UGH! It's STILL January.

The twirly birds turned 16 months on the 11th.
I had 3 moles removed on the 19th... still waiting to hear back on those but SOOO ready to get these stitches out.. they really ITCH!

This past weekend we made the trek to IA to see my family and have our Christmas... a little late I know.

Lillian got her first hair cut.

You can see the mountain of snow outside of my dad's house...
Lillian always walks around with her hands behind her back.. it is the cutest thing ever but I didn't get a good shot of it.

Cousins L to R. Joelle, Jillian, Lillian. say that 5 times fast . The girls are about a month apart. They also had matching Ballerina PJammers... SO cute.

I think Jillian posed the best :)

I also finally created my own blog to vent... aren't you proud? I only have two post. When I write more I will share the link.... maybe

an attempt was made

I tried to create my own private blog so I wouldn't be taking up the twirly birds space on this blog, attempt FAILED. During this attempt I hit "create" and it said "give us your phone number for verification"...uhh NO! so I guess I will try to blog somewhere else, because I am definitely not giving my phone number to GOOGLE!

curtains and rambling

First off ... I hate my camera... it just doesn't take good pictures :(

Second: My i-phone crashed and I have been without a phone since Friday...and I am kind of enjoying it... it is freeing ya know?

Third: I have started doing "no spend January"which I actually started the last week of December... its my own personal plan to save money. Here is how I am doing .So far I have done AWESOME at not eating out... just once last week because I didn't get lunch until 3:30 because of a tough case I had to work on...but I did have cash instead of using my debit card..bonus for me. I have only bought a pair of leggings for the twirls and stuff to finish off their curtains... do you think I am doing ok? I mean I think I could do better , but I have been planning to do these curtains for a year and the leggings... well I can take those back. My only rules for this is to a. Not eat out unless it is business or invited by friends. b. Not to spend money or buy anything unless it will make life easier or it is a necessity... if you read this... let me know if you think I need to do better... motivation from others is always a great help .
Fourth: My MIL came over Saturday night to help me with the curtains... and when I say help I really mean she does most of the work :( Which really isn't the plan but always how it works out because she has the sewing machine and experience. I bought the curtain panels on clearance at Target a year ago with intensions of finishing them up... but didn't happen until now. Here is the finished product... we just have to hang them on rods in the twirs room.



We started with White panels. I added the green dot fabric which I purchased at Joann's

I bought extra large pink and purple ric rac and ribbon at Hobby Lobby . I actually bought like 8 rolls of ribbon because I didn't know what I wanted and I was going to put several lines of ribbon down the front of the curtain but .....it didn't look good and it wasnt the easies to sew on the curtain. I tried sewing and messed it up so the MIL took over that and I did the pinning :)

I bought the rods, we just have to have the time to put them up... I am really excited about them... :)

Dr Pepper Song

This shall be my new theme song :) haha

ugh ..it's January.

Did I ever tell you all how much I dislike January? Well, I do. I've never been a fan. It's cold, gray and ugly here in the midwest and it's boring. Usually, everything bad happens in January. ... or at least that is what my MIL says. I can somewhat agree. It's just a bad month. My winter wardrobe is even ugly. I am ready for some warmer weather and a nap, wouldn't it be great to hibernate through winter like a bear?... ahh yes... I know... I have the mind of a child :)

Anyway here is a priceless pic for me... a long afternoon nap!

Lillian

Joelle