Fourth of july madness

Took a short trip to the mountains....

Back in Richland.....

We lit up the sky!

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long perfectly manicured fingernails.
I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp,
I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my finger nails from helping to weed someones garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the lord to know I was really here, that I really lived"

-Marjorie Pay Hinkley

So I found this fabulous new bag lady a couple of weeks ago and I thought,
I would share her with all of you.

I just received my Bag yesterday and I absolutely love it!! (its the red one above)


Her Website is on Etsy





I need to say,

I Absolutely adore Etsy.com



I think I could spend like half my days browsing on there & like the other day I ran into this Cute little jewelry maker I had never knew about before, dude!! It made the 6 hours of browsing to find this so worth it!
lol jk

but srsly such a cute shoppe!

I'm adding this to my list of must purchases to be made, because I love owls like woah,

& like its made from an old clock how cool is that!?

This is why I love homemade and the awesomely creative people Etsy!

A couple of pictures from my Trip down the coast this summer...

Seattle...

Oregon coast....

So I know I have not blogged in a while, (ok in months really) I sort-of took a vacation from blogging this last summer. Allot of things went down for me, while I've been away from you. I stayed busy pretty almost the whole time. I can say this though, that I don't have a camera any more (its busted) so Its going to be hard for me to get pictures on here. Sry about that, but I'll try my best to tell you all about what I've been up to!

I was in Arizona for over a month.

I know, I know a long time!

Well let me tell you what was taking me so long! haha ok,

so I was on the road for nearly two weeks with my parents traveling and such

and when we finally made it to AZ,

I didn't really have any plans I sort of just hung out for like a week.

Then my awesome and amazing sister in law Heather came down to AZ to visit her momma too and I stopped by their house, because I was missing me some Heather and scrap booking too... lol

so anyways while I was hanging out, She told me all about this "HGC" Diet and how I could lose like 20 pounds in like two weeks.

I was sceptical diets are not my thing, but I saw how amazing Heather looked and how healthy they were eating, & I knew I needed to do this too. I woulden't be able to show my face, I thought,

if healther went down there to lose weight and I diden't do anything other than visit!

I couldn't pass this opportunity up!

So I bought the "HGC" Homoeopathic drops a couple of days later and then started about two days later after that.

Somehow in all my talks at home about how awesome this diet was going to be for me,

my sister decided that she wanted to go for it too.

So I we both did this diet together for two more weeks.

It was so stinkin difficult for me for about 5 days, I felt ravanous and then after that it was easy,

to really truly just diet and not dwell on how nice it would be to eat at tia rosas or something lol

I had all kinds of cravings and I felt like I emotionally just wanted to eat.

I never knew before that I was a "snacker" but I was! ha ha

The thing about the diet is that its a cleanse too, so I was killing off yeast & all the bad toxins in my body that get stored in Fat.

SO That was a big plus for me in doing the diet, because I really wanted more than anything just to be more healthy regardless if I lost any weight.

It was hard challenge, but now I know I can commit to something really tough.

It was a good experience to be able to say I did it!

I lost 21 pounds and I felt so much better and had more energy!

I would recommend it to anyone looking to lose weight and get healthy too!

Anyways that's part one of my summer!

Ill tell you all more about it later this week!

Anyways It was a great start for me on the road to healthy living!

Been world traveling

So Adelynn and I have just been little world travelers in the last couple of weeks!

We have been going, going, gone sense just before the fourth of July.

My Family and I (parents and brothers and sisters) went on a week and a half road trip through the west coast and northwestern coast.

We started out at my house in Rich land Washington then to Seattle, next, Portland OR then took the coastal highway all down the Oregon coast and then made it down to the california coast to San Fransisco then to Tahoe.

Then on to the Salt Flats of Nevada to Salt lake Utah, to Manti Utah to pick up my moms dog, Tilly at my Grandmas house had a nice visit for a day, then hit the road again & made it all the way to Mesa Where I'm currently parked and just having a ball! Wheew!

anyways on a more serious note....

I need to say that,

I love being home with my family.

It always lifts my spirits and makes me feel a little more like, well... me.

Life has taken me allot of places in the past year, I have not been home much & I think was having a little bit of an identity crisis with all that's gone on. But I'm telling you what though,

Its been so nice to be back to the place where I was born and raised where I've had most of my best memories and I have my family around to support me. Its helped me so much.

I feel like I'm powering back up or something,

"recharging my batteries", so to speak.

Its Ahhhh so nice.

To my Dear husband...




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Loving Father....

HAPPPY FIRST FATHERS DAY!!

Fashion wednesdays

I'm trying a new thing for my blog I hope you all bear with me on this experiment. I love seeing beautiful fashion and sometimes I would really like an excuse to talk about it! I know that I don't have a budget for couture or even for a very extensive wardrobe right now but Id like to think that I have pretty good taste over all even if I'm not the one wearing the couture.

