Robin Egg Blue?

I am seriously thinking of painting my kitchen table robin egg blue... Tell me what you think.       

Yes, this is a new table. I sold my $15 table for $40. 

My mother gave me this one to use for a while, I'm so stoked! I can't wait to see how it turns out. 

                

Also, these are my two favorite colors and they look perfect together!

 I have already started decorating on my bedroom with coral red and turquoise blue, but I really would like to incorporate these colors throughout my entire apartment. 

Sneak Peek...

 These bow ties will soon be up for sale on Etsy. (more colors to come) 

Small bows: 0-6 years (bow measures:11/2ins. by 31/4 ins.)

Medium bows: 4 and up (bow measures 2ins. by 4ins.) 

1 for $7

3 for $18

6 for $30

I'm frustrated with, in no particular order...

#1. I don't know if you can tell what's happening here, but I am using a clock and body lotion to hold my cord in the socket. All of our outlets seem to be a little big, loose, installed wrong, whatever it is, my plug-ins always fall out.

#2. The little bit of hair that lays against the back of my neck that always seems to get all tangled up into a big rats nest that seems to take 50 minutes to comb out. I'm half tempted just to cut it out rather than take the time to brush through it. I guess you would have to see it to know what I'm talking about.

#3. The doctors that keep telling me to give Lucy Carnations Instant Breakfast and Miralax and eliminate water and juice from her diet. Why don't they try to dig a little deeper and find out the real issue here.

Okay, just a little recap on Lucy. Sometime around the fall of last year, Lucy had been getting a Rectal Prolapse (Rectal prolapse occurs when the tissue that lines the rectum falls down into or sticks through the anal opening.) Obviously I was a little startled when I saw it. We took her to the doc, they ran a few test and did an x-ray of her stomach and come to find out she is EXTREMELY backed up, through and through and her intestines are inflamed. So they put her on Miralax, a stool softener, and Carnations Instant Breakfast, because she doesn't gain wait.

This is the thing, they cant tell me why she's backed up because, quote "there are too many things that can make a child/person constipated so its almost impossible to narrow it down, and its not rare for a child to be constipated."

I guess my frustration is that after 5 months of Carnations and Miralax, she still has her prolapse, and still weighs 19lbs. And, maybe this is just me, but being constipated and being EXTREMELY backed up are two different situations. She doesn't have a hard time relieving herself, but something is making her little intestines get backed up. And the docs tell me I need to continue this little regimen of chocolate mike and stool softener for 6 months to a year. What happens after that? We still haven't solved anything about her intestines.

#4. Pride... I'm the first to admit that I have a problem with this, most human beings do. But I have been seeing pride quite a bit lately. Why do people let pride get to them so badly that they have to go against what they know is right, just to prove a point. It's really sad when this causes a marriage to fail or an individual to be unhappy.

#5. The baby shoes that I cant seem to sew right. I've made 8 little shoes with adorable fabric and none of them are to my liking... Why oh why cant I get it right?

#6. I love my little Lucy, but for the past couple weeks she has been waking herself up between 5:15am and 5:50am and staying up till her nap at 12. Is it horrible that I turn on "Ariosto Cats" for her so I can go back to bed?

#7. Josh grabbing my cheeks every 5 minutes like he's my great aunt and I'm his little niece with chubby cheeks... I love Josh completely, but come on, I'm over the cheek squeeze... and he knows this.

But I'm not frustrated with this...

Just for fun

Recipes for My Top 5

If your anything like me, it usually takes least three tries to get a meal right and I do not enjoy cleaning up the mess of cooking.

So in saying that, here are some wonderfully easy meal ideas.

Eggs Benedict with asparagus

So so easy and so so yummy!

Asparagus with hollandaise sauce is amazing! Josh didn't really care for asparagus until he ate it with the hollandaise. I also love eggs Benedict with honey whole wheat english muffins.

English muffin- toasted

1-2 slices Canadian bacon or ham-heated

Eggs- poached

Hollandaise seasoning package. (48-98cents) 

steam asparagus

Creamy Chicken Enchiladas

My cousin Molly let me in on the secret of chicken enchiladas... they are fast and easy to make, who would have thought.

