InstaFriday

It's Friday and time to link up with Jeannett for InstaFriday, sharing cell phone photos from the week.

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The annual Easter Egg Hunt was awesome this year! There were 6000 eggs and 250 of them had $1 coins in them. Each kid found at least one with money. We also found a real egg! The geese that were nesting didn't appreciate a kid picking up the egg and moving it. We put the egg back and thankfully, the goose went back to sitting on it. I can't blame the kiddo for picking it up, it was an egg afterall.

MiniB despises haircuts. I always dread taking him. For some odd reason he thinks the haircutter is going to give him a mohawk. Every single time he asks her to not give him one and every single time she reassures him that she won't. Every. Single. Time.

Brian makes fun of my doily making. I actually think the colored cotton yarn makes them a lot more modern. I just wanted a new challenge. It's pretty fun to make a doily. I get it all you grannies!

Apparently it is time to buy some new pants. MiniB looks like he's waiting for a flood.

Soccer season has started up here! Both kids are on teams though I only made it to MiniB's practic. Brian is coaching MiniMe's team.

I hope you have had a nice week!

InstaFriday

I am linking up with Jeannette for InstaFriday today. I work from home so I tend to spend most of my time with the dogs during the school year. From the moment I get out of the shower and have to step around this guy:

To this girl who constantly wants to sit on my lap and get pet while I'm on the computer. I can't say no to this face, can I?

It was an exciting start to our week because my youngest lost his very first tooth! Aren't those some cute big browns? I love this boy!

And do you ever have a week like this where you feel like all your very best efforts don't bear much fruit? MiniB really wanted the GORP and I really wanted some salty chips but I had enough for both. I purchase the GORP and it gets stuck. I couldn't very well get my chips and MiniB not get his treat. So, I put my chip money in to push his stuck one forward and then the second one got stuck too. It was a good analogy for my life this week. Try as I might to accomplish stuff and do it well, I felt thwarted.

Ah, at least I have this cute mug to drink my chai tea from! Isn't it cute?

I love that MiniB loves his taikwondo class. He just moved up to Orange Tiger level-way cool!

Happy Friday!

InstaFriday

Yay! It's Friday and that means linking to Jeannett for InstaFriday! My days are melting together with lots of activity in each day--so much so that I haven't taken many pictures while in the moment. But here are some random pics from my week:

I love piano lessons! I love watching MiniMe get more and more confident and listening to her play as each season goes by she plays more and more difficult pieces. I can't wait for the day she surpasses my own understanding of music theory and she can show me a thing or two. That day isn't too far off!

I got this fortune this week. I hold out hope it is true and my shop will continue to grow and grow!

This week we had more taikwondo testing. MiniB is now moving on to a yellow belt! Go buddy! Doesn't he have the eye of the tiger here?

Here are the Tiny Tigers!

To celebrate MiniB moving on to yellow and to welcome Brian home from a week in Switzerland, we made a chocolate bundt cake. Here it is pre-icing:

And post icing--yum!:

Here are my gifts from Switzerland. Is there any question I love Toblerone? I've never seen one so big! I must pace myself.

How was your week? I'd love to follow you on Instagram! Let me know where you post. I'm at carolynmae18 if you want to follow me! In posting the link, I realized I take pictures of a lot of sweets. I just might have a problem. Maybe.

InstaFriday

It's been quite a week here in snowy Colorado! Time to link up with Jeannett for InstaFriday! Started the week off with some serious snow although no school delays. I'm not sure what it takes around here to get a simple two-hour delay!

All this snow makes me long for warmer weather and spring. I've been making more Rosie Rosys. I think everyone else is longing for spring too!

MiniB has been rocking kindergarten. It really amazes me that he's already learning subtraction in kindergarten! When I was his age, I was just learning my colors and shapes. They get started so much earlier now.

I made a trip to HomeGoods to find a console table for my plants. I think it turned out cute. Over the weekend I repotted quite a few of them.

Have you heard of Tangled FX app? It's pretty fun and I'm kind of addicted to turning everything into either swirls or cartoon. Here is our lab, Aspen, before pic.

And here he is as a cartoon using the app. Pretty cool, right?

Happy Friday!

Insta Friday

I'm linking up with Jeannett at Life Rearranged for Insta Friday. I'm so happy it is Friday! My husband has been on a business trip all week and gets home today.

Getting my shop stocked up for Breast Cancer Awareness month! Loving all the pink!

