WINNER and house pictures.

The winner of the awesome art giveaway from Cori's Etsy Shop is...

Comment Number 15: Tera from Olive Hue Designs. Tera is actually an artist as well with her own etsy shop. Congrats Tera!!!


Tera says, "Oh my gosh - her stuff is totally cute and charming! I love "away she went".
Thanks for the intro to another fabulous artist! There are so-o-o many shops on Etsy it's hard to keep up.
Thanks for stopping by my blog this morning! ;)"


Robin mentioned in my comments it would be hard to know if I was abducted by aliens because I don't blog daily.

And it's so, SOOOO true.

Besides being crazy busy with this house my two year old now refuses to let me use the computer. NO JOKE, he will close the laptop every chance he gets and if he HAPPENS to be entertaining himself, I have Charlotte to feed and change and, well, the list goes on. It takes me DAYS to just get a tiny post finished.

But I do have lots to say (as usual) and will post whenever I can, because, your comments just make me pee my pants laughing and THAT is why I blog!

Here are a few projects we've been trying to complete the last few months.


Our most current project is the kitchen. I just painted all the oak cabinets a creamy white. We are putting crown molding on top of the cabinets today and in the process (between childrens' cries) of putting all the hardware on. Here is a "in the process" set of kitchen pictures.










Here is a before of our guest bathroom:


And after, all done on a $40 budget!


Sawyer's room. More pics to come in another post one day!


Kids' Bath. Again, on a $40 budget. Painted vanity, new hardware, towels, etc.



I still need to put mirrors up in their bathroom.






And another ongoing project is the second guest room/sewing room. Believe it or not, this isn't even the BEFORE picture. When we were in the process of buying this house, the bank failed to winterize in time leaving frozen and eventually broken pipes right outside this room. Geoff had to cut FIVE holes in the walls, FIVE! The holes were left alone for a while and about two months ago, Geoff drywalled them leaving the rest up to me.



Not fully an after. I'm going to upholster a headboard, I need to hang the curtains, hang the art and order myself a few pictures from Cori's shop. The etsy shop that inspired me!




Love you guys! More to come soon, the kids are crying...

But if I WAS abducted, you guys better act all sad!

Geoff left for sailing class last night and I was alone.

All by myselffffff.

It was sad.

Okay, so Sawyer and Charlotte were here but once bedtime hits, they are no fun.

I'm not a fan of being in this house alone. I feel like mountain lions and bears can make their way in and attack me.

To ease my mind, I turned on some instant Netflix.

NEVER WATCH A GHOST SHOW WHEN BY YOURSELF.

I totally loves ghost stories. They make me happy and freaked at the same time and it's a fun little place to be in: happily freaked. Not last night though.

After watching some ghost stuff, I was sure a dead mountain lion was haunting me. Okay, maybe just dead people but that doesn't sound any better does it?

And just when you think I'm nuts, GUESS WHAT HAPPENS?!?!

The pantry door opens on its own. NO FREAKIN' JOKE. It opened and creaked just like a scary movie.

So I was like, I OPENED A PORTAL BECAUSE I WATCHED A GHOST SHOW!

And to totally be a hypocrite, I've always said I wanted a ghost so I can be all,"Yo, ghost, seriously, what do you have to do today? Get some of those dishes done and maybe some laundry. I AM PAYING YOUR RENT!"

See, how perfect would that be?

But when the pantry door opened, I was like , "AHHHH! Ghost!!!!"

I then go on facebook to chat with anyone that was on and would talk to me so I could ignore the ghost and of course no one really wants to indulge me in an hour long conversation about NOTHING. I called it quits,closed the computer and got into bed.

I saw some crazy weird lights in the sky and KNEW it was UFOs out to get me. I don't even BELIEVE in them and of course they are flying outside my window on a night when Geoff isn't home.

I was totally going to be abducted by scaly alien creatures with fast flying, weird-lighted UFOs. Of course it happens this night. A BY MYSELF night. Ugh. Sooo not convenient aliens!

I turned on the lights because I figure they only attack people when the light is off and peeked out the window to get a closer look.

It was an airplane, you know with like passengers and not aliens.

I try to fall asleep but worried about Geoff driving home at night in the super dark and being safe and all that. It's like 10:30pm, he should be on his way home and there it is.

The call.

From someone I don't know with my area code calling LATE at night.

A pit formed in my stomach.

No one calls me this late, especially someone I don't know.

"Hello"
"Hi, is this-

I start freaking out. Is this? IS THIS?!?! If they ask for me and it's a stranger, I'm going to freak. It's going to be a hospital, Geoff got hurt, our other car is in the shop right now, I have no way to get to him. I start thinking about friends I can call to come get us and take us to see Geoff.

