Day 5 Peeps

A week in the life of Shelly, day 5... here we go.

Me and the little guys on our way this a.m. bright and early...



Kirsten letting me know I looked terrible, and then took my picture to prove it. After I dropped the boys off I must have gotten pollen in my eye... had a full out allergic reaction. Took allergy meds, eye drops and a benedryl upon arriving at Archiver's... it was not pretty friends. Not pretty at all.

Still managed to get the day rolling depsite extreme sniffles and pain... as I write this my vision is still blurred.

This helped a little... can you guess? Americano with cream and cinnamon powder.

I had to hang these up this AM... buy $15 worth of Hero Arts product and get an idea book for free! Started today and goes until supplies last. I sound like a commercial.

I worked with these lovelies today. I was never so thankful to see Sian... it allowed me to leave early and take more allergy medicine...

I had this for lunch... well, some of it. I'm not gonna lie, it was terrible. I ate about 4 good bites and threw the rest.

This nice lady stopped by. I heart her. A great deal.

I made this layout today for the new KI Zoo line. I like how it turned out!

I had leftovers for dinner, the kids had mac n cheese, and Brian... well he had bacon flavored spam, friends. He tried to get me to try it but I didn't fall for it. GROSS!!

Here's me saying goodnight to the two squirrels. Notice the still-red eyes... I'm never going to get over these allergies!!!

We watched a little TV tonight... Brian's favorite shows... Survivor and CSI. Go Russell!

And, I did laundry. Earth-shattering stuff friends, but it is still my life, and I still love it!

OH, and the best part of all, my friend Beckie sent me this link...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LacC2gN_M7w

Let's just say we'll be getting tickets to the midnight showing people.

Till tomorrow friends...

A Week in the Life, Day 4

Day 4... today was my "day off" from work. I sometimes have these randomly in the middle of the week because I work retail and thus, weekends. This weekend is my weekend to work, so today... was my Saturday... sort of.

This is Bella. She's our 6 mth old puppy and she was very very happy that mommy stayed home with her all day. She followed me around all day, and we had the best morning together.

I met this dear lady, Kelly, for coffee this morning. We discussed the amazing Jeremy Cowert Vision Seminar that I recently got home from in Nashville, TN. I told her all my hopes and dreams, and together we decided she should also pursue visual arts! I'm so excited for her, and I think she's maybe one of the best people in the universe.

Coffee with her is going to need to be a regular thing from now on, FYI.

I met Owen's preschool teacher, "Miss Angie" for his parent/teacher conference this morning. She's pretty much amazing, and Owen absolutely adores her. She assured me that he's more than ready for Kindergarten and said he was a JOY to have in her class!

Then I met this lovely person for lunch because he forgot to pack one. So, it was a "date!"

Today I took some time to think... journal, read, journal more. I discovered that God is in the business of changing the way we think. I like it, because a lot about how I think has been challenged lately. So, it was confirmation that what I'm going through is good.

Change is good... repeat after me, change is good...

Because of too many other things last night, I wasn't able to watch "Glee" when it was on... so today I took some day off time to catch up! SO stinking good!

When that was over, I took a nap, but didn't take a picture because I was sleeping.

After I made dinner for the family, I worked on Brady's invitations to Confirmation next week. He and I decided on a navy and orange themed invite! They're cute, yet still manly enough for a teenager to not feel weird about! Going to mail them in the AM.

I dropped Brady off here, at the "mega-church" as we like to call it, for Weds. night youth programming. He just informed me that he's looking forward to going to the "high school" aged group this summer! That struck me... my baby's going to be in High School! YIKES!

While Brady was at church, I went to Cracker Barrel with my friend Kellie... it was so nice to hang out and chat. We always have fun conversations about life, and my favorite thing about Kellie is her compassionate heart.


And now, the end of this day has come, and I'm going to go to bed and dream of wonderful things that are yet to come. Till tomorrow...

A Week in the Life, Day 3

Here's day three, Tuesday, of a week in my life....
I had to work, so headed out about 7:15 because I had to drop off all the kiddos at their schools on the way...

Here's the first thing I did... me and Kirsten went to Sam's Club and set up a business account for our store. So, now we're Sam's Club married. I told her that after work I was going to make a bunch of fraudulent charges in her name. J/K. Anyway, and then, here's my desk with all my important things on it... my cell, my name tag, my jump drive, my lipgloss, my sharpie pen, and of course, my coffee. Americano with cream and cinnamon powder, once again.

Here's my buddy Sondra, she and I get to work together usually once a week. :) Tonight we just saw each other in passing.

Listening to Matt Kearney on the way home. Excellent.

Was home for about 15 minutes and then left for Bethany Academy for Brady's Science Fair. His experiment was on which laundry detergents clean better and why. Tide won btw.

Then, we went to our favorite park ever... Centennial Lakes in Edina, for a walk while Brady finished up his "science stuff." We got married at this park, so it's special to us.

Lots-o-beautiful stuff blooming in MN right now... thus the allergies I mentioned yesterday...

Here's the oversmiling chip eating park goer himself!

More blooming stuff...

These were my favorites.

These are the two happy boys in the park...

This is us in "our" park, as we like to call it. One with the timer, and the other taken by little Owen! (the budding photographer) I don't like the look on my face... but what can I do?

Then I came home and cooked dinner.

Then, finally, I talked to this wonderful person for over an hour. It was an important conversation... as all of "our" talks are... but this one in particular was very inspiring. During the convo, we made a pact to always email each other inspirational links when we come across them. I sent her a list of them tonight, and she sent me this one: http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/ It's amazing. Go all the way until you can't anymore. Ahh friends, so good to laugh! My heart is healed in so many ways by this amazing friendship. Yay!

Stay tuned world, and expect great things!

A Week in the Life of Shelly, Day 2

It's Monday, kids, and of course, I am running little late. It's only because my kids were extra needy while being dropped off at daycare this morning.

Sometimes, I get this... medium Americano with room for cream and a dash of cinnamon powder. It usually makes my day better, and everyone who has to deal with me.

Here's where I work. Only I go in the back door, not the front, because I'm a manager. I really like everything we sell at our store... genuinely. So, it's pretty easy for me to sell it.

I do these kinds of things at work... today it was "researching" sketches for this weekend's getaway crop. One of the challenges will be for customers at the crop to make a page from some other person's sketch... officially it's called "scrap-lifting." It's totally legal in most countries. Also, I have this "paperwork" that my day runs by... who's working, what classes, how much stuff do I need to sell per hour, etc. etc. Fun stuff.

I get to see these lovelies on most days... they make me smile.

I like when Dee gets to work because it usually means I can leave... Here's me and Heather getting ready to leave, and my time on the way home... listening to new Dave Barnes on the I-Tunes through my archaic cassette player.

After dinner on most days, I am an Internet search junkie. Tonight it was these two talented ladie's photography for a little visual stimulation. Good, good, good, stuff.

Then, I said good-night to this little man. He's my baby, mostly grown up now. Currently he's playing one last game of NBA live in his X-Box 360 and then we're off to bed.

Things i might have learned today:

1. It's ok for us to disagree. I can still like you if we do.

2. You can't always get what you want or go where you want. (My evening plans were averted by a home improvement project that still is not complete as I write this blog.)

3. Minnesota allergies suck. I'm living proof.

4. I will make the most of tomorrow and the rest of this week, even if I had disagreements and my plans were averted, and my allergies suck, because life, my friends, is full of great things. So I will choose to enjoy and love each second I've got.

Till tomorrow, loves.