I’m a bad phone caller; I really don’t call that many people. It’s not that I don’t want t talk I just always put it off. Don't take it personal.


43. I am a much better texter.

44. I really lack organization.

45. At some point in my life I’d like to own a golden retriever and an English bulldog.

46. I could eat green beans every day with my dinner.

47. Rocking babies is one thing I truly love.

48. One of my quirks is I get really uneasy when it come to talking about finances. Whether it be mine or someone else’s. For whatever reason it makes me uncomfortable.

49. Spring, summer, and fall are my favorite seasons.

50. I’m half way through this “100 random things about me” If you think I’m going to this for 200 you’re crazy.

51. I’m being honest here; I think my baby has an eating disorder. He’s never full, and he’s always hungry.

52. I like my milk to be 1% and icy cold.

53. I’m an addict to shoes, facebook (we call it crackbook round these parts), and checking blogs. Oh yeah and Starbuck’s.

54. I have Photoshop elements and I have no clue how to use it. It not only frustrates me, it downright pisses me off.

55. I am not even remotely the same person I was in high school. I've grown and changed. I think I'm nicer.

56. I’ve woken up in the outdoors with a horse’s nose in my face, he was standing over me. I’ve woken up in the middle of the night with raccoons climbing on my sleeping bag, and fighting by my bed. I’ve also had mice; at least I think they were mice crawl over my face while I was sleeping. I’ve slept in the outdoors a lot.

57. I met my biological grandfather a few years ago for the first time before he passed away. He was tall, dark and handsome.

58. The hubster and I have jumped on every opportunity that has crossed our paths. With the exception of one. He was offered a cattle ranching job in South Dakota, which came with a new pick-up, a $100,000 dollar sign on bonus and property to build a house on. I think we both occasionally regret not doing it.

59. I watch rated R movies.

60. Another dream job I have would be to be a baker, make wedding cakes, and pastries, all the sweet stuff, just not breads. But It’s to much work for my lazy bones, it’ll never happen.

61. I have a slight crush on Duff Goldman, from ace of cakes. We would so be cronies.

62. I don’t like it when people think being a republican and a Mormon go hand in hand. It makes me sad. And I think they are slightly bigoted.

63. I’m not affiliated with any political party, I like it that way.

64. Somebody stole sixty dollars of my babysitting money from my locker in the seventh grade. Why was I stupid enough to take sixty dollars with me to junior high?

65. List making is a chronic part of my life.

66. I lack decorating skills.

67. I enjoy sewing but rarely find or have the time.

68. I don’t understand people who say they are just not animal people. Be a dog person or a cat person but just please be an animal person. People like Jeffrey Dahmer(?) and Ted Bundy weren’t animal people. Get your kids a pet. It makes the world a better place.

69. I make everyone shower/bathe before bed, I’m weird I don’t like anyone getting under the covers with all the days germs and dirt. Including myself.

70. I loved college.

71. I loathed all mandatory education from the fourth grade on. I merely went because my mom made me and I wasn’t old enough to sign myself out. I graduated when I was 17.

72. I have P.C.O.S. Poly cystic ovarian syndrome. I’ve probably had it since puberty, but I wasn’t made aware of it until I started trying to get pregnant the first time. I have very severe hormonal imbalances with my case of P.C.O.S. I had a lot of signs and symptoms that I had it for a long time just not a doctor who was on the ball enough to put two and two together. I don’t mind talking about it.

73. My hubster is very much a man’s man. Most days I love that about him. He’s a meat and potatoes, pick-up driving, animal hunting, T-shirt and jeans wearing, tool using, hard working kind of a guy.

74. When I want to eat Italian or have deep conversations, or go somewhere fancy, all my liking that goes right out the window and I wish he’d have just a fraction of metro sexuality.

75. I am so the opposite of a perfectionist. It's a goal in my life. I suffer from the middle child-only child-oldest child syndrome, it's complicated but true.

76. In all the personality tests I’ve ever taken, and I’ve taken a lot I’m always orange or yellow. I’m the more irresponsible outgoing color. I’ve come to embrace this. My hubster is always the introverted power color.

