Beauty secret

A while ago i heard about a beauty secret my stylist did and i thought it was rather interesting and then forgot about it. A few days ago i saw something similar online and duh remembered that i was going to try it out way back when i first heard about it.

How many of you hate buying shaving cream? I know i sure do, especially since it basically washes off halfway through the shave job and i usually end up cutting myself cause i cant see what i am doing. I also feel like i am wasting money when i buy it. I have also tried using a moisturizing conditioner as shave cream and it works ok, but still washes off. The point of using an aid while shaving is to try to keep moisture in the skin. So here comes the next idea....

Baby oil! I tried it out this morning and it didnt wash off. It puts, I would call it a film, on your skin that you shave off and since it is oil the water just beads up and drips off. The plus side is it made my shower smell like a cute little baby. I bought a small little bottle at Walgreens for about $1.50. You do not have to use very much, i used about a nickel size area in my palm and rubbed it straight onto my legs. The one thing i didnt like is since it is oily and leaves that film on your legs is it gums up the blades of the razor and i had to wipe the blades off a lot to keep it from getting clogged.

My legs didnt really feel any different after i got out of the shower and i dried off and put lotion on like normal. But I would say it did make shaving a little easier and i will probably be trying it again.

A couple suggestions i have is DO NOT use this if you are taking a bath or it will probably leave a gunky ring of oil and little microscopic leg hairs in your bathtub and i would use a nail brush to (the kind with the little bristles) to clean the razor to prevent build up from the oil.

Have a Happy Friday friends, hope you all have a grand weekend!

Whats for dinner?

I always struggle to make dinner for just myself. I love cooking so when i cook i don't want to be the only one eating it. Kendall is not a huge fan of red meat but she really likes chicken. She also likes to eat dinner around 5pm so she eats a lot of random stuff that i can cook fairly quick.

3 nights a week i have been doing Zumba classes so i don't get home until 7pm and then i have to get Kendall ready for bed so i don't end up eating dinner until after she is in bed. If I cook something then that takes forever. I usually just end up eating popcorn or scrounging something up in the fridge.

Last night i was feeling motivated and made this......

It is pan seared deer steaks with sauteed ontions. Then topped with a large slice of tomato, mozzarella cheese and garnished with some cilantro.

I seasoned the steaks with some pepper and garlic salt and put them in a HOT pan with a little bit of melted butter. I let them cook on the first side for about 4 minutes. Then I flipped them over and topped then with the onions, tomato and cheese. I put a lid on the pan to get some steam so the cheese would melt. After 4 more minutes i took the lid off and put a few leaves of cilantro on and it was done! It ended up being really tasty and I was trying to use things we had, our fridge is pretty empty right now since basically for the last week it has just been Kendall and I and half the time we are at Jasons house.

The longest part about cooking this was defrosting the steaks. I really enjoy simple delicous meals like this. It would have been good with a salad but by the time they were done cooking i was starving and ready to eat. I brought the leftovers for lunch today that i am going to assemble onto a sandwich which should be just as good.

On a side note, my little brother Dillon is graduating from Basic Training tomorrow and I am the lucky one who gets to pick him up from the airport Friday evening. My parents are currently in GA for the graduation ceremony and their plane comes back friday but several hours later then his. We are all very proud of him and cant wait to see him! (This gets me out of going to a birthday party at a water park, i wasnt really excited about having to wear a bathing suit).

Hot Summer Days

Since Kendall has to be picked up from daycare by 3 I usually only work until around 2:30 which means we have the whole afternoon to do whatever until everyone else is off of work.

It has been fairly nice here this week and we have been taking advantage of it.

