Stocking

This is the first year Kendall will have a stocking. We didn't do one last year because she was still too young to really understand presents and a stocking and she was pretty overwhelmed with the amount of presents she got. It took her almost all day to open everything.

This year we intentionally are keeping Christmas smaller (she is still getting a ton of stuff though). There is just going to be a few of us and instead of doing Christmas Eve with Jason's family we are going to go spend Christmas afternoon with them.

Anyways, back to the original topic. The stocking! Walmart had them for $1.98 which is great, i picked one up last week when i finished my Christmas shopping. The lady who babysits for us in the afternoon is a big crafter and has all sorts of sewing stuff so i took it over to her and she put Kendall's name on it.

Kendall is very excited about Christmas. Every day when we get home the first thing we do is put a cotton ball on her little advent calendar and she says "Ooh Santa's beard is getting bigger so Christmas is getting closer."

We have been working with her and talking about why we celebrate Christmas, and she will yell "It's Jesus' Birthday!" 

I am very excited for Christmas as well. I need to wrap all my presents still but there is plenty of time! I have seen the Christmas Eve gift lots of places so we are going to start that tradition this year with one present to open on Christmas Eve. I got a Christmas book, Christmas jammies and I am going to get a snack to put in with it. I can't wait to see how excited Kendall is Christmas morning when she wakes up and sees what Santa brought her.

Her future career

Kendall loves to use my phone. She is constantly asking if she can look at pictures or take pictures.

She is getting a little better at it.

Usually i get my phone back and have to go through and delete them because she takes so many.

These are the few that have still survived. Look at those cute little feet :)

Oh there i am just working away. Do you like my Minnie Mouse ears?

She must like taking pictures of feet, she has a few of those.

Happy Monday Friends, hope you all had a nice weekend. We are over her in the arctic trying to stay warm. Hoping that maybe we see double digits today that are not on the negative side of the thermometer.

7 days later

Now that i think about it i should have taken a picture of day 1 to go with this post. But I usually don't plan my posts in advance.

This is my nail polish after 7 days using Essie No Chips Ahead Top Coat! There is a couple minor chips on 1 finger and there is some wear on the tips because I use my hands a lot. I bet if i put another top coat on they would last longer and look just as good for another week. The nail polish that i used cost $1.99, so its not some fancy expensive brand.

However that isn't going to happen. I will probably take this off and give my nails a few days of rest without polish on them before i decide what color i want to do next.

I need to correct myself. When i last posted about the nail polish brand i love i gave the wrong name. It is called Sinful Colors not Sinful Creations. Oops, i really did mean what i said when i come up with posts the day i post them and when i was writing i for sure thought that was the name.

I am excited for this coming Friday. I took the day off so i could go finish my Christmas shopping. Kendall will be in daycare and a good friend is going up with me. We will get some good quality girl time in and she can help me pick out lots of fun things to get K for Christmas. I only have a few things left to get. I am trying to use self control when it comes to buying her presents. She has so much stuff, I went through and cleaned out all the random stuff from her toy boxes (yes she has more then 1 toy box) but i am thinking that i need to do it again. She has a hard time letting go of things so i am thinking her and Jason are going to need to have some daddy/daughter time so i can do it without her being there so she hopefully wont notice anything missing.

Happy Hump Day Friends!

Tis the Season

I am so excited for Christmas this year! I only have a few gifts left to get and then the wrapping begins.

Kendall now has a little better understanding of what Christmas is and she keeps asking when Jesus' birthday is going to be. My sister and I did all our decorating this weekend and we put a few presents under the tree.

I found this Santa printout on Pinterest and thought it would be the perfect thing for her to be able to do every morning. All you do is glue a cotton ball on Santa's beard for each day before Christmas. Its definitely simple enough for a 2 year old to be able to do on their own (with parent supervision of course).

We are a couple days behind on it, but i figured she wont know plus she will enjoy getting to put more then one on when we get home today.

She is so excited about all the decorations. She got special lights in her room that Auntie made her and she helped Grandpa put the Christmas lights up outside. 

Yesterday she got scratched by the cat. It was a huge ordeal even though it is something that happens quite often. She is OBSESSED with the cat. Kendall is a pretty horrible sleeper. She wakes up at least once a night and gets out of bed and is usually awake by 6:30 most mornings. Last week one day at about 3:30 AM she comes into my room and says "Mom, i found Tamale (the cat), I am petting her." Then "No Tamale don't come in here! Mom, I don't want her in here." 

She was pretty upset about being scratched so Grandpa took her to get a band aid and next thing you know she is coming down the hall in a sling made out of a pillowcase with a band aid on a scratch that barely exists.

She walked around with it on for about 45 minutes until it finally fell off. She still held her arm up and could barely stand to take a bath because it would hurt her owie.

She enjoyed getting to take a few days off from school and spend time at home but at the same time it is almost too much time at home and by last night she was ready to go back to daycare and to see her friends.

Happy Monday Friends!

