Where I have been. .

Okay are you ready??? This is going to be a long one.  Okay so if you follow me on instagram (sweet_aimee81) you know I didn't fall off the face of the earth I have just had my hands full.  I have been doing lots of things.  I have been journaling daily.  I started decorating each page just a bit about a month ago.

I have a helper who is constantly by my side and it is hard to get the laptop out to blog because he is pushing keys and deleting things and driving me crazy.  This is him helping pick up my Theresa Collins sequins (he is obsessed and dumps them daily)

I ordered a cakedori aka fauxdori off cakepaperie on etsy   It is a book that you add notebooks into.  I have 3 journal booklets going in there right now.  I love it I use it everyday and here are some ways I have been using it. (and I am on a april no buy lol)

  

I have been doing #listersgottalist on instagram I do a list a day following theresetgirls list. I have loved doing this.  I do one a day and instagram it.  Some are fun, some make me think, but I love it.

 

 

 

I have been documenting a tiny bit of each day in my heidi swapp memory planner I got before christmas. I have been doing this since the first of the year.  I think I will do a video on some of these new things at some point to show you guys how I am using them.

 

I got a color crush planner and I have been using this for my calender 

 

I love it I got the teal and I am using my disc bound for house hold things I don't have to keep with me at all times (budget bills work hours ect.) 

 

 I was super sick last week so I was relaxing drinking tea trying to feel better I also threw my back out

 

 

 I did a smidge of smashbooking

 

 

While I was sick last week this also happened.  Shelby (aka monkey butt) had a accident at school and she got stitches on her chin and broke her knee cap!!!  So she is in a brace for a month.! (her stitches just came out yesterday)

 

 

  For my birthday me and evea (aka fire monster) got a hair cut.  It was her first hair cut by anyone but me and her first haircut in a salon!!!  Lol she liked it.

 

We also bought a mini van.  I was time we traded up.  We were just too cramped in our sedan.  So we took a road trip to Omaha to the Omaha zoo. 

  

It was just a over night trip..a mini vacation.  We had soooo much fun and really needed a get away because it has been a stressful year so far.   I have been to tons of zoos in my life we were members of the Minnesota zoo always when we lived in the cities but Omaha zoo it awesome.  It is like the Minnesota zoo The Sioux falls zoo, Underwater world, and the Como zoo crammed into one and more.  We walked 6.5 hours and missed three buildings.

 

 

We started to get some nice weather and my hubby built my swinging bench I scored at end of season last year for 25$!!!  I love love love swinging benches.  It is my thing. 

 

 

Before we had nice weather I knit max some mittens.  They are cute little hedgehogs. 

 

And I knit a cover for a hot water bottle.  A g.f./pen pal from united kingdom convinced me I needed one and she was sooo right.  I use it to warm up the bed when its cold.  I use it to help with my back pain.  I use it for all kinds of stuff. 

 

 Speaking of penpals, that has been another huge thing I have been doing I have a handful of penpals So I have been writing them and sending out snail mail.  I have also done pocket letters. I have made some amazing friends with the penpal thing and am feeling so blessed to have had some amazing women come into my life.  :)  Well my little monster will be up from his nap anytime So I need to get a few things done. Go follow me on instagram to stay up to date I am sweet_aimee81

 

friday favorites

 I had a pretty good week and I wanted to share some of my favorites with you guys for...First off and if you know me you know this is coming...SHARK WEEK YO...

 Shark week is like Christmas in our house.  We wait all year for this.  It is running 24/7 in my home and we all love it.  This year we even rocked shark week nails (0r my poor attempt at anyway lol) You can find the post where I put the tutorial to the real nails here (hers are much better then mine I swear)

I did the Shark week nails sunday and by yesterday they were just starting to chip and need redone so while me and fire monster watched soul surfer I repainted my nails and I did this.. Which I love it is all wet and wild polishes. The teal and silver are fergie polishes in Miami spirit, and going platinum, and the black is ebony hates chris.

While we are on beauty related favorites I am trying a new look today and loving it.  I am going to link a tutorial later this week.  It is bright sunset colored eyes.  

It uses this fergie wet and wild palette in desert festival.

I love wet and wild if you are new to my blog or the beauty world, they are not the wet and wild you used when you were a kid.  The shadows are mac quality and dirt cheap.  They are amazing and if you haven't tried them you really need to.  My lips are wet and wild too. 

 It is a new but favorite combo of  fergie daily lip stick

It is a great matte nude that is creamy and not dry feeling at all but it is a tiny bit too nude on my skin tone so I line my lips first with jordana baby berry lip pencil.

I have 3 beverage related favorites.  The first is this new flavor of sparkling ice.  It is peach nectarine and it is sooooo yum.  I love it

 Another favorite is these Seattle best coffee drinks!!  They are 2.68 at walmart and they are by the smoothie section.  Now if you don't live by a starbucks or caribou these are pretty much just as good.  They are kind of coffee like ice cubes and you add milk and blend them.  Each packet makes two of this size and they are only 130 cal! Amazing love love love this.  The vanilla and Carmel are my fav so far

Another fav is this.  I got the big glass mug from shopco a while back and then me and my hubby worked together and made some lids that are just like it out of canning lids.  I have been using them non stop. The girls have been using them to drink out of regular jars but But this last week I found little baby glass mason jar mugs with handles at runnings( a local farm/sporting goods store) for 1.69 a piece!. They are perfect for my monkeys and they have been loving them.  I will put up a tutorial for that later this week.  It is sooo easy and cheap.

