{insta-friday...10/5}

right now {depending on when you read this} i am either on a plane, sitting in an airport or in LAS VEGAS!  lisa and i are going on vacation with my bff jen.  i'm so very excited.  i've never been to LV but both of them have so it should be amazing!

here are some instagrams from my week.  if i tape a vlog, i'll come back and add it but i doubt it will happen.

i love both of these shirts.  i bought the one on the left.  {it says: say cheese} i have not bought the one on the right...yet.  ;)

he's cute.  and he lets me take his pic in the taco aisle even though he'd die of embarrassment if anyone saw him.  and my cute nephew who just turned one.

prettiest morning sky in a very long time!

got my new keurig vue.  LOVE IT!

i may be obsessed......maybe.

Carol, i found it.  but haven't bought it cause it kind of creeps me out....

look!  it's lisa and i!  ;)

cute little owl pillow.

i love these pictures.  can't wait to decorate the kids room's when we move.

loved both of these as well.  target has stuff that rocks.

this is the same sign but i had to take two separate pics to fit it all.  i love it so.

and these are just awesome.

oh hey.....

anyone read any of these?  i've read wicked but never got into the second one...is it worth it?

and yuck.  this cover is not ascetically pleasing.  it would not have made me want to read this book.  blech.

this is in the men's department.  i must own it.  now.

cutest ice cream date ever!!!!!!

{nail polish swap reveal}

so i participated in a nail polish swap over at {lalalists} recently.  it was a ton of fun.  everyone that signed up got linked up with another blogger and we all swapped two polishes.  i was linked up with jamie over at {the blue hour}. 

the rules:  buy two polishes for your swap partner.  send em off.  enjoy what you get back.  the only "rule" i had for jamie is that they be pretty.  :)

i got.....

call me gwen-ever by opi                          love bug by sally hansen

i tried call me gwen-ever first.  sorry for the crappy pic and crappy manicure lol.  i do love it.  it's by opi so it goes on smooth even for me.  and the color is so pretty.  it's orange but more coral than orange if that makes sense. 

my girls love the pink and i can't wait to have girls day manicures with them.  thanks jamie!!!!

{insta-friday....12/30}

here's another installment of instafriday.  all these pics were taken with an iPhone and either left alone, edited in instagram or taken with the hipstamatic app.  i did not take a ton of pics this week.  mostly because i must be sick and secondly because i got a cool new app that won't let you see the pics until you finish the "roll".  :)

ian had a follow up appt for his ears. his tubes look great and his hearing is back to NORMAL! yay!!!!

balsam's last place was on top of the tree. we haven't had an actual tree topper in years so he likes to hang out up there.

on christmas eve the kids were with their dad so lisa and i had a wrapping party earlier than midnight. :)

i tried on bailey's hat....

santa came....

christmas morning was nice and quiet until the kids came home. :)

the kids loved that balsam left them a friend to love all year long.

these were fun photos i took of chinese food type boxes i used to wrap gifts with my dslr and then pulled onto my phone and ran through instagram....

nailpolish bokeh.

this is a cool new app. it's called disposable. it's by the hipstamatic peeps. you have to take all 24 pictures on the roll before you can see them. then i believe you can download them or have the prints sent right to your house. {for extra $$$$}

this is me {about 1 million pounds ago a few years ago}

and me now. wearing my new pink chapstick that makes me feel like i'm 15 again. :)