I have really been wanting to take her to the park and we have a few around here. Kiwanis park, which is by the river has some toys and big grassy areas so people mostly bring their dogs. I took her there once to just let her roam and walk around and she ended up following and chasing every dog she saw. There is Legion park which i have really been wanting to take her to but it has been closed because they were remodeling it, i was going to take her on Wednesday cause i thought they were finished but turns out they aren't quite and the sprinklers were running and there were tractors out there. I cant remember the name of the other park but they have a big huge play structure, i took here there once but she was a little younger and didn't know what to do. Plus there were SO many kids there and a lot of older kids like middle school age go and run around and make it hard for the younger kids to play.

So, on Wednesday instead of going to the park i took her to Dairy Queen and we got an ice cream and she wasn't really interested in it so after about 15 minutes we just went home and went on a walk to compensate for me eating most of her ice cream.

On Thursday i didn't attempt the park but as we were on our way home i remembered a little trailer that parks in the Albertsons parking lot and sells sno-cones. They were open so we stopped in and got one and she LOVED it.

She ate quite a bit of it and when we were getting close to finishing, one of our friends showed up and Kendall had to help her eat hers too.

Since she liked it so much and they are fairly reasonably priced we definitely will be stopping more often to enjoy sno-cones on those hot summer days.

Kendall and her daddy

Kendall and Jason spend a lot of time together, we try to go see him everyday or he comes and sees us. I have been taking zumba classes 3 days a week and he usually watches her while i go. I always wonder what they do when i am not there, sometimes when i get back the house is a disaster and there are toys everywhere or there are no toys out and it doesn't even seem like i was just gone for an hour. But I have found a few pictures he has taken for proof of what goes on.

 She walks around wearing sunglasses and playing,

(this is an old one) They watch football close up,

 She plays on the floor with the dog, she loves the dog, whenever we leave she has to give him a kiss goodbye.

and she manages to get enough of her dinner in her hair for it to stand straight up in a mohawk. You cant see it but her shirt in that picture says "Dirt makes me cuter" I guess in this case the food is the dirt

She loves spending time with him and they have a lot of fun together. When we go to his games she will yell "Go Dad!" or "Good job Dad!" and she will give him high fives or pat him on the back. They have their own little quirky relationship and have a lot of fun together.



Oops I almost forgot.....

Kendall's burns are healing very quickly. We have been keeping part of it covered with gauze and the special burn cream silvadine but we cant put that on her face or neck so we are just loading that up with Emu oil and bacitracine ointment. The first layer of scab is starting to peel off and underneath it looks really good. She does have some light pink scarring in places but other then that it looks good. I would say in a couple weeks it should be almost completely healed and we will just have to treat it for minor scarring. Since the skin will be delicate we will really have to watch how much she is out in the sun and keep the area covered up.

Happy Monday!!!!

Happy Monday everyone, I don't have any new pictures for you today. The one i would really like to show you is of a wedding gift i made for our good friends Tiffany and Jason who are getting married this weekend, I don't want it to accidentally get leaked out and have them see if before the big day.

Today is the start of our busy week, the first few days wont be so bad but come Thursday it is going to get a little crazy. Our friends arrived yesterday from out of town and i offered to help as much as possible to help them get stuff ready for Saturday. I took Friday off (Kendall doesn't have daycare that day either) it will consist of getting all the last minute details done and some setup, there is also a good chance i am babysitting her 2 sweet kids.

I cant explain how happy I am for both of them and being there from the beginning. Jason and I went on a double date with them for their "First date" we went to a football game. Since then we have been great friends. Here is a pic of us at the football game approximately 2 years and 2 babies ago. (Please don't mind how terrible i look in this pic, my hair is flat from the rain storm that passed through)

Tiffany and Myself, friends right away

 The happy couple on their first date :)

Jason and I (pretty sure this was not long after i found out i was pregnant and it was still a secret from everyone except a select few)

Both of the guys' names are Jason so they just got accustomed to calling each other by their last names. Everyone called my Jason, Strong (I have never called him that just Jason) and everyone called her Jason, Willy cause his name one Wilcox. We all had a lot of BBQ's that summer with our friends and whenever I would call Jason, Willy Tiffany's daughter would always ask who is Willy or why we called him Willy and then it would have to go into this long explanation with about 100 questions asked by her. She now calls him daddy and we all call him Jason.

