WACKY WEDNESDAY!

For my first installment of Wacky Wednesday I thought we would celebrate the month of November or shall I say no shave November! Are any of you or or significant others participating in this wacky tradition this year? Yes, No, Maybe? Well to honor this significant month I thought we would turn our attention to this years 2014 World Beard and Mustache Championships..... I know what you are thinking, there is no such thing. Oh but there is my hairy friend. Where is this glorious even held you Mustache? (see what I did there, Mustache/ must ask, ok enough with the cheesy word play) Well I will tell you. This man of all manly competition was held in Portland, Oregon with around 300 participants. So without another second to lose lets check out some of those my favorite stashes!!!!

Photos by  Greg Anderson

Falling for Fall

So it is almost time to start putting summer gear away and breaking out the jackets. I must say I am excited, I love Fall. In preperation of this decided it was time to make a new Fall wreath.

So off to the craft store I went.  I wanted to keep it pretty simple in design so I got a preformed vine wreath. The craft store had a good selection of fall garlin so I pick out one that I liked. I decided to go with one that already had some pumpkins and squash in it so I wouldn't need to add any more decoration besides a bow. For the bow I found some green burlap wire ribbon. The hardest part of this whole project was picking everything out at the store. Once I got home I put it all together using zip ties and I made the bow by looking at examples on Pinterest. Oh Pinterest how we love you. This project was so simple anyone could do it. 

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New Fav

This is one of my favorite songs right now. Mindy Gledhill is AMAZING!

Bad lighting

Had an awesome time with my girls last Friday night. Nothing like goofing off with your friends to make the whole week better :)

My Hero!

A few weeks ago I fell trying to catch my son from running in a very busy parking lot. I hit a slick spot and down I went. I have been paying for that fall ever since. I wish I would have took picture of how bad I was bruised up. I was purple and blue from head to toe.  I used Lavender oil to heal the bruises along with detox baths. But the thing that I just couldn't get to heal was my wrist. When I fell I tried to catch myself and landed with most of my weight on my wrist. Needless to say it was out of commission for quite a few days. I did everything I could think of to help it heal. I wrapped it, I soaked it but as soon as I thought it was getting better I would over do it and re injure it by picking my son up or a box at work. Sick and tired of being at my wits in I got online and searched if there was and oil that I had already in my possession that would help speed this healing along and low and behold there was.

Lemongrass... lemongrass can help heal ligaments, Who knew!! So I mixed a drop of lemongrass oil with a carrier oil and massaged it onto my hand and wrist. For good measure I decided to add some valor afterwards to help aid lemongrass and to keep from re injuring it again. With in 24 hours there was a huge difference. I could lift my son with out cringing, I could actually get a few things done at work the next day that required heavy lifting. I was over the moon! I don't care what anyone says this stuff is magic in a bottle.

I am continuing to put lemongrass and valor on at least once a day till I feel my wrist is completely back to normal but I don't see that being more than just a few more days. I encourage anyone who has not tried this for an injury to do so.

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Weather Confusion

First off so sorry to have been gone for two weeks. A terrible virus is sweeping though our town and you guessed it, my whole house got it. First it started with little man and lasted a week and then it hit both the hubs and me. But I am happy to say that we are now all back to normal aside from Whalen's allergies which have picked up with all the weather confusion going on around here.

 I know we are not the only place with weather confusion but man I wish that it would just pick a season and stick to it. I myself am not a fan of  "real" cold weather but I love Fall weather. Living in Louisiana fall usually lasts about a week in December and then full on winter minus the snow hits till about mid March. We have been lucky this year that we have had a few fall like days sprinkled here and there over the last two weeks which has been nice. Shameful to say but on those day I got all decked out in fall gear with boots, scarfs and all. Then the next day it was back to 80 degree weather in October. Oh well what are you going to do.

