Monday...A good day!

One normally doesn't say Monday's are good days, but I've got to say....my Monday was quite alright.
1.) My blog has changed! Isn't this so much nicer? And, yeah, no more baby pictures because my kids are like so much older than what I had on here before. Yep, my bestie volunteered to come over to help me create a better looking blog. I think she did a great job. Oh and yeah, I did help a tad bit. :)
2.) I love this picture Arianna made for me. I think it's the cutest thing. It also makes me laugh hard. Can you tell who is who?
I'm top left, daddy is top right. Arianna is bottom left and Avonlea is bottom right. Aren't her people so stinkin' cute! I love how sticks are coming out of a bubble-circle-square, whatever you want to call it. This one is definitely a keeper.
3.) This picture below just cracks me up. I know, not so cute right, but come on it's funny. I told girls to say 'cheese' and well that's the face Arianna made. She looks like she just saw a ghost or something freaky. 4.) Dinner was absolutely fabulous. I made a tangy lemon pepper shrimp pasta. The picture doesn't make it look good, but it was soooo good. Robert said it's definitely a repeat. 5.) We went to the gym and worked out together.

6.) Came home, put girls down to bed and then Robert and I got to cuddle while watching 'Just Go With It'.

So, my Monday overall was good. A simple yet good day. My heart is happy now that my house is somewhat presentable when people come over, I'm so in love with the 3 people I live with who make me laugh so hard and my awesome friend came over to just help me fix my blog because I was having so many issues. Life is good. I honestly can't complain. Thank you God!

A proposal maybe?

So my sister is currently visiting her boyfriend Jaime in Mexico for a week. As in Mexico City. We, as in family, think she might come home with an engagment ring.

My sister and her boyfriend Jaime

Stay tuned...

Flashback Friday!

Remember this? Well....we're pretty much done. Not as in 90 days done but almost 50 days into it done. We're still working out but we can't manage to workout EVERYDAY.FOR.AN.HOUR! I'm going to the gym at least 3 days a week and Robert is doing pushups and weights about that much as well. We're still sticking to do the ab ripper though. He doesn't want to get smaller as in weight so he's taken out the cardio part. I really don't care to be all big and stuff so I've been focusing on cardio. We still both have a bit to go, but I guess at our own pace. 7 weeks of this was enough for us and we have seen results. This program really does work. Tootles!

What I'm watching

So You Think You Can Dance....If you love watching people dance any kind of dance, this.is.the.show.for.you! I look forward to watching this every week. It's also very family oriented. My girls love it. It's nothing like dancing with the stars, or anything like that. Think of American idol, but instead it's dancing. People come out to dance and get judged on their certain dance style. It's fabulous. Give it a chance and watch it on Fox Wednesday and Thursdays. You see all different dance styles people are talented in. It's awesome and seriously makes me want to take some kind of dance. People are so dang good. You'll see hip hop, stepping, rumba, chacha, etc... It's great!

issues-major freakin' issues

Okay peeps, I'm not a hardcore blogger. I have two little girls that take up my time. If both could watch tv for a few minutes I could do this more often, but one can sit and the other runs around like crazy. I have to keep a constant eye on her.
Any ways, I wish I could do all the little tricks you guys can do with your blogs such as writing on pictures, creating designs on pictures, etc... Yeah, one day maybe. I'm not that good. Right now my issue is this........................................SPACING!!!! WHAT THE CRAP??!! Any time I publish a post, it has all these unnecessary spaces. I don't do that! I really don't. All I do is hit enter so people can know when I'm changing subjects. Then when I publish, it makes it seem like I hit enter several times to have all this space between my paragraphes. I always try to go back and fix but it only makes the problem worse!!! Ay hay ay!!!! Whatever! This blog thing is so not user friendly. Help!!! Spacing...really..that's my only issue. Now stop laughing and go on to your little perfect 'i can do everything' blog.

Becoming Candice Olson-my inspiration

So I've thought a lot about my bonus room and how much I want to get it together. I know what I like, but I don't know how to make it come together. It's overwhelming actually since it's so big. I'm talking 20x31! Any whoodles, right now it serves as 3 spaces. Office, family, and toy room all in one. Our house consists of 3 bedrooms, so I have no choice but to make this bonus room all three combinations. Our bonus room is an absolute chaos. I've got it divided by our lovely sectional. One side is all toys and the other side is office/family room.

If I could choose and afford any interior designer to design my room it would be the awesome Canadian Candice Olson.She is incredible and can transform any room into what you want. Really!!! If you haven't ever watched her show you need to...it's called Divine Design. Check her out here. She's so good and really does an awesome job. I know she could get the job done in my bonus room. Without a doubt!!!!

Well, this summer, I'm going to try and become her brain. I'm going to research her site and get inspired. Some of the things I'm wanting are below...not of her site, but pottery barn. Here are some of the ideas I'd like to make happen to our room.
I would love an entertainment center like this with the left side being a desk instead of cabinets. Take out those buttom cabinets, make it a hole for a chair and remove the bottom shelf so I could put in our labtop. Call it a small desk.

On the opposite side of the room, I'd love to make it kiddish yet good enough to flow with the rest of the room. I would love to take fish wire and hang some of their art work (we haven't done yet but will) do something like above those book shelves to go on both side of our window that we have in the middle. I think I like the idea..what do you think? Next I'd love to do something like these bookshelves below.....

I love the little bench seat and the book cases on both sides. Imagine our window in the middle and the bookcases filled with baskets on both sides? Wouldn't that look so good??? And window treatments like this below for both windows we have in our room.
I have ideas floating around my head it's just coming together is the difficult part with such a huge room. I want it to have a warm, traditional and familyish feel. That's all.

Now my wish is that by some miracle Candice Olson or her employees will somehow read this post, have sympathy for me and grant me the wish of coming to TN to do me this one little favor. :) I love you so much Candice...really...come help me with this big awful room. You are my inspiration and what made me love interior designing so much. You are so amazing and I honestly drool when I see the transformations you've done to rooms. I will brag about you the rest of my life!!!!! Awwwhhh, now back to reality...only wishful thinking.

Fun Night

Robert and I decided to take a low key date night for our 8 year anniversary. My wonderful momma took the girls and we stayed in the Cool Springs area to enjoy the night together. That's all we needed. Time together. So that's what we did.

Here we are starting our night.....
We started the night at The Cajun Steamer. We wanted to try something new and not go for the typical chain restaurant. This place came highly recommended by my oldest friend in the world Kristy. Well, I'm glad we took her advice on this one. This was one of the best places I've ever tasted. Our mouths were burning though!! :) So if you aren't into spicky hot stuff don't even try coming here. Look how awesome our food looked!

I got the Tilapia and Shrimp Rockefeller-OMG a delicious mess! Robert got this....the All Saints Tilapia (with shrimp, rice and mashed potatoes). His was even better! Oh and those cajun mashed potatoes..to die for!
We really enjoyed our food and will definitely go back!

After our steamy hot meal, we took a walk around the block. We talked about EVERYTHING. It was nice to just talk. We had some time to kill before our movie started. We decided to ask each other questions like, 'what's the best date in the last 8 years, what have been your ups and downs of marriage, what's the best trip we've taken?' etc... It was nice.

We then went to watch this.... in 3D
The movie was good, but I had such a huge headache afterwards...maybe 3D was not such a good idea, but we wanted to 'go all out' you know. :) Regardless we enjoyed our night and had a great time!