Tuesday notes

Thanksgiving was wonderful.

I've been trying to find my energy....
I haven't been super successful.
Sunday I spent the majority of the day in bed resting...
Saturday I came down with a sore throat...
it's now day 4
Sore throats are the worst!!

I pulled our Christmas last night.
I decorated while nanna cleaned :)
Clean house = AMAZING
Christmas = wonderful.
{sore throat = miserable}

Happy Tuesday

a counter full

I'm so grateful for Thanksgiving this week!!

Family, Food, no work....

Life can't get much better than that.

I have Thursday and Friday off.

Lucky lucky me :)

Our counter is filling up with vitamins and supplements...

I filled up a little baggy to take with me to work today.

Mitch makes sure I take all my 'goodies' everyday.

What a good hubby.

This evening has been wonderful for me.

I surprisingly had lots of energy this evening

making good use of it... I washed our bedding, made dinner, vacuumed, de-haired our quilt....

I feel good.

I came up with a BRILLIANT idea today.

Just the thought of it relieves some stress.

Mitch thought it was really brilliant too.

We are hiring my sister to clean our house top to bottom, corner to corner once a month.

She is an amazing cleaner!!! 

I can't wait to have her come next Monday!!!

It'll be a win win for both of us.

Last night all my family got together to celebrate my cousin's birthday

Mitch had a marathon day between work, teaching YM and a 2 hour meeting.

Sadly he wasn't able to join me.

I had a wonderful time though.

My grandma and grandpa were able to make it

My aunt Susie and cousin Nora, Ben, Dan, Lexi and Cameron

I'm really glad I was able to see them since our thanksgiving is with Mitch's family this year.

Dinner was delicious.

Thanks for everyone who cooked the tacos, enchiladas, rice, dessert.... mmmmm

Happy Monday

Hope you had a good weekend!

A day off = catch up

Once upon a time a day off equaled a day off. Remember in elementary school when we'd have a day off it meant we were going to play all day? I sure do. Then growing up happened. Growing up brought many wonderful things like being able to drive, working and having money, doing what you want to do {most of the time}, dating cute boys, getting engaged and marring the most wonderful man, buying a house and living happily ever after. Sounds perfect right. Even when I was a child I would play pretend that I was all grown up, playing college and sometimes house. Little did I realize the amount of responsibility that came with growing up. Here I am living the 'grown up' dream :) married to my fabulous hubby, working a job I love {most days} and having our own home.

Yesterday was my day off. It was filled with lots of catch up items. Folding and putting away all the clean laundry, putting dinner in the crock pot, dishes, loving on the boys, mowing the jungle of a front lawn we had, planting bulbs and pansies, sweeping the walk, running errands. Sometimes I spend a day off playing hooky with all my adult responsibilities, yesterday was not one of them. I love the feeling of a clean home, fresh laundry in the closet, a fresh mowed yard.... The joys of being all grown up I suppose. Good news is I wouldn't have it any other way :)

Sunny Wednesday

I love days off!! It was incredibly cold this morning!! Mitch texted me on his way to work to let me know it was 3 degrees outside! Holy freezing!! As I pulled back the curtains, I saw a frost build up on the inside of the window! I don't know about you but I really want some warmer weather!!! Dear spring hurry up and get here!!

Its been a productive day! Remember the shot from my closet the other day?? I decided to fold my clothes and do ALL the laundry :)

My bed called to me all day! Do you ever have a day where your bed is 10x more comfy and inviting than normal?? Yea that was how my bed was today :)

I vacuumed and made my 'perfect' vacuum lines lol. I only wish they lasted longer :) I also cleaned my entire kitchen!! Its beautiful now!! :)

We found a recipe for pork barbacoa.... ran to the store last night for ingredients and I crocked it all day. OH MY GOSH!! It was wonderful!!!! My tummy is so FULL!! I'll post pictures and the recipe later!!

The boys kept me company all day :) I love spending so much time with them and they are better behaved with all the attention too!

I also burnt my finger while adding some curls in my hair :( At least I look cute :)

I kept the camera on me all day. It was nice. I was able to catch a lot of great photos. What I was really hoping for is a warmer day so I could've taken the boys down to the lake to walk them and photograph. Oh well there's always another day.