by dollcosmetics | May 13, 2014 | Disney, Family, Lifestyle, Travel
Wow, have I taken a LOT of time off blogging!!! Can I tell you how glorious it has been though? And yet, every time I pass my computer, the studio or put on makeup….I….feel….guilt! I feel this anxiousness in my stomach that I should be doing something I am not. I don’t love that, at all. Do you ever feel that way? A pressing obligation? A sense that you owe someone something and you are falling short? Thaaaaaaat’s how I’ve been feeling ladies! I don’t want to feel that way anymore but when I “go away” I feel like I lose half my audience. Am I in this for numbers? Heck no! I had something I was passionate about and I wanted to share….but I will let you in on a little secret (not so secret for those that know me personally). I rely pretty heavily on social interaction. On serving others, on having fun outings with my friends, having everyone I love in the same room having a great time (scenes coming shortly from a Jane Austen party I threw). I short, I LOVE hearing from you. I love the emails I get, the notes, the comments, the feedback! I obviously don’t get that if I’m not blogging so it really is a catch 22. If I want to hear from you, I blog. If I don’t want to “lose” you, I feel I must blog often. I think I may have come up with a solution….it’s actually been staring me in the face LOL. To come up with something, then make a video, then edit and publish it, it takes a great deal of time and effort. I sometimes put it off because I know how long it will take. Sitting down at the computer and just typing out feeling and fun adventures I’ve been having with family and friends? Not as daunting and SO worth the time LOL! So expect to see more of that…………………………………….
PHEW!!!!!!!!
So glad I got that off my chest because I am SO excited to tell you about something that just happened!!!!! Yes, I threw a Jane Austen party and had a staggering 57 women in my small home but it was AWESOME!!!! But that is NOT what we are talking about HA! When I have more of the dazzling photos from my wonderful photographer, I will share. THIS post is dedicated to my sweet husband. For three MONTHS he had been planning this without me knowing. Three MONTHS figuring out what we would do for our ten year anniversary. *ALERT* I must say this before I keep going and it sounds braggy (but there will be some bragging because he is AWESOME!). Kev, a few years ago, forgot about doing anything for my birthday (March 8th) our anniversary (May 7th) and Mother’s Day (soooo close to the anniversary). Now before you think me selfish and vain, I didn’t expect lavish presents or a day devoted to worshipping me. My olive language is FAR from getting presents, I am a service gal. I love to give it and am very grateful if I get it. What I was expecting was that he would help the boys remember to draw me my special cards filled with color crayons and probably action figure drawings. I look forward to those every year. I wanted them to sing in the funny way and let me know that they loved me. That’s it….dinner would have been accepted as well LOL. But NOTHING!!!! Not even a mention, except when we got to church and they had the mother’s stand, he realized he had missed a few things. I cried, but I was lucky enough that he was very sweet about it and let me cry in his arms. You moms know how it is to sometimes feel unappreciated yes? So every year after that, our anniversaries have been amazing!!!! He has totally taken it upon himself to plan them (I always say to him I feel like a shuck for not helping). He makes me an itinerary of the day, sometimes two, for what we’ll be doing. It includes the house getting cleaned, shopping, hair done (he knows I’m hopeless lol), dinner for us, movie etc. Here’s the one he gave me this year:
He had been telling me that this one was a special surprise because it was our ten year. I was nervous but excited! So watch as this itinerary gets turned up side down! Please don’t mind the no makeup getting out of bed look ; ).
WE HAD THE BEST TIME EVER!!!!!!!!!
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| On the plane about to head out |
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| I spyyyy with myyyy little eye!!! |
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| Saw good ole Tom’s tile while standing in line =). |
And we are IN!!!! We first went to the Haunted Mansion. It had been YEARS for me seeing it not in Holiday form and Kev hadn’t seen it since he was a little boy. It was AWESOME to see all of the original grim grinning ghosts coming out to socialize ;D. Kev was a little scared but he made it! Then we had to take the picture outside the mansion that we did on our first date….awwwwwww LOL!
