Forever 31, I mean 21

WHAT IN THE WORLD, WHERE HAS THIS STORE BEEN ALL MY LIFE, IT ROCKS! Today, me, mom and Mamaw were sitting at Chick-fil-A enjoying 3 #1's with extra pickles when I noticed the new store behind the foliage. We went in and oh my goodness gracious I was getting all kinds of happy.

Here are my thoughts:

• It doesn't matter if the store has a "if you get stuck in it you buy it" policy (haha) the clothes are adorable
• They don't carry XL's. And when I asked the sales girl if they did, she looked at me like I was a fruit loop. Or was it a look of, "Oh brother, I've seen her type...30+ year old, 3 kids, mini van, should be shopping in the Liz Dept at Dillard's, but here she is trying to make it work out in my store..."
• Since when did trying on a shirt require a degree in Engineering? You know, truth be told, I can always figure out how the shirts at Dillard's work....

I'm just kidding around, but I have an agenda of things to do in the upcoming weeks, and going back to browse around that store is on the top of the list! Maybe I'll use some of my Canada Day shopping money when I go back. It's July 1st you know!

SEPHORA: I finally experienced this store and it is all it's cracked up to be. Very nice. I tried Amazing Grace and it is equally as good as the Pure Grace. Sephora felt very "QVC-ee", but in a very good way!!! All the hype but no hand models.

Friday Night Fun

Oh the action never ends! Here is a recap of our night last night. It started with the most awesome lightening storm you ever saw! I got Moose out of bed to see, Stinky Pete was already out cold. Moose did not like the lightening. He said it was too big. Then he wanted his Dad to hold him. At midnight, the heavens opened up and unleashed the rains. It poured down so hard we just couldn't stop watching. It was a spectacular display. The wind was blowing very fast-some reports up to 70mph. About 12:30am I peeked out the front door and said, "SHANE, WE ARE STARTING TO FLOOD AGAIN, WE NEED TO MOVE THE CAR INTO THE GARAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

I almost called you to freak out on the phone with a good friend, but you were already in bed. You big ol' Party Pooper. Always getting beauty sleep when I need you the most. Anyway. We brought the toy car/bike/scooter convention indoors in order to save our vintage Camry.

Comparison

Let The Mania Begin!!!

We have a new camera!!! After working hard at 2 yard sales we earned enough money to replace our digital camera that died about 9 months ago!!! It is so exciting. I'm reading through the book to see what I can learn. I'm not near as advanced as Becke' or Jenny, so I am starting with a nice Canon (point and shoot, is that what they call a camera for beginners?). So far I have made it through the manual training on Shooting Still Images. So fun!

Collin & Carter

Me: Hey Col, have you ever used hair glue?
Collin: No, I just use the hair gel for special effects that I get from the Barbara place.
Me: Nice.

Collin is our little friend who calls Stinky Pete "Son". Collin is 5. Carter is his brother who is about to turn 2. He calls Shane "Shaneboy".

They are hilarious little boys that I wanted to post funnies about today.

The Crazy Jewelry Lady!

Oh boy! So, I had a jewelry showing tonight. Let me tell you something right now! I was like Jo Jo the Monkey Girl on a pot of coffee, I was all over the place! You know what though-JoJo made $200 tonight and for that Shane is thankful!

It was my first jewelry showing since I had baby Jack-so about 7 weeks. Oooh honey. Here's what happened. I got really excited last week about starting work again. SO, I decided to listen to an on-line training to get geared up. That led me to 2 more trainings plus a conference call because I got so excited. They all sounded so good that I printed off all 3 show ideas, put them in my neat little notebook I made, and uhhh, headed to my showing tonight. The only problem was I didn't think through the details. You know, the little one's like, "How the heck does all this fit together!?"

I'm excited about my new style though-it is super fun and the fashion part is my new favorite! I am so excited about showing my pieces because they look so good with this season's bright colors.

So, that's all. I acted like I was on crack tonight in front of a room full of women! Nice huh! I'm wired right now! Shane and I are hanging out-he's watching West Wing and I'm playing on the computer and having some fresh vegetables-oh wait, that's not veggies, it's cheese dip and chips. Listen, don't be deceived, I don't keep this figure by eating bean sprouts!!! HA!

P.S. We have had 2 yard sales, and Shane ordered a new camera for us today. Some kind of Canon Digital, 8 mega something or others and it's black and it's really cute and I can't wait to make some videos to post!!!! Watch out, it's about to be video mania on my site!

Date Night.

Last night added up to one great date night. The boys slumber partied with the cousins. It was thunderstorming badly so we decided to pick up Chicago style pizza and bring it home. We had candles, ate on paper plates, drank Dr.Pepper out of wine glasses and listened to Frank Sinatra while we ate.

We rented 2 movies from the New Release dollar thing at Kroger. I don't know why I bother renting movies-I'm never impressed and we usually turn them off like we did last night.

We had a good talk about our parenting goals right now. We have some sweet boys. It was good for us to be able to have uninterupted time to talk about where we are heading as a family and get on the same page. Shane is a great dad!