Interview with RB

So I got this idea from Amanda @ Bringing up Allie to interview my hubby for the blog. (by the way- she's hosting an awesome Thirty One giveaway! Go check it out!) I thought it was a cute idea. And you should try it too.. you will get lots of laughs!! 

Are you willing to answer questions for my blog?
Yes

Ok what was the first thing you noticed about me?
It looked like you'd been stuck out in the rain all day (I guess i'm going to have to post about the day we met so I can defend myself on that one) 

What is your favorite memory of us?
humm.. favorite memory about us... probally the time you didn't think Santa Clause was coming and you almost stepped on the Kays boxes on the floor under the tree. 

What song best describes me?
"Baby Got Back" ... I love you. 

I'm not putting that on my blog pick another one. 

What is my best feature?
You don't want to put that on your blog. 

Seriously. Non Sexual

Your Personality

Do you like my blog?
I don't dislike it. 

Complete this sentence: I make you laugh when....
When I really make you mad and you make that evil face. It makes me laugh on the inside becaues you look goofy. 

What would you miss most about me had we NEVER met?
Fletcher, Texting, Facebook 

(I put Randell into the 21st Century.)

When did you know I was "The one"?

The night of our first kiss. It was the kiss. I just knew it wasn't gonna get any better from there. 

Our First Picture together. My 24th birthday

 A day at the gun range

 Ice Skating 

 Dave and Busters... Our first double date

Our Engagement Pictures

Our Wedding Day 

 Our honeymoon 

My fav. pic of him and Fletch

Thanks babe.. I love you & i'm so thankful for you! 

2 Girls and a Pin

You might be wondering..."What is 'Two girls and a PIN?'"  Well, Brittany from Confessions of a PinAholic and I have decided to get crafty!  Two Girls and a Pin is a DIY series where Brittany and I will find nifty DIY projects on Pinterest and actually make them!  

You can follow Two Girls and a PIN on each of our blogs:  

Amanda @ Tales from a FAR

Brittany @ Confessions of a PinAholic

or

Follow us on Pinterest

Amanda // Brittany

Glitter Keys Tutorial
with Amanda & Brittany

Glitter Key Inspiration from My Oh My and Glitter Everything Inspiration from I Am Style-ish

Pinned by Brittany via Pinterest and Pinned by Amanda via Pinterest

Step 1:  Gather and clean your keys.  We wiped ours down with nail polish remover, but rubbing alcohol or good ol' soap and water should work, too.  Make sure they are completely dry before moving onto step 2.

Step 2:  Brush glue onto one side of the key.  We used Elmer's school glue and old paintbrushes.  {On one of the keys we ended up having to wipe off the glue and use clear nail polish for this step because the glue wasn't sticking to the smooth surface of the key.}

Step 3:  Sprinkle on the glitter.  Shake, shake, shake.  Shake, shake, shake.  Shake your glitter!  {Hint:  Lighter color glitters don't show mistakes and missed areas quite as much as the darker color glitters do.}

Step 4:  Let it dry.

Step 5:  Turn the key over and repeat steps 2-4.  You may need a second coat of glue and glitter on each side.  If so, repeat steps 2-5.  Then, let it dry!

Step 6:  After the glue is completely dry, shake off the excess glitter.  Brush on 1 to 2 coats of clear polish per side.  Do one side at a time and let the polish completely dry between coats.

Voila!  Easy to identify glitter keys!

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Okay so this is where y'all come in. Link up any DIY post you've done and we will pick a winner who will receive the DIY that will be featured next month!! 

100

100 followers? Seriously? Thank you so much. I know you 100 (now 100+) people don't like to hear about numbers and followers, that's not why your here. So I will say Thank you, and I will move on... I will let you know that my 100 Follower giveaway will be going LIVE on 8/1. It's my first giveaway and i'm super excited about it!!! So come enter :) 

Also- i've decided i'm going to start charging (a little) for my ad space. That way I can start advertising on other blogs and get everybody's names out there. My sidebar is mainly swaps and that's how it will probally always will be. So if your interested, check it out here. 

So let's talk about sweet Fletch. He is growing up so fast!! Here's a video we took of him the other night 

Isn't he the sweetest? I love him so much!! 

