Tonight is St. Patrick's day! Which of course means all my CHEERS! are going to be over drinks with my husband.
I hope everyone is having a great evening! Everyone's Irish tonight so party it up. Please everyone be safe and though. Don't drink and drive. It's not worth it.
Till tomorrow,
Angel
Happy accident.
I'm cutting it close tonight. I almost forgot, because I've been so busy painting.
So I decided to paint some shoes for Brayden and Belle, I mentioned it a few posts back. Well I've been showing people progress on the woody and buzz shoes I did for Bray. Apparently people think I'm really good.
So I decided to post that I was painting shoes on a Facebook group I'm in. Within the hour I had 7 orders. I can not believe the response. Not only do people like my work, they want to pay me for it. People are trusting me to make gifts for them or their loved ones. That's pretty amazing.
So since I got a bunch of orders I ran to Walmart to grab a pair of shoes and stock up on paint. I came home and immediately started painting. That is, after I ran back out for the stuff I forgot.
I never thought that making some shoes for my kiddos would have me looking at 95 dollars in orders. It's crazy, but I feel really blesses right now.
Tonight my CHEERS! goes to the opportunity I've just been given. I can't wait to fill out the orders that are coming in. I'm so excited. This is going to be a lot of fun.
Until tomorrow,
Angel
More like her.
I aspire to be more like Belle. Yes, my two year old. Honestly though, I would love to be more like her. Who wouldn't want someone to change them and feed them. Plus, naps? Count me in.
No but, in all honesty I wish I could be as innocent as Belle. She's such a wonderful tiny human. She loves to smile and dance. When I'm having a bad day, and she asks to listen to shake it off and we dance together. She has no concept of my bad day, she just wants to dance. She wants to dance, with me none the less.
The simple things in life make her happy. She won't let you leave the house without asking you for a hug and kiss. She loves to cuddle. She's such a pure soul. She doesn't see the bad in things. Who wouldn't aspire to be like that.
I love that the stress that burdens me never reaches her. I love that even if I'm having a bad day, she doesn't know, and still wants to cuddle, or dance, or sing with me. If everyone had the innocence of a two year old the world would be a better place.
Tonight my CHEERS! goes to Belle. For making me see that I should enjoy the simple things. That sometimes, you just need to dance. And that there's always good to be found in your day.
Till tomorrow,
Angel
You better shape up.
So I don't think I've mentioned it, but I will be going to warped tour this July. I am so insanely stoked. I've actually never been, and I can not wait to go.
Going to warped tour in July at the beach, means I really need to kick my workout into high gear. I really want to be able to look good when I go. So I've decided to shape up, and get back in shape. I'm really going to try and stay on it. I have a goal and a time frame in which I need to meet that goal.
I went out and got everything I could think of to work out. I got a yoga ball and weights. A few different DVD's including a 30 day shred and a dance workout. I got waist, thigh and arm trainers. Lastly, I got new yoga shorts, sports bras, shoes and socks. Everything I could think of.
Tonight I worked out and broke a sweat. It was nice. I really do like working out, it just takes me a little bit to get back in the swing of it. I'm also trying to eat healthier. At least, to the best of my abilities. Less junk, more fruit and veggies.
I really plan to stick to it this time. I want to be able to wear what I want to, when I go to warped tour. I need to be in shape for that to happen, though.
Tonight my CHEERS! goes to restarting my workout. I'm really going to push myself this time, I can't wait to see the results.
Till tomorrow,
Angel
Time to decorate
I love decorating my house. I absolutely hate white walls. Although, most people my age who are married and or have kids. Or both, tend to decorate with family pictures, mirrors, wall decor. Jordan and I decorate with posters.
It honestly looks like college kids decorated our house. There are posters everywhere now. I love it. We went to spencers today and bought way too many posters. It was awesome. We got all different kinds. Now they're everywhere, and I couldn't be happier.
Jordan decorated like this before he met me. I happened to like posters too. We have a massive collection in Tennessee. When we get it here we could probably wallpaper the apartment. Have it looking like a angsty teenagers room. Complete with fuzzy velvet posters.
Now this isn't saying I don't want family pictures on the wall. I have pictures, I just need frames for them. Once I do that I'll gladly put up pictures of the girls everywhere. I also can't wait to get my flags back. I love having flags all over the walls and ceilings too.
Every house Jordan and I have had we decorate like this. It's not exactly conventional, but it makes us happy, so what else really matters. If we want to hang posters, flags and blankets on the wall then so be it.
Tonight my CHEERS! goes to making our house feel more like our place. The walls are no longer bare. It feels far more homey. I can't wait to get more and continue on decorating.
Till next time,
Angel
D.I.Y.
I consider myself a do it yourselfer. By no means am I over here making a self sustaining green house, but simple crafty stuff? Count me in.
I'm currently painting some shoes for Belle and Brayden. My friend Melissa started doing it, and while I'd love to buy a pair from her, I decided to try and do it myself. Sometimes my d.i.y. turns out wonderfully, other times it looks like Pinterest fails.
