Tuesday Topics- Seven

This week Seven things about my job! 

1)  I work with my husband and father in law who are both optometrists at our family optometric practice.

2)  I only generally work 2 days a week.

3)  I'm supposed to be the office manager, but never really have been.  I'm non confrontational, everyone is older than me and let's face it you can't be a manager when you are only there 2 days a week and really only have time for things you have to do.

4)  The place makes me eat chocolate.  I have never really been a big chocolate eater until I started there.  They have a candy drawer stocked with goodies at all times.  Gets me every time!

5)  I have worked there since August of 2008, started out full time but went down to part time when Noah was born.

6)  We are currently looking for someone to replace me as I'm working toward being a full time SAHM

7)  I don't need glasses or contacts yet so that stinks but at least I can always use sunglasses so I can get my pick for free.  Coach frames, yes please! 

This is our new office we built in 2009, and it turned out great.  I got to help plan and pick everything out.  It was challenging but fun at the same time.  We are quite proud of it and I know my husband plans to spend the life of his career here!  

Tuesday Topics

There is another round of Tuesday topics starting this week and I love the new topics.  If you haven't ever joined in you should now since they are starting a whole new round.

Onto this week.

ten.  things that make me happy.............

1)  My boys....Love, love, love them.
2)  Waking up without an alarm..... Very rare occasion but when it happens it's awesome!
3) Sunlight, there is something about great weather after winter, just makes you want to get up and do something.
4)  Candy, sweets, ice cream, chocolate.... I totally hate emotional eating but it happens and I love sugar way to much
5)  New clothes, shoes, and jewelry, there isn't anything like wearing a new outfit.
6) Clean house, doesn't happen very often with two little ones but sometimes I sure do try.  For that short amount of time it stays clean, I'm so laid back
7) Successful new recipes- I love trying new recipes and even more so when they turn out good!
My last one was this M&M cookie, soo good even though I over cooked them a bit.  Will for sure be using this one again.
8) Nights with nothing to do but hang out with my family!
9) Time alone-  It's how I feel refreshed.  I can be quite the loaner some days
10)  A good sweaty run

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This week We are on Two.

Here are my must do bucket list items

My Life Bucket Items

1)  More Traveling- I have always wanted to go to Europe and see Paris and Rome.  We also would love to go back to Grand Cayman because we went on a cruise that went there for a day and loved it.  Another cruise would be great too!  

2)  Start/ Own my own business.  I have always had the desire to have a business of my own but over the years the type of business I want has changed a few times.  Right now it's not a good financial or good time with our kids ages.   I'm hoping maybe after the boys are in school it will be something we can do! 

Summer Bucket Items

1)  Take boys to the zoo

2)  Get the house in order-  Includes:  Spring Cleaning items inside/ outside, purged and organized/ Landscape ( Having a garage sale in two weeks so at least one items should be well on it's way by then!)  

What's on your bucket list?

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This week we are on 3 pieces of jewelry.

Here are my loves right now

The bubble necklace, absolutely love them with so many different outfits.  

I love all the cute arm candy all over the place and arm stacks.  I couldn't just show one bracelet or one set so here are some of my current favorite bracelets and sets.  ( my husband thought I was losing it when I asked him to take this picture for me, the things we do for our blog)

And the one piece of jewelry I wear every day and that has true meaning behind it, my wedding and engagement ring!  

I have been wearing this ring for almost 8 years,  can't believe it's been that long!  

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This week we are on #4 and it's an easy one!

4 Sites I Check Daily

1)  Bloglovin/ Blogspot-  Ever since the big announcement I switched mostly all my blogs to Bloglovin and check my daily reads from there.  I love how they are all there and I can quickly see the title, a picture and a blurb about the post.  I can mark them already read if it's one I'm not going to read so that way it won't be hanging up on the list for me.  But I also can make one unread if I want to remember to go back to it.  I'm way too addicted to blog reading and can't go to bed until I'm caught up for the day.  It's a slight problem.

I also use Blogspot every day to check my stats, make sure I didn't miss any comments and write new posts.  I have been trying to do at least 5 posts a week so some weeks I have been writing each night, others weeks I have been doing a few on days here and there and scheduling them.  I love having posts scheduled! 

2) Instagram

Love looking at pictures, would much rather see things in a picture rather than a status...Which brings me to my next one.

