want

via classy girls wear pearls

this dress.

sadly, its out of my budget.

a new respect for monday's...maybe

 1. i entered this photo of ollie in the method facebook contest. i hope he wins because he's awfully cute as the easter bunny.

2.  this is the photo that ended my search for a new dog last year. we've had him for a year and 5 months now.

3. this morning started out a typical monday morning. i got woken up at 7:30AM from AT+T calling to confirm a tech appointment for this afternoon.

4. kaylee also woke me up at 4 in the morning. tonight we are having her sleep in her room instead of our coach in our bedroom. [fingers crossed it goes well, so far so good though she gets a little sad]

5. kaylee made me a bowl of cereal then we headed to costco to exchange my favorite lucky brand crops for a different size. [i wish i could say i went down a size]

6. i was surprised to see that costco even sells lucky brand and the same ones i got from the outlets! let me just say that even costco's price is 5 bucks cheaper than the on-line sale price.

7. then came home and cleaned and organized mike's closet. my anniversary gift to him.

8. then the at+t tech came and totally fixed our wireless problem. [the house is big so the wireless couldn't reach where my computer was vs. where the modem was]

9. then i fixed us a yummy bltec [bacon, lettuce, tomato, egg, cheese] sandwich for dinner.

10. then to end the fabulous day, kaylee hosted a tea party with cookies and water in a tea pot.

something on my mind then pinterest fixed it

via pinterest

i decided to try cara box exchange this month and after checking out the blogs of who i will be sending and receiving goodies from, i started to wonder:

1. am i too old to be blogging?

2. AND am i too old to be doing swaps?

then i went to pinterest to give me some advice. this is what it gave me. i love you pinterest!

finding your reason

1. today is our 10th wedding anniversary. we dated 3 years before we got married.

2. i told mike not to get me anything because we spend so much money as is and we're visiting indiana in 3 weeks.  [he had 1carat diamond earrings picked out- that is 1 carat each ear]

3. he actually remembered yesterday and brought 2 dozen roses home since he had today off.

4. then he surprised me this morning with a sweet card and a 2 night stay in mackinac island when we return to indiana for a visit.

5. i'm so excited because i've always wanted to go and thought i would never get the chance since we now live in texas.

6. mike was kinda bummed ham didn't come home today. he wanted to go out to dinner or at least catch now you see me.

7. instead he got to work on the backyard- its looking awesome! with help from our neighbor friend, we went to lowes and dined on taco bell. [i was hungry for taco bell for some reason]

8. i told mike we will celebrate with a yummy dinner in mackinac.

9. andre, my trainer, asked me what the secret was to our 10 years of being married. i told him its because i don't want to go back to work. mike and i tease each other about this.

10. i think its different reasons for everyone on why they want to stay married, just got find your reason.

a mish mosh of a post

 1. today is little peanuts last day of school. she's officially a turd-grader.

2. i took her lunch and we got to eat in her classroom while watching old dr. seuss movies.

3. she got an award for perfect attendance, her AR reading shirt for reading so many books and dog tags for doing well in math.

4. i think she deserves a "graduation" gift so one day next week, we're going to get a vera bradley purse. [that's what she wants]

5. speaking of vera bradley, i got andre, my trainer,  the manliest vera bradley blanket i could find [sun valley, the blue and orange one], my favorite teas, chocolate wafer cookies and poxie sticks, my favorite wine that you can only get in michigan and a gift card to any of landry's seafood restaurants for a thank-you gift.

6. since today was my last session with him.

7. while making me do sets of 250 miles rowing then 10 push-ups for 20 mins., he tells me i have 2 more sessions left. his gift to me. gee thanks- ha! [ended up doing 100 push-ups-booyah!]

8. started reading the chaperone by laura moriarty. i stayed up till midnight reading it.  i'm not finished but its a great book! highly recommended.

9. i also got revenge wears prada, the devil returns by lauren weisberger. i'm going to try and save that one for vacation.

10.  today its hot, like sun a blazin 93 degrees hot. its suppose to rain but i'm not seeing a cloud in the sky!

what the what?

1. i want to do something like this on one of ham's bathroom wall. i took this photo at foot action the other day.

2. for those of you that are too young to know, those are cassettes. you will need to google it.

3. one day, a few weekends ago, i stayed up till 1AM working on a photo book from our trip to hawaii 2011 when i decided that i would rather print the photos and do a real album.

4. i'm almost bored enough to start painting again. i think i will start in ham's room this time. i hope my paintbrush is save-able.

5. had a great workout with andre today. i told him my butts getting too big so we need to stop doing lounges and squats. he didn't listen to me.

6. i think i'm going to go window shopping tomorrow. [i spent $8.00 today on a few snack foods for kaylee. she's begging me for snack foods!]

7. i'm ready for summer vacation and sleeping in!

8. mike came home early from work so i made him make dinner. he made scramble eggs and french toast. the only thing he knows how to make or wants to make.

9. we're discussing on what to do for our 10 year anniversary.  i told him i wanted a $700 vitamix blender. he said no, he's not getting me a blender. what the what?

10. we're thinking about visiting mackinac island for a few days while back in indiana.

just another boring monday

1. kaylee did an awesome job at her first piano recital on saturday. she got a trophy and we got her flowers for a job well done.

2. after the recital, she went to a [boy's] birthday/pool party.

3. while she was there, mike and i went flower shopping. everything at the garden center was 50% off so we got 2 hydrangea bushes, some vinca's and society garlic. oh, and another planter for a plant i bought awhile back.

4. we also decided on a creeping mytrle tree for the empty space in the back yard. this weekend our neighbor is coming over to help mike with the pavers to go around the flower beds in the back.

5. then we had to pick up little nugget for another [girl's only] birthday/pool party.

6. her little friends house was AWESOME!  i think mike was a little jealous though he won't admit it.

7.  after my walk this morning, i stayed home all day and did some cleaning.

8. got ham's bathroom cleaned since he's back at school and some of kaylee's bedroom. getting things around for that someday garage sale.

9. i hate staying home, it makes for a long and boring day.  ham's bored too since none of his roommates came back for summer school. [he's been calling asking how to clean and start the dishwasher]

10. but i'm trying not to spend any money. we need to really work on staying on budget and we plan on buying the rest of the pavers for the flower beds this weekend.