So without further adieu....

Shabby Apple people, Shabby Apple!

I can't say enough about this brands awesomeness!

They make mainly dresses but they do it very well!

I don't think I can honestly choose one over another, I <3>

I think my style right now is more sophisticated and dressy but if you like more casual they have a whole line of more casual dresses on their web site!

They carry shoes too not allot but the few choices they have are very nice.

This pair called "Georgi" is my current favorite!

It comes in grey and red too!

I love, love, love!

It its very feminine & I love the color of the dress and shape.

What do you think? would it look good on a brunette like me?

This one would be gorgeous with a sash and/ or paired with and cute matching headband!








This dress is allot of fun, cute bow sash & I think I love the pleats and that you can wear it with that fun tulle slip!









Last but not least ...




The swimsuit I am dying to lay out in this summer! Its got a vintage feel so I am just picturing red lipstick and a cute big hat going with this but what do you think?





FYI that's like my Favorite color so how could I go wrong?



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Summer is here for Baby's too!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/HerRoyalFatness

Maybe this headband isn't the most summery accessory but its beautiful!!

I can't get over how talented this woman is! I love all her headbands and clips for baby's!

OK Target just about slayed me the other day with its new lines of summer clothes for baby girls I couldn't believe my eye balls it was so fantastical people.

You must go and have a look see today!

Can you say only 12 bucks for dresses? & they come in toddler sizes too!

Leggings!!

Sometimes I feel like I spend all day planning my life out with all these details about where I am going to be and what I'm going to be doing but at the end of the day when I have slowed down and my mind is no longer wandering, I see my husband and my little daughter playing together & I realize Ive been putting too much thought into the wrong places.

You ever feel like that?

SO... Ive decided that at the end of the day when my face looks like this (lol)

& I'm worrying about how fat I feel or what I don't have or what I need to be doing with my life,

I'm going to think of this little one....

& promise myself not to take it for granted because life is so short!

After a crazy day of fussyness from Adelynn she finnally fell asleep for two hours & it was soo Sweet. Life is good people, life is good.

My week

So these are all pictures of what my week looked like... i love our neighbors they love to come over and play with Adelynn Its good for me too b/c I get a little bit of a break :) Also Beautiful blue Sky's after weeks of grey! That's something to celebrate people!
I love going down to the boat launch park and just being by the river It makes me happy, dudee i don't know what I would do if this place had no river it would be lame, I just know it. Oh and I threw in a picture of the Spokane river I went there a couple of weeks ago, the picture was just too pretty to pass up. Its the one with the rapids! :)




Also memorial weekend we Got a WII & a TV Stand for our tv and Wii and DvD Etc.

I love it! I love the fact that we can get Net flicks now & I did not even know that we could do that before we bought it and also Its black and sleek and pretty! Also I love the wii sports sword fighting, I've been playing that allot in my spare time. Its allot of fun!



Anyways that my update for this week. Oh my gosh I've been so lazy about blogging lately I just have not felt like doing the editing and writing! I'm lazy sorry folks!

"Love who you love with all that you have, and say that you do" - Rascal flatts

I love my little family.

Sometimes I don't love where we are in life, like I wish we were better about things,
but loving them.... ahhh never has been my problem. I am thankful for them every day.

Who do you love and why are you thankful for it in your life?

This is how I feel

Completely random but....

I think I want to have a horse agian *correction* need a horse...

lol ok but srsly I passed by a girl on the road the other day and I just can't get it out of my mind...

She looked so happy so relaxed and peaceful. Reminded me of how it feels when I ride.







She looked something like this...

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this

(Thxs darcy for the picture of Dave)

Anyways I'm completely crazy for Adelynn but sometimes I wish I had my own horse it was always such a stress reliever and of course so much fun! I guess no matter how long I am away from the saddle I will always be horse crazy.

vacation to oregon

We stayed one night at this really neat antique hotel Its the kind of place you would have your wedding at and take your pictures at.

It was really beautiful there. Glad we stayed!

Random street in Hood river, which by the way was where our hotel was located.

as you can see its very cute little town, we had fun walking the streets that evening :)

We ate that night at This place, it was pretty busy we kind of came in at a bad time, but we didn't care much we just had fun drinking izzys and bottled root beer and talking while we waited a long time for our food.



We both had this elk burger lol I know! So romantic but srsly after how late it was, we didn't care anymore and it sounded so good! & it was!

WE had taken pictures before we went to dinner, these are they...

The next day it was on to Portland and to my surprise we stopped at this place...

More than worth the stop!! I think It was my favorite place we went the day and maybe the whole trip! Thanks joel for such a great day!