Monday, September 30, 2013

pictures as of lately

1.) i went to get my eyebrows done, and the sweet girl that always waxes them was telling me about these cute nail sticker polish things she has started selling. They are called Jamberry and there are hundreds of really cute designs. She put a set on my nails for free. :) I am maybe going to host a party thing next month where she comes and shows us all the fun designs she has. we shall see.

this is the design i picked.

2.) the animal saga continues. these things aren't even phased by the fence.

they say that three of the most stressful things you can do in your life are have a baby, move and I forget the other one.

they should make "build a fence with your significant other" one of the most stressful things.

oh my goodness! I am glad we don't have to do that again. Or for a lonnggggg time at least :)

regardless, these little (or not so little) deer are just not in the least bit intimidated by this fence. Instead they just look at me like, "what do you think you are going in OUR yard?"



3.) on saturday we went with our friends to the apple farm. They have a distillery and have tons of samples of their apple vodka, gin, blah blah. To be honest, it tasted like rubbing alcohol. what did NOT taste like rubbing alcohol? there Apple Cider Frosty drink. delish :) perhaps even with a little vodka mixed in? ;)


4.) there is nothing better than hot chocolate when they make it with real milk. even better when you are on a walk and this is what the sky looks like and you have hot chocolate. cozy :)

5.) i have an unhealthy obsession with napkins. they can just spruce up an anotherwise boring Costco dinner :)




Sunday, September 29, 2013

the time i had a few hours to waste at Nordstrom....

so last week me and some girlfrands went to a matt wertz concert.

the concert was on a wednesday night and based on my nifty little work schedule I got going on right now, I had the whole day to get ready and head down to Seattle.

i think i got a liiiitle too excited, and I left too early.

I did have to stop at Nordstrom though and get our niece, Charlotte, these boots for her FIRST birthday party that we went to yesterday.

I die.

anyways,

so these boots took a little less time than I anticipated.

as innnn. I had about 3 hours until I could meet my friends.

I had already gone to Target, World Market, Storables, had a latte at Panera, browsed Pottery Born, conveted everything in Nordstrom etc. etc.

I was seriously out of entertainment. (Not to mention the wedges I was wearing were KILLING my feet"

ah ha! I had been thinking about how I wanted some lipstick or some colored lip gloss to brighten up a face that no longer goes to a tanning salon. :(

I mosied right over to the Clinique counter and started looking at the lip gloss.

and then they spotted me.

They offered to try the colors on me. I suppose that was legit.

I think my first mistake was sitting down.

Perhaps my second mistake was telling her, when she asked how much time I had, that in fact I was "trying to pass some time before I met my friends."

we started with the liptstick, and then the questions about what kind of facewash I use..

I was exfoliated, mosturized, blushed, mascared, eye lined, serumed...

and then i told her I was going to a concert that night.

looking back, that could have been the biggest mistake of the night.

green eyeshadow. cat eye eyeliner. red lipstick. oh yeah baby.

it gets worse. i bought it all.

i just couldnt bear to say no to the sweet girl.

then i had a freak out thinking WHY IN THE EARTH DID I JUST BUY AN $80 SERUM?!?!

so I turned right back around and ran to customer service where I promptly said I was sorry, but I was suffering buyers remorse and needed to return this.

slight problem. it had been TOO quickly after I had purchased the makeup, so it wasnt showing up on their computer history. They said I had to wait at least 4 hours before I could return it.


hahahaha.

oh boy.

welll. i ended up going to a different Nordstrom the next day, and returning it all but the lip gloss :)

but man oh man, my face is still feeling the benefits from that lovely exfoliation. so I would say all in all, it was worth it ;)

Sunday, September 1, 2013

cupcakes

i made cupcakes for my aunts wedding.

she decided to go with orange crush and rootbeer float.

the cupcakes were displayed on vintage pop boxes and the flowers on hte cake table were in old pepsi bottles. (way to go, auntie sue!)

if i recall, my aunt actually said her favorite part of her wedding was the cake table. ;) (well besides marrying Ryan, of course :) 

mandy did all the dirty work of frosting on the morning of the wedding.


auntie sue bringing the flowers in the old pepsi bottles!












