happiness.

i've been using bare minerals for a few years
and i LOVE it.
i recently heard about everday minerals
and that they offer a free sample makeup kit by mail
so i ordered mine today
and paid only $3 for postage...
follow this link
and scroll down
you get to pick 3 foundation samples
1 concealer
1 blush
all for free...

my wiggly niños...

thanks again chris for taking the pictures.

tag. i'm it.

my girl michelle tagged me.

the rules:

1. Link to the person that tagged you done!
2. Post the rules on your blog done!
3. Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself done!
4. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs done!
5. Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website. done!

1. i was born in the same hospital that i later had my daughter in.
   
2. the only time i've gotten pulled over i was 15 and joyriding. i talked (lied) my way out of getting arrested.
   
3. i want to open a cupcake bakery.
   
4. i have low tolerance for know-it-alls. in general, conversation is better if the participants are not being constantly corrected with useless facts.
   
5. i once saved a hamsters life by giving it breast milk through an eyedropper.
   
6. i've never seen "gone with the wind."

i tag whomever reads this blog.

almost big.

matthew choose popsickles
to share with his class for his birthday
when i picked him up from school and saw him
sitting there with his hat on i thought to myself...he's still little.
little enough to still think it's cool to wear a birthday hat
little enough to still kiss me in public
little enough that it seems like just yesterday, he was still a baby.

i love you matt-matt!

every mother's dream.

oh the places you'll go...

so my dad has been here since tuesday
and we have had the best time.
we've been chillin and grillin, and going everywhere too.
every time my parents come i realize they have way more energy than me.
i am exhausted but happy that my kids had a fun fall break.

in the last 48 hours we've been to:
red robin
target
lowes
home depot
lowes again
target
the mall
the outside mall
chick-fil-a
the movies
the fresh market

on a wing and a prayer.

i love the feeling of relief
when things are starting to
get checked off the to-do list...
when you realize that
it wasn't all such a big deal after all.
i've spent the last few days "spring cleaning"
and trying to recover from the craziness of the
first 9 weeks of school and working way more than normal.
it's paying off and i'm feeling regrouped.

i really love having the kids home from school for fall break.
except for the fighting...words can't say how crazy it makes me.
grandpa dan is coming this afternoon and i think i'm going to
ask him to have a "come to jesus" talk with the boys.
and alexandria's pre-teen-must have the last word-
sassy attitude is also very fun...
seriously i was way better at mothering
before they could talk back
or get into smackdowns with each other.

they're just keeping it real i guess.
we'll laugh about it one day.

leisure.

a dozen years

of marital bliss.

carlos+holly
4-ever

it just keeps getting better.

tina fey outdid herself.
again.

come my children and i will teach you the secrets of the universe...

or at least what foods pair well with latin american coffees.

for what it's worth...

i'm really impressed with this shampoo.
and the corresponding conditioner.