Anyways, in my post the other day i was worried Jason wouldn't get to go to the wedding due to a scheduling conflict but his football game isn't until 7 that night so we will be able to go to the wedding and the small reception that follows that, we will make it to the football game and then back to the bigger reception after that is over. Kendall is going camping with my parents Saturday so i don't have to drag her around every where and i will actually be able to enjoy the wedding without making sure she is entertained....I am also really excited for some alone time with Jason, we have been so busy lately that we haven't got to spend much time alone.

Update

We just got back from the wound unit. There wasn't any dead skin to remove so they just cleaned it up (she somehow managed to get a fruit loop under when eating breakfast this morning). We got more cream and suggestion on how to wrap it so it doesn't rub and she doesn't have to have a bandage wrapped around her whole chest.
A lot of people have suggested to me that Emu Oil works very well with helping burns heal and to prevent scarring. I asked the nurse about it (the doctor wasn't even there we just saw her) and she said it is a good product and works miracles. She said that since we cannot put any of the cream on her face we can start putting the oil on that area but to wait a few more days before we start putting it on her neck and shoulder.
When we were in the ER yesterday they told us to give her some more pain medicine before we took her in today cause they were thinking they would have to scrub it some. I went with the heavier dosage they suggested and gave it to her about a half hour before we went to it had time to take effect. I think it helped a lot she just sat there while i held her and whined a little bit. My dad had come with us for moral support and also so if need me there was an extra person to hold her down.
She spent the morning with Jason but he had to go work this afternoon so after the appointment she went to the babysitter and when we got there she had the full effects of the medicine, she was drooling out of both sides of her mouth and just staring off into space, it was kind of funny. She has snapped out of it now i was told and was eating lunch and playing.

We don't have to go for any followup appointments unless we start to notice it getting irritated or infection. Hopefully we now are on a quick road to recovery!

Not how i wanted the day to go

Today has been very rough. It started out as any normal day but in an instant it changed. My dad had placed his to go cup (with scalding hot coffee in it) on the end table while he went out to his truck, he does this every morning before he leaves for work. I was in the kitchen making lunch and Kendall walked down the hall and for some reason had serious interest in the cup. Next thing i know i hear a thud and then screaming. Not your normal whining cry this was I am REALLY hurt screaming, so i ran down the hall and got to her the same time my mom did. I saw what it was right away and grabbed her and we took her to the bathroom and stuck her in the bathtub with cold water right away to stop the burning. She was screaming the whole time. We tried to calm her down but she was really hurt we decided to take her to the ER because she was starting to blister.

When my dad makes his 2nd cup of coffee he always microwaves it so it stays really hot in his cup while he travels to work. This was fresh out of the microwave after being freshly brewed so it was super hot.

My mom followed me to the hospital and stayed with me while we were there. I let Jason know and he was going to meet us but he does not handle these situations very well. We got in right away, no one can handle listening to a baby in pain.

 She was really hysterical and we couldn't get her to calm down so they gave her a dose of hydrocodein and within 20 minutes she was calm and relaxing. Before they cleaned and treated the area they wanted her to be calm and give the medicine a chance to work so she wasn't in any pain while they did it.

 In this picture you can see all of the burned area pretty well. You can even see some of the blisters. She was fully dressed so it could have been worse if she didn't have anything on. It also would have been a lot worse if it was a regular cup and all of it poured on her. With the to go cup it only had a little slot to pour out of so she didn't get it TOO bad.

To clean it they have to put some solution on the area and scrub it, so it was a little painful for her. It took me, my mom and one other nurse to hold her down while another nurse cleaned the area. We have a burn cream we are to put on the worst areas and then cover it with gauze and wrap it up so it stays in place. The pink you see is the wrap, it goes all the way around her chest and under her right arm. Because this cream is pretty strong we cant put it on her face or it will possibly change the pigment of her skin and leave spots of her skin a different color. On her face we are only putting bacitracin ointment so keep things from getting into it.