She continues,

"24 Hour Fitness?"

Of all the people you can call this late at night and dial wrong.

I now love-hate 24 Hour Fitness. Love them for not being the hospital, hate them for making me worry so much.

Geoff got home not too much later.

I was safe. Geoff was safe. The ghost didn't make another appearance and I wasn't abducted.

I think I need to be medicated.

Drunk or Kid?

I don't like when people apologize for being gone from blog land. I mean, it's the internet, we SHOULD have another life right and I don't think anyone should owe us an apology for that?

Note to self: Get life.

BUT when I'm away I can't help but want to say I'M SORRY!!! See, I can't even follow my own rules.

I've been painting so much every dream I've had recently is about paint. PAINT?! I miss those crazy sex with Geoff dreams I used to have, now THOSE were fun.

(Ummm, is his family reading this? I mean, I miss those dreams I used to have with Geoff were we would go to church and read books.)

I also started teaching Kickboxing again. Woo-hoo. Sooo, I've been supah busy BUT on the way to class they were playing a game on the radio that I thought I would play with you guys:




DRUNK OR A KID????


Sooo, I'm going to tell you a story and you have to tell me whether I was plastered or a kid.

Easy right?

And you play too!!! Tell me a story in the comment or in your blog and link it on over so we can all take a guess!


Here goes:

I stayed the night at a friend's house and peed in their sock drawer in the middle of the night. Oops.

Drunk or Kid?

(Answer will be up next week along with links to you if you put a story!)

Belle Baby Carrier Winner!

The winner of the Belle Baby Carrier is...

Lucky comment #43- Jess and the Boys


Congrats Jess, these baby carriers ROCK!



I have so much more to post but my husband is taking this laptop to some sort of computerey smarty-pants convention today.

I hope everyone had an awesome Labor Day weekend and I will back soon with lots of words and pictures. We've been working hard over here!


Peace, love and buying the wrong ceiling paint,

Us

My Sewing Room Inspiration and Wall Art GIVEAWAY. CLOSED

I'm totally dragging my feet to the paint can.

I'm soooooo over painting.

Remember how I was all gung-ho and paints biggest cheerleader? I was like the cheer captain for all things paint.

So, I'm a little over it until I saw this etsy shop.




The colors are so alive and fun and playful. I HAVE to have one (or five) of these prints in my sewing room.

Sooo, guess that means I need a sewing room.

I love her stuff so much, I decided to stalk her and read an interview she gave and guess what?! She used to live in Denver which means I like her even MORE!

Starting today, I'm going to put my painting clothes back on and finish the guest/sewing room and in honor of my plan to not be lazy, Cori is going to give one of you a print from her etsy shop!

How awesome is she?!?!

You can purchase her prints through her etsy shop.


To Win-
MANDATORY:
-Go to Cori's etsy shop and tell me in a comment here which $20 print is your favorite.
-Follow my blog and make sure I have a way to contact you.

EXTRA ENTRIES:
-Blog about this giveaway and leave a link.
-Tweet about the giveaway.
-Post on facebook.

Giveaway ends September 21st.

Love you all!!!

A Mouse Update

I totally freaked you guys all out with the mouse story, didn't I? Well, yeah, they totally gross me out too. I mean, I FREAK out if I see one and actually seeing them is pretty rare.

Geoff deals with all things critter. I grew up volunteering for the fire department, I was an EMT in L.A. for crying out loud, I CAN SEE GROSS THINGS! I can!

That was until I saw my first mouse.

I had no idea I was so prissy. I am really freakin' prissy!

Mice are gross. I keep trying to think about Cinderella and how the cute mice were her friends but how nasty is that: a mouse as your friend?!

Sorry Cindy.

So, there was that first time I saw one. Hi freak out, nice to meet you.

And then there was last week.

Geoff got a new log splitter and I'm pretty sure he cut enough logs for the entire country to use. Maybe we should set up shop and sell fire wood in front of Whole Foods. They are trying to sell fire wood made out of Coffee Beans. Have you seen this? Pricey!

Geoff was on a log cutting extravaganza right outside the basement french doors with both doors WIDE OPEN, all day for several days. The french doors are just to the left of this ginormous wood pile. Mice LOVE wood piles. I think it makes their heart smile and our wood pile is making their heart so freakin' joyous because it's HUGE. Geoff thinks he is like Fort Knox security standing at the door and no mice can get past him but he also forgets all the breaks he takes to go upstairs and get a new beer. Call me crazy but I'm pretty sure that was like the red carpet invitation for mice to come live inside where it doesn't rain or have birds flying around trying to swoop them up.

