A girl should be two things...

Just had to share these decals because... well, you have to see them. If only my husband would agree to putting one of these in our house...

Etsy.com, We are best friends.

I think I have finally found what I want on that retarded wall in my living room.

If you have ever been to my house... you know the one I'm talking about. It always has a total of three awkward pictures hanging up over my couch to the right of my verticly-hung framed mirror (asked hubs to hang over the couch.. came home... mirror "over" the end of the couch and verticle. But hung very well and does not move or fall off.)- I often switch these pictures out and stand in front of this wall scratching my head and sighing. This wall is the most awkward of walls.

I have been searching for something affordable (and by affordable I mean really super duper cheap... like so cheap it makes hubs smile) to help this space and by george I think I have found it....

Decals! Love this tree decal. But do I want a horizontal or something like a birch tree growing out of my floor (you'll only be able to see the top half)?

Here's the part Josh will like... This is only about $34.00... YAY!

I like this one too. All of the colors are customizable. I think the kids need wall decals in their rooms too... What did the world do without Etsy.com? God only knows.

Life is Good

My prayers have been answered!

God seems to be showing himself very clearly to my family... especially about this car thing.

Josh and I prayed and prayed at car dealerships, on the way to car dealerships, before we called the dealerships, when we left the dealerships, during bedtime prayers with the kids, while scrolling through craigs list and then some.

We found the perfect SUV a couple of times! But, when we sat down to talk money no one could meet us at our budget. I was ready to pinch a few salesmen and Josh shot one. just kidding. I couldn't believe how difficult these guys were to deal with- impossible! Ford Country held us hostage while they continued to show us the same piece of paper with the same numbers on it 1,789,234,667,773,045.45 times. In order to get out Josh had to hulk up. He turned green and ripped his clothes apart and said something like "give me my car keys...RAWR" (they had our keys so they could look at our car as a trade in).

After three days of dealerships, and salesmen with transition sunglasses, and highlights we retreated to craigslist at home. just incase, you know? Lo and behold Josh finds the exact car we looked at at all of the dealrships for $8000 less than we had seen anywhere. Sent the guy an email and the rest history... or actually the rest is sitting in my driveway. If that isn't God at work right there I don't know what is.

Yesterday while the guy (aka the seller) was signing over his car he says to Josh, "I must have been drunk when I listed this... you guys are getting a REALLY good deal."

We Know. :o)

Would God get some guy liquored up so we could have the perfect car?

God works in mysterious ways!!

I do not purposely space out paragraphs with triple spaces... it just does that and is so annoying.

I'm back.

Holy Moly- I worked four whole days in a row. Can't remeber the last time I did that. It was fun, but I missed my babies... and Josh too.

So I think my husband is damaged. Well, more like a faucet with the hot and cold labels mixed up. I'll elaborate...

Wednesday I go to work and leave a very small list of "please please pretty please attempt to do this while I'm at work" which included things like "bathe the children", "clean up the dishes when you are done" and the doozy... "wipe down the bathroom because we have a 3 year old little boy with terrible aim and this must be done in order to keep a bathroom smelling like soap and perfume and nice things and not PEE"- so I get home from work and husband has shampooed the carpet.

"YAY!! it looks beautiful!! but tomorrow please be sure to wipe down the bathroom."

"oh yeah, I will."

Thursday I come home.

"I bathed the children! AND wiped down the table."

"YAY! they smell delicious! but tomorrow please remember to clean the bathroom? Please Please pretty please?"

"Yeah, sure."

Friday I walk in the door dreaming of sparkling toilets.

"I'm running the cleaning cycle on the oven... that's why its so hot in here. - and I cleaned the microwav"

"Best husband award. I love you! Tomorrow... bathrooms?"

"YES geez!"

Saturday I came home to a beautiful house freshly vacuumed, not a toy in sight, even all the pillows arranged nicely on the couch.

I love my husband and all of his crossed wires. Guess what? I totally got over the bathrooms and cleaned them on Sunday. All glory to God that I let that one go and even got away with only a pinch of frustration and plenty to laugh about.

I probably would have never run the cleaning cycle on the oven or shampooed the carpets (chemdry!) but I would have of course cleaned the bathrooms. So by asking hubs to do something he never did I got twice as much done. BORDERLINE AMAZING.

I wonder what would happen if I asked him to make the bed....? Maybe he'd paint my living room! A girl can dream...

all in all I love the hubs and he can shampoo a mean carpet.

took this on thursday. she loves her daddy.

So, I totally did not expect that story to take five pages to write but it did and anything else that happened in my life will have to wait, with the exception of one update.







CAR SHOPPING.... TOMORROW.





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