It's more than just crafty thing though. I like to build things if I can. Make things myself. Jordan and I made a tattoo machine that I used to do my first tattoo. I like to try and do things on my own. Things like my hair. Some styles are beyond my reach, but my root touch up and dip dye was easy enough to do on my own.
I think everyone should try and do things on their own. You never know, you could discover some crazy hidden talent. Always try new things, and if you fail miserably? There's someone on etsy who doesn't that you can buy it from (:
Tonight my CHEERS! goes to doing things yourself. Trying it. Be it coloring your own hair crazy colors, or painting your kids shoes. Try it, you could be amazing.
Till tomorrow,
Angel
Meeting.
Today I finally met my mom's boyfriend.
Boy is that a weird sentence to write. My parents have been divorced for years and years, so it's not like her dating is news to me. However, she's been with James for a lotta years, and I finally met him today.
So the reason I'm just now meeting him is because he's been in California for work. Otherwise I imagine I'd have met him sooner. It was kinda weird though I must say. My mom's never introduced me to one of her boyfriends before.
He was nice. Very quiet, I imagine from the jet lag. He seems to really like my mom, and that makes me happy. I like seeing my mom happy. We all sat down, had pizza, and laughed at Belle's attempt to flirt, but be extremely aloof at the same time.
I'm really glad after I believe 3 years, I finally got to meet the famous James. It's nice to see my mom smile like that. I'm glad he's here with her.
Tonight my CHEERS! goes to James. For being pretty awesome. It was nice to finally meet you James. You're a really nice guy.
Until next time,
Angel
Just relax.
Some days are tougher than others. Some days just, aren't my day. For one reason or another, a day is exhausting.
If you didn't already guess, today was exhausting. Belle was ornery today. Also, Jordan and I were supposed to be able to spend the day together, and he ended up having to run errands all day.
I think Belle's still getting used to the new place and it just being us. She's getting better but it's still tough some days. Some times I just have no patience for it. Everyone has those days as a mom. At least I tell myself that to feel better.
However, both of the kids are asleep now, and I'm coloring. I'm coloring a very elaborate velvet poster. It's actually extremely relaxing. I really want to get one of the stress relieving coloring books. I think I would spend a lot of time coloring.
Tonight my CHEERS! goes to my markers and fuzzy poster, for letting me get lost in the designs and away from my stressful day. It's the simple things in life.
Till next time,
Angel
Family outing.
Tonight we went to dinner as a family, and there wasn't a meltdown or anything. We were able to eat without a problem. If you have young children you know how hard that can be sometimes.
Not only did we get through dinner without any problem, it was past her normal bed time too. Which is usually either a pleasant experience, or one with lots of tears and a red eyebrowed belle.
We rarely go out the 4 of us. Usually it's 2 or 3 at the most. My mom would watch Aralyn, or Jordan would watch her while belle and I went out. It's not that we don't like taking her places, but when they're under a year they're kind of a hassle to take places.
Honestly it usually takes more time to get everything and every one ready, and packed in and out of the car, than it does to run errands. So not only is all four of us going out a rarity, but having it go off without a hitch is amazing.
Tonight my CHEERS! goes to getting to go out with my little family, as just us. I love my tiny family.
Till tomorrow,
Angel
Sorry I'm late again.
Not having the internet and having to do this on my phone makes it harder for me to remember. I have a terrible memory, and usually seeing my computer reminds me to blog.
Plus it was daylight savings time yesterday and I lost an hour of sleep. So yesterday was annoying.
Besides daylight savings time, it was also the day after our sleepover, so we had friends here for most of the day. It's really nice having couple friends. Jordan and I usually have trouble finding couples to hang out with.
Not that hanging out with people who don't have significant others isn't fun. We hang out with single people too. It's just nice, you can play couple games, and go out on double dates.
Today my CHEERS! goes to having married friends. Being able to go out and do things with other people as couples. It's a luxury I'm not used to and it's nice.
Till later tonight,
Angel
Sleepover.
Who says only kids can have sleepovers.
Tonight I'm having a sleepover. Anna and Maliyah, Ray and Roberto are spending the night. It's awesome. Even Ayanna stopped by.
I love my friends to death. I also love that they come to visit me so much. I've been informed since I'm staying in the area, that they are taking advantage of the time they have.
Tonight we did the usual sleepover activities. We made a whole bunch of food and didn't even eat it all. We drank lots of soda (with jack) and we all sat around telling stories and coloring. Not even kidding 4 adults sat around in a circle and colored velvet posters. Oh, and we played taboo.
I still can't get over that I can have any one over I want, at any time, for any length of time. Having our own place is the best ever.
We're all relaxing now, because some of us, namely Anna and I have to get up with kids. We're so cool.
Tonight my CHEERS! goes to my sleepover with my friends. Even adults need to just go sleep over at a friends some times.
Till next time,
Angel
Adulting.
I try to avoid adulting for the most part. I decorate in posters, and coloring book pages. I eat dinosaur nuggets and shapes Mac n cheese. Every once in a while though, I do grown up things.