(Note to self: set mouse eating birds loose in house.)

I know they got in the house that way because the next day is when a mouse was spotted.

I heard him first: the mouse squeak.

After hushing Sawyer five million times so I could be SURE it sounded like a mouse and giving myself a huge pep talk about how awesome I am, I finally build the courage to look down the stairs into the basement and there it was.

It kinda looked like a leaf.

I grab my iphone and carefully tip-toe downstairs.

I look over every stair making sure no fanged mouse makes a surprise attack on me, turn the corner and see it.

Really, it was just a leaf.

I take a breath of relief and then the leaf moves.

I run upstairs screaming.

Squeak. Squeak.

Pep talk again. Down the stairs again and it peeks out from under the leaf that probably blew in while Geoff was cutting his one zillionth log: a little bitty one inchish baby mouse. I take a picture on my iphone and send it to Geoff with attached message, "I'm kicking your butt."

And I knew it. I freaking KNEW it, we are going to be eaten alive by mice and this was proof, the second mouse we spotted since living here. I had to get rid of it. It saw me and froze. I think the normal size mouse would have darted off to some secret location but this guy was freaking out because he knew I saw him so I did what any other rational mouse seeing person would do.

I roared.

I roared at it like I was Tyrannosaurus Rex.

I'm not sure where this came from but it was working, the thing wasn't moving and I was getting all cocky and even put my arms out in front of me like a dinosaur and stomped my feat and roared louder.

it was all pre-historic up in my basement.

My two year old that doesn't stop making noise unless he is sleeping was even caught off guard because it was silent upstairs as I roared and stomped.

The thing played dead.

I ran upstairs and found an old to-go coffee mug thing I could trap him with and then throw away after to use as my mouse catching device. By the time I went back downstairs the little guy tried to escape, I found him and roared again.

No joke, this dino act was working, he froze, I stomped my feet, he stayed frozen so I ran over and threw a cup over him.

Can I tell you how hard and fast my heart was beating? I still thought he might surprise me and jump up and claw my eyes out before I could get the cup on him.

All hail me because I totally caught a mouse in a cup. I thought about not doing anything before catching him until Geoff came home but I couldn't risk the mouse getting away. Hell no is that thing going to be taking up a room and ordering breakfast in bed. Hell to the no.

So I caught him.

You know what Geoff said? "Ummm, why didn't you put him outside?"

He was suppose to be proud of me, hugs and kisses and maybe a special mouse catching prize like a new pony but he was mad I didn't put the thing outside. He was faced with a mouse under a cup under some somewhat heavy tool so the mouse couldn't tip the cup over and escape. He even said, "We moved to the middle of the mountains on property, what did you think you would find?"

Gold, duh.

So, I'm leaving this open for you to tell me how awesome I am, choose your words carefully, I have a mean roar.

Me and My Babies

My arms are sore from holding them down.







Hope you have an awesome weekend!
Peace, love and boobie milk barf,

Us.
(Don't forget to enter the giveaway here.)

I guess this means I DON'T get an HGTV show. Or Food Network for that matter.

Before we moved into this place, we had a 900 square foot condo in a high rise.

Though a lot of people stopped by before their drunken night out on the town, we didn't get too many out of town guests that crashed for a few days.

I longed to host. I longed to be the cute little wifey that made yummy dinners and refilled all the drinks while playing fun music in the background then showing them to this perfectly made up guest room that smelled like lavender and pretty stuff. Geoff even bought me a cute apron so my dresses didn't get splattered with food juice while making gourmet meals for everyone.

Basically, my mind turned into a wannabe mother effin' Martha Stewart.

I USED TO BE COOL!

I USED TO BE HIP!

We moved into the house we are currently in and we have plenty of room for guests. We have a three bedroom basement with a full bathroom that showers guests with all sorts of square footage and privacy. Our house says, "HEY, come stay here, lay your bootey on my mattress and get some rum down that pretty little throat of yours!"

How nice is it to have guest stay the night and not freak out that they might of heard you fart in the middle of the night because they are sleeping on the floor right next to you.

Not that I fart or anything because Martha Stewart for sure doesn't, right?

We fixed up the guest bathroom, put new beds in the rooms, (Remember the nasty couch and bed? Yeah I won that fight. Can I get what-what?) and have had overnight guests just about every weekend.

I LOVE it but my Martha facade is peeling.

Geoff's dad showed up last week and the guest bed wasn't made, the sheets were still being dried. I mean, how dare I let them see that room without the throw pillows looking perfect let alone that I wasn't perfect.