Halloween is coming up quick and I can't wait! The hubs and I are taking a little get away by ourselves the weekend before to New Orleans. RJ's family all live in and around New Orleans so it is not like we are going anywhere new or far away. It will be nice to get a little time to ourselves though you know. I plan on writing about our trip so stay tune for pictures and stories. Trust me you will want to see this, we are going to be dressing up and heading down to the quarter. Who knows what kind of mischief we will get into.


Oh and I found this fun new app for my phone this week called Studio. Look at this fun picture I made. (Studio has no idea I am writing about them, I just really thought it was a cool app and wanted to share with my friends.)

                                       

Blue 42

Ok I don't know how many other ladies have been tricked into this but my husband convinced me and several of my friends to have a couples Fantasy Football league... Sadly it looks as if I have started to take it quite seriously. Sunday football has become pivotal in what kind of mood I am in. If my team is doing great I am in a great mood but if my team is doing poorly watch out because I may become the queen of hearts. OFF WITH HIS HEAD!

My sister has pointed out to me that I am "far to in to this" as she would put it. I must admit she might be right. I play her this week and I have shamelessly stalked her team and what she has been doing with it. I have even called to confront her on collusion with her hubby. Which in fact was so true, He has helped her pick players.  FYI he has his own team. If you know anything about FF you know this is looked down upon and is almost like cheating. So it is my mission this week to win against her.  We are currently on the fourth week and only time will tell if I will make it to the play offs. But I am checking my players almost daily to make sure everyone is still up to par. The jury is still out on if I will do this again next year. I guess it will depend on if I do well or if I end of stinking it up.

For those of you who could use a laugh I have included this hilarious video about if the rolls were to reverse in football. AKA this is me right now.

A moment of silence for Lime

Sad day, it has come to my attention that skittles no longer has the lime flavor. They have switched lime to green apple! I am not the biggest fan of green apple flavoring so this is horrific news to me. I just though I would share this sad sad information with you this morning as we all morn the lost of lime.

 

                                 

RIP Lime Skittle

1979-2013

I voted!!

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baby snuggles

so what a weekend! blogger and I were not getting along on Friday so I was not able to get my high five Friday post up, sorry guys. Anyways this weekend was so busy, but really relaxing at the same time. I truly did not want it to end, I got to spend the whole weekend with my guys. This never happens! The reason is because my little cousin had her wedding so hubby got to take off work on Saturday :).
Today is very bitter sweet because I have to work ALL day and will not get to see hubby or little man till tomorrow. I was hugging and kissing on little man all morning, you would think I was not going to see him for a month. I don't know why but this morning just seemed harder to let him go. I really hope this day goes by quickly. I am ready for some baby snuggles in the morning.

Good bye October

Its that time of year again time to gorge ones self until they can no longer move or function. where has this year gone? I feel as if this whole year has just been a blur. back to turkey month, I myself love this time of year and can't wait to gobble up some turkey. So lets celebrate that magnificent bird this month! Fact of the day: did you know that Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the bird of the United States instead of the bald eagle? Arn't we glad that didn't happen lol..

First Halloween

we had a very busy weekend! My hubby has to work on Halloween so we wanted to find a way to celebrate a little before hand since it is little man's first Halloween. So yesterday we went out and got pumpkins for us to carve. Little man even got his very own little pumpkin, in which he played with while daddy and I did our magic on the other two. afterwards we went to the party store and fought through the drones of people to get little man an outfit that would be warm. He was going to be a tourist but in the past few days the temp has dropped a good bit and there was just no way to keep him warm in it. We wanted to get him the Hulk outfit but they were out so we went with the monkey outfit (it was the only boy outfit in his size left).  It turned out great I think he is the cutes monkey there ever was.

