I went missing...

from blogger.


Obsessed with Pinterest.

I can't even blog because I am spending any spare time I come across, digging into this site....

If you haven't checked it out yet, do.
You will not be let down.

I told Lance that I think I started a movement with my friends!
I know so many people have joined due to my non-stop gushing.
Even people who claim to hate me are following the movement...  ;)
This is like Woodstock!

If you are finding yourself cleaning in ninja mode, letting a few loads of laundry go, and allowing one more cartoon on Nick Jr just to see what else you can pin before you shut things down,
know you aren't alone.
The site is like crack.

It's part of the movement!  ;)


Now if only I could get back into my home...
and find the time, material, money and talent to put together all of these AMAZING ideas!

Dear Nana... 

(the craftiest person I know)

I need your help!

:)

Anywho...

that's about all I have to say--

but I can share some pictures from the week!

...and a few Maddox-isms.

Last night, in the car, Maddox had used a few words like: interesting, incredible, unbelievable, and ridiculous... (all part of his every-day vocabulary these days) and Lance said, "Maddox, are you the smartest 2 year old alive?"... In which he matter-of-factly responded, "Well Dad, I'll be 3 in Julwy."

He has told me this past week that I "make his heart come true".
That he is "going to make me a princess and buy me a palace."
He asked me to get him a Popsicle and was certain I wouldn't have any problems with the task, since I am "strong and brave."
He asked my mom if he "broke her heart yesterday?"
He keeps us rolling!

He has found a love for "purple mush" from Sonic.[grape slush]
He said if we were a family of animals, Lance would be a crocodile, Beckham a mouse, and me... an elephant.  Yep.  An elephant.
He told Lance to "drop it" when he was harping on him to put the seat down when he pottied.
And has found himself in time-out a few times for his new use of the word "no" and "because I don't want to."

He loves to tell us about his dreams in the morning... which are usually about his Gigi and I have a sneaky suspicion they are usually just a way of telling us what he wants to do for the day!

I do know he was dreaming the other night about "planets" and the "solar system"... because he talks in his sleep a lot... and I heard a lot about those two.

His daddy talks in his sleep too.  

[This past week he was yelping out in pain, cussing and saying he was being stabbed by a wal-mart grocery cart]

And so does his Gigi.

[her's would need their own post all-together!]

Beckham on the other hand is just doing what he does best:

grinning, eating, pooping, and not-sleeping.

He's sure cute, and loooooooves his mommy.

I love them both so.

Obsession

I can't stop thinking...
[Maybe you prefer to call it obsessing...]

It's just whatever...

Here's what my brain has been up to while the rest of the world sleeps!


*Maddox's birthday is like a minute away.
Typically I have been working on it for months...
Ideas going crazy...

Like the first bash (pre-blogging days):

And the 2nd birthday.

This time, however, I am ridiculously behind.
I've got nothing.
Nothing.
Are you reading this?
I.Have.Not.Done.A.Thing.

It will be fireman.
[mainly because we already have "props"]
It will be on the 9th...
there will be a slide and water...

But I have not ordered/ made invitations...
cake...
favors...
details...

*I'm spending hours on Etsy.
looking for birthday ideas...
which turns into kid stuff..
then house ideas...
Like this sign I need for the play room.

from TheWheatField

*Playroom?
I have decided we are going to put the boys together and use the old office as a playroom once we get back in our home.
Originally I wanted to put the boys in the bigger room and use Maddox's old room as the playroom, but Lance talked me out of it.

Beckham will just use Maddox's old crib bedding (since it matches the walls) and I on-purposely bought Maddox's twin bedding to match also, so he could use his throw pillows that came with his bedding.
This means I don't get to do my serene baby room with the scripture on the wall...
But I get to decorate nonetheless.

So now I find myself on blogs finding cool playroom ideas [that we could never do] like this.
Researching paint schemes.
Organizing bins.
And roaming Ikea for ideas and storage on a dime.
Oh my gosh there's so much cuteness out there!


*Re-decorating.
Thinking about all the things I am going to change when I get back to Haslet has got me giddy.
I dream of the flips I can make-- old into new, like this guy. 
[But realizing that's completely unrealistic.]

Photography.
To fill my walls.
[and actually of my kids this time, rather than only my precious nieces and nephews]


Dreaming about a completely different feel.
Which isn't anything new!

Since Lance has seen me do this several times before!
 [I could never get a tattoo, because I change my bedspread too often to be stuck with something for life]

*Spray paint.
And the things I want to attack.
Picture frames...
Table and chairs...
What else???

*Pinterest.
New love.
Petri dish of ideas.
Obsessed.

Thank me [or hate me] later...


*And follow her.
Whom I found on the site above.
I will do some of this once we get back home.
Amazing.
I will also re-order from Town & Country, because I forget how easy it is to make dinner, when I am prepared to do so. 
No excuses.
I need that cookbook she talks about in her blog.
In a bad way.


*Ray Lamontagne
ummm, ummm, um.

Thank you Kaleb.


*My hair.
Long, short.
Dark or blonde?
Lance said he likes it dark--
My SIL likes it short...
I promised myself I would keep it long...
I want change.

I could do the whole feather thing... which I do think its cute-cute.
But it looks like a peacock exploded in our local walmart,
And I like to beat to my own drum.


*Time alone.
In quiet.
Maybe a date with my husband.

Or maybe with no one at all.
I crave silence.

And to finish (or better yet, start) my books.


and so the list goes on....