glowing and brozed summer look

 Since it has finally warmed up here I have been mixing it up.  I thought I would share with you my glowing bronze summer look and my fun mani.

I love the mani  I got my inspiration for it from where else but pinterest :)  I used essie in the cabana and sally hanson insta dri sonic bloom the accent nail is orly white tips with polka dots of the other two colors done over using one of the cable tightening tools from my knitting needles :)

As for my favorite make up look lately I have been wanting something simple dewy and I have changed in up on some things stuck to some oldies but goodies on others and added some new stuff in too.  Here is the look I am wearing today.

  Here is the makeup I am wearing for this look.

1 Maybelline smooth mouse foundation It gives my dry skin moisture and a dewy look

2revlon nearly naked powder to set concealer and tzone

3 hard candy bronzer in tiki (for highlight)

4 nyc sunny to contour

5 nyx blush in pinched

6 The darkest shade in this revlon color stay pallete for my outer v

7 wet and wild nutty on lid

8 covergirl concealer under my eyes in a upside down triangle

9 almay get up and grow mascara

All I need on a nice hot day is a maxi dress this glowing bronze summer look and a messy bun and I am set for the day (ps 24w 1d)

24w update.

The last week hasn't been super eventful. It was mothers day and we took a trip to the sioux falls zoo.  It is okay it is a bit bigger then the Como Zoo but no where near the size of of the Minnesota Zoo.  It was a chilly day but this week it has warmed up allot!!  It has been between 80s and 100s.  Typical minnesota 30s last week straight to 90s this week lol.  I have been feeling lots of baby movements.  And also realized that little Max loves music!  He really likes Lumineers ho hey for some reason lol.  I look up songs on youtube on my phone and set it on my belly so he can hear the music.  He seems to enjoy that.

This week is Monkey Butts last week of school! She has today and tomorrow left and then is done for the year.  Fire monster got done last week and has been home keeping my hands full.  The Drs.  Appt. went well things are good.  I have the dreaded glucose test again next appt.  So I am not really looking forward to that.  I haven't been sleeping great because my hubby has been transitioning to his summer over night hours so he gets up at 3am to head to work and if I wake up with out him there it is hard to get back to sleep.  So I got 1 good nights sleep so far this week.  Other then that pretty uneventful. Just extra sleepy and enjoying feeling the little guy moving in my belly :) That is about it for now.  Hope everyone is having a good week and all the mamas out there were treated well on mothers day.

23w update

I am super late with posting this update simply because I didn't like my photo so I kept procrastinating and putting off doing the update lol.  Pretty ridiculous I know but what do you do.  I had spent two long days hitting the city wide garage sales and finding some odds and ends I had needed for the baby.  I got tons of things I needed and saves a bundle which is always great right :)  I already posted photos of all the goodies and the progress on the room here.   I am still feeling good t I have noticed I think I have more energy so I start on big tasks and over do it and wind up exhausted and cranky.  I have got busy and forgot to eat a few times and wound up with low blood sugar (ick never a fun feeling) but I am still doing well.  This pregnancy has been much more like my first where things went fairly smooth with some normal no fun pregnancy symptoms but mostly smooth and uneventful where as pregnancy two was spotting the whole way through lots of scary unexpected things and bed rest most of the pregnancy!

 I do have more aches and pains then the first pregnancy but I am on my 3rd now and 10 years older then last time lol.  That is to be expected I suppose.  Well that is mostly it for what went on in the week before I took this pic sorry it took me so long to get this update up lol.  Promise that this week will be on time lol.  I have to get ready to go to cheer monkey butt on at track and field day woohoo.

city wide garage sale baby haul

 This weekend was our city wide garage sale here in town.  Me and my g.f. who is also prego scoured the town for two days seeing what we could pick up for our babies.  I got more then I thought I would be able to come up with.  I had to share all the awesome baby goodies I scored.  I knocked our list of things we need for the little guy in half and only a couple bigger money items left (crib, travel system) 

I found a set of vinyl wall accents.  I have a few so I am still debating between them ;)

 I got a moby wrap which I am excited to use and a minky and satin blanky in perfect condition.

I got a whole laundry basket FULL of cute outfits, but I had to share a few favs.

 Like any good Minnesotan my little max has at least 7 vikings outfits (his daddy is super excited)

 I also scored a Minnesota gophers jersey and a few twins outfits.