Double double toil and trouble

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
     Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,—
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
     Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf;
Witches' mummy; maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark;
Root of hemlock digg'd i the dark;
Liver of blaspheming Jew;
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse;
Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips;
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,—
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingrediants of our caldron.
    Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
        Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good

 

-Witches of Macbeth-                                            

Haloween is only a few days away and it is time to get to the heart of it all the goodies.

you can not have a party with out a witches brew here are a few that I think will do. They will make you quiver they will make you smile so come on in an stay awhile.
in the top left we have a scary punch- what you will need is simple, a plastic glove, water and your favorite red punch. Fill the glove with water and let it freeze then place it in your punch. it will be a scary delite. Next we have a festive way to keep your drinks cold. All you need to do is cut the top off a pumkin and fill it wil ice and your favorite beverages. Last but not least is the most skin crawlin of them all the apple head cider. all you need is apples and pre-made (or homemade) apple cider. this one can be a family affair. give everyone an apple to carve a face in and them place them in the heated cider for a spooky affect.

for the finger foods of Halloween we have a few. how about 5 layer spiders dip, a BOOtastic pizza and pumpkin fondue.

 

last but not least here is one for the kid inside us and our sweet tooths. Our chocolate covered pretizel ghost should do the trick or how about taking a tasty ride on a witches broom. Watch your step our mummies in a blank are a scream!


These will be a hit at your next monster bash.

It's the little things that say BOO!

I find it is the little things that really make your home fun for Halloween for the kids of all ages. Here are a few I have found on the Internet that I think can really take your home from ordinary to spooky.

 

 

 For a your entry way or even your main party room. This group includes spooky and kid friendly versions 

Links to above pictures: left top corner, right top corner, left bottom corner, right bottom corner

 



 Here are a sample of just some of the little things you can do around the house to add that creepy Halloween spirit.

Links:, shadows on the wall, witches potions, The thing in the bathroom sorry I couldn't find a link but so easy to do with construction paper. The spider sack was a flickr picture but I found a link here with the instructions.
again a lot of great stuff at Martha Stewart.



this fun bat chandelier is super easy by using black construction paper or cardstock, fishing string and embroidery circles. Of course don't forget your shower curtain that is one of the easiest things you can do to make a bathroom scary. Cause who is not scared of what is behind the curtain, come on.

Now its your turn take these fun little things and and make your home say BOO!!

say what

Have you seen these??? Be still my husbands beating heart. He would die his favorite candy is candy corn and his favorite cookie is oreos.. Seriously this is the perfect thing for him.

gobling and ghouls

Halloween post #2.

Today lets talk about decorating for Halloween outdoors. Whether you want to go all out or just a little things here or there I think we will have a few ideas for you today. note some of these pictures are my own and some of these are going to be from the Internet. If they are the Internet I will try and provide the link. Lets Begin...

First you want to start with what your guest will see first.. the yard.

This was a few years back at my sister's house we made a graveyard to greet people. This was super easy we just got some thick foam board and cut shapes of the tombstones, painted them and used dowel rods to stick them the ground.

<---we even had a few ghost roaming around.

and of course you have to have a jack'o lantern

 

Ideas from the web:
 

oh Martha Stewart so smart  in crafting show me your ways- by using poster board cut into scary shadows  and place them in your windows you will have one of the spookiest houses on the block.

Martha schools again with making ghosts out of cheese cloths to hang in your trees. instruction here

 

I also found that over at parents.com they have a lot of kid friendly ideas like this little jewel. .Make your house fall on the wicked witch.
There are tons of possibilities for decorating your yard. I recommend first to decided what kind of yard your family would like Kid friendly or scary. Once you have agreed upon that decided your budget $-$$$. Even with a small budget you can make your house a must see in the neighborhood. need more ideas I recommend pinterest, there are plenty of creative ideas on there to get your juices flowing. Now get to it and have a spooktastic time decorating your yard.

 

Good Evening Mr. President.

Halloween is just around the corner and I have decided to do a few post on Halloween activities.