One last thing before I go spend my day with the cute boy mentioned above... y'all know I don't DIY. But my cousin Brittany's favorite thing to do is DIY. So together were starting a series called 2 Girls and a Pin. Where we tackle all the things that people pin but never get the guts to do. So check it out tomorrow when we post our first DIY :) 

Friday Letters

RB: Do you even know how excited I am about our double date next weekend to the Vortex? and I know that's next Friday but i'm really excited about it today :) 

Dear GPC: This week i'm coming to see you. to register for your classes and to get my parking sticker. Be nice to me! 

Dear Fletcher: Your getting way to big way to fast buddy. Slow down okay? 

Dear Stacy: I am SO proud of you for starting a blog. But i'm gonna need you to actually.. um ya know, blog. Please & Thank you! :) 

Dear Brit: Hurry up & get here so our bloggy party can begin!! PS- don't forget the wine ;) 

Dear Weekend: You are the first one in a long time that nothing is planned for you. Lets keep it that way, my family needs rest!! 


Dear You: Have I told you how AMAZING you are?  And as soon as you tell all your friends about me, and they follow me, I will do a 100 follower giveaway, and it will be epic. 

It's Ok...

It's Ok... 


That i'm currently freaking because I have 93 followers!! I don't usually focus on this part of blogging but almost 110 people read my blog? That's reason to freak! 
That i'm still in my pajamas. At least I didn't go to the grocery store in them today.  
That i've done nothing today besides dishes, laundry ,and watched Twisted with this guy

That i'm super excited about hosting my first giveaway! Email me if you want in :) 
That i'm excited about cutting grass tomorrow, as long as I don't get rained out. (Cutting grass=mommy time!)

Green Juice

Have I ever told you how much I love my husband? Okay I know I have. but seriously my husband gets on these "kicks" of different passions and he researches them (usually via youtube) and desires to spend lots of money on different things (In the past we've purchased   and resold: airsoft stuff, Vibram five finger shoes (he still has those!), different phone cases, different diet plans, etc) Well his latest hobby/passion/crazy is juicing. Thankfully while talking to Michelle's hubby about how he was wanting to buy a juicer D told him that he has one he can borrow and borrow he did. He then sent me to the grocery store with a list of the ingredients of Green Juice...

 and when I got home, we juiced

 

 the yuckies

 Enjoying my juice 

Fletch loved it! 

Green Juice: (the origional recipe)

Kale

Celery

Cucumber

Lemon

Green Apple

 (We added: Blueberries & Strawberries)

And you know what? It wasn't even half bad... There may be hope yet for me and healthy eating.... 

probally not. Pass the cookies.


PS- Pink on the Cheek is having an amazing giveaway! 29 prizes 1 winner. And although I want it to be ME you should try to enter too!! Click here

Me, Myself, & I

Today i'm linking up with the first ever Me, Myself, and I link up! 


1. What is your biggest phobia? Rabbits. Don't ask me why because I don't know but I am terrified. 

2. If you could relive any day of your life, what would it be and why? My Wedding day... It was the best day. 

 

 

3. If you could choose to stay a certain age forever, what age would it be? 25

4. Which celebrity do you get mistaken for? No one lately, but in high school everyone told me I looked like that blonde Dixie Chick. 

5. What songs are included on the soundtrack to your life? Before it's too Late - Goo Goo Dolls; Take My Life - Jeremy Camp; I Swear - John Michael Montgomery; 100 in a 55 - Pop Evil

PS- I entered the most awesome giveaway with the best prizes at Eloping Stethoscope... I would tell you to enter but I reallllllly want to win so .... yeah. I kid. Go enter. And if you win I will be jealous! 

Breakfast, a Pedicure and a Giant Cucumber...

.... Now that's what I call a GREAT weekend! Hi dolls! How was everyone's weekend? This weekend was crazy! I don't think we stopped moving! 

Friday... With the help of Michelle and Alex (Stacy's husband) I threw a surprise birthday party for my sweet friend Stacy! It went great but they only picture I got was me making cupcakes. How lame am I? But Stacy was so surprised and I stuffed myself silly with spinach dip so it was a win all around :) Fletcher went home with his daddy and got a power nap and was awake by the time I got home... then he decided to have a diaper party at 11pm! #fail #onetiredmomma

 Saturday... My mom treated RB, FAR, and I to breakfast at the new Covington Diner. And I was impressed! Fletcher had a Mickey Mouse pancake bigger than his head and the building (former Shoney's turned into a Chinese buffet) Was clean and different! We will defiantly be going back, plus they are open 24 hrs on the weekend. Not that that matters to me because frankly i'm asleep by 10. 

