heart and stone jewerly

i love these personalized jewerly from heart and stone jewerly . i love how they look and that they still have a little bit of a modern flair to them. i also love that they are made from 100% recycled silver and how easy their website is to navigate. i made a mock necklace and it took me step by step showing the price of each item. unfortunately for me, i could not buy one- it was a little pricy for my cheap budget.

*well known fact: i do not get paid to endorse anything on my blog. i just like them and like to share.

super sunday randoms

1. yesterday evening my sister called asking kaylee over for a play date. so while she was on her play date, we went shopping. pier1, marshalls and target. (my brother-in-law and his parents were home)

2. we also hit chipotle- my first time there ever and krispy kreme donuts because their hot light was on. {hot light= free donut!} got kaylee and i one of these cute little mugs for her chocolatte and my whateverlatte for valentine's day.

3. kaylee woke up and the first thing she said was happy valentine's day where's my present. not exactly in those words but pretty close.

4. i ended up getting her a pink harmonica, a fancy nancy puzzle, the mug and a few candies. ham got lindt chocolates, gum and beef jerky.

5. i missed my ham all day today. he stayed the night over his buddies house and didn't come home till 9pm tonight. *sigh*

6. i've been eating what feels like non-stop. friday night it was my parents wing place, saturday for lunch it was their pizza place, saturday night i brought home an almost 10# burrito and a dozen krispy kreme both courtesy my sister. this morning finished said burrito, went to late lunch at hacienda, and ate more donuts...*sigh* food is evil!

7. since the kids don't have school tomorrow i'm thinking of going to shipshewana for the day.

8. its been nice not having car payments so we're going to let ham be as picky and choosy as he wants to be.

9. kaylee got herself a nice valentine's day present from mike's parents. they gave her enough money to buy herself pajamas just like the ones her american girl doll has. ($40 bucks!)

10. happy we did our taxes tonight and will be getting a nice rebate.

hard to believe

1. a year ago yesterday we moved into our current home thanks to the nice old homeowners who let us move in even though we hadn't closed on the house yet. we had a slight delay with closing thanks to the new homeowner of our old place.

2. we had to move pretty much everything into the garage because we technically had one day to move our crap, the new homeowner of our old place gave us till midnight friday to move because she's just not a nice person.

3. ham also had a haircut at our now regular salon a year ago. mike was not happy with that.

4. this is how we found kaylee after returning the moving truck. sleeping in ham's room with his sweatshirt on to use as a blanket. so sweet.

5. yesterday went to chiro, olive garden for lunch, hair appointment for ham, local mall to kill some time, dinner with friends.

6. today we are meeting mike's parents for lunch at my parents pizza joint. they haven't seen it yet.

7. mike wanted to get the kids a trampoline for valentine's day. well he was using valentine's day as an excuse. i dream stomped that idea.

8. still been feeling pretty good, not bogged down or out of it as usual. fingers crossed it stays. {this is all due to my allergies. both nostrils are still stuffed}

9. found recipes to make buffalo ranch chicken dip and some hazelnut cookies. bummed that i couldn't find any hazelnuts at two of our grocery stores.

10. hard not to get into the valentine's day spirit with all the cool posts thats going around the blogging world.

vacation on the brain!

ham march 2009

1. i have this wonderful series of ham and a few of his friends skateboarding. just wish i knew how to change them from iphoto to video so i can post it.

2. today is going to be "one of those days"- feeling antsy, lonely, frumpy and bored. weird. i kinda feel like cleaning.

3. kids have no school tomorrow or monday for presidents day.

4. asked ham and his buddy, tyler, if they wanted to go to bdubs with us for dinner last night. ham always says no. his friends always say yes! they ended up staying for the whole meal which was nice.

5. decided against the hardwood floors for the time being. decided to go on vacation instead since i/we only have so much time left with ham before he leaves for college and never goes on a family vacation again.

6. would love to go back to hawaii but even with my parents timeshare it would still be pretty expensive. trying to convince the family to try another cruise but no such luck. the cruise ship that took us around the hawaiian islands was, to be honest, a shit hole and not much fun.

