I'm weird and I know it!

Sometimes my brain works by song lyrics, so put this to "I'm sexy and I know it" and it makes more sense. Just one more little way I keep life exciting.

 

So I have been wanting to do this post for 2 reasons. One, to get it out there that I am kind of weird and kinda okay with it and two, so Crewe can know that weird is okay and cool, because of course his mama is the coolest of weird.

 

Oh and feel free to chime in at the end with how you are weird.... you know just to not make me feel alone here. ;-)

Here are some crazies about me:

 

1) I will wash, dry, fold and hang up 5 loads of laundry and it never fails I get to the last 3 or 4 items and just quit. It is like the thought of hanging up or folding 1 more piece is JUST.TOO.MUCH. Never mind that I just folded/hung 500 articles of clothing.

 

 

 

2) I take swigs of coffee creamer throughout my day as a sweet fix. In reality I probably drink about 200 of my daily calories in coffee creamer.

 

3) When the bath water runs at night I HAVE to have my feet right under it and I like the water to be like scalding hot.

 

 

 

4) Along with the coffee creamer. I snack on bacon bits all.day.long.! They have the perfect amount of salty and the texture is awesome (I really do eat healthy).

 

5) I absolutely, no questions asked, have to shave my legs every.single.day! I cannot stand the way unshaved legs feel on pants and sheets. I think I have some kind of sensory disorder.

 

 

 

6) I hate.hate.hate washing my jeans beacuase it makes me feel like I have gained 10lbs in my sleep.

Confession: I wear my jeans A LOT before I wash them.

 

7) I always have an organization project going on in my head... that will come to completion. Truth: my husband hates it.

 

 

 

8) I have been known, on more than 100 occasions, to make my bed 10 minutes before we get in it just so the sheets are tight. I hate feeling smothered in my bed sheets. Again... sensory issues much?

 

9) I could win an award for the amount of times I have rewashed clothes in the washer because I ALWAYS forget to put them in the dryer and then they will sit in the dryer until I have a load in the washer forcing me to fold them.

 

Daddy always ends up pushing the kiddie cart

 

 

I wanted to have 10, but that is all I can think of tonight. Trust me there are much more than 9 oddities about me.

 

Of course I mixed in some fun pictures, that have nothing to do with my post, which it make it that much more weird, to make me not seem quite as weird. That's a lot of weird.

 

Hope everyone has a great weekend

Sweet Moments

It dawned on my a few nights ago that Crewe has NEVER experienced donuts in his 2 years of life, so we set out to change that deprivation today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Up next... powdered donuts

Happy Saturday!

DIY- Oompa Loompa

It has been decided for a while that Crewe would be and Oompa Loompa for Halloween and that I would be making his costume.

 

As Crewe's momma I have the task of creating sweet costumes that DO NOT have absolutely anything that touches his head. He acts like he is suffocating and goes into panic if anything is on his sweet head. Ohhh he is so his momma's child. I would only wear elastic waist pants until like the 6th grade. The 6TH GRADE!!!! I was like 13. Sigh......

 

Last year he got to be a hamburger because it was the ONLY costume I could find that you could tell what he was without a headpiece.

 

 

Sweet boy has gotten big in a year! Tonight I actually had to battle his calic to get his hair to mohawk and last year his hair just did whatever I wanted.

 

There is a huge place in my hear for pinterest; however, I hate when I pin a DIY and it just gives me a pic and no deets of where they got the items.... the cost etc... so I will do all of that jazz at the end.

 

 Here is our 1st round of trick or treating. We will be going out again on Halloween night

 

 

This is my, momma wanted to look cute without having to wash her greasy hair, look. It works!

We weren't real wild about the train

 

 

Okay so onto how I created this little oompa cutie.

 

1) The sweat pants I actually found in the Halloween aisle at Walmart and they were a size 5. WAY to big for Crewe, which ended up being perfect because I was able to hike them up and roll the legs under. As you can see in his back picture, I just overlapped the waist and hand stitched the overlap. I also stitched the buttons on the front.

 

 

2)To stick on the white felt I just used double sided fabric tape on the brown turtleneck collar as well as the sleeves.

 

 

3) The white "suspenders" are 18-36 month old little girl cotton leggings that I cut in half on the crotch line. I stitched each leg on, exactly like suspenders would look, and them crossed them over his head after I put the "overalls".

 

4) I also used double sided fabric tape for the brown felt on the leggings he wore (I did get approval from Daddy to put him in leggings JUST for his costume).

Tip: If your kid likes to pick at stuff like mine... use the double sided fabric tape to hold the tape on and then hand stitch the top and bottom of each strip. Little man picked of EVERY single stripe off on our way to trick or treat.





I actually told him he should be ashamed of himself for picking all the stripes off and he looked at me like, "No mom, you should be ashamed of yourself for not securing these better as you know I LOVE picking at EVERYTHING."

