Melarky

Here we are enjoying part of Big Green Steam Clean’s referral program!

A few days after they came to clean our carpets, we received in the mail free Jamba Juice coupons along with a thank-you-for-your-business letter.

Then, we got MORE coupons with our referral (one of our neighbors in the Blackhawk Condos used them) not to mention….25% OFF OUR NEXT SERVICE (the smoothies were fun, but this really is the best part).

Thanks for the fun Jamba Juice coupons BGSC!

Read our full review of local buisness, Big Green Steam Clean.

He’ll tell me when he’s a police officer and I refer to him as “Officer Welly” for as long as he wants.

He loves to take his guns with him places, like to the grocery store, but I usually make him leave them in the car.

I’ve let him wear his Policemen pajamas all day before.

He calls bullets his “bullups”.

I’m now the expert on where to get cheap toy guns and police gear! (Six Star Party Outlet! I’ve actually gotten the same policeman set twice now! It comes with cop sunglasses, a badge, handcuffs and key, two guns, bullups and a holder for the bullups. And targets to practice shooting.)

I really do love that he loves all that tough boy stuff. He’s pretty cute with it. I love our tough guy!

Appliances from Big Chill!

I think they look so cool! Someday I’m hoping we have a game room in the basement of our dream house. I’d love to do a retro themed bar or small kitchenette area and it would be awesome to have these in it! I think I’d get RED…So they’d match with our current red sparkly bar stools.

Also in our game room, Mark and I would both love….

Black light Carpet!

You know, like the kind you see in bowling alleys.

I would also kill for one of these…And happily put on in our living room right now If I could get my hands on one. Even in the bedroom (if you can’t tell I want one pretty bad).

Probably not an actual Wurlitzer, but it’s gotta have that look. I’d love to find a non working one, then get Mark to modify it to play mp3’s, maybe even a touch screen. Someday, someday….

What’s something that you wish you had?

White Cake
Strawberry Peach Jello
Vanilla Pudding
Whipped Topping
Strawberries
Bananas
Peaches
Kiwis
Repeat (until no more room left in the dish)
Hide from Husband or else this happens…

“JUST GET ME A SPOON!”-mark

I love dressing my boys alike. I get away with whenever and for how ever long I can. If I can buy something that is the same, in both their sizes I’ll do it! The boys are wearing some angel jammies here. Angel jammies are just what we call big shirts for pajamas.

Hilyard is wearing his older brothers t-shirt and Wellington is wearing my shirt that matches his. Those are both shirt.woot.com shirts we got for free!

Mark makes me laugh. He always has, but why does he have to do it when I’m trying to take a picture?

I was trying to practice taking some night time shots (obviously). I was using the slowest shutter speed to see what it would do…I was taking an awfully long time doing it, so from the car behind me Mark was yelling things at me.

I had watched the entire series of Travels to the Edge, a show about a National Geographic photographer (who mostly does wildlife photography) and in one episode he said that sometimes to get that PERFECT shot he’d lay in waiting for hours, sometimes he couldn’t move so he’d have to urinate on himself. I heard Mark say something about taking my time and I might have to urinate on myself…and I started laughing.

I think next time I’ll bring my tripod and leave Mark at home. Just teasing, it was so fun have Mark come along with me, he usually doesn’t get to. Mark was very willing to drive me back and forth between the University and the Temple to get some fun sunset then night time photos.

We had tons of fun at this years fair. Welly played his heart out, I entered a quilt I made my sister (and won 2nd place!), and Hilly got a few good naps in his stroller (poor kid, we didn’t let him out for any of the fun).

We got there in the early evening with all of the cousins and the kids played their hearts out. Marky couldn’t come right away since he was waiting at the clinic for someone to come that was looking at the truck. He ended up taking forever and didn’t show up until around 7:45, but we forgave him because the guy ended up buying the truck (yay, full price, didn’t even ask if we’d take less!)

While we love our filthy carny fair food, we have been resisting the temptation lately, and instead we just eat after we leave the fair. Our wallets thank us, AND our arteries thank us (but those funnel cakes did look mighty tasty). Here are some pics of this years fair fun:

Imagine. Your husband is hanging out with some of his guy friends or he’s at work talking with his co-workers. He’s talking about you, his wife. He’s complaining that some things you do aren’t exactly perfect. He might be saying that the dinner you cooked last night was bad, that you don’t take care of the kids exactly how he would do it. He makes cunning remarks, is negative and is putting you in a bad light. He calls you names, “She’s so dumb”, “I can’t believe she did that!”

How would you feel if your husband was talking about you like this to his friends? Probably not very good. SO DON’T DO IT TO HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’ve found that in our marriage things are a lot more pleasant and a lot less fighting happens, if you use the golden rule with each other. Put yourself in his shoes, turn the tables, try to see things from his point of view. Here’s another great piece of advice…Don’t be a witch.

And Don’t nag. (Marky, I’m still working on that one).

I just get driven nutty nuts if I hear a wife complain about her husband. That he’s such an idiot because he didn’t do things exactly how she would do them. Drives me crazy!

Need help on getting a different perspective? Read one of my favorite books. The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands. It’s actually pretty good to help you with not only a marital relationship but with all relationships you have in your life.

Instead of dissing your husband to your friends, why not praise him? And you can even do it in front of him! Brag about him. Let every one know what a catch you have. Let others hear and SEE that you love him. And don’t forget to tell him either! I’m sure you’d want him to do the same!

Coffeteaphotography.blogspot.com has some great FREE photoshop actions, tutorials, textures, and more! Even a HOW TO on installing them all.

Here is what I did with two of her free actions, using a vintage and a vignette action. I didn’t do it to these photos but I LOVE her rounded corners action.

before

after

I think that photoshop can be kinda intimidating to some at first. I learned by watching Mark, asking questions, reading and watching tutorials and just playing around in the program. You can do it!