7. so florida might be the destination which has always been fun for us. islands of adventure for ham and princess disney stuff for kaylee. we would love to go with friends but sadly we have no friends who would want to go with us.

8. my sister called me yesterday bragging she was at ikea again and that she would be eating pf changs for dinner. i had her pick me up a few more plant stands.

9. i've been reading my old blog some more and even started going back through this one.

10. just wanted to say thanks to all those who leaves a comment. it makes me smile reading them. kinda feels like i'm getting happy mail!

i want some mail!

in-between doing laundry i've been searching for someone who does monthly subscriptions but haven't been able to find anything. {letterpress, polaroids etc..} i don't think i would be cool enough to join this exchange yet to be hosted by oh hello friend but it sure looks like fun!

random wednesday

1. my sweet little nugget eating some cereal last friday. it was sports day at school so she wore her cheerleading outfit.

2. i'm not sure what the deal is this week but my sweet little nugget has been clinging to me non-stop and the talking. oh my can this girl talk! thats definitely mike's side. (i'm sure it has something to do with us being together 24/7, even at night and being stuck inside}

3. and today school was canceled for her. {there goes my much needed break!} ham got a 2 hour delay. i let him take the car.

4. while ham was in the shower she asked when he was going to leave for school. i asked her why and she said he was getting on her nerves. {she hadn't even seen him yet this morning}

5. we made valentine's day cards for her class last night and had lots of fun making them. it was nice getting some crafting supplies out again.

6. i'm craving for some buffalo chicken ranch dip and for some kogi korean beef taco's that i saw on the best thing i ever ate on the food network channel last night.

8. i know i've said this before but if i ever win the lottery i am hiring a personal chef while living in hawaii.

9. while shopping monday found a really cute jacket for kaylee but couldn't spend the 40 bucks on it at gymboree. they do have some cute spring outfits.

10. when will spring/summer get here?

no photo stingyness super bowl party recap

so today things go back to normal. yesterday, instead of cleaning up from the super bowl party, i took the day off to recover and went shopping. i found a few things for me- some not on sale and i'm starting to feel guilty, and of course i picked up a few things for kaylee. while shopping it reminded of those days when i could shop for ham and he would be happy with what i bought. too soon, it will be the same for kaylee. she will have her own style and will want to shop for her own clothes. makes me sad that they grow up so fast. mike had the day off too, to recover but from different reasons. i still had him take kaylee to preschool.

on with the super bowl party details with a few photos! a few moms and kids hanging out upstairs.

the robinson's in their matching colts t-shirts- losers! definitely not the robinson's, just the team they 're representing!

everyone getting ready for kick-off

this goes to show you men like sitting at a bar. they're watching the game from the smallest tv.

mr. cutie pie ben.

and his little brother who has the "lady-killer" smile. yeah, thats big trouble.

kaylee and one of her friends in jammies

mike getting a new hair do because he didn't listen to his wife and betted against the saints.

yeah, try getting all romantic with that.

and this year we wanted to do something different and had one of those game boards. if you ended up with the ending score after each quarter, you won a prize. if there was no name on the square someone could volunteer to do a dare. we only had to bring out two of the dares. since most people left by 9am (kids + work will do that), we gave the prizes to whoever was left so tad ended up with the mack daddy prize. i don't think he was as excited about it as he looks. its still here. ham liked it so i think we will just give it to him.

think the party turned out successful even though i missed most of the commercials. thank-god football season is now over. i can begin to recoup and not have to think about football for 7 months and 1 day. the new season doesn't start till sept 10.

on the menu: spirals, cucumber sandwiches, humus with bread chips, meatballs, crunchy asian salad, buffalo chicken dip, spicy avocado shrimp salsa, chips, mac and cheese, italian beef, bbq pork sandwiches and lots of to die for desserts-brownies, chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter/chocolate chip bars, chocolate cake. {no, i did not make everything}