It’s been months since I’ve blogged, I know you’re so disappointed! But I am going to try to do better! It's hard because I can't do it at work anymore and my home netbook is not efficient.

I’ve been busy, that’s for sure. After work, my brain hurts so bad I can’t think any intelligent thoughts. Fortunately, we’ve met our major work goal, so I think I may have time to breathe.

Even though I’ve yet to find my talent, I have been given a greater purpose – being a mother that raises a child to love and fear God.

Here’s a summary of what I’ve been up to:

November:

-          Made a banner for Susan’s shower.  I told Susan to keep the banner. Not necessarily for Eli, but proof that, yes, Emily made something.

-          25^th birthday

-     Painted our guest bathroom. Funny story: so it's about 8 am and my mom and I are taping and getting the tiny bathroom ready to paint. I had already gotten the paint can open and stirred it waiting to begin. However, my mom didn't know I had opened it... so she shook it! Purple paint went EVERYWHERE! It wasn't funny at the time so I couldn't take a picture without devestating my mom, so imagine the entire floor covered in a thick layer of purple paint. You can kind of tell the grout is still purple. The bathroom is so small I can't really show you the walls. haha.

            And even the walls and for of the "hallway." This is after cleaning up a little bit. We had to paint the walls here too to cover the purple.

-          2 year wedding anniversary

December:

-          Went to Great Wolf Lodge and the Gaylord Texan with my family December 16^th… for some reason I was exhausted the entire time

My mom, Krista, and Matthew with their parkas on during the ice show

-          Found out on December 17^th why I was so exhausted… I was 6 weeks pregnant! No matter what they tell you, you can still get pregnant after missing two days of the pill even though you’ve been on it for years!

-          Only used 3-4 tags that I made back in October for my Christmas presents.

-          I wanted to blog about gift wrapping, but the super cute Target paper gave me such a fit (and the fact that I cannot cut in a straight line to save my life), I gave up and used bags

-          I made the tray thingy for my sister. She seemed to like it, of course because I don’t like anything I do, it was just “ok.”

-     Sent out our Christmas card

-          Told both of our families of the good news. They, of course, were super excited. It will be the first  great-grandchild, first grandchild for Jay’s family. We told my family by giving my nephews shirts that said “I’m going to be a big cousin." I need to see if anyone has pictures.

January

-          My parents came and helped complete my guest bathroom and worked on the guest room. Once the room is complete I'll take pictures.

-          Started couponing. I need to get my grocery budget down drastically. I even went to a class presented by Tiffany at http://www.mylitter.com/

-          I’m in a recipe club now! We meet every month to exchange recipes. Thankfully I don’t have to actually make anything until December.

In the Future

-          I want to organize all of my “stuff” in the guest room so that the guests actually have room to walk around

-          I need to perfect my couponing skills

-          My best friend Molly and I are talking about a fashion blog. We both love fashion, but not so great at shopping for ourselves.  

Going through my “BLOG” folder on my work computer, I’ve realized I’ve actually written a lot of blog entries but never posted them! Oops! Maybe I’ll recycle them in the future.

My precious, precious nephews

My sister has two boys, Matthew, 11, Andrew, 7... obviously the most precious things ever!

I wish I had better pcitures, but I'm at work. Anyway, here are some conversations from my sister about their Valentine's day:

Me: Did Matthew have a Valentine today?

Sister: He got one on Friday from a girl, and she apparently told him that she was bringing him chocolate today.  I hope she does because he's been excited about the chocolate all weekend.  Not so much the girl, but the candy!

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Sister:

I’m going to try to leave here in time to go to Andrew’s Valentine’s party at school.  I wanted to make homemade cards for his class this year, but the day snuck up on me and I didn’t have time.  So it was just plain ol’ Transformer cards.  He did make one for Mrs. Clark though.

It was funny because I got an email saying to add someone else to the class list, someone named “Ngoc”.  He got mad because I kept pronouncing the name like “knock”.  He said it’s not “knock”, it’s NO-cuh!!!  He was very adamant about it.  He said “Ngoc is special. She goes to special classes”.  He was so sweet!!!

