Insta Friday

My birthday is on Tuesday and to celebrate the occassion I'm going to be giving away my favorite things.  I've been pulling it together and frankly, I'm not going to lie, I just want to keep it.

Can you blame me?  It's all my favorite things!

I've come to realize in the process of putting this together that:
1. I apparently love chapsticks and lip glosses
2. I love snacky food.
3. I love really random stuff.

Doesn't that make you want to enter to win it all on Tuesday?

Ha.

It's okay if you don't.

I'll just keep it.

Aside from that, welcome to my insta Friday.
All the exciting things that I'm posting about on Instagram.

Just me and my phone.

And my kids.

Because seriously, without them, my life would be dull and I would be posting a lot of pictures of my desk at work because that's all I do.

I'm linking up with Life. Rearranged.


I'm thecircus6 on Instagram if you want to follow me over there.

While reading a story to me one night Cali stops and stares at the picture.

"This is a lot like us," she stated.

The fog rolled in for a day or two.

I figured out how to work the fog lights on the Navi.

That car might be growing on me a little bit now.

It's kind of a rock star in the snow and this month that has meant true bonding time for me and that car.

It's too early.
It's too cold.

I've been talking about running on campus before my yoga class.  The Man looked at me and said, "I don't think you're going to do it.  You and mornings just don't get a long."

He's right.  He knows me so well.  But him saying that...

it flipped the trigger I needed.  "I'll show him."

And I did.

I tackled a mile and half run before my yoga class.
Before the sun was up.

And I think I'll keep doing it.

 We bought two gold fish to use as "decoration" in the bathroom.

Turns out we have a fun fish.  He has a white tail and he's half the size of the other.  We named him Wiley.

The other fish however...
he's a few short of having a full bushel.
When I feed them Wiley shoots up top and eats.

The other fish...
he swims back and forth really fast, like he doesn't know which way to go.  After a minute or so he finally makes it up to the top, but then he just starts sucking at the air.  He doesn't even find food right away.  There is something seriously wrong with this fish.

And I have yet to settle on a name for him.

We bough a new rug, which we decided wasn't big enough so we cut this one in half and put half of it in front of the front door, and got online and ordered a bigger one.

I know, right?  I'm a little shocked that we just up and cut it, but the next lower size was too small for what we wanted.  We know, we bought it.  And returned it.

When we want what we want, we do what we have to do to get those results.

And now our dogs are chewing on the edge of the carpet.

The Man took silicone to seal the edge of the carpet, and covered it with cayenne pepper while it was still wet.  Hopefully now if the dogs take a taste they'll decide that it isn't worth it.

 We headed up to the Pig Pen Saloon in Park City for date night.

My co-worker is in a band and they were playing and raising money for Huntsman's Institute for Cancer.

This place, by the way, has good food.

I tackled an apple pie and cream cheese recipe from pinterest which was actually delicious.

Except the kids didn't eat it because they were too busy.

Too busy sledding down the front steps that is.

And since Jay had her birthday during Christmas break, The Man and I utilized one of his snow days to take her on her birthday lunch date.

This picture still cracks me up.

She chose Golden Corral because they have a chocolate fountain.

Obviously.

For the weekend:

We have Cali's birthday party with her friends tonight.
Cali's baptism tomorrow, which means Leatherby's ice cream with the whole family aftterwards.
And seeing as my birthday is looming on Tuesday, and all I want is to go shopping (letting The Man off the hook with that request) maybe I'll be able to get some of that squeezed in for myself.
My parents will be up from St. George today for all of the festivities and I can't wait to see them.

What are your plans?

Insta Friday

I've done something new and started a facebook page for my blog (here).

As if rambling once a day here on the blog weren't enough I feel I need to throw random posts out too.

But also, sometimes I have questions and want feedback, so if you're feeling good and wouldn't mind brightening my day, maybe you can go like it.

And if you're really feeling good maybe you'll share it.

Today I'm hooking up with Life.  Rearranged for InstaFriday.

Except in my case not all of these pictures actually made it to Instagram, but they were all taken with my phone.

So it counts.



My cousin posted a status on facebook that said:

I've come to the conclusion that you see what a person is really about by their Instagram posts.

(I'm thecircus6 if you want to follow)

On Sunday morning, now that church doesn't start so early and we no longer have to use alarm clocks to wake up in time for it, Casidee made pancakes.

With her donut maker.

And Jayme and Tayler used up all of my tape to make their own paperdolls, even after I asked them not to use up all the tape because I need it to wrap Cali's birthday presents.

They didn't listen.

But how can you be frustrated when suddenly your floors are covered with magical scenes like this?

You can't.

So you just close your mouth and go buy more tape.

Cali called me from school one day.

"Mom, the principal said you have to bring me new clothes because I'm covered in chocolate milk.  I spilled it all over me."

I tried to argue my way out of it.

But I could hear the office staff in the background, "tell her you need it."

So I left work and drove all the way home to get clean clothes for her, and then waited in the small pink bathroom of the school while she changed so I could take her chocolate milk covered clothes home.

For only an hour left of school.

What do you do?

You do it.  That's what.

Biology=memorizing flashcards.

This is only the intro and Chapter one.

I'm so screwed.

We've apparently started an icicle garden outside of our bathroom window.

It's everything I have to not reach out there and just pull them off, simply for the satisfaction of feeling it break off.

And after freezing rains yesterday I was growing an icicle garden on my car too.

Icicles formed from my car to the ground in the time my car sat in the parking lot while I was at work.

Holy cow, that is what I call a wet, cold day.

Freezing rain indeed.

For our youth activity at church this week we played human angry bird.

The kids broke into two teams.

One team would create their angry bird structure with boxes and stuffed animals.

The other team would gather around me and my good friend Makenzie with their scriptures and we would ask scripture questions (Who did this?  What place did this happen in?  Where is this verse? etc).  They would answer as many as they could in four minutes while the other team built.

At the end of four minutes we would count how many scripture questions they got through and that would be how many balls they would get to throw to try and knock over the stuffed animals.

Just for the record, Jayme is the only one who just straight up knocked an animal over.

See that yellow duck?  It's about to become toast.

 And being as it is morning.
And it's Friday.
And the world is iced over.

I treated myself to a Carmel White Hot Chocolate.

Because what else are you going to do on a morning like this?

Welcome weekend!
I might drag The Man up to Park City for dinner this weekend to hear one of my co-worker's band play at a pub.  I hear they have decent burgers there.  It's something new and we love to try new things.

I might hit my siblings up to go with us.

What are your plans for the weekend?

And the winner is...

Comment #8 (according to random.org) which is...

JACKI

Jacki, you should be getting the ebook emailed to you from Cindy (the author) over at Busy Mom's Tips. Email me and let me know what email I should tell her to use :).

And HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! I have some thoughts on that, but I'll write about them later.