I make these about once a week. (I use corn tortillas)

Pre-heat oven to 350

COMBINE IN FRYING PAN: 1 tbsp butter,

1/2 onion, chopped

and 1/2 can green chili's

COMBINE:

1 pkg. cream cheese

cooked, chopped chicken breast or tenderloin

onion, chili mixture

1 tbsp milk.

IN SEPARATE BOWL COMBINE:

1 can cream a chicken soup

1 cup milk

remaining chili's

Roll cream cheese mixture into tortillas and place in backing pan.

Pour soup mixture over tortillas

place in oven for 20 minutes

remove from oven and add cheese. (I add a lot)

return to oven until cheese is melted.

Done 

Chicken BBQ Pizza

Again, fast and easy.

Jiffy pizza crust, 48cents at Winco

 (add more water than calls for, I use a square sheet because I don't own a round one.)

Baby Rays BBQ sauce

Grilled chicken

  Chopped onions, fine or thick

Cheese, as much as desired

Slice fresh tomato's on top, I like to add them after the pizza is cooked

Hamburger and Rice

I kinda consider this a "poor mans meal". However, this is very very tasty. Believe it or not but it has brown sugar in it as well.

 This is very delicious when served with corn as a side.

Nacho Chicken Casserole

This is by far the easiest. Chicken, sour cream, salsa, corn chips, and cheese.

All I can say is try it! You will eat it often.

I do not have exact measurements

Preheat oven to 350

Place chicken on cookie sheet, cut slices in the chicken, do not cut all the way through

Add sour cream, I put enough to cover the entire chicken breast

Add salsa, (enough to cover most of the sour cream)

Place in oven until chicken is done

Remove pan and add crushed chips and cheese, as much as desired

(for thicker pieces of chicken breast, be generous when adding the toppings)

Remove from oven when cheese is done.

Coeur d alene- just a few pics

Messes are fun!

She's either laughing or thinking about the mess she has to clean up now. 

Lucy had such a good time with Josh's package he got in the mail.

                            and of course she is such a good little girl she cleaned up her mess.

yes, we got her a broom and dust pan for Christmas. She uses it quite a bit:)



Happy Valentines and Happy Birthday Joshua!

We decided to venture out of our usual price range, and go to

The Melting Pot.

This was a celebration of a few occasions; Valentines Day, Josh's birthday, and my birthday. 

 It was a fantastic experience, cozy atmosphere,

and amazing creme brulee!

Our company was pretty fantastic as well:)

I'm loving how well our outfits compliment each other 

Josh's poor eyebrow really stands out in this picture, but of course he's still lookin fine as ever!

Jeff and Maria, it was such a good time. I'm glad we were able to share that "once in a life time" experience with the two of you

Trying to get a sweet picture of the flames

obviously he is more interested in the food than his wife... I totally understand

Dessert... AMAZING!

Part two of Josh's birthday

 We had a little celebration the next day with cake and candles. Lucy absolutely loved the candles. She told us to "stop it" when we were trying to take them out of the cake. She didn't even want to eat the cake.

This year I made Josh a "better than sex" cake. I usually get him an ice cream cake, mostly because I love them:) However, I decided, since it is HIS birthday and all, I would make him something he might enjoy a little more than an ice cream cake.

I think Josh had a pretty fun birthday, except for
having to turn 27.

Lucys quotes of the day...

"good girl daddy"

"I'm leaving!"

"oh fetch"

"go away!"

"ew, tooted... scuse me"

"SIT DOWN MOMMY/DADDY", when she wants us to play with her

"candy okay", as she's shaking her head

and a new one for a Happy Valentines to her Daddy this morning, "bye bye lame-o"

The Apartment

Welcome

Livingroom

Kitchen

The Office

As you can see we got a new chair... well kinda

I was always told, if you don't have room for your food storage make it into your furniture. Maybe if I recover the pillow it will look a little more decent.

My little girl looking like shes from the 80's

Lucy's room