Week End Review

It has been a crazy week and this weekend will be even crazier....but I wouldn't want it any other way!!

A while back I was invited to a meeting with all University of Iowa sorority presidents (there's a fancy name for this but I don't know what it is!).  They heard about my mobile spray tanning business and wanted to hear more about it!

I was thrilled to go!

I got a call a few weeks ago from a sorority wanting spray tans.

I said you tell me when and where and I'll make it work!

It was last night!

I did 54 spray tans in 5 hours!  They were well organized and had 2 spray tans every 10 minutes!  I didn't schedule myself a break in there so I went non-stop for 5 hours.  The time flew:)

Luckily I had my SIL Amy there to help.  I sprayed and she did everything else!

I could NOT have done it without her!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU AMY!!!

I finally went to bed around 1am and was up bright and early (SUPER SORE) for the daycare kiddos!

I actually got up a bit earlier so the boys and I could enjoy breakfast at McDonald's:)  They loved it and so did I!

I told myself McD's breakfast was okay because I totally skipped out on supper last night and I was STARVING all night and into this morning!

I'm really hoping they all loved their tans and ask me to come back!  And they spread the good word and I get more calls from different sororities!

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Tonight we are celebrating one of my best friend's (Haley) birthdays....she's on the left!

{CORRECTION: Haley is the one on the RIGHT...not left;)  I'm going to blame that on crazy brain and maybe a slight blonde moment;)}

This fun group of gals has a date tonight!  I cannot wait!

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And the biggest news of this blog.....MY BABY TURNS 2 TOMORROW!!

I cannot believe how fast the last two years have gone!

We have a fun weekend planned:)

Blog to follow:)

TGIF to all of you!!

Long Weekend

We had a great long Thanksgiving weekend!

It started off Wednesday night with 21 spray tans here! 

Travis had a fire meeting so I called in for backup....

Best babysitter EVER!

During long weekends there are no rules here so the boys often fell asleep in our bed then were transferred to their own beds!

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Thursday was a great day spent with the whole family and really good food!

Here's Grandma Spratt with her grand kids!

Thanksgiving table all ready to go!

I went out Thursday night with my SIL Melanie for my first ever Black Friday shopping!

It was fun but there are some crazies out there!

We hit Wal-Mart and Target (I got everything I wanted!) and could have been home by 10pm Thursday night but Melanie got a voucher for a TV at Best Buy she wanted. 

We stood in line what seemed like forever...

...we strolled back into town about 3am!

She was my wing-woman at Wal-Mart so I figured I owed her at Best Buy:)

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I was exhausted the next morning but I walked out at 8am to the Christmas tree up (not decorated) and all the Rubbermaid's of Christmas decorations! 

Travis' plans and my plans did NOT match for the day!

He won and I was forced to decorate!

Luckily a friend opened her house Friday for drop-in daycare.  I snatched up two spots right away so the boys went to Julie's for the day!

I am rarely in my house alone without kids so it was nice and weird at the same time!

We got everything decorated and the whole house cleaned!

Felt pretty good!

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Sunday we went to church then shopping in Iowa City. 

We had lunch at Red Lobster which was amazing!

We had our nieces 1st birthday party at 2pm Sunday so we skipped naps and this is what we had at 7pm....

This was 7:10pm.....

And this was 7:30pm....

This picture pretty much sums up our weekend!

I hope you all had a very blessed Thanksgiving with family and friends!

Happy Monday...

Thankful

I have so much to be thankful for I don't even know where to begin....so I won't!  I think it's pretty obvious why I'm thankful:)

I'll leave you with these photos of Thanksgiving day shirts Cash and Pierce wore!

There are more of Cash because he is wearing Pierce's hand-me-downs:) 

Pierce wore his "Gobble Gobble" shirt to preschool on Wednesday and I stripped him down when he got home so I could wash it for today:) 

I hope you all have a blessed Thanksgiving with your family and friends!

I know we will!

A Little Curl

I  have always loved a little curl to my hair!

I have a round face and I feel it looks so much better with big hair!

One of my daycare moms always has really cute, wavy hair.  I finally asked what she does and she told me she has this curling iron....

 Found here!

Like any women would...I went out and bought it!

I tried and tried and could never really get it the way I wanted. 