My Obsession

Well i think it is time to admit (to the world) that i have an obsession with nail polish and i just cant help myself. I love nail polish. Once i laid it all out i realized if i am going to keep buying it i need to expand my colors. There seems to be more then enough shades of pink, red and blue. Oh and the side opposite of the pink is mostly glitter.

Just seeing this makes me want to go out and buy lots of nice dark colors for the fall.

Purple is not my color, as you can see i only have 1 purple and i just don't like how any color of purple looks on my fingers or my toes so i don't buy it, but Kendall loves purple so that's why I haven't got rid of that one yet.

I love Essie polish but can't make myself go out and spend $9 on a bottle of polish since i am buying it so often, it is great polish and good quality but i am more of a bargain shopper. My go to brand right now is Sinful Creations, it is $1.99 a bottle and is really good polish. I haven't had many problems with it and now paired with the new Essie No Chips Ahead top coat, i will be having fabulous nails all winter long.

I repainted my nails last night. I needed to paint my toenails so while i had the time i did my fingernails as well. Tonight will be the ultimate test for them because i am going to be making a very hands-on dinner and then having to hand wash all the dishes when we are done. I am hoping that i get it to at least last until Monday.

A couple things you may not know about me is:

~I have my toes painted all winter long even though no one ever sees them cause i have my shoes or slippers on.

~ I have to keep my fingernails short. I cannot stand when they are long, it makes my hands feel dirty. Don't ask me why, it is weird i know, but i just don't like it. I see people with long beautiful nails and i am envious but i just can't grow mine that long. Having acrylic nails is different though, i would have them but it is an expense i would rather not pay.

I have one other obsession that I will go into another day, recipes and cookbooks. They are also amazing and i love them!

Happy Friday!

Ah Thursday!

Today I am going to dedicate to crocheting and probably a couple other random things i got going on in my head. 

I have been one busy busy bee and i LOVE it! When i decided that i was going to turn this into more then a hobby I had no idea how busy i was going to get. I originally decided to start selling because well i love to crochet but can only crochet so many things for myself and my family before we are over run with yarn. I was looking for something i could do to supplement my income since Christmas was coming up.

I have had several people tell me i need to increase my prices but i don't want to. I have more then covered my expenses and i want to keep my items priced so they are more affordable. I would rather have a higher volume of orders at a lower price then the other way around where i only have a few orders but charge an arm and a leg.

I literally have to crochet every single day or i fall behind. Occasionally there are times when life happens and i don't get as much done as i would like. This week Kendall has been sick so i have been very unproductive and haven't been able to get through as many orders this week as i have the past few weeks. But this weekend I will be able to catch up and get a few things done.

This is what it looks like from my view, although i hardly actually "watch" what is on TV i mostly just am listening so i can concentrate on what i am making. 

Just in the short time i have really pursued making the hats my skills have greatly improved. There are so many things i was scared to try before cause i didn't really know how to make them because i didn't take the extra time to learn more then just the basics. But now that i know i am unstoppable!

Click HERE if you want to go check out my Facebook page where i am posting pics of all the items i am making

***An update for the Essie No Chips Ahead top coat. I am impressed! I painted my nails Sunday and 4 days later i only have 2 spots where it chipped off and they are just little spots. I even have glitter polish on and we all know that usually peels off practically the next day. I highly recommend everyone to try this.

*** I am almost too my goal. This week since K has been sick i only went to the gym once and next week is going to be hard cause they have holiday hours. However I did lose another pound so i only have 4 pounds to go until i reach my goal!

Happy Thursday!

A day of Randoms

Kendall has caught an illness. And it is the cutest but at the same time saddest thing when she is sick and not feeling well. She has something like laryngitis, its not really a cold other then she has a little runny nose but she croaks like a frog and when she talk she squeaks. The unfortunate part for her is that she doesn't realize that if she doesn't talk it will get better but since she has a million questions she talks non stop. She even talks in her sleep. We will have to try and see if she will drink some tea with honey in it.

This is my latest nail polish trial. I hate buying all these different products to try cause they may not be super expensive but when you keep buying new things they start to add up. 

So far i really like it, it is holding up well. I painted my nails Sunday evening and there are a couple flaws but there are no chips, woohoo! The one thing i am learning though is that after it works really well a few times it starts to not work as well which is a big bummer. I am hoping that is not the case for the No Chips Ahead because i really like to paint my nails and there are so many fun fall ideas i am wanting to try on my nails.

For a while there i was feeling a real lack of motivation for the gym, it was just hard to go. By the time i get there after work it is dark outside and it has been so busy that it has been frustrating going and having to switch up your routine because there are so many people using the same things you want to use. So i made a new routine for myself and although other people are getting in my way still i am trying to work around it and be a little more flexible.

Last week i was frustrated cause i didn't lose any weight even though I stuck to the diet and worked out like normal. I came to the conclusion that even though i was eating good i really wasn't eating enough. I just never felt REALLY hungry so I didn't eat my usual morning snack. So this week I have been making myself eat the snack and just like that bam, down 1 pound. I have 5 lbs to go and my deadline for my goal is next week for Thanksgiving, I am determined to meet my goal.