 Another friday favorite/ life favorite is this amazing man!!  We were out buying school supplies yesterday for my baby girls first real school year and he snuck a new shower head into the cart for me :)  He is soo sweet.  We have a TINY stand up shower in our master bath and it is soo hard for me to get clean and shave my legs and everything with my huge baby bump in the way so he grabbed it for me.  I hooked it up last night and me and fire monster already tested it out and loved it!

This is a friday favorite too.  Snuggling my baby girl and getting some quality time.  Monkey butt is at her dads for her last visit before school and this girl sometimes feels bad like she is missing out.  Her sis goes away for a weekend or week and goes fun places and comes home with all kids of things she got bought and all she got to do way lay around with her big as a house mama and watch shark week lol.  Poor thing.

 She can bee allot of work but she is sooo sweet and loving you can help but forgive her.

 She is soo ready to be a big sister too.

 So since my hubby went to bed early last night me and her went on a mommy daughter date.  She eats up the attention.

 This sweet guy is a friday favorite she had been breaking out on his head and around his mouth and head and itch.  I figured it was a allergic reaction to the food he was on.  We traded them to 9 lives this winter and after doing some research I found out its not good for kitties and the main ingredient is corn which can cause allergy issues so I traded him back to beyond one and his handsome little face is already almost cleared up a week later!

 now this rotten little boy is not a favorite he is on my list.  I decided I should have named him jaws this week!  He is like a great white he is grey on his back white on his billy and the last thing you see before you get bit is the white tip of his tail a.k.a. dorsal fin.  He has been a pain all week wiether it is relaxing knitting and looking down to see his eyes dialate right before he attacks, a surprise attack from under the bed as you are going to sleep, or sitting down after a long day to hear him fishing in the toilet splashing water everywhere!  Then you forget about that and since I am 9 months pregnant and have no memory and have to pee every two seconds go on in and plop down and the soaked toilet seat. 

 I also bought them a new water dish because he uses their water bowl as a hockey puck and gets water everywhere, which ticks my hubby off because he falls in the puddle numerous times a week.  So I being the smart lady I am bought then a water dish with the bottle attacked thinking he couldn't knock it every where and play with it.  Ooooh was I wrong.  He has fun for hours a day splashing the water out with his paws just like he does from the toilet!  He can empty that bottle in a day!   So this little man is not a favorite but he is cute and loves the kids so we keep him lol.

But the last favorite for the week is the Tickle commercial on discovery.  To be specific my favorite part is about 17 seconds in where the guy yells moon shine fight and nails the guy right in the face at close rang with a water balloon full of moon shine!!  Lol I can't help but crack up every time.  I thought I was going to die the first time I saw it lol.

That is it for my Friday favorites.  But I have some errands to run before we head off to Sioux falls, sd to get the last baby stuff, and school stuff and just plain things we can't get in town before next week hits and I am not allowed to leave town.  I hope you guys have a great day and what were your friday favorites for the week.

f.o. fire monsters kindergarten socks.

 So I haven't been entirely worthless and unproductive this week while watching shark week nonstop.  I did finish fire monsters kindergarten socks.   I was going to knit until I ran out of yarn but she made me stop when they were almost to her knees lol.  I had a good bit of yarn left.

I did them two at a time toe up in the method from cat brodhi's book Personal footprints for the insouciant sock knitters.  I have made lots of socks in this method because for one they fit like a glove and for two they are toe up which means when you aren't sure how much yarn you have you will always have enough.  you won't midway through the foot and realize you over estimated the amount of yarn you had.  

I used size 1 32'' circular needles in the magic loop method.  The yarn is premier yarns Deborah Norville serenity sock and it has 230 yards.  When I started the foot after the toe it had 48stitches and I knit 70 rows on the leg before doing 10 rows of 2x2 ribbing and binding off.  

She is super happy with them and wore them for a while this afternoon already while watching shark week of coarse lol.  I started a new pair of socks for her already.  Apparently my knitting mojo is back look out people ;)

maternity photo shoot

 Since this is more then likely going to be our last baby we wanted to commemorate it.  We had my amazing girlfriend Stephanie who did our family pics a few years ago do some maternity pics for us.  I am soo glad we did do this and I am in love with the shots.  I thought I would share.(here are a few favs)

We got some of me and my amazing hubby and the bump. 

I altered this one and changed it to sepia and brought back the color of my necklace.

 

 Steph altered this one.

 (we clearly can't make a heart with our hand lol )

I adore this one of Benji kissing my baby bump.

 This is another great one Steph altered.

I got some great ones of me and the girls and the bump

I altered this one to be sepia and brought back the color of the umbrella.

 Here is the before..

 I got some great ones of my girls together.

 (this is my girlfreind stephs little girl with Fire monster)

 A few shots of them with their cousins.

 A few great alone shots

  Monkey but black and white with the color brought back in her eyes. Love the freckles.

 This is all we could get of fire monster because she was busy catching frogs with my gfs little girl lol.

 A few of me alone.

 A couple of me and my sister.

 

And best of all a great pic of my great little family before the big change happens and our foursome becomes five.  

 Have a good one guys.