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| Kev loves shooting the guns and I was veeeeery pleased to be invited to said “gun show” LOL! |
Standing in the ridiculous line to see some princesses. We are crossing our fingers that our fav Snow White is in there.
HOLD the phone!!!! THIS is what he was waiting to do?????
After listening to a charming story about Peter Pan, lost boys and pirates, we were chosen to ring the ship bell. They said the power of our love would turn on the lights (it totally did lol). I am also now completely obsessed with turning the boys’ playroom into a pirate ship cabin!!!! (pics coming soon)
We were STOKED to realize some of our good friends were at Disneyland as well!!! We lived with Daniel in Siberia and by their family We had to meet up with them and play with their cute kids. They even let us steal the two youngest so we could bond while they went on some bigger rides.
These kids are DARLING!!!!!! We had so much fun with them =). It was so nice to have little ones to have a reason to skip through the main streets and have fun on the little rides.
More rides, laughter, sitting down and people watching, photo opts, yummy food. It was perfect!!!
I ALWAYS wanted to be the rebel spy!!! Just knowing I may have information to save the rebellion was thrilling lol. Not wanting to spend a small fortune on the shirt, I opted for a photo with it ;D.
We have NEVER had a Dole Whip before and were told it was an absolute MUST!!! Just think, 34+ years of going and I never tried this tasty treat! It was most refreshing!
My dad and boys die over this tasty lil Disney sucker but we decided to save them the calories and just send them a pic. We got them even BETTER gifts!!!
Kev had me pose with this…I wasn’t sure why but I wanted to make it as cute as I could ha! Then he said I was still his cute ball and chain….romantic feeling gone! LOL!!!!! And yes, I am wearing my Disney “Happy Anniversary” pin with pride!!!
So sad to say that the Blue Bayou was not my fav this trip. It wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t so blasted expensive….but then they brought THIS out for our anniversary and TOTALLY redeemed themselves! It was so super scrumptious! The best Mickey Mousse ever…they totally need to call it that btw.
When we were done in California Adventure after the second day, I was soooo sad that we didn’t “end” in Disneyland. That, to me, is where I grew up, where we went as a family once if not twice a year growing up. Where the magic is. I went to the ticket counter to see what we could do. The woman saw it was our ten year anniversary (most people guessed two lol), typed on her little computer and handed us two FREE park hopper passes with a Disney gift card. She smiled, “Happy Anniversary you two.” Yes INDEED!!!!!! We went back to Diz the next day before our driver came to get us for the airport. I am SO glad we asked and that we could breath in our beloved Diz one more time.
Loaded up on the plane, taxiing out to take off all of a sudden we stop. The pilot gets on and says the whole airport is closed due to Airforce One needing to land. wait….what?!?!?
Home again, home again, jig a jig jig. The boys have been helping me in the kitchen lately as I have been teaching them to cook simple recipes. They always want to wear an apron and have said on quite a few occasions how coooool it would be to have a chef hat like Mr. Peabody. When I saw these in the shop at Pooh Corner I KNEW that is what their gift would be. They were so excited and it made us so happy!!! I love this little family of mine and I am SO grateful for such a great hubby that knows my heart, keeps it safe and treats me and these boys so well. I hope they will never doubt how much I love them!!!!!
Wheeeeen you wish upon a staaaaaaarrr………….
by dollcosmetics | Apr 15, 2014 | Lifestyle
Soooo many things have been going on in our lives and I have had ZERO time to blog…literally! I make mention of a few things that happened to me personally in a video I now have time to edit (it’s like two weeks old). Also, we had a great Spring Break!!!! I wanted to share with you what we have been up to! My husband put in his two weeks at work and decided to take off a week before starting his new job to be with ME! I was SO in love with that idea and began planning immEdiately! I honestly had every single second planned….even the sleeping in or naps of we wanted them. As the dates got closer I kept hearing my friends talk about plans for Spring Break. I thought that was very cute and fun for them and pushed it aside to think of what we would be doing when it got closer. The more I heard about it, the more the dates sounded eerily familiar…wait, the 7-11th???? But that was MY week!!!!! Needless to say, I LOVE my boys, but I was SO excited to date my hubby all day EVERY day for 5 glorious days while said children were in school. I may have thrown a two (okay three) second tantrum in my head before telling myself, “This will be okay. You will still have fun and do a lot of the things on your list…just add two cute boys to the mix.” My planning changed slightly from holding hands and strolling the shops, to running around a Family Fun Center with tokens and tickets galore! I was the only girl growing up and I am the only girl in this little family so I am used to rough and tough. Maybe that’s why I love this blog so much. It is my girlie outlet =). SO, here is why I have been MIA:
Ironically we were at Kev’s work party when he got a call and was offered an AMAZING new job! There is a magical place called Provo Beach Resort. It may be super chilly outside but the water was warm and inviting inside!!! We love this place and were so excited to go. I wasn’t feeling my best so I misty sat and read while my sweet boys bounced around the place and had a blast!
