i am _____ because

First of all I got this idea from a blog that I consistently stalk the post is here. If you haven't read the little miss momma blog than you definitely need to. I love how she writes, and she might have the cutest baby and style ever. Her hubster looks like stud too.

Enough about my new favorite blog. Let's talk Miki?

I'm weird because...
I only wash my hair once a week
I have the weirdest dreams always
I enjoying scaring people at work all the time, or making them feel uncomfortable.
I always tell my family and husband lies that are just too dramatic to be true
I will randomly burst into an accent (I'm awful at accents)
I love glitter
I learned to drive a manual a few months ago, and am terrified to relearn driving in the snow
I could sleep 10 hours and still be tired
I'm usually not nice until after 11am, because I'm ornery
I am a night person without a doubt. I love staying up.
My phone is completely filled with pictures of my dog
I cuddle my dog every night, and have to actually physically wake her up before I leave for work.
I am married and have 2 male roommates, that I adore.

I'm a bad friend  because...
I have issues committing to girl trips, because I hate the thought of sleeping without Jared
I never can remember birthdays
I can't relate to the mom world yet, so I never call about children.
Most of my good friends I don't see enough.

I'm a good friend because...
If you're hurting or need a night to vent I am always here.
I try to text friends just to say hey.
I would open my door to any friend at any hour.
I try to involve myself with friends and their families, so they know I do care.
I'll be your date to a wedding anytime.

I'm sad because...
My commute to an from work tripled over the last month.
I miss Kjerstin. She lives too many hours away.
I'm not going on my annual Mazatlan Xmas (2010 , 2009) trip this year.
(i went a little over board with the pictures)

I'm happy because...
I am in love with my boyfriend husband.
I have the best puppy.
I love my work and coworkers, and we're expanding and doing well.
I just used my first two bottles of glitter blast spray paint!
My roommate decided not to move out =)

I'm excited for...
Thanksgiving with my family.
Christmas with my in laws
Just life in general.


I would love to hear your I'm blank because, so do the same thing I did with Ashley. Either leave a comment with your answers or leave a link to your blog, so that I can go read them. I love hearing about all of you. =)

Procrastination..

What do you think? Are you procrastinating while reading my blog... hope so! =)

My wonderful weekend!

I had a fantastic weekend! I hope everyone else did too. It was a perfect weekend to get me ready for the cold hibernation that happens to me every year. I become such a hermit in the winter. I love to stay home and drink Cocoa, watch movies, and cuddle. I tend to want to go out less and stay in much more! Who's with me? yeah yeah!

The best part of my weekend was getting to see this:

Miki & Jared Wedding Day from Brandon Orton on Vimeo.

Do you love it?

Friday night we went out to a delicious restaurant, Martine. It's on 1st south and 22 East in Salt Lake. I ordered a Beef Filet, and my life was so good. It was insanely yummy. It came with the cutest potatoes too. I don't know how potatoes get so cute, but they were. Just sweet little balls that were cooked to the perfect mush. Oh man, I am drooling all over my keyboard just thinking about it. It is VERY expensive though. The only reason we went was Jared's 'work buddy' was in town, and he had the company card. I need more friends like that! seriously!
Have any of you ever been here?

Saturday.. oh saturday! We slept in till who knows when. I also love a good saturday morning sleep in. Nothing feels better than working all week, and then come Saturday when you have no limitations on sleeping. We bundled up and went to the most boring college football game I have ever been too. I love to see BYU win, but seriously Idaho only had ONE good play. In four freezing cold hours only ONE good play. I wanted to throw potatoes ;)!

We got home around midnight, and then stayed up all night watching movies and playing with Shia.

Sunday we decided to stay home from our parents, and just do all the things we have been meaning to do. Which for me meant deep clean my heart out, and for Jared meant catch up on some seriously missed RockSmith time. That kid is a champ. I love that he can practice guitar all the time now, because he is so much more content when he can play for at least half an hour. Plus I can already tell with 3 weeks of rocksmith under his belt he is already improving. He was pretty good before, but even better now.

Last week I found this awesome blog, and it had some fun interesting cleaning tips. I went to Dollar Tree, and bought all the cleaning supplies that I needed for the projects I wanted to try. Each one worked really well. I highly suggest them.

I cleaned my walls, doors and baseboards like THIS and I also used a generic magic eraser for scuffs. Which worked way better than I expected. I need to stock up on those babes!

I cleaned my sink like THIS - It worked insanely well! Way better than anything I have tried before, and that is saying a lot. I have tried so many things, because we have a white porcelain sink that seems to always be dirty!