As you know, my carpets were fixed yesterday and so today I was tasked with putting the utilities in my name. Something I've never done. This place is a lot of firsts for me.
When I moved in here, I had no real credit to speak of. Now I have an apartment and two bills in my name. I was supposed to get internet and cable today too. I just didn't want to listen to sales pitches. In between getting bills started I put a giant dent in our laundry. I also got our bathroom in working order.
Today was incredibly productive. It was really nice to get things done. However, I'm over adulting for the evening. So I'm going to eat cookie dough and watch harry potter.
Tonight my CHEERS! goes to adulting and being productive. It's fun to have lazy days, but it's wonderful to have a productive day. I got a lot done and I'm pretty happy about it.
Till next time,
Angel
Please be the last snow.
Dear winter, please stop it. It's March, and we're all over the snow.
Today we finally got our carpets finished! I'm so happy! We finally have our entire apartment. No more fans, no more bunched up carpet. It's wonderful. I'm so excited to be done with all the carpet shenanigans.
We hung out today, on account of the snow, Jordan couldn't even go to work. We definitely got snowed in. However, we were smart and went to Walmart last night and stocked up on movies and food. Oh, and wine. It was nice to be snowed in the day our carpet got fixed. Now belle is more than happy to run around the apartment.
Today was the first day that we didn't have any visitors. So it was our first full day alone in our apartment. It was nice. I really can't wait to decorate.
Tonight my CHEERS! goes to the gentleman that gave us our apartment back. Also to our first snow day in our new apartment.
Till next time,
Angel
4.
4 years ago today Brayden Elijah came into the world. ...wow that makes me feel old.
I can remember the day Anna called me and told me she was pregnant. I remember feeling him kick me for the first time. And I remember the first time I ever held him.
Jordan and I look at him as the son we didn't have. He's just as much our baby as Belle and Ary. He may drive us nuts some days, but I wouldn't trade him for anything. He's the best nephew ever and I'm so glad to be his auntie.
Tonight my CHEERS! goes to you Bray bear. Happy birthday baby, thank you for all the laughs, and hugs, and kisses. I love you 5 ever little boy.
Till tomorrow,
Angel
It finally happened. I missed a day. I can't believe 62 days in I finally didn't post. I woke up this morning, realized that I forgot to post yesterday, muttered a few obscenities and tried to remember why I forgot last night.
I woke up yesterday to find that my pipes had yet again burst and my floors that had finally dried were once again wet. Thankfully the apartment is keeping the electricity on in their name. So at least I'm not paying for the dreadful fans on 24/7.
Then, we had to get the rest of our stuff out of my moms house. So my already crowded apartment with fans and lifted carpet was filled with moving boxes. I hate moving it's so stressful.
However, Ray came over. She helped me get everything moved around and put up for the time being. So at least it was only loud and not really crowded. She hung out for a while which was nice. When she left I was just exhausted. Poor Jordan had a tooth ache. So we ended up turning in early. We're some cool kids.
Yesterday's CHEERS! go to Ray. For coming over and helping me get everything situated. Also for helping me de-stress.
Till later tonight,
Angel
Comfortable.
Today was relatively uneventful.
Not much happened, other than my mom coming by. It was nice though. Today, I finally started to feel a little more comfortable in our place. We're still sleeping in our living room and the carpet's still up in our room and part of the living room. There's still fans, but it's ok. Because it's my place. It's so nice to think about.
I really enjoy having a place of our own. It just makes me happy. It's nice to be out on our own. Belle is finally getting used to the place, and to having her own room. She's still fussy, but it's never been just us. I imagine it'll pass.
Everything is still kinda disheveled, I don't mind though. Eventually we'll move into the bedroom and get everything sorted and it will be even better than it is now.
Tonight my CHEERS! goes to getting used to my new place. Getting comfortable and realizing that it really is my place. I can enjoy it.
Till next time,
Angel
Happy March everyone. I can't believe I'm 60 days into this blog now. Crazy how time flies.
I'm currently listening to the loud hum of giant fans that are trying to dry out my carpet. Here in a day or two we should have dry carpets. I really hope it's sooner rather than later. These fans are annoyingly loud. However, loud fans is a small price to pay for use of my bedroom. At least this is most definitely not our fault.
Today was also my Brayden's birthday party at chuck e cheese. Mmmm cake. I wish I could post pictures on my mobile app, but it always crashes when I upload pics. It was nice to see Bray and let him and Belle hang out together and play games. Did I mention there was cake? Because there was cake. Sheet cake is my favorite. It's a major weakness.
Not only did I get to see Anna today, I also got to see Rachel who is still hanging out at my house, and Ayanna stopped by. This having your own house thing is awesome. I can't wait to move my bed out of the living room, though.
Tonight my CHEERS! goes to the maintenance people who were here first thing in the morning to fix my carpets. Also, to all my friends who came to visit today, you're amazing and I love you all.
Till tomorrow,
Angel