Monday, September 30, 2013

pictures as of lately

1.) i went to get my eyebrows done, and the sweet girl that always waxes them was telling me about these cute nail sticker polish things she has started selling. They are called Jamberry and there are hundreds of really cute designs. She put a set on my nails for free. :) I am maybe going to host a party thing next month where she comes and shows us all the fun designs she has. we shall see.

this is the design i picked.

2.) the animal saga continues. these things aren't even phased by the fence.

they say that three of the most stressful things you can do in your life are have a baby, move and I forget the other one.

they should make "build a fence with your significant other" one of the most stressful things.

oh my goodness! I am glad we don't have to do that again. Or for a lonnggggg time at least :)

regardless, these little (or not so little) deer are just not in the least bit intimidated by this fence. Instead they just look at me like, "what do you think you are going in OUR yard?"



3.) on saturday we went with our friends to the apple farm. They have a distillery and have tons of samples of their apple vodka, gin, blah blah. To be honest, it tasted like rubbing alcohol. what did NOT taste like rubbing alcohol? there Apple Cider Frosty drink. delish :) perhaps even with a little vodka mixed in? ;)


4.) there is nothing better than hot chocolate when they make it with real milk. even better when you are on a walk and this is what the sky looks like and you have hot chocolate. cozy :)

5.) i have an unhealthy obsession with napkins. they can just spruce up an anotherwise boring Costco dinner :)




Sunday, September 29, 2013

the time i had a few hours to waste at Nordstrom....

so last week me and some girlfrands went to a matt wertz concert.

the concert was on a wednesday night and based on my nifty little work schedule I got going on right now, I had the whole day to get ready and head down to Seattle.

i think i got a liiiitle too excited, and I left too early.

I did have to stop at Nordstrom though and get our niece, Charlotte, these boots for her FIRST birthday party that we went to yesterday.

I die.

anyways,

so these boots took a little less time than I anticipated.

as innnn. I had about 3 hours until I could meet my friends.

I had already gone to Target, World Market, Storables, had a latte at Panera, browsed Pottery Born, conveted everything in Nordstrom etc. etc.

I was seriously out of entertainment. (Not to mention the wedges I was wearing were KILLING my feet"

ah ha! I had been thinking about how I wanted some lipstick or some colored lip gloss to brighten up a face that no longer goes to a tanning salon. :(

I mosied right over to the Clinique counter and started looking at the lip gloss.

and then they spotted me.

They offered to try the colors on me. I suppose that was legit.

I think my first mistake was sitting down.

Perhaps my second mistake was telling her, when she asked how much time I had, that in fact I was "trying to pass some time before I met my friends."

we started with the liptstick, and then the questions about what kind of facewash I use..

I was exfoliated, mosturized, blushed, mascared, eye lined, serumed...

and then i told her I was going to a concert that night.

looking back, that could have been the biggest mistake of the night.

green eyeshadow. cat eye eyeliner. red lipstick. oh yeah baby.

it gets worse. i bought it all.

i just couldnt bear to say no to the sweet girl.

then i had a freak out thinking WHY IN THE EARTH DID I JUST BUY AN $80 SERUM?!?!

so I turned right back around and ran to customer service where I promptly said I was sorry, but I was suffering buyers remorse and needed to return this.

slight problem. it had been TOO quickly after I had purchased the makeup, so it wasnt showing up on their computer history. They said I had to wait at least 4 hours before I could return it.


hahahaha.

oh boy.

welll. i ended up going to a different Nordstrom the next day, and returning it all but the lip gloss :)

but man oh man, my face is still feeling the benefits from that lovely exfoliation. so I would say all in all, it was worth it ;)

Sunday, September 1, 2013

cupcakes

i made cupcakes for my aunts wedding.

she decided to go with orange crush and rootbeer float.

the cupcakes were displayed on vintage pop boxes and the flowers on hte cake table were in old pepsi bottles. (way to go, auntie sue!)

if i recall, my aunt actually said her favorite part of her wedding was the cake table. ;) (well besides marrying Ryan, of course :) 

mandy did all the dirty work of frosting on the morning of the wedding.


auntie sue bringing the flowers in the old pepsi bottles!