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Sister: See I'm telling you, Andrew is the Teacher's Pet!  I just got this email from his teacher.  

-----Original Message-----

You have the sweetest boy!  We are doing a graph with conversation hearts and as he was reading his he found one and said, "I am going to give this one to my Mama!". 

Goodness! I miss them!

haircut!

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what time is it?!

I cannot believe it's 2011! The holidays flew by. I feel like I've been too busy to think...especially intelligently. (I took me a while to think of how to spell that.)

I'm sitting in a Mexican food restaurant "watching UFC." But my title refers the clocks in my house. They're all on different times. For instance, right now it's 10:10 and my stove is blinking 12:00, my microwave is blank, my coffee maker says 3:23, our alarm keypad says 1:30 am, our alarm clock says 4:57, and we have to clocks on the wall that say 11:10. All of this to say... it's not my fault that I'm consistently late for work.

Do you have any New Years Resolutions? (even though I consider myself good at grammer, I can never remember where the apostrophe goes in New Years so I'm just gonna leave it off, k?!)

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Days 7 & 8

Day 7: Feeling Grey
Hair: Bed Head Control Freak #3, dried but didn't straighten
Face: Neutragena Moisturizer, Almay TLC foundation, CoverGirl True Blend mineral powder, CoverGirl blush Rose Silk, CoverGirl concealer, Mary Kay Eye Primer
Eyes: Clinique Stormy and Graphite shadows, highlighter from CoverGirl Eye Enhancers Café Au Lait, Maybelline Define-A-Brown in Light Blonde, Maybelline The Falsies Volume Express
What I did: didn't curl lashes, mascara on top and bottom, I put the lightest grey on my lids and the dark grey as my liner and in my crease, and highlighter under brows

　
　
Day 8: Purple RainHair: yesterday's hair, no new products, put in bun/ponytail at end of day
Face: Neutragena Moisturizer, Almay TLC foundation, CoverGirl True Blend mineral powder, CoverGirl blush Rose Silk, Mary Kay Eye Primer
Eyes: Clinique Vintage Wine, highlighter from CoverGirl Eye Enhancers Café Au Lait, Maybelline Define-A-Brown in Light Blonde, Maybelline The Falsies Volume Express
What I did: curled lashes, Mascara on top only, I used a similar technique as the day before, the light purple on the lid and the dark purple as my liner and in the crease.

　
Day 9: True Blue

Day 9 was so bad I didn't even want to post pictures, but I used Almay i-Intense for Blue eyes. I've always had the products (minus the blue mascara) but hardly use them today. It wasn't too bad but not something I'll implement into my routine.

The Clinique eye shadows I used were so old they didn't have them on their website and my camera wasn't doing them justice, sorry.

Things I learned: I'm going to try to at least dry my hair every day; light colors don't look bad on me; InStyle said to use a cream blush on top of a powder blush so I may try that.

I'm glad that's over, and I'm sure you are too! Thanks again, Charlie, for putting up with me for two weeks!

Now onto things that will actually make me a better person :)  

Days 4-6

Day 4: Everyday Remix

Hair: Bed Head Control Freak #3, Biolage Bodifying Creme Gel 

Face: Neutragena Moisturizer, Almay TLC foundation, CoverGirl True Blend mineral powder, CoverGirl blush Rose Silk
Eyes: Maybelline Expert Wear Eyeshadow Chocolate Mousse

Almay Intense i-color Brown Topaz eyeliner, Maybelline Define-A-Brown in Light Blonde, Maybelline The Falsies Volume Express

What I did: curled lashes, Mascara on top and bottom, thick line of eye liner on top and thin line on bottom, the dark shadow of the trio on the the lid and highlighter color under brows.