I cleaned my windows like THIS and THIS. I love the Squeegee technique. It was so fast and my windows were all sparkly and beautiful!

My favorite project I did was cleaning all my vents. I took them out and scrubbed the daylights out of them with soap and water, and then I actually decided to repaint them white, because they were a bit banged up. They look a million times better. I felt so much better waking up this morning to s nice deep clean home!

I will go home, and take pictures tonight. Hope everyone had a fun weekend.

Pinterest Match up!

I have decided recently that I am actually going to start letting the things that I pin on my pinterest account inspire me. I have done a few of the crafts that I post on there, but my fashion watch board just keeps expanding and I haven't "used" it yet. I am trying to rediscover my closet. I love that I have a bunch of clothes, but never think to mesh certain things. Last night I pulled out my laptop found an outfit on my fashion watch board, and then today I took a picture of my outfit.

Here's mine and the  one I was trying to mimic, what do you think?
How'd I do for my first match up?

Cardigan & Dress: Charolette Russe

Boots: TJ Maxx

Belt: Kohls

Leggins: WalMart

Crazy Dog Lady

That's me

I am the CRAZY DOG lady.

Shia is seriously half my heart.

I love her insanely unimaginably soft ears

My phone is filled with pictures of her; sleeping, eating, running and playing.

I want to buy her fashionable little collars with big flowers.

I cuddle her every night and can't sleep without her next to me, 

scrunched between Jared and I.

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night to check on her.

Because I am nervous she stopped breathing.

That's me.. 

This morning Jared and I woke up to her dry heaving, and rushed out of bed.

To try and make sure she puke somewhere where we don't sleep.

Success!

I cannot stay mad at her, even when she pees on the floor or chews up my favorite VS bra.

So Shia L Spinelly

Munchie

Angel Puff

I heart you.

Spinells helping us re-do our closet by grabbing her toys out.

Hanging out in our hoarder room where our entire closet exploded in our room.

Making her dad smile.

Goodnight freckle nose {she get's that from me}

Halloweenur!

We had a blast this Halloween. We were able to celebrate Saturday and real Halloween on Monday. Jared and I decided to un-match kind of. He was Doc Holliday and I was Fire Sauce from Taco Bell.  It was pretty funny. Saturday we went on a fun bus with all our friends, and had a great time. There were tons of fun people and lots of great costumes. 

Doc Holiday is on the right

Jared had been grown out his mustache like it was his job and he was the boss. He owned the world of mustaches. However, I hate kissing mustaches, so our kiss-life was pretty lame last month. So last night when he decided to shave it off, and have normal facial hair again I was so thrilled that I took a photograph.

Shia is  our little princess. She helped me answer the door for all the trick or treaters last night in her costume. The kids were so excited to see her dressed up, it was awesome. She ended up loving all the attention and just waited by the door, then when I opened  it she would lay out like a beached whale and wait for every child to maul her, and love on her. She was pretty wore out at the end of the night, because laying out is tough!

Taco Bell Sauce Costume

Here's the scoop. One day my main squeeze and I were deciding on H-lo-Ween costumes, and I saw this funny costume online.

So I was like "miki, you could easily make this"then I thought some more, and was like "let's do it!". I didn't really take a ton of pictures of the process (or none - OOPS!) But I thought I would describe the process since it is so simple and a total hit at all the parties!

Materials I used:

Iron on transfer paper at Hobby Lobby  ($8)

 3 Yards of  red fabric from Wal Mart ($7)

 white paint and a sharpie - had on hand

I used a dress I had to make the pattern. I just traced to outside of the dress on the red fabric with chalk. Then I folded it in half and had Jared sew about an inch away from the chalk line (it was inside out, so the seam would be on the inside when it was done). 

Then I hopped on my lap top, and mirrored the word "fire" and the belly square "I see  how you look at other sauces" in photoshop. I then measured how wide and tall I wanted the writing and belly square. I sized them out in photoshop and saved them as JPEGS. The transfer paper requires an inkjet printer. I printed and then ironed it on the costume. I put wax paper over the iron on and it took about 15 minutes of ironing for them to set.

However it didn't show up perfect, because you can't really print white.. apparently! I just painted the patch white and lettering white. I used an all purpose paint, and it worked totally fine, and took about 10 minutes. Then I colored in the lettering and outlined the word "Fire" with a sharpie. It worked perfect! I think it turned out pretty cute, and for $15, I WIN!

I took this the night we finished the costume,  and then forgot pictures on real Halloween. Too complete the costume I wore red lipstick, painted my nails red and had red shoes on with a strapless bra, so my tank wasn't showing. It was real cute! I loved the saying on my belly too. Cracked up. Great, easy costume!