3) Facebook

If everyone I cared about Instagrammed or blogged the important events I would quit Facebook immediately but since they don't I still check it daily and multiple times daily to see what's going on.  I'm always afraid I will miss something if I don't check it before bed each night.  And for the record, I never hardly miss anything.  It wastes so much time scrolling down through all the junk to see one thing I actually wanted to read.  So, my recommendation is for all my friends to Instragram or blog, thank you!

4) Tie between Email and Pinterest.  

Some days I care about my email, some days I don't.  

Some days I care about Pinterest and some days I don't.  

So my mood decides which one is more important on that day I guess!

And yes, I am slightly embarrassed that my entire list is Social Media.   I don't watch much TV, so that is my downtime/free time time waster!  

What are 4 sites you check every day?

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This week 5 Childhood Pictures

I'm pretty sure my son makes the same face now

Ragedy Ann for Halloween one year.  I think my mom had a slight obsession with them because when my sisters were little they had a whole room decked out in their stuff.

This picture cracked me up, there is yellow highlighter all over it.  Apparently one day I decided to color it.  And I cut them off on accident but I was sporting some sweet pink Mickey Mouse shoes that DON'T match at all. And my hair?  I have always had bad hair!  I should do a whole photo reel on that someday because I've never found too many pictures that I have good hair in.

I had a thing for dresses.  I know for awhile I wore them everyday, I hated pants. 

Yeah..... My stepmom made this for me.  I would like to say I only wore it to make her happy, but I'm pretty sure I liked it.  It had my first name on the sweatshirt and my last name on my pant leg.  It was silver puffy paint and bows were sewn on all over.  The matching hat, too????  I have no words!  

This was hard choosing 5 pictures, there are so many more "good" ones!  

Join the party and share some of your childhood pictures!

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This week we are on #6.

Onto my 6 favorite Things in My House

1)  My living room pillows

2) The kitchen island
I love having an island, always wanted one and especially love how big ours is.  Not too giant but plenty big for 4 seats.

3) Our master bedroom closet
excuse the mess, I love this closet, it can hold some serious stuff!

4) Jones decal
 It doesn't look that big in the picture but it's almost 4 ft wide

5) Boys canvases
20x24 canvases, the hubby painted for our boys shared room

6) Kitchen curtains

For fun I thought I would ask Matthew his as well
The Hubby's Favorites

1)  Headboard he made
He did a great job, he knew I liked sleigh beds and upholstered, so he combined the two by sanding  the top down to be rounded like a sleigh.

2) New lights
Our house had all gold/brass fixtures when we bought it, so at the beginning of this year we got new fans, pendants, entry way bowl, hallway, and dining fixture.  We found a collection we liked and got all the different versions for the appropriate areas.

3) TV mount
I didn't take a picture of this but our Tv is over our fireplace and we wanted a place to house the Xbox and other items, so he bought a mount with a movable arm.  The TV can come almost 2 ft from the wall, and swivel and pivot.  Then he put shelves behind the tv for all the items we didn't want laying out but wanted hooked into the TV.

4) Comfy couches
When we got our new house we needed furniture and our only requirement was that it have recliners.  We have found a set where every seat reclines.  It's oversized too and we love it!

5) Fireplace
We didn't have one at our last house and  this is one of the things that was on our wishlist.  Someday we will probably fancy/ modernize it up and get rid of the brass.

6) Jones Decal
Same as above

Tuesday Topics- 7 Things I Do Everyday

I'm a little late starting with these themed posts but thought it sounded like fun.  This week they are on 7 so here goes.

7 Things I do Everday

1)  Take my Genesis Pure.... Not sure what I would do without these supplements.

2)  Workout at least 5 of 7 days but on good weeks I get it in 6 of 7 days.  Right now I'm running, doing some BBL, Turbo and the Elliptical.  Each day I switch it up a little and trying to run at least 3x a week for 1/2 marathon traning.

   

 3)After those workouts this girl needs a shower and to get Ready.... Can't start the day until I do

4) Pick up, pick up, and pick up.  I'm a little OCD

5) Check email, facebook, instagram, and blogs.  I may have a slight addiction to social media.

6)  Eat!  I love to eat.  Somedays I'm a health nut, some days I'm just not!

7)  Kiss my babies!  Don't know what I would do without these boys!
This picture was this weekend at Great Grandma and Grandpas, and it's blurry but I still love it.  They do share a lot of sweet moments together!

What is something you can't go a day without doing?