Sunday Funday!

Yep it's that time again!

Have some fun!! Go make some awesome memories, prep for Monday by taking a nap, or instead of a nap be active! 

Come back Monday and let me know what you did!

--Angela

Crafty Saturday

So no projects as this week has been done due to the busy week. So instead of showing you something that has been done, here is something I hope to make for our front door.

What is your craft for this week or what have you been working at lately?

--Angela

Hump Day Humor

WOOHOO It's Wednesday! 

So to keep making this week go a little faster, we are going to add some humor into your life!

Lately my husband and I have been trying to stay away from junk food, it's HARD! I'm a big girl and love fat foods, and as my husband says, he's an inner food hoarder. Well do to that, my husband likes to sneak eat junk food at work. Yes that means he is eating candy at work, from his co-workers! 

Apparently while he was at work this was his fun 

JERKFACE!lol 

Apparently he had a secret while he was at it, he had choked on one of them chewy chocolate treats, and was about to pass out. Thankfully his co-worker(yes not using military terms!lol) noticed it because those was her, and came up to him and hit him on his back just in time. Just in that moment the big chunk of tootsie rolls, yes more then one was being chewed up, and landed right on some important documents! 

Almost serves him right!lol 

So as this is our Hump Day Humor, what is some Humor going on in your life? SPILL!!!!

--Angela

Weekly Struggles

Is it really Monday again? Do we really have to be up earlier than normal? NOOOOO! 

I miss my pillow!

So today thankfully wasn't one of them rushing to get gets out the door and on the bus, it was more like a little nudge! WOOHOO! 

Due to my husband graduating college this past weekend my children had a 3 day weekend. They I think was more ready for school then normal. We had lunches prepared and we had everything prepped to hit the door. 

Just this momma wasn't ready to get out of the bed, meaning I brushed hair with one eye open, put breakfast on the table with both eyes hardly open, and made my weight lost shake dreading that I probably gained a few extra pounds over the weekend with the weight already creeping up! 

So on to the weekend. MY HUSBAND IS A COLLEGE GRAD!!! He graduated with Magna Cum Laude!! That's a 3.8GPA for some of you that might not know, and also with his "Salute" Honors.(He was just missing his cords that still hadn't came in. 

The bummer about the day, it was pouring down rain so all of us basically looked like drowned rats….ok him not so much!

I know when many people are married and they say they have crappy in laws, I have been blessed to have an amazing set of in laws that have been there for us during some amazing events in our lives. 

This was my Mother in laws proud moment for sure. Mind you I'm not discrediting my husband's two older brothers on their accomplishments but he is the first of him and his brothers to graduate from college. My husband did his college classes in a 14 year span yes but he has been Active Duty Army, married, three children, deployed two times, lived over in Germany, did military schools, and is now a Drill Sergeant that works basically 24/7. Now he says his plan is to get his Masters Degree so when retirement comes out of the Army, he can be a History Teacher. 

So up next is for him to enroll in his Masters program and get busy doing that, and for me to finished my last 10 months and 2 weeks of college myself!

So for all of you readers, what is something you hope you can accomplish in your life? What do you hope for that is in the plans for your children if you are a parent? 

--Angela

Unplug it Sunday Funday!

So as it's Sunday, enjoy your day! I know I will be with some family family! 

Yesterday I got to enjoy my husband graduate from Columbia University with his Bachelors Degree in History! Be prepared to see tons of photos! 

How are you going to enjoy your day of being Unplugged? 

Dance, cleaning, picnic, reading, or napping? Enjoy it whatever it may be tomorrow! 

--Angela

Crafty Saturday!

So as you have seen before, I am a Pinterest FREAK! 

As a mom I'm striving every day to be more organized, having things clean around the house daily for that unexpected guest that drops in. 

One of our biggest issues in our home is the kids and their backpacks every day after school, and in the winter, their winter gear. I have them put them in their rooms but that consists of me throwing one child's down the stairs, tripping over the other, or just seeing them on our dinning room chairs. If anyone knows my husband also, he's OCD! If things aren't perfect we have a grumpy goat on our hands. So with that being I searched Pinterest for a solution and kept coming back to this beauty!

My issue is that I didn't want to make it look like a young child's window, I wanted to keep it looking rustic big time as already in my laundry room I have washboards and vintage looking rug. With it being in my laundry room I didn't want it to have photos because seriously, no one would see the cute photos of my kiddos. So with that I wanted to add a chalk boards. I knew I wanted a to do section under their area so they could see the most important things on their area to do and reminders before school. 

I scored this really nice window at a local antique store for $15.00 but painted HORRIBLE!

After sanding some and spraying chalkboard paint

All done, yes it has white on it due to J wanting to help and that's ok, it's rustic and it means more knowing he helped!

The hooks are mounted to the wall not the window, I didn't want it to get even heavier. This bad boy weighs about 15 pounds! 

I wanted to make sure that not only do they have their to do, but had a small reminder for the day, and also to know we love them! :) 

So I come to you, how do you organize your house? Comment below! I would love some input!