This one I thought was soo cute I have another onsie just like this too.

  I got these little shoes with the tag still on (these are the best fire monster wore these allot. they don't fall off)

 I got him one of the little tummy time mats with the toys.

 a awesome bathtub with a little mesh thing to hold him when he is tiny.

 I got a perfect name brand boppi with a cover.

 a bouncy seat in perfect condition with all the little toys.

 a electric swing.

 A diaper champ.  (we used this with fire monster and it worked well)

 I got a changing pad for the changing table with a minky cover.

I spent less then 100$ on all of it (less then 85$) As completely exhausted as I am after two 13 hour days I am soo relived to have all these things checked off my list.  Now I just have a bunch of cleaning up and laundering to do and then finding places for all of it lol.  I am spending today hanging out in my house with the family and going NO where :)  Have a good one guys.

22w update

f.o. baby cocoon, fuzzy tandom bike blanky, and practice diapers for big sis.

 It is hitting me that my kids have pretty much two weeks left of school, then I will have my hands full, When you figure fire monster only has school two days a week that makes it even less!  So I decided I better get busy on some projects and take advantage of my last few kid free days. I whipped out a few quick baby projects I have had on my list for a while today.

First off last night I finished Max's owlie cocoon. It is a great free pattern that can be found here.  I used one of my favorite soft easy care yarns berroco comfort.  It took less then one ball.  Happy with this and can't wait to see our little bug all snuggled up in it :)

 Next project I went on to was some practice diapers for Fire monster.  I used some scrap fabric and left over terry cloth from making burp rags.  I went off this tutorial  It doesn't give you much for a pattern So I winged it on my own and cut it out of a piece of freezer paper.  I made it to fit her baby cabbage patch dolls.  I still have to make the diaper wipe container and wipes but I think I will have one happy little mother hen for sure!

 Next project I finished was a baby blanky.  One side is tandem bike flannel the other side is soft furry stuff (I wouldn't call it minky it is more of a Sherpa type material)  I love this I might add a satin edging I might not.  These are soo simple you just sew it together wrong sides out leaving a gap big enough for your hand to fit through then flip it right side out making sure to use a pencil (or in my case knitting needle) to push the corners out and sew around the edge again. 

 I also knit this stegosaurus hat for the little peanut.  It is grey and robins egg blue berroco comfort and the pattern I used is roar  which I have knit quiet a few times before It always makes a cute baby boy gift and I look forward to seeing max in it. 

I have quiet a few other projects lined up on a little queue for  myself to get done for baby Max.  Right now it is time to throw something together for lunch for myself, then start my next knitting project :)

nursery projects and progress

 Okay so I wanted to make some cute little wall art with the babies name.  So I ran to my good ole stand by the dollar tree.  I grabbed 3 pictures (sorry if you disagree with covering pics of the virgin mary or um..not sure who these are but they work perfect for wall art and at a dollar a piece can't beat it!)

 Then when I was in Sioux falls for a endo apt. I grabbed some fabric and some wooden letters at hobby lobby.  I opted for the pre-glittered letters (save me a step and some mess)  I then covered each pic with some mod podge.

 Then place the fabric over and smooth it to make sure there is no bubbles.  Then cover the top with at least one nice even coat of mod podge.

 Once that was dry I cut a square out of each corner and busted out my trusty hot glue gun.  I glued the fabric to the sides and back like so..

I centered the letters and glued them on.  and there you go some cute wall art for my baby boys room.

Here is the finished product hanging behind the rocker.  Fire monster is practicing reading baby books that she is handing down to Max.  She is very excited to read to him ;)

 I also changed out the girl colored poms for some that fit the color of his room and moved them over so they will hang over the crib (when we get one lol)

 That is all I have accomplished so far on the room since last post.  We took most of the non baby stuff out this weekend.  Next weekend my hubby is going to build me a nail polish rack to mount my nail polish collection out of the way.  :)  I have how ever been working on baby knitting projects.  Here is the progress on Max's baby owl cocoon. :)

 The pattern is owlie sleep sack by Teresa Cole.  I followed Perches alterations except I don't think I will make it longer (she states her babies are long and well fire monster will be 6 and she is still wearing 4t if she is lucky and things run small its a 5t lol) 

So far happy with the progress and just a nice easy mindless stop and go project you can leave and pick up as you please with out any confusions.  Hope you guys are having a good one :)