Have you picked out your costumes? I have to be honest I don't know if I will have time to dress up, but little man will. He is going to be an old man tourist, Hawaiian shirt and all.
In my own experience the home made costumes are the most fun. First off I can try to be original and second they usually don't cost as much money. That is a win win in my book. If you are like me and wait till the last minute to get a costume and like to make them home made, look no further I have decided to provided you with a list of options. I am even including some pictures of my hubby and me in some of our own home made outfits.

here is my hubbs and I as the orbits girl and the hulk

can you guess what we are here.... Waldo and Wenda!!

Better picture of my Wenda out fit. My friend behind me is a pregnant Juno.

 

Here is a picture of one of my friends dressing up as house.

here is another as a lady bug.

 

Other Ideas

individual costumes:

1. bunch of grapes (balloons attached shirt and pants)

2. zombies are hot this year, all you need is some make up to bring it really do dead (yes I am corny)

3. Marilyn Monroe is always a go to with girls and is easy to replicate just get a white dress, red lips and a short blond wig.

4. what girl can't turn into a bunny by just adding ears

5. throw on a leather jacket, sunglasses and bandanna and be a biker or rock star.

6. road kill- dress in all black put yellow tape down the front of you and carry a fake weapon.

couples costumes:

1. a salt and battery (make with poster board)

2. clue characters (Mr. White killed Miss scarlet in the kitchen with the candle stick)

3.Hawaiian punch- girl wears grass skirt and Lia while guy wears boxing gloves

4. jack and Jill- dress normal and just carry a pail.

5. mouse and cheese. paint whiskers, fake tail, and fake ears. cheese wears all yellow and with a marker draw random circles for holes in the cheese.

 group costumes:

1. Flintstones

2. rock paper scissors

3. clue characters

4. jersey shore

5.Muppet's

6. bee hive

 

 Really we could go on and on with this post but I think you got it. The point is to be creative. You can be anything for Halloween so why not take advantage of this fun day of duel personalities.

And may the force be with you ;)

Going for Gold!

Update on this weekends swim meet for my sister-in-law. She got 1 gold metal and 2 silver in her events. Below is a picture of her in the event she won gold. See how far ahead she was, she really did great.

 

After the meet we all went  home and rested for a bit then we went to Gatti Town (a really cool pizza place) to celebrate with her friends. It really was a blast and can not think of a better way to spend my Saturday.

Sunday was our recovery day were we just sat around most of the day and of course watched some football. woohoo Geaux Saint!!! The only real productive thing I did yesterday was go for a run. This was my second time to run and I would say it was a vast improvement from the first. Who knows maybe I will be ready for that race next month, well at least for the smaller race.

Now it is Monday, oh Monday how I have not missed you. My body knew it was Monday and tried to make me oversleep but thanks to little man we woke up on time to his cries for breakfast. So this morning I am just trying to stay awake and make it through Monday.

 

 

Swim girl swim

Today little guy and me are going to watch his aunt compete in swimming for the Special Olympics. My sister in law is very involved with the SO and competes in swimming, bowling and a few other sports. But today we are cheering her on for swimming. I am so thankful for the SO it really is such a great organization which provides such a great service. You never know how much it effects lives till you are apart of it and I encourage everyone to try to get involved at some point. These people will touch you lives and teach you profound lessons you never expected. Go A. Swim girl Swim!!

High five it's Friday!

 

High Five it's Friday!!! The end of another week. Every Friday I will be participating in the high five Friday with Lauren over at from my grey desk. If you have 5 thing you would like to share from your week please link up to her blog and join us in the fun :)

 

1. Yay it is getting colder and I get to pull out my scarfs

2. I got to hang out with some great friends over the weekend. P.S. the little girl is my friend kelli's and it is our plan to have an arranged marriage between our two lol ;)

3. Yummm so good

4. Who wouldn't want to hang all week with this cool kid. Oh and we are about to get our first two teeth any day now!

5. Poor Winston he is back in the cone of shame. He wont stop chewing on one of his paws, which has now gotten a sore on it, so on with the cone!