--Angela

Covergirl Influenster Box!!!

I'm a little excited for this blog post! I'm apart of a great website called Influenster! Your tasked to do reviews, opinions, and connect your social media outlets so you can be more of an "Influence". They tend to send you monthly boxes if you answer questions, or submit to certain questionnaires. 

This month was CoverGirl! 

You have no idea how much I was excited to try out these two products. I actually put these on before I had to head to a meeting at my husband's work.

One was the eyeliner, Intensify Me Eyeliner. 

From the Covergirl site on how the product is to be: "Get the control of a pencil with the intensity of a liquid eyeliner for beautifully defined eyes every time. Our all-new paddle-shaped tip gives you two looks in one—thick and dramatic or thin and elegant. The intense black formula glides on smoothly and dries quickly for instant drama. Clinically tested, suitable for sensitive eyes." 

I love the fact that it is so easy to be put on, not going to drive my sensitive eyes crazy. The negative is that it comes off way to easily. This runs around $8.00 they say on the site.

Next up the Super Sizer Mascara. 

From the Covergirl site on how the product is to be: "The Super Sizer by LashBlast Mascara gives you 400% more corner-to-corner volume for full, fanned out lashes. Our amazing Lash Styler transforms even small lashes— just twirl as you apply it to your lashes for an instantly Super Sized lash look. Opthalmologically tested, suitable for those who wear contact lenses."

I absolutely LOVE this stuff, only downer is it was easy to wipe off after awhile. If you can't tell I like to one and done with my makeup as much as I can! As a mom of 3, I hardly have time to even put it on. Thankfully it runs on their site for $6.85.

Overall I will keep using it, and will possibly get it the next time I need some because of how long my lashes look, and also how easy it is to apply. Plus I when I do wear makeup, don't apply a TON because I don't want to look all crazy!

Here is a before and after! 

Before:

After:

Hope this helps you for your future purchases. Hit up the site to order some of your new products to wear! 

Once again I received these products complimentary from Influenster for testing purposes.

--Angela 

Hump Day Humor!

Yes THANK GOODNESS IT'S WEDNESDAY! 

We all have so much going on in our week that today is almost a must!

As with how stressful this busy week I had to sit and actually think about a funny humor story….This past week we have really been busy working on getting our house organized for the next couple days. As I'm cleaning my son begs to sweep the deck while I'm cleaning our sliding class door. As he's sweeping he's getting into it. He turns around with pride, and comes to tell me about how good of a job he is doing. As he does that he knocks himself right into the window! He just starts busting up laughing, yes not crying but laughing! He tells me that it was because it didn't look like the glass was there! 

Oh the little things that gives you chuckles! What is some of the things that is the humor in your life? 

--Angela

Yes I fell behind!

Yep I didn't get to post the Monday Struggles, why? I was struggling plain and simple with Monday! Let me say last weekend took it out on this lady! 

Saturday while trying to spend time with my amazing husband, I had the luxury of along with my husband working on homework. My last week of two classes was Sunday but I was not going to have Sunday to work on anything. 

The reason why I was not able to do homework:

My handsome "little" cousin is now a DOCTOR!!! He was attending the St. Louis School of Pharmacy for 6 years.

His graduation was so beautiful! They held it in the St. Louis Opera House. His class between transfers was 280 but through graduation we became informed he had 206 in his class. The graduation had been 2.5 hours long kicking it off with a bang was bagpipes! WHAT! Yes that is correct bagpipes bring in all the professors and after an orchestra brought in my cousin. 

I'm so thankful he let me attend because in all honesty I don't think that I would have missed it even if he didn't! Up next my daughter's District Honor Choir performance with a slight surprise from my in laws coming in. I'm the only one(and now you the readers) knows! After that we are off to my husband's college graduation! He's got me on cloud  nine on pride! Through 2 deployments and years of working his butt off, he's finally walking!!! 

So when you have that slammed weekend, how do you survive Monday?

Happy Tuesday!!! 

--Angela

Sunday Funday!!

Unplug a little, have a picnic, do some yard work, play in sprinklers, do something you wish you could be doing if you wasn't on here! 

Then Monday come back on here and tell me what you did! 

--Angela

Craft Time!

I am a Pintrest fan through and through. I might never be able to do everything but hey isn't it the thought that counts? 

So for this week I have always wanted to do something like this photo below at the bottom of our stairs to our basement area.

As you might know, my last name doesn't start with an L, but with an S. Also I surely don't have that big of a wall. 

So for my birthday my husband was sweet enough to release me free in a Hobby Lobby when we was near one I might add, and add again the night before he was to have eye surgery! Yes an amazingly husband I have!

I wanted to change it up but keep the same concept, I wanted to add in our first initials for our family of 5. I wanted it to have our family frame in the middle, as I consider our family as being the center of my world. I also wanted to keep it one color with a possibility I could or couldn't add frames and possibly add more to it. 

Well this is the end result! Hope you enjoy!

--Angela