Hair hair hair!!

Has anyone let their New Year resolutions go to the wayside yet?  I must admit that I haven't been the best.  But I am already re-committing!  One of my resolutions was to do my hair 4 out of 7 days a week.  I figured that I could handle at least that much but uh... I was mistaken.  So I am re-resolving!  Now I am going to do a weekly post showing my hair-do's.  Keep me honest and all.  I only took pictures of two days last week.  I did manage to do my hair 4 days though.  Oh and to warn you- I consider leaving my hair down as doing it!  That is a pretty rare thing for me so it is an accomplishment.  Sad?  Yeah it is.     

  

This is just my bangs pulled back in a little pouf and a ponytail.  I used to wear my hair like this 5 out of 7 days a week.  I usually gave my pouf a little more bouff though.

I liked this one a lot!  You can't tell in the picture but it is like the ancestor to a liberty roll!  I want to try liberty rolls some time.  They seem a little advanced for me though.

Sunday Songs

I can't get enough of this song!

Link A Day

I am thinking that these big paper wheels might be perfect for my new years resolution of of crafting something every week and also for a corner of the kids room.

Or maybe these DIY mary jane shoes from House of Humble.  How about both?!

I love the prints from the Etsy shop Handz!  Like this one might needs to find itself a place up on my walls! 

Anyone else love shutterbean?  cause I do!  I check it pretty much everyday.  These fantastic looking freezer burritos have been on my to-try list for a long flipping time!  I am going to customize them to fit my family's likes.  Sweet!

I want to try my hand at making this liquid dish soap.  I am hoping it works as well as the author says it does!!

Is anyone thinking of doing this February photo challenge from Fat Mum Slim?  I am thinking of doing it just for myself.  Her January one was crazy popular!!

I loved this post on petit elephant about not waiting for a special occasion but to make everyday special.  I needed to read it.  Now to put it into action!  

Fill In The Blank

1.   My favorite place i've ever traveled to is     Hawaii!  It was great and the last thing we did as just a couple.  Nicco came 2 months later and we haven't been anywhere since then   .

2.    Greece     is somewhere I'd love to go someday.

3.  I pass the time on a plane (or bus, or car ride or train) by     doing crosswords with the hubs.  My favorite!  and listening to a lot of music      .

4.  My three must-haves when I travel are     crossword puzzles    ,    snacks   and     some great music

5.  My favorite travel companion is    my husband Nicholas  .

6.  The craziest thing that ever happened to me while traveling is    when we went to Hawaii we had a 10 hour lay over during the middle of the night in LAX.  We didn't make it in time to get into the terminal.  We had to stay the whole night outside the security and a crazy lady that was wearing 6 pairs of pants wouldn't leave us alone.  She kept trying to get us to leave our luggage with her to have a smoke.  First of all I was 7 months pregnant so I couldn't smoke not too mention that I don't!  The next morning we found out we had been waiting at the wrong gate  .

7.  The most exotic food I've ever tried while traveling is    nothing really.  A gyro?  Chinese food?  I have only traveled inside the US so not a lot of exotic cuisine.  .

8.  If I could live anywhere else, I'd live in    a state back east.  I really love Utah so I haven't given it a whole lot of thought  .

9.  I have been to    4  

states in the U.S.

linking and image taken from here

Sunday Songs on Monday

I have a major crush on Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward isn't so bad either!

Link A Day

This is perfect with Valentines day coming up!  Notes are sweet but they are a million times sweeter when they look like a heart!

A sweet little heart necklace+ initials= awesome! 

I need this article!  It shows you home remedies for cleaning.  I LOVE it!

WOWZA!!  This top is rad!!!  Perfect for sipping tea in a little corner cafe or a night out.  Double threat!

This is a must read for any mom.  It helps put things into perspective!

I love refinery 29.  They never disappoint and this slide show showing how to make 4 different embellished collars certainly doesn't! 

These trivets from the great ladies of Prudent baby are great!  What a wonderful way to keep some of your children's art work.  Or your own artwork even!

Adventures in Bathrooming

I have a little tale for ya'll.  It starts outside the Winco bathroom......

I needed to use the restroom and of course when the two littles heard me say that they decided that they need to go as well.  So I got them out of the cart and started for the woman's bathroom.  Nicco wasn't having it!  He wanted to use the boys potty and about refused to go in the ladies.  I being the great mother I am dragged him into the ladies amid screams.  We get in there and of course the large stall wasn't available.  As a matter of fact it was taped off with red caution tape.  Which is a little disconcerting.  Was someone murdered in there or what?!  The other two were in use so we had to wait a minute.  Nicco decided to brave the caution taped stall and ran in pretty much 3.2 seconds after I told him to not go in.  However, as luck would have it whatever was behind that tape scared the pudding out of him and he shrieked and ran out.  Which saved me from having to go in and find a bloody corpse.  At the same moment Lola ran into one of the now opened stalls and locked herself in.  She wouldn't let me in for nothing!  The other stall opened up so Nicco walked in and started crying because there was still toilet paper in the toilet.  I don't understand the issue since he doesn't even sit to pee.  (a fact that I am totally jealous of)  SO I move him out of the way and flushed it for him.  Finally Nicco got done and opened the door.  By this point I am really needing to get in there.  He didn't want to wait for me outside the stall so I started using the facilities with him in the incredibly miniature stall with me.  He immediately started asking about my anatomy.  Awkward questions that I didn't want to answer!  The boy knows just enough to be able to ask those awkward questions that I feel need a full on sit down explanation.  No good.  The whole time I was sitting atop the toe-toe it was flushing.  What is up with the automatic toilets flushing when you are on them but not flushing after you stand up?!  I get finished and we try to open the door and we can't get it open without me straddling the crazy flushing toilet.  It took a few seconds but I finally shoved Nicco out of the stall and was able to extricate myself to the steady whoosh whoosh of the possessed toilet.  

I start knocking on Lola's stall and begging her to open the door.  She says "NO I peeing!"  Finally after I was considering bodily harm or kung fu-ing the door down she informs me that she is done and opens the door.  What I see when she opens up the door was not something I was expecting.  The girl was buck naked!  Like head to toe naked- as naked as she was the day she was born.  I get huge mommy points for my reaction peeps!  All I did was gather up her clothes and tell her that it isn't okay to get naked at the grocery store.  At that point I was beyond done!!  There wasn't a counter at the sinks so I had to pull the diaper changing table down and set her up there and start dressing her.  Of course she was wearing tights which are a freaking pain in the shorts to get on.  As I am getting them on her the diaper changing deal starts creaking and sloping under her weight.  So to save her cute little behind I grab her out of the air and have to pull up her tights with her in my arms- no easy feet I tell you!  We finish getting dressed and head over to the sinks.  Which were so hard to work that I almost didn't wash any hands.  I had to touch the little black spot to get them started.  Then wash and rinse as fast as possible because they turned off after about 5 seconds.  Repeat 3 times.  And for some reason the water starting made Nicco freak out!  It scared him real bad.  Mind you that we have used automatic sinks before.  This isn't our first rodeo!  After washing hands he runs over to the Xcelerator hand dryer and gets it going.  That thing is the MacDaddy of all hand dryer.  It blows air so fast that I have to stand behind the kids so they don't blow away.  He has used one before but guess what?  Yeah it scared him. I am raising a fraidy cat apparently.

We get done and come out of the restroom and my sister tells me that she heard me struggling but decided not to come in.  I think that at that point I would have been totally within my right to leave her there and make her hitch hike home!

Not a fun experience!  It did teach me a lesson- NEVER go grocery shopping with out the man fellow again!  One parent per child keeps things under control.