I've asked her a million questions and I think I FINALLY got it!

I've been playing around with it this week and here's what I came up with today!

It's not a crazy tight curl...it's just a nice wave!  Which is what I was looking for!

Before pictures here!

When my hair was wet I put mouse and hair spray in it.

I let it air dry then did 10 curls around the top layer of my head! 

I pulled the curls apart and this is what I got!

It's the fastest I've ever curled my hair before!

I had the boys running wild so I wasn't striving for perfection...just a little something:)

I'm pretty sure I succeeded:)

Happy Tuesday all.

Thank the lord for a short week:)

Packer Trip 2012

We went to Green Bay the first weekend in November.

We went with a great group of friends and we all had a great time!

I look forward to this trip every year and I already cannot wait for next year:)

We ran into some local friends while touring the stadium Saturday before the game!

 Attempting to cheer on the Hawkeyes...they need more then us cheering!

This was also the only group picture we got!

[Cheers Joe]

 Party bus to the game.

I had the "brown bottle" flu and was stationed in the front seat!

I was fine until our bus blew a front tire and we had to join another party bus.  I got thrown in the back of the bus with three people to a seat.  I have never been so close to losing my breakfast before!

Luckily I made it and perked up within a half hour (hair of the dog!!).

 Jess and her super cute outfit...she made!  She had lots of compliments all day!

 Girls!

 Tough guys!

 I don't think there's a bad seat in Lambeau!

 This, along with the fly over, was amazing!

 What do ya know...local concrete business at Lambeau field!

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Hair Did

It's been a long week full of nasty coughs, lots of snot, fevers, whining & crabbiness!

We are surviving and I'm hoping the weekend brings happy & healthy kids!

It's no fun being sick:(

There's my "vent" for the week!

Last Sunday I was lucky enough to get out of my house BY MYSELF to shop!  The weather was crappy but I didn't care because I was alone!!

I was gone for 5 hours and that's all I needed to reboot for the week!

I checked out Costco for the first time.  Can't decide if I like it or if it's too overwhelming!

I did, however, like the 5 pound bag of chicken nuggets and three pack of Heinz ketchup!!

We'll see how long everything lasts and decide if we need a membership!

I went to Kohls and it didn't take me long to find something!

All their toys were 35% off and I had a 30% off coupon so I stocked up on a few Christmas items. 

That's all it took for me to get in the Christmas mood....and now I'm done shopping for the boys!

I have to say....on Sunday I spent $113 at Kohl's and I saved $163!  How crazy is that?! 

My coupon was good until Wednesday so I proceeded to online shop when I got home!

Can't beat all the great deals....and free shipping!

On Wednesday the whole damn fam went for hair cuts to a friend still in school (Chantille Wetjen).

I absolutely love my hair and the boys look pretty cute too:)

Here's my new do.....

 All I have to do is blow dry my hair and it looks like this!  SAWEEEEET!!

{disregard my non-makeup face...this is what I look like most day}

Tonight is GIRLS NIGHT OUT!  Holla!!

We are going to check out our local salons open house, grab some supper then enjoy some adult beverages!

Cheers to the freak'n weekend!

Happy Birthday to my sister-in-law Jeana and my brother-in-law Jeremy...twins married siblings:)

Hope you two have a great day!

TGIF all!

Insta Friday

Had another great week! 

Monday on our way home from Wisconsin we ran into the president!! 

That's him there in the black SUV;)

 This is my basement on a daily basis.

Good thing I have diet Pepsi to get me through the day!

 Romp'n Raiders! 

 My seester sent me flowers for being "Thee Best Sister!"

They were beautiful!

 This is how we roll here....

And...*sniff* *sniff* my baby started climbing out of his bed this week:(

I knew it was a matter of time but I was still shocked when it happened!

I didn't believe it so I put him back in the crib and said.."show mommy how you get out..."  He proceeded to climb right out and said..."see mommy!!"  AWESOME:(

So instead of worrying about him falling and hurting himself we took the side off the crib and he now has free range of the room (which is the only thing I don't like!)

He actually did really well at bedtime and slept all night! 

I found both boys in here the next morning.  But I didn't care because they slept til 6:30am!!

Nap went well also!  Hope it continues:)

TGIF everyone!