We do have to go back to the "wound unit" tomorrow to get it cleaned and treated again and they will show us what to do and after that we should be able to do it ourselves at home. They will have to scrub it again which will be painful so they gave us more medicine to give her before we have to go so she wont be in any pain while they do it.

Obviously we stayed home from daycare today and she will stay with the babysitter tomorrow afternoon after the doctor so i can work a few hours, but she will possibly be going Friday depending on how she is feeling.

This has definitely been a very traumatic experience for all of us and none of us will ever be leaving our coffee in her reach again. I am feeling some anxiety still, i think they needed to me some of the calming medicine they gave her.

Fun filled weekend

We had a very fun weekend. It wasn't super busy but we did a lot of activities that Kendall really enjoyed. The weather here has been terrible lately. Its been cold and rainy and cloudy. Friday turned out to not be too bad out so we took advantage of it and went to the river park to walk around. My intentions were to eventually get her down to by the river to play in the water a little bit but she had other plans. It is a kind of a dog park although there are toys and paths to walk on but there are also big grass areas people take their dogs to run around. I am not sure if I have mentioned this before but Kendall LOVES animals, especially dogs. We were walking on the path just taking our time and i was letting her set the pace and we were just having a good time. The first set of people with a dog came and went and she just kind of pointed at it and kept going. The next dog we saw was way across the field and she took off after it and followed it around until we saw another day. She had to stop and pet them all (if their owner was willing to let her and depending on the dog). This lasted for about a half hour and when she wanted to be held instead of walk is when I decided it was time to go.

Jason had to go to Billings this weekend for their last "season" football game so after the park we went to hang out with him for a little bit before he had to leave. They won and are the Montana Division Champions and now its off to playoffs....their first game is also the same day we have a wedding to go to so there is a slight scheduling conflict we have to work out.

Anyways back on track. I find that on weekends i think Kendall spends more time sleeping then she does awake, it's like she has to recover from her week at school. Saturday was pretty yucky out so when she wasn't sleeping or eating we just stayed inside and played and went to the grocery store. After she went to bed I watched We Bought a Zoo. It was really cute, if you haven't seen it i recommend watching it.

Sunday was the fun day for us. I had seen a toddler sensory activity on Pinterest with letting them play with dried beans. I got a bag when we were at the store and let her play with them. She would scoop them with a measuring spoon and pour them into a cup and on the floor. She would pick each individual one up and put it back in the bowl.

 She is starting to warm up to her glasses some but it is still a struggle to get her to keep them on.

After her nap and lunch it was really nice outside so we decided to paint, which i have wanted to do with her for a long time. She was so excited to be outside that we didn't paint for very long but she had fun sticking her hands in it and getting all messy. She even managed to paint on the dog. He has a very colorful hand print on his back.

 I didn't want her to paint without clothes on cause it wasn't that nice, so i just put some older clothes on her. She did try eating the paint and thought it was pretty disgusting.

After painting we went on a 4wheeler ride up and down the driveway and around the field in the backyard and through the ditch water. She ate an awesome dinner. Jason came over and after a long weekend of him being out of town she was really happy to see him and we played with bubbles on the back porch. She learned to say bubbles, and is now repeating it like crazy. She is a chatterbox and is starting to form more words, you can actually tell the difference between daddy and doggy now. She can say baby and when you tell her its dinner time she says yummy and runs to the kitchen. She is at such a fun age right now we are doing a lot of activities and she is learning soooo much it is crazy!

Just got another scheduling conflict for the 16th, i was just invited to a candle party on the 16th, so now there is a wedding, a football game and a candle party. I think I am sending Kendall camping with my parents that weekend.