I did it!

Well, after some thought yesterday I decided that short hair was the way to go. We went over to my mother-in-law Tammy's house to hang out and while Mercedes and I were there I had my soon-to-be sister-in-law Christina cut my hair. She is almost done with hair school and is already AMAZING at what she does.

Now I have short hair... and I LOVE IT!!!!! It is seriously amazing, I feel so great with my new hair cut.

Here are some photos I took shortly after it was done. (Please excuse the picture quality).




I did enjoy my long hair but every time I saw a photo of myself I would notice how limp and shapeless my hair looked. I have very fine hair and because of that my hair got really hard to deal with as it got longer. I needed a change!

There's nothing like a new hairstyle to freshen up the way you feel and look!

Tempted to cut my hair!

Seriously, I think I'm actually thinking of doing it. SHORT. I'm so tempted!! I'm at a point with my hair that I'm extremely bored with it. I'll do my hair thinking it looks cute and then half the time when I see a photo of myself my hair looks limp and shapeless. I'm feeling like I need a change. But I don't know!! Here's what I'm thinking:We'll see if I actually decided to do it or not!

A totally random thought I just felt like sharing

This post is about something I noticed a while back, and when I watched SUPERMAN the other day it made me think about it again, SO I decided to blog about it! Here goes-

If you've seen the old Superman movies with Christopher Reeves, you may or may not remember the part in the first one where he told his height and weight to Louis Lane. He said he was about 6'4" and 225 lbs.
Those measurements may have been a little off from his actual measurements for Hollywood purposes but looking at this photo, it seems that it could be pretty accurate, right?

I've always thought there was one thing wrong with the BMI chart. It only takes into account height and weight, with no way of knowing how much of that weight is muscle or fat. So one day just out of curiosity I typed Superman's measurements into a BMI calculator online to see what came up.
Yeah, I don't see Superman as "overweight" either. In the end, I guess the BMI chart is just a guide (although I believe it is not 100% accurate) to help us see what area we are in and what area we should be in. If you want a more accurate measurement of things there are other ways of getting them.

I just had to share that funny fact!

...another man's treasure

These first two photos don't apply to the title of the post. I just saw them and had to put them up!

Okay so I have made some great finds lately and I just felt like blogging about them! I'll start with this awesome piece of furniture I found on Craigslist.com.
It was only $40! AND, when we went to pick it up it ended up being a very nice LDS family who was needing to sell it because they were moving out of state. The wife's father had made the hutch himself.
It is a great piece of furniture and a dream for me! I'm always trying to figure out more ways to store and organize. This was the perfect solution to our computer space problems. I even have some storage room left over! Warms my heart just thinking about it.
I just have to say that we couldn't have gone and gotten it, let alone brought it upstairs into our apartment without the help of all of the men in the family. Thank you guys! And thank you Grandpa Call for letting us borrow your truck!

Saturday morning Mercedes and I decided to go drive around and go look for garage sales just for fun. Here are a couple of things I found!
Two crown molding shelves. I've wanted some like these for quite some time, and there at a garage sale I got two for $2! Here one of them hangs in our living room. (I also got that plaster looking pear on the right side of the shelf for $ .50. I have a passion for pears right now).
The second shelf hangs in Mercedes' room over her changing table.
That's it for my special finds, but I did find last week that I could make some celebration flags with some material I had.
I hung them up when I finished them just to see how they looked, but I haven't wanted to take them down!
I will probably take them down soon however, I want to keep them exciting for special occasions.

Thanks for reading. :) Have a great day!

The best of life

Recently you may have seen my post about Mercedes' first pony tail.
Well last week she graduated to pigtails!
She has very little hair but it's still enough for her mommy who's desperately wanting to do things with it.

This girl is a ham sometimes. Every once in a while I'll hear her laughing and screaming in her room and I'll walk in and find her playing on the sofa we have in there. She's hiding under the blanket if you didn't notice. (See the red leather sofa?? My friend in our ward was getting rid of it and we took it off her hands. It pretty awesome.)

One of the many (MANY) great things about children is that you HAVE to get new clothes for them as they grow out of their old ones. I went shopping last week and found some cute stuff. (Notice the tags still attached).


I couldn't resist this swimsuit. I love Old Navy!
This face gets me every time. Doesn't she look like she just knows? "Knows what?" you might ask. Well I don't know, everything maybe? She just knows.

Friday was my birthday and it was a great day. Taylor and his family threw me a birthday party that evening and they gave me the funnest gifts.
Taylor got me this hydration belt (above) and I LOVE it! I get so thirsty while running and this solves the problem!

On Saturday we bought a car!!!!!! We found a fantastic deal on this 2004 Subaru Forester and let me tell you we are absolutely loving it.

This is our first actual "family car" and it's very exciting.
I have to keep reminding myself while I'm driving that it's an automatic. I've been driving manuals for 7 years so it's a nice change. I love it.
Sunday was our 3 year anniversary. Can you believe it's been three years???
Well, I am just in love with this man. I'm so happy he's mine for eternity.

After a busy day running around and purchasing our new car we went to dinner to celebrate our anniversary. We went to Il Fornaio at the Roseville Galleria. The food was AMAZING. And so was the service.
It was an awesome weekend.
The end.

All things Nautical

Since I was little I have had an undying love for all things Nautical. I really don't know why but I do know that I LOVE LOVE LOVE it. Throughout my teenage years I adorned my bedroom with decor such as lighthouses, sailboats, and whatever else I could find. To this day I just can't shake that feeling.
I dream of someday living at a place like this. Maybe on a beach in New England, or Maine, or even Georgia. I have no idea how it would fit in with our future plans...but someday.

We found a boat book shelf a year and a half ago on Craigslist.com and there was no way I was going to let it go. We recently moved the book shelf into our living room and since then I have wanted to continue that theme throughout the room.
I got this image off of the Pottery Barn website (I am in love with that store by the way). I find the images very inspiring!


These images below are some of our own photos we've taken that I would like to incorporate into the room somehow.
I love the sailboat in this (and I try to pretend that the island is not Alcatraz).

Boats in the San Francisco bay.
Ships in the bay.

Another boat in the bay. (I just love this one!)

And I love him. :) (Taken in Carmel two years ago for our anniversary). We also took our Engagement photos on the beach in Carmel.A lighthouse in Carmel.

This was taken by my mom at a Utah Lake dock in Provo. See? I even did my bridals at a place like this.
I took this picture in Hawaii when I went with my family about 4 and a half years ago. When we saw it from the highway down below I made my parents pull over and my brother Jordan and I went on a hike to get to it. (It ended up taking longer than we thought and my family had to wait forever but I thought it was so worth it).

Here are a few of the things I'm doing/have done to the room. Keep in mind it's a work in progress.
The boat book shelf I love! And the backwards books-trying something new.
This pillow started out blank. One night on a whim I added the starfish. Still not too sure about it though.
A frame idea I got from online.
More frames. I'm tempted to put things on the mini framed canvases in the top frame but Taylor thinks they look awesome blank. Now I don't know what I want to do.
And here are some fun little decorative accents.

Here is one side of the room,
and here is the other. (The empty white frames will have some pictures in them soon).

Anyway, that's about it for the nautical things for now. It's definitely been fun!

Another recent craft I did was this group of fabric flowers. My kitchen table was looking so bare and so I made these out of wire hangers and fabric.
I added a few darker ones but I'm still not sure how I feel about the two kinds together. It's always a work in progress I guess.

Here's just some mommy/baby weirdness:



Have a good day!