77. I’m really not quite sure how we ever fell for each other; we are pretty much opposite in every aspect. We’re still in love.

78. I feel like it’s okay to be wrong or sorry, hence I’m often wrong or sorry. I admit to them both quite often.

79. I think about animal rights way to much, I get very heated about it. More so than abortion or gay marriage or tax hikes. Yeah, I’m me.

80. I live in the least green state in the nation. Or least Eco-friendly.
Funny, most people round these parts are quite proud of that.

81. The hubster is absolutely anti-green. He drives two pick-ups that get horrible gas mileage, and he lets them idle just to tease me.

82. I loved hanging my clothes out on a clothes line to dry. They always smelled so fresh and my whites were never brighter. I wish I still had a clothes line.

83. I have a tv in my bedroom. This is taboo with some people. Not me. I often fold clothes in my bedroom and I go to bed alone a lot, so I like having a tv in there for the noise. Judge me not.

84. I have a guest bedroom and it doesn’t have a dresser or anywhere for my guests to let themselves settle into. Because I want them to stay just that….Guests.

85. I’m getting a boob reduction. I made the hubster promise me that cosmetic
surgery would never be off limits before we got married. He gets sad when I talk about it.

86. I’ve never had stitches.

87. I love my mom’s cooking more than anyone else’s cooking on the planet. It’s pretty much anything she cooks to.

88. Bland food makes me sad.

89. It BoThErS Me WhEn PeOpLe Do ThIs. It’s not cute!

90. I wish people wouldn’t have private blogs. I understand why they are there. It’s just frustrating when you’re looking for people and you find their blog only to find out its private.

91. I love sending flowers and getting flowers.

92. My hubster and I don’t play games together well, we are to competitive, we could dang near get divorced over cards or board games. Much like doing our taxes. Some things we just can’t do together.

93. Giving advice is scary for me. I’m only speaking from my experience and I really don’t want to screw anybody over. I really stress about it.

94. I like sex. Most people aren’t very open about this but it’s a big part of my life and quite frankly it’s a nice part of my life. I think people who are taboo about sex are not comfortable with themselves. I don’t understand it. A good healthy sex life is nothing to be ashamed of.

95. I think fighting in a marriage is healthy. If you never fight with one another then one of you is always lying or holding back on your feelings. It’s a part of marriage that is necessary. And look at the bright side when your done you can have make-up sex.

96. There I go giving out marital advice, take it at your own risk.

97. Going out to eat, specifically lunch is one of my favorite pastimes. Call me next time you feel like lunch.

98. I have an passion for cherry coke, chocolate milk, bridge mix, and chips ahoy. I blame my dad.

99. All of my fingers are double jointed.

100. Quite frankly, I'd rather post pictures than type this much.....Ever.

Friday, March 6, 2009

Where do we get bad habits?


I'm sure he didn't get this from me.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Take a peak.

Rowdy just had his 1 year old pictures taken. I'm super excited about the way the ones I've seen have turned out.

Check them out for yourself, let Marissa and me know what you think.
Photosbymarissa

Surprise!


Look what came in the mail in the middle of last week! It probably came earlier than that, but I only get the mail once a week.

Anyways I was super surprised. It's a handmade checkbook holder that's way cuter than any ne I'd ever find in a store. And it's a way cute necklace that will go with tons of stuff. Sshh.. I already wore it to church on Sunday. Don't tell it's supposed to all still be new before I post it up here on the blog.

Thanks Ashley! This was a fun surprise, I'm super excited to get started on my things to give away.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Feeling Lucky (My blog My time)

My friend Ashley had this on her blog I thought it sounded fun!! Wanna play?

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! (come on now, don't make fun, you will be surprised what I can do :)

My choice. For you.

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2. What I create will be just for you.
3. It'll be done this year (hopefully sooner than later.)
4. You will have no clue what it is going to be.
5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange. :)

The catch? Oh the catch is that you must re-post this on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me you did will win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me!

** Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!