My oldest has been working super hard on his first car for his first pinewood derby for cub scouts! I love that he designed it, helped cut (scary), painted and glued on his weights. He placed second in most of the races, third in one and got a certificate for all his hard work. I was overjoyed that he had FUN and don’t take it too seriously if his car wasn’t the fastest. Huge relief as a mom =D.
BIRTHDAYS!!!!! There have been so many lovelies in my life that have had birthdays the past month. I love them all and enjoyed every Kneaders trip (at 7 AM) and birthday get together. Isn’t she a doll? Bet you can’t guess her age, I dare you! ; D
INSANITY!!!!! Oh ladies, it has been kicking my J-Lo but I am so grateful for a supportive hubby and for a full week to get up early with him and get it DONE!!! Every morning for Spring Break we were in the basement jumping, twisting, sweating, grunting and breathlessly cursing Sean T LOL!
Day one of Spring break had us doing DEtailed cleaning on the house and then OFF with friends to play at Trafalga. Games, golfing, treats, prizes, bumper cars…the boys were in heaven. Kev even won the jackpot for this jumping game which made all the kids stare and think he was really cool LOL!
After that we went to an art exhibit that BLEW my mind. There were SUCH wonderful paintings (that I have grown up seeing) in all their original glory all the way from Europe. These painting have never left their original “home” and probably never will again. It was so special to share this with the boys. Outside their were art sculptures that resembled Minecraft a little too closely for the boys not to go charging!!! They had a blast and we topped the night off with dinner and ice cream at our favorite spot at Thanksgiving Point.
The next day was ALL about me and Kev cleaning the basement (which was a project on my list for “our week” together). The boys did chores then played out with friends and enjoyed the sunshine. Then we went and saw the Nut Job at the local theatre.
Wednesday was ALL zoo day baby! We had such perfect weather and the animals were being SO hilarious! I could have watched the grizzly bears all day long. They were running after each other, dunking one another and playing around like crazy =). The sea lions were dreamy swimming around and the monkeys (mine) were pretty funny too =). After the zoo we had dear friends over that are moving soon and ended with a little yard work. I loved it!
Thursday was also pretty dreamy. I visited the local temple here with a friend at 5:30am and came home to boys already doing chores….I mean RIGHT????? Love them! Then a good workout and Kev…my LUCKY husband set off to have lunch with one of my FAV singers ever!!!!
Hilary Weeks is an amazing Christian singer/songwriter and is in the process of developing an app for some of her web stuff. Check her out
here because she is amazing!!!
After insisting on hearing EVERY detail we set off to do a lot of yard work. Edging, planting, weeding, mowing, watering etc. It. Was. GLORious!!!!! =D
That night we were able to have a sneak peak at a new museum in our community. We have been members for years at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, Utah and I LOVE it!!!!! It has a petting zoo, a dinosaur museum that has various museums, events and activities. The gardens that are HUGE and host the amazing tulip festival every year and have fun splash events and concerts. This new museum within the grounds did NOT disappoint and will be such a wonderful addition to all the other attractions! There was a place to hang like a sloth and they would time how long you could do it. A place to see how high you could jump like a frog, how many flaps you can do as a hummingbird, a puppet show, rock climbing, mazes, brain busters, rope bridges, dance halls…that was my FAV!!! There was a screen that spanned one wall of the room that showed a woman teaching you a dance. The opposite wall had a mirror so you could watch her and yourself as she taught you the steps. They had tap, hip hop and country line dances. It was so much fun! That night we ate at one of our fav spots….and I got food poisoning =(. Spring Break came to a CRASHING halt!!! I was confined to my room for two whole beautiful sunny days = (. I am so glad to have had such a wonderful week with the fam so that those two days didn’t feel like it was all ruined.