Then I got an amazing pedi 

(Do you see my tan lines on my feet from my flip flops. Totally from cutting grass!)

After this we took Fletcher to meet his best friend. My son fell in love with Larry the Cucumber. (If your thinking what is this crazy talking about, click here) Oh my word. If Fletcher had his way we would of loaded up giant Larry and brought him home. (We did leave with a Larry movie and a Noah's Ark with Larry as Noah) Fletcher climbed up RB to look at Larry when we were not talking to him and had a COW when we had to leave Larry at the store. 

 

 

 

 

When we got home my sweet sweet cousin Brit came over and we she designed my new blog design! And I also made the plunge and became talesfromfar.com Wahoo!! 

Sunday... I woke up with Sinus junk and Fletcher had a teething fever so we stayed home from church and had a relaxing day with family :)  And ended the night with the #pfchat with Passionfruit Ads Fletch helped :) 

Hope everyone had a great weekend!! 

PS- I voted in the   2012 LEEIB Bloggie Awards  and you should too! Click here

Auh-ma-zing

Hope everyone's weekend was Auh-ma-zing!? Well things have changed around here! Don't you love it? Also, as I type right now, there is something even more Auh-ma-zing in the works. It's big. Bigger than big. I promise... it's gonna knock your socks off!! 

Now it's 12:19. And there is church in the morning. So i'm hitting the BED! 

You, Me, & Fletcher

I almost had a date night.

Fletcher and I were on our way home from the last night of VBS at our church and he fell asleep on the way home. So when we got home I laid him down and RB and I were doing the dishes. We started talking and decided we would have a date night when we got done. Popcorn and a Netflix in the living room. RB even said he would watch a chick flick. I got so excited, because it's been so long since we've had any kind of date or time to ourselves! So RB popped the pop corn and made tomato sandwiches (we live so dangerous!) and I put on my pj's and I was in the bathroom and I heard screaming. No big deal, I'll just get him a cup of water and he will fall right back asleep. so I did as such and went to turn the Wii on in the living room and heard the dreaded noise again. This time he was standing up... 

Date night became Family night. 


I still got my tomato sandwiches, and a had a little boy sharing my popcorn. And the chick flick turned into a documentary on Monopoly. 


Maybe one day... 

Its Ok...

I'm taking a break from Current Crush and trying something new.. 


It's Ok... 
To take a day off from blogging, because yesterday that's what happened.
To take a nap when your kid takes a nap. 
To walk into the room where your son is napping and smell poop and leave him... because he really needs that nap. 
To have a melt down cry moment yesterday because not everything can go right.
To say No.
To be excited about going back to school for the first time in almost 10 years.
To have mommy time.
That's all i've got for you today. Tune in tomorrow for some Friday letters :) ... Did I seriously say Tune in? I'm such a nerd. 

61 Days...

I will be here... 

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Doing this.... 

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Sitting here...

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and eating here...

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and I CANNOT WAIT! 

Only 61 days.... 

Weekend Update

I hope y'all's weekend was as good as mine! Seriously, This one goes down in the record books!! 


Friday I got to hang out with one of my favorite people. My cousin Brit over @ Confessions of a PinAholic started her new blog! And we sat down and played with out blogs for 8 hours!! She designed her blog herself and helped me with the few changes I did. She's going to design a new blog design for me (for free! love her) in the next few weeks so be on the lookout. And while your not busy, go check her out and love her like I do! 


Saturday We went to my BFF's for her hubby's surprise birthday dinner complete with a Taco bar and zombie cupcakes! On the 4th of July her oldest Danielle tricked me by telling me she was going to spray whip cream in my mouth and squirted on my face instead so I decided to be so sweet and give her some pay back! 

 Sunday I got to cuddle with some sweet sweet babies in the church nursery with some sweet sweet ladies then came home to do some cleaning before VBS Family Fun night @ ECC Have I ever told you how much I LOVE my church family? Because I do! Tonight they started out with some worship and I got to watch a 12 year old lead worship in a room full of people. That was a praise Jesus moment! Then Fletch got to play in a bouncy while I talked to one of my dearest friends I haven't had a conversation with in I cant even tell you when. 

I hope your weekend was as good as mine! :)