Day 5: De ja vu

Another Manic Monday morning  

Hair: wavy, used Bed Head Control Freak #3

Face: Neutragena Moisturizer, Mary Kay Indulge Soothing Eye Gel, Almay TLC foundation, CoverGirl True Blend mineral powder, CoverGirl blush Rose Silk,

Eyes: CoverGirl Eye Enhancers Café Au Lait, Almay Intense i-color Brown Topaz eyeliner, Maybelline Define-A-Brown in Light Blonde, Maybelline The Falsies Volume Express

What I did: curled lashes, Mascara on top only, thick liner on top

Day 6: Ray of Light, Come Into the Light, Let Your Light Shine… I thought of many titles for today

I’ve been trying out dark colors for several days in a row, so I figured I’d try light ones today.

Hair: wavy, used Bed Head Control Freak #3 but didn’t scrunch

Face: Neutragena Moisturizer, Almay TLC foundation, CoverGirl True Blend mineral powder, CoverGirl blush Rose Silk, CoverGirl concealer

Eyes: Almay Intense i-color eyeshadow for blue eyes, CoverGirl Eye Enhancers Café Au Lait, Almay Intense i-color Brown Topaz eyeliner, Maybelline Define-A-Brown in Light Blonde, Maybelline The Falsies Volume Express, blue eyeliner

What I did: curled lashes, mascara on top only, used a blue eyeliner on top and bottom but then got scared and covered it up a little with brown shadow, the lightest blue all over the lid, and the highlighter shade from the brown trio.

Things I've learned from these three days: still don't like my wavy hair, especially if I don't scrunch it, I don't like the end of Day 5 at all, I need to stop tilting my head!, and it looks like I have something growing out of the side of my head on Day 5.

3 Days, 1 Post

Day 1: Everyday

Like I’ve said previously, I tend to oversleep in the mornings, so I usually look like this:

(I accidentally deleted my morning picture.)

Hair: no products

 

Face: Neutragena Moisturizer, Almay TLC foundation, CoverGirl True Blend mineral powder, CoverGirl blush Rose Silk

Eyes: CoverGirl Eye Enhancers Café Au Lait

Almay Intense i-color Brown Topaz eyeliner, Maybelline Define-A-Brown in Light Blonde, Maybelline The Falsies Volume Express

What I did: curled lashes, Mascara on top, thin line of eye liner on top and bottom

Day 2: Special

Tuesday was my birthday!! 25!! So I went “all out” but daytime style.

  

Hair: Dried, straightened, used Bed Head Control Freak #3, Biolage Bodifying Creme Gel

Face: Neutragena Moisturizer, Mary Kay Indulge Soothing Eye Gel, Almay TLC foundation, CoverGirl True Blend mineral powder, CoverGirl blush Rose Silk, CoverGirl concealer, Mary Kay Eye Primer

Eyes: Maybelline Expert Wear Eyeshadow Chocolate Mousse, Almay Intense i-color Brown Topaz eyeliner, Maybelline Define-A-Brown in Light Blonde, Maybelline The Falsies Volume Express

What I did: concealer under eyes, eye primer on lids, curled lashes, Mascara on top and bottom, thin line of eye liner on top and bottom

 Morning, Nov 9

 Evening, Nov 9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 3: Leftovers

I knew I had a meeting to go to this morning, so I didn’t want to look too bad. So I decided not to wash my hair. Oh, P.S. I missed my meeting!

Hair: day old from Tuesday, plus Salon Grafix Invisible Dry Shampoo, and John Frieda Frizz-Ease hairspray

Face: Neutragena Moisturizer, Almay TLC foundation, CoverGirl True Blend mineral powder, CoverGirl blush Rose Silk, Mary Kay Eye Primer

Eyes: Maybelline Expert Wear Eyeshadow Chocolate Mousse, Almay Intense i-color Brown Topaz eyeliner, Maybelline Define-A-Brown in Light Blonde, Maybelline The Falsies Volume Express

What I did: curled lashes, mascara on top only, thick liner on top, just the dark shadow of the trio from the lid to the crease

 

CoverGirl eyeshadow:

Maybelline eyeshadow:

I've learned two things: My everyday look is not good! And I need to be more consistent with my picture taking. And again, thank you Charlie, for taking them!