So, yes, I was MIA but it’s because life happened to me and it was WONderful!!!! What has made you MIA? Share =)
by dollcosmetics | Mar 18, 2014 | Makeup, Tutorials
Top o the mornin to ya! Have I told you lately that I love the color green on my eyes? It is one of “my colors” from the color wheel and it just makes me happy every time I put it on. This fun little shoot was done by the amazing Miss Sara Marie from
Sara Simpson Photography. It was featured on my Instagram Fashion account complete with outfit details. I have been having so much fun sharing my closet with you guys…and can I say that it is a little freeing? I have been one, like a lot of girls, to be down on myself when I look in the mirror. This creative outlet has helped my own what I love and share it. By talking about the pieces that I love from my closet and explaining why they work for me, it has helped me to compliment myself in a round about way. Not to feel conceited (at all) but more so to point out the positive and be happy with me =). I felt the combination of the outfit and the makeup was just perfect for today! Here’s the video tutorial on how you can get your own amazing green and gold glittery eyes. Enjoy!
by dollcosmetics | Mar 13, 2014 | Decorating, Home
Now I know you guys asked me FOREVER ago to do this so I apologize but here is the first part =). I would always try to shoot a room or two but then it would e time to get the kids, time to eat, errands to run etc. I’m so glad I got up, got ready, cleaned this area and had time to get it on film. My house really isn’t anything that amazing or ornate but we sure do love the memories we make here so it makes it amazing for us. Nothing will be as important in life as what you do and teach within the walls of your own home. Make it one that is simple, elegant, big, small, whatever, but full of love =). Welcome to our home!
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by dollcosmetics | Mar 12, 2014 | Makeup, Reviews, Tutorials
Wanted a thicker lash look today so I grabbed TWO pair of my trusted Demi Wispies on each eye. LOVED the bulk that it created and the drama it gave. Used my trusty Cover Girl Bombshell black liner to fill in any gaps making a seamless line across my eye. I am for SURE doing this for a while ; ). Also, if you don’t already know I am starting a clothing IG account for girls that are not your typical stick thin figure. You can go there and find me at classycozmetics. This outfit is featured there and you can get all the details on where the pieces were purchased.
by dollcosmetics | Feb 28, 2014 | Makeup, Reviews
*disclaimer* another silly move on my part. The first “lip gloss” I open up is actually a cream shadow. Yeah. The laughs keeps coming ; ).
Love is/was in the air this past month thanks to the wonderful holiday that is Valentine’s Day =). I was in Cali during that time though so I missed out on being with my hubby and two sweet boys but had SUCH a wonderful time with my brother and his family! My hubby made sure I had my Lindt Truffles delivered to me by my brother…..awwwwwww….and they were SO good!!! While I was gone my Ipsy bag came and I was eager to open it when I got home =). I have to put a small disclaimer on this video that I “let go” something I would typically edit out. I left it in because I am human and though you might think it was funny ; ).
by dollcosmetics | Feb 27, 2014 | Makeup
Thank you to ALL of you that entered our Cover Girl Giveaway. The poles are closed, voting has been tallied….or I went to Random.org and had THEM choose LOL =D. Either way we have a winner!!!!!!!!
Amy Orvin!!!!!! She won with this comment:
I am very excited to try the Intense Liquid Liners in chocolate kiss. I have never tried that color before and it sounds really nice.
Amy you have 48 hours to contact me with your shipping information and Cover Girl will send you your gift card! If by that time I have not heard from you, another winner will be announced. Be looking for more giveaways next month. My birthday is coming up and I love giving away goodies for that =). Love and hugs to all!!!