Touche sweet boy touche!

Slow and Steady

Having projects to work on that you look forward sitting down to do is soooo... fun in my book. It makes me want to have a project constantly going.

Before Crewe was born if I started a project EVERYTHING in my life was put on hold until I finished that project.

 

Now that Crewe is here, I have tried that approach and it has not gone over so well for our family. Quickly I have come to be okay with projects taking a bit longer to complete so that we can maintain some sanity in our household.

Untightening that grip on things that are so engrained in who I am is hard, but most days refreshing. I like being able to look at myself and see that I am adaptable and capable change. ;-)

 

I would go so far to say that it has allowed me to ease up a bit on feeling like I have to clean up the toys in our house that accrue 10 times a day.

Now don't get me wrong... I still do my 20 minute shake down before guest stop by, because in my head they are going to ask to see a tour of the whole house, even though they hardly ever do... which then makes me want to force offer a house tour just so my hard work was not in vain.

 

 It is also important so that when they walk out of the door I can look at my husband with my

"SEE? It was worth the temporary insanity for me to clean the cobweb's, scrub the bathtubs, mop the floors" face.

 

All that to say I have 2 big DIY projects going on right now which makes blogging slow for me. The first one being

 

THIS

Crewe's Halloween Costume

 

And the second

THIS

DIY tufted headboard- love it? Yes! Very time consuming with a toddler? Yes

 

 

 

That being said.. here is a photo sneak of our past week-ish

 

Mommy and Crewe went to the grocery store for the 2nd time by ourselves in 2 years;
however, it will become a regular, now that Mommy expereinced 11:00am Wal-Mart
lines versus 7:00pm Wal Mart lines.



Hung out with our favs again

Enjoyed some yummy pancakes

Searched for water while being chased by coyotes



Had some drinks at a rooftop bar, which was FAB by the way

Made 42 buttons.... my thumbs are still numb

And finally slept off our late night partying ways

Hope ya'lls week is going just as fab!

A Gathering of Hearts and Moments

Do you ever have times in your life where you just have so much fun you never want to forget the way you feel in the moment, the smell of the moment, and all the details of the moment? Well this weekend was one of those moments for me. Maybe it was the hotel or having a husband and baby to share it with or all of the above. Staying at hotels has made me giddy as long as I can remember!

I seriously think the length of this post could set some world records, but we had such a good time!

We went road trippin on Saturday to a Valentine's Party in Abilene. It was also Crewe's first experience in a hotel and minus the whole night of not sleeping it was a blast. So much love and care was taken in preparing the atmospere, meal, and who can forget the wine. There was cousin time, good food, drinks, wonderful company, babies, and who can forget all the love!

I will let the pictures tell the story, but I want to go back to Saturday so we can do it all over again.

For the trip down there we had great weather and a sleepy baby which made for a good drive.

The elevator was Momma's Crewe's favorite part of the hotel. We had to have the moral support of Scout and Mickey.

Cousins reunite over bed jumping

And of course coloring on the pillow case (oops). Crewe wasn't sure what to think about Cousin Wyatt getting in trouble.

I don't know about ya'll, but my sister and I always appreciate a hotel which offers free happy hour

There is so much I could say about this picture, from J.'s face to the placement of the water. It is definitely a framer.

Wyatt felt it was his responsibility to restock the fountain with change and he took that job VERY seriously.

We wrapped up happy hour and headed to the party. We were greeted by two pretty little ladies and a more than welcoming atmospere.

The company was pretty spectacular.

And is it just me or does having a kid make pictures of you and your honey non-existant??? I was looking through pictures the other night and pre-baby we have TONS of pictures together; post-baby? Maybe 2. All of our pictures are of one of us with Crewe or just Crewe; which don't get me wrong I LOVE all thos pictures, but I also want to Crewe to see how much we love each other too.

 The older we get the more I think we look alike.

And just in case you are curious. Your hair can look just like her's for a mere $189 in the Dallas area! Are you kidding??, but it does look amazing!

The food was scrumption. Like make you drool scrumptious!

This little girl stole my little man's heart. He was smitten and I actually got to eat without setting my fork down 50 times. It was glorious!

We didn't leave until 11:30 and I seriously was so impressed by all the kiddos. They were angels the whole night. Crewe maybe had an hour nap that day and he was soooo good because little man knows how to partay!. Now after we got back to the hotel sleep was questionable, but I couldn't blame him, the lack of schedule was Momma's fault.

I think it was midnight when I took this picture!

Middle of the night

And the drive home???? Well they were predicting a dusting of snow which never means anything AT ALL, so we headed back and what should have taken 2.5 hours ended up taking 5.  Look at this:

And we were pulling this....

Which made momma almost sweat through her shirt. I seriously think I had multiple panic attacks in those 5 hours.

This little man did not cry once.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Happy Valentine's Day from Crewe!