They went for a hike on a trail right down the street from our house. We promised they could see just about everything but their most feared animal/reptile.

The snake.

We told them they don't survive this high. We've never seen one.

They ran back 20 minutes later; they saw a snake.

Geoff and his dad chapped wood all day leaving the door open.

A mouse made his way in.

I drove to Denver and went for a long run.

Drove back and flat tire. Didn't even know it. Seriously that car drove AWESOME on only 3 full tires. (Geoff wasn't too happy.)

Took Sawyer on the swing that hangs under our deck. Our backs were to the yard watching Geoff and Grandpa chop more wood. On our fifth swing, on our way BACK the swing broke and sent us flipping backwards down a rocky hill.

We were both bruised up, I almost tore off a finger nail and I think the bones in my hand were bruised because even the pressure of the keyboard under my fingers to type hurt.

I kept asking Geoff and his dad to describe the fall because in my head it looks HILARIOUS. They refuse to re-live it and said it looked terrifying.

Then the quad got a flat.

Geoff nicked himself with the chain saw.

We were ALL rockin' bandaids.

We made yummy steak on the BBQ for the last dinner. It started pouring so Geoff pulled the BBQ a little closer to the house. Instantly the house sucked up all the smoke. Every alarm in the house was blaring and pulling the alarms OFF the wall wouldn't make them stop.

Frazzled, we transferred the streaks from the BBQ to a plate and then DROPPED IT ALL ON THE FLOOR!

We spent our last night eating steak that made sweet love to the floor in a smoke filled dining room with siren alarms blaring.

I know, you guys TOTALLY want to come over don't you?!

Basically, I hung up my apron.



Side note: I know most of you know Jewels from A Blonde Walked into a Blog, she is like WAY popular. She has been in and out of the hospital and could use some lovin' kind words. Stop by and say HI and GET BETTER so she doesn't have to eat hospital food, that stuff SUCKS!

Love you guys and promise to be back soon with a post about how cool I am... or was. Or AM damn it!

Belle Baby Carrier Giveaway- Because I LOVE Mine!- CLOSED

I was talking to my friend the other day and she was asking about baby carriers and thought they weren't really needed.

I was like, "Ummm, how are you going to carry your beer and baby at the same time?"

No, maybe I said it a little differently, it was for sure a MOJITO.

Really though, carriers TOTALLY rock and you can't get a single thing done in the newborn stages without one.

Then later, they are WAY easier to travel with than a stroller.

I love my carrier and recommend it to all the cutie moms that ask.

Check it out, here we are in the Virgin Islands!



It's a Belle Baby Carrier and they want to give one of you a carrier! Awesome right?!

Belle Baby Carriers:

Belle Baby Carriers offers twelve stylish patterns, including five organic baby carriers made of hemp / organic cotton fabrics.

Unlike most other baby carriers and slings, the Belle allows direct contact between you and your baby. The baby is nestled directly against the parent without straps or fabric in between, allowing increased bonding and discreet nursing.

More comfortable than a baby sling, the Belle Baby Carrier distributes your baby's weight to your hips, instead of your back and shoulders, and places your baby in a proper, ergonomic position that supports your baby's developing spine.

With no extra bulk, Belle Baby Carriers are lightweight, cool in the summer, and easy to stow away.

These baby carriers allow your baby to face toward you or away and are easy to use without any assistance.

Every Belle Baby Carrier also comes with a lightweight detachable head support panel for additional head support if needed.
The Belle Baby Carrier is ideal for infants 8-30 lbs.

I have the carrier in Organic Moss:


But did you see the one in Organic Earth? I totally heart it!



Seriously, I LOVE mine! It's organic, totally cute (very important), both Sawyer and Charlotte look comfortable and always fall asleep while strapped to me. I'm also SUPER comfortable and can get all my chores done my husband who usually cares less about baby items even said, "They are based in Boulder? Sweet!" AND,

AND!

It's not all bulky like a lot of other carriers. I roll this puppy right into my purse or diaper bag and can still fit other things.

Like my, umm, mom-juice. ;)


So, you want to look cute in one too?!?!


MANDATORY
1- Get on the Belle Baby Website and leave a comment on this post telling me which carrier is your BFF.

2- Follow me on this blog and let me know a good email address where I can reach you.

Easy right?


EXTRA ENTRIES:
Follow Belle Baby Carrier on facebook.

Follow Belle Baby Carrier on twitter.

Tweet and/or blog about the giveaway and leave me a link in the comments.


Love you all!
Ends: September 7th, 2010


Belle Baby Carriers can be purchased directly from their site. Check out all the fun colors!