Landon's one year old photos!

Here are Landon's one year old photos! Thanks to Chelsa Yoder for the fabulous photography! She is amazing and I highly recommend her to anyone local!



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Life List Photos

I have had a request to see pictures of my life list! So here you go! :)

#4 Take a girl's weekend getaway and have nothing but fun
05-24-08

#8 Marry the best man I know and can call my best friend
06-07-08

#15 Learn to quilt
08/29/2009

#17 Lay on the beaches of Jamaica
06-12-08

#18 Visit the White House
07-19-09

#19 See Penguins at a zoo
 08-16-10

#22 Get my hair cut for Locks of Love
05-01-09

#25 Tour a Winery
08-16-08

#32 Have my best friends in my wedding
06-07-08

#38 Stay at cabin in the Mountains
02-04-09

#41 Be a Bridesmaid in one of my Best Friend's Wedding
04-04-09

#42 Stay at a Bed and Breakfast
10-25-09

#50 Go to a Horse Race
06-20-09

#51 Ride a mechanical bull
05-24-08

#53 Go on a Weekend Couple's Trip
02-05-09

#54 Graduate with my Master's Degree
05-04-08

#55 Take cute baby bump pictures
08-10-2010



#61 Dress up child incredibly cute for Halloween.
10-31-11

Homemade Gifts-I'm a DIYer LOL

Here lately I have been obsessed with Pintrest! I love finding new ideas! I love to be crafty but I wouldn't call myself "creative" But I am great at borrowing other people's ideas then twisting them to make them mine :) So one of my most recent finds have been Valentine's Day ideas. At work we have drawn names for a Secret Valentine. I drew a fabulous name of a super sweet girl! I made her oreo cheesecake on Monday of last week- also another pintrest find. I'll post that picture later and add a recipe for it too. At the end of the week I put this in her box.

 It's a hand soap with a tag that says, "I was Soapin' you'd be my Valentine!" Isn't that adorable!? I thought it was so clever.

My second item was for a baby shower. I didn't get this idea from pintrest, but I thought it was equally as cute! One of my girl friends from highschool is having a little boy and her shower was last weekend. This was my gift!

I use this in my bathroom with my little boy, everyday! It's fabulous to hold everything you need in one place for bath time! The bag is an Initials, Inc Get a Grip- this one is in the Mum Stripe pattern. I was hoping it would look "manly" enough, but still cute :) I added some bath essentials- lotion, oil, powder, qtips,in the middle are diapers and petroleum jelly,  and on the side you can't see is shampoo and body wash. She loved it so much that I just bought a couple more for some of my other girl friends that are having babies! It's like baby palooza- there is a baby being born amongst my friend one a month for the next 5 months! haha I love it! You can get the Get a Grip at www.myinitials-inc.com/BrittanyQ  Starting February 1st, when the new catalog comes out, it will be in more patterns and they will also offer it in a bigger size! Exciting!!

Giveaway!

I'm so excited to be doing a giveaway for one of Initials, Inc's newest products!! This is an E Reader! It's a cover for anything the size of an iPad 2 and smaller! They are lightly padded in the interior and come in all of the new patterns from Initials, Inc Spring/Summer catalog!! To get entered yourself, just go to http://apps.facebook.com/hooplasoft_giveaways/217491571605680 and click on the giveaway!

Dew Drop Pattern

Isn't it cute!! I'm getting one for myself in the new songbird pattern for my iPad!! :) I'm so excited to see Initials, Inc's new catalg!

Songbird

Personalization is FREE! Get yours today at www.myinitials-inc.com/BrittanyQ

Getting in the Groove

Well January is offically underway and so are my New Year's Goals. Another goal for the New Year is to create small goals each day. The last two days I have been back to work for 10 and 11 hour days to get ready for the new semester. Tomorrow our students are back and I'm responsible for their schedules, the teachers schedules, lunch schedules, failures, etc. So it's been an undertaking. It's been difficult to complete my small goals for each day since I don't have many waking hours at home to complete them. I actually haven't completed today's yet!
Yesterday my goal was to go through all of my board on Pintrest for recipes. I'm making a list of all of the dinners I want to make along with their recipes so I can start making new stuff for dinner!

Check out my lunch box!

Today my goal is to pack my lunch for tomorrow. Hopefully this will help me in more ways than one! By saving money from eating out or school lunch- and I can control my calories a little better.
I also have a cute lunch box and I love to carry it! I always get lots of compliments on it :) You can get one too at www.myinitials-inc.com/BrittanyQ

Our appointment went great at UVA! Today was my last day on Femera and tomorrow I'll give myself the injection of Bravelle. We go back on Sunday to do an ultrasound to see if we have any big follicles!

New years goal number 1 complete!

Look at me getting a jump start on my new years goals! Becoming more organized is one of my goals for 2012 and here on the first day of 2012 I have created a filing system to go in our kitchen. Thanks to one of my fellow pinners for giving me LOTS of ideas on my project!  I let my sister in-law borrow my camera to take pictures at a wedding, so this picture was taken with my ipad... not quite the quality of my Cannon... but you get the picture :)

I bought a big bin to hold all of my hanging folders in from Walmart, it was like maybe $10.00. Then I came up with my folders....

1. Dinners- One of my next goals is to make dinner lists for 2 weeks at a time. My hope is that I will be more motivated to cook when I know what I am making and that I have all of the ingredients, in advance.

2. Recipes- Some of the recipes that I use most often, so the ingredients are at my fingertips

3. Grocery list- I want to keep a running list of items I need so when we are ready to go shopping I already have a list made.

4. to file

5. Bills

6-8 One for each of us here

9. Stamps and mailing supplies

10. Receipts

11. New Years Goals

12. 30 Before 30- My husband and I are both close to turning 30 in the next year and half. So we have made a list of 30 things to do before we turn 30! I want to keep track of our "doings" and hopefully take pictures of them to store in this file.

Pretty proud of myself! Day one I've already marked an item off of my New Years Goals list!