So I think I've shared pictures of my kids and their skeletons in the past. For whatever reason, MiniB really LOVES this thing. It is hilarious to find him carrying the skeleton around and treating him like he is real. I found this scene when I came out of my shower (they're watching cartoons and eating an apple).

My dad and I took advantage of a Social Living deal for a ghost hunt. It was super fun AND super creepy. Do you see this "orb" in my picture? It's against the gray wall. The guide took us in the basement of this very old building that used to serve as the morgue/creamatorium.

MiniMe found a penny at the grocery store and got on penny pony ride. She looked bored as heck until I pulled my phone out. I'm thinking she's too old for the penny pony anymore.

Happy Friday!

Insta-Friday

It has been a whirlwhind week here. I kept thinking Friday would never come. Here are a few choice pics from the week!

1. Don't you just laugh when your kids put their shoes on the wrong feet? MiniB had his Croc flip flops on the wrong feet and was none the wiser. I mean seriously, doesn't it feel weird enough for him to figure it out on his own?

2. This little guy had to stay up very late one night because I had Bunko and Brian had a softball game. He paid for it the next day!

3. MiniB does fun crafts at the gym while I workout. On this day he made an alien mask. Too cute!

4. A Hello Kitty SUV. How cool is that?

Linking up with Jeannette at Life Rearranged for InstaFriday!

My week!

My week has been crazy! You ever have a week where you feel so much gets piled on you are going to break? We had a rough one but I'm starting to see the light.

I can relate to this toad stuck in our basement window well. We finally came and freed him and there is wet vegetation in his future. I hope our week is the same and we have smoke-free skies ahead of us.

So I shared on Twitter how I'd let you know why I tweeted a picture of myself in a wheelchair. I had a headache all last week. I actually thought I had an ear infection because it hurt so much near my temple. Doctors are pretty careful with my headaches because my mom and uncle died of brain aneurysms in their 30s. So, I had an MRI and MRA. Praise God that they were both clear and normal. It turns out I had a migraine. I have never had a migraine before--only tension headaches that I can always sleep off. I not only couldn't sleep or medicate this one off, I had shooting lightening bolt pain that I thought would bring me to my knees. Any of you have migraines? It's all new to me. After the all clear, Brian and I went to Best Buy to wait for the kids to get out of a movie that my dad took them to so they wouldn't worry. I had him wheel me around because I was still a bit woozy from the blood work and my lighting headache pain was still happening. I was hoping in my fraile state he'd buy me the laptop I want. :) But considering the MRI was quite costly, no laptop today!

MiniMe took "chef" classes at various local restaurants. She made cinnamon rolls, pasta, pizza, salad, cupcakes, and more. I loved her little creations. One day this week while at class, she fainted. I wasn't there but I saw her shortly after. She was fine the rest of the day and the doctor said to keep an eye on her. Unfortunately later that night we thought we'd have to take her to the ER for a broken wrist (rough housing with her brother) but it was just a sprain. Not sure why she fainted. My best guess is dehydration or low blood sugar.

Photo shoot for my shop--the highlight of my week. Fun time! Thanks Tori!

We have very smoky skies again today. MiniB's asthma was improving until today. Thank you for all your kind thoughts, sweet words, and prayers. I'm grateful for all my blog buddies. You guys are awesome. :)

Linking up with Jeannett at Life Rearranged for Insta-Friday. I know I'm early. I'm scheduling this post so that I can relax a bit. Hope you are having a great week and staying cool. Do you live the the part of the country experiencing the heat wave? If so, I feel for ya!

Insta-Friday

It's Friday and that means it's Insta-Friday where I link up with Jeannett at Life Rearranged to post various phone photos from the week. Yikes! I actually didn't take any of my kiddos this week. They were super busy and my little guy has been asthmatic and under the weather.

I love that Pippa has a favorite stuffed animal and it is a stuffed dog! I found it at IKEA for 98 cents. I never would've predicted that she'd get so attached. She sleeps with it. I kid you not, see below! I mean, does she get any cuter???

Some of my shop's Rosie Rosys ready to go!

Brian and I got these James Avery rings for our 10-year anniversary and took these photo booth pictures while on our anniversary date.

Here's Pippa with her dog again while resting on Brian. She loves her dad and dog.

I was cleaning my craft room and came across a bunch of crochet flowers I made awhile back. I found a use for them--coasters! Cute, cheap, and convenient since I already have them.

Happy Friday!