friday find!

check out these fun shoes! my sis in law linked them in a blog post and i wanted to pass it along. i got a chuckle out of the womens style "split decision".

in other news, God is working, working ,working with us. you know it gets scary and uncomfortable when God starts working and you get to a point where if someone talks to you youre either going to cry or throw up, now im not currently a cryer (that may change before God is done) but i am a barfer (not proud of that but sometimes my nerves get the best of me, no comment please, mom) so while crying may give you red eyes and a runny nose, barfing leaves a little more evidence.

we are being pulled to step out in faith and challenged to live in the present moment. 

this is really hard. i mean you have to kind of plan things for the future but when you dont even know what the future looks like how can you plan!!! man, i just realized this would be even harder if i were actually a planner... oh, praise God that im not a planner!!!

thou shalt not covet

i know you cant help it when you see this, this was a belated birthday present from my dear ol'dad. i got the ipod shuffe for christmas and i LOVE it it was my favorite christmas gift in a really long time but i found that the cord sometimes got in the way, minor annoyance. when i found this headset at the mac store i so wanted it but it was too expensive i couldnt justify the spending when the earbuds worked fine so i just wished and hoped and dreamed until my dad called me and asked me the age old question, "what do you want for your birthday"  and for the first time i think in my LIFE i knew exactly what i wanted (no not a red rider bb gun with a compass and a stock and a thing that tells time) and he must love me best of all because he sweetened the deal with an i tunes gift card! my dad rocks! and it was so cool i dont even care that its 2 months late! love ya daddy!

my evening

we went to the play ground by the bridge as per the boy's request. but i think his real motive was to get some DQ, just across the bridge in milton, ky theres a DQ where daddy always takes him when they are done playing, they like to get an oreo blizzard and share it, daddy seems to think if you let the boy do the ordering you get more oreo pieces, so you might try that sometime if you have a blizzard craving and an adorable kid at your disposal.
i have never seen a kid struggle to slide so slowly as when i say "one more slide and then we have to go" what fun is it to slide slow, the idea of the slide is to go fast, though the metal slides they had when i was a kid went so much faster, and didnt generate static electricity. these modern plastic (read: safe) slides are for the birds.

my junk drawer

i needed a pencil sharpener this morning, for my eyebrow pencil, i know where there is one but its a matter of getting to it. its in the place where i put things that i want , but dont know when i will need. the junk drawer. in there you will find the good the bad and the just plain strange. tape of all different varieties, scotch, packing , masking, correction and my fave blue painters. i found a coupon for jif peanut butter that had expired in february, a dinousaur stamper, various nuts, bolts, screws and picture hanging hardware. there was a manual for a carseat that i have had for 2 years and if i dont know how to use it by now theres not much hope for me as a parent. hammer, clothes pins, putty knife door stop, giant rubber band.... and..... pencil sharpener! yay, i found it!

now theres the problem of getting everything back to the place it was so i can close the drawer. 

and no i cant throw any of this away, dont you realize its important!! thats why its in there in the first place!

and i also want to mention that theres a giveaway! at my messy nest .

my vow

"i meant what i said and i said what i meant, an elephant's faithful 100%"- horton hears a who

well as promised my mom had my dad e mail me this charming portrait of 7 yr old me in second grade. i hope youre happy, im scarred for life.

but i do look happy to be having my picture taken with my new permanent teeth on their way, dont i?

my foody details

ok , so i see i have a few friends who want to know about the food. 

after the super short and to the point wedding, we were invited to join the couple at a place called Mariah's where we were served (i use serve loosly as it was a reception buffet, so you can get only what you love) appetizers of raw veggies and dip and a cheese tray, the veggie tray had red peppers, cucumbers broccoli cherry tomatoes and of course carrots. im not really sure what kind of dip it was with them but it was creamy and delicious. next we were called to the main meal by the heavenly smell of ham as the wait staff opened the lids of the serving dishes, but i will get to ham in a minute. i almost decided to skip salad since i just ate a bu

nch of veggies but i looked over at the bowl of the bride's 7 yr old neice and she had that bad boy loaded up with sliced tomatoes and cucumbers a little lettuce and cheese and some yummy thick ranch dressing, my bowl ended up looking similar to hers except i threw on what turned out to crunchy roasted black eyed peas, who woulda thought? i loved it!! ok the homeade mac and cheese was good though we all agreed that my MILs is better (love ya mom). i totally loaded up on mashed potatoes with the bits of skin mixed in, i think it was also mixed up with some sour cream and chive because there was no need for butter or salt. the next dish was zuchini and squash, you would think i had enough of that this summer but i had some anyway and it was good stuff. and now the moment you have all been waiting for

                                                           ................. DA DA DA DA....................

                                                               (sing it) hhhhaaaammmm!!!

and good ham it was not too salty, cut it with a fork thinly sliced hamm, with some pineapple, but i didnt eat any of the pineapple. 

then there was carrot cake for desert, it had caramel glaze drizzled over it, yum.

so that was the food.

 oh and i wanted to show you guys this. apparently mr. potato head is trapped in our living room vent and making a vain attempt to get someones attention.

my schedule

i know what youre thinking, you think im ignoring you, but im not! we were busy busy busy this weekend! i went on friday to get my mani and pedi out in switzerland county by a friend of my aunt's and this entailed my MIL coming out to our place from indy, then going out to mimi's to get her then following grandad out to the womans place so he could show us where it was (the directions include, turn off the paved road and go down past the cow pasture) then spending like 3 hours there with me getting both fingers and toes, my MIL getting fingers then mimi getting her hair trimmed up then MIL getting her bangs trimmed up. although it is way out there, in the county she has a really nice shop in her walk out basement with the pedi chair and foot spa and that is what i really enjoyed. plus she had miniature daschund puppies, so cute! than after we were done we stopped at the amish store for cheese (i heart cheese!)

saturday we had the wedding in bowling green to get to with the whole fam, well, like 10 poeple coming from southern, IN. 3 hour trip turned 6 hour ordeal after a stop at cracker barrell which is apparently where every other carful of hungry travelers also chose to eat. but yum yum and two hours later we were back on the road.

sunday, wedding, nice, quick, thats the way we like it, so we can hurry up and eat. (pics to follow later this week)

it was a super small wedding and lunch was at a historic restaurant and the food was so good!!!

i would include more foody details but this post is getting a little long. so raise your hand if you want more details and i will post more, ummm, maybe tomorrow.

when i will fill you in on the rest of yesterday and today, ok?

well, the boy is suppose to be napping (shyeah) and i just heard a crash!?