Alittle more information - Im Spoiled

Okay forgot to tell you all that I got matching ear rings to my New Years gift (open heart necklace) for our anniversary. Arent they lovely!

Another shot of these beautiful flowers

Here is the New Yeas gift. I wear it almost every day!

So Valentines morning I walked downstairs to put my contacts in. When low and behold Braden had switched the solution for Coke. Needless to say that was my last pair and they have destroyed my old glasses so they dont really sit well on my head. So Brant decided it was time for a new set of glasses. Whatcha think? Dont I look smart LOL. You might be thinking they are black. Nope they are a deep plum purple. I love them. Enough I havent even ordered my contacts LOL. But dont fret summer is coming and my rear will not be wearing glasses much during the summer!

For those that were wondering, it does appear in 2010 or 2011 we will be moved to Bartlesville. Which we is better than Houston, if there has to be a better. But they said its 97% sure Bartlesville but with Conoco Phillips you just never know.

Thanks for all the prayers of comfort everyone has provided. These past 4 months have been rather difficult. But I'm beginning to see the clouds start to part and there are sweet sunshine rays visible!

Update

7 Years - 02-20-2002 - Brant sent me these lavendar roses fom Vera Wang on Friday - not sure I've seen lavendar roses before. They sure are pretty, beautiful infact.

This is a photo of the boys a few sundays ago. Arent they just the cutest thing on two feet?

So I have a crap ton to update people on, but, Im just not in a good mood! So I'll be quick. Brans position with Conoco will not be moved till 2010 or 2011 so we will be Ponca for the time being. So life goes on.

Being a Girl

Okay so for those that know me, this will not be a shocker, for those that dont something new you will learn about me today. There are few things I obsess over 1. Shoes 2. Purses 3. Intimates 4. Nails So when thinking about what to blog about, I thought why not do something about me. Plus include a new photo of me.
So I've been having fun with polish lately. Above, Black, below, Purple. Have to be two of my favorite colors for toes right now. And the shoes arent too bad either! Oh and can you tell from the black to purple the tanning? Did you know that I love to tan? I love warmth and these winter months get to me!

Here is a new photo of me. I so dislike digital cameras and the fact that you can see every darn line on my face not to mention age spots, blemishes, and everything else I love to cover up!

ARENT THESE SHOES ADORABLE. Please if your in Ponca City, stop by the Bag Lady shop, on 7th near the High School. Kylie runs this shop and has the most adorable shoes and purses and clothes! Not to mention if you have little ones.... cute cute cute lil people clothes!

So we had a slumber party about a month ago with the Young Women and one of the hit colors was this blue that Madyson had, I took special note and had to run out and add blue to my collection. Then during the super bowl I was reading in Glamour and saw these cute lil art pens to do stuff on your nails. I've been having fun check out the hands and toes!

I've kinda decided that there is probably a reason why i dont have girls of my own. I'm alittle wrapped up in myself all the fun it is to be a girl that this house would puke girl if there was another one here.

Life has been good, we are still waiting till Monday and Tuesday to find out the "move" information. Brant has set a date to be baptised, New Beginnings is over and went well, I've had 11000 plus downloads on my Young Womens site, things are just becoming more and more busy and rewarding.

Yesterday I finally started one of my resolutions for 2009 - a Gratitude Journal. I think it will help me, understanding all the gifts you have in your life always reminds you things aren't so bad.

Parker's 18 Month Check Up

So we ventured to the doctors Monday. Parker is 19 months old. He is 32 inches high and 27 lbs. We are healthy healthy, but are having issues with some allergies. We will be trying some benadryl each night to see if that helps him.
Parker has started repeating alot of things. He is a very good little parrot. He will say "I want that" or " I want more" which is more than Braden ever said even at 2. It is interesting watching these two grow and how different they are.
Doctor noticed he must be an active boy by all the bruises and cuts... and we have bigger brother to blame for the most of them. There is alot of wrestling and rough housing in the Garrison home and Braden has started his biting crap when he gets frustrated. LOVELY.

Oh Braden had his First scripture Sunday! He did a pretty good job. It was pretty darn cool!

Slacker Town

Yes I'm a Slacker - we have been real busy, with what, other than messes, I dont know. But I am thankful that the Holidays are over and that life has almost returned back to normal.
Here is alittle over view of the past lets say.... 30 days... (i think that covers all the photos)
The Boys: Christmas eve my Uncle Spike decided that the lovely green and red cupcakes that they had brought to the party deserved a home at my house. Insisting to him that we did not need them somehow they made it home with me... Now I hope Uncle Spike understands why we didnt need them, it wasnt really the sugar intake... it was the potential for DISASTER.

One afternoon after we noticed braden had been absent and quiet (dangerous combo) we found him like this. Im not sure purple is his color. I think mom wears it much better.

Brant snapped this photo after a very long day. This was after the sugar incident (which you will read about later in this post).

Sugar Incident: January 19th

I've been working on a website the past few weeks. It has been consuming alot of attention mostly cause I'm stumped. The quality of art Im working with is ticking me off and I think I have been zoned out alot lately. The office is against the laundry room and kitchen. I could hear noises but I was unsure what they were... It kinda sounded like a rustling of papers, but there arent papers in the kitchen, and this sound had been entertaining them for a while.

I walked and found this.

Did you know that 4 lbs of sugar makes for great SNOW. Yes the boys were doubling fisting handfuls and then tossing them over their head.

I will be cleaning sugar for a year probably. It went everywhere, on top of cans, in boxes.... OH MY how I love my boys.

Our House: Progress

We've been working on the house! The outside for the very first time is all painted. All trim work is done. Apartment is all one color. The house is all one color. The only thing left is the front porch and we will do that this spring when we do some landscaping.
For Christmas my parents wanted to do Curtains for the house. Mostly cause they knew we were hosting and were probably mortified that we've never settled on a curtain for any room.

Plus we did some painting.

I just realized while writing this that it would be helpful to see a photo of 1. the house and 2 each of the windows that we covered. I will do that this afternoon when Im sure I will need fresh air to SCREAM. So hold me to a photo or two of a painted house and some homemade curtains my mom made.

Here is the dinning room. We painted it a stormy blue. Probably one of my favorite of our choices through out the house. Love the mood it sets. Love it in the sunlight and the darkness of evening. Love just turning this little lamp on at night and seeing the color. We are doing the room in this blue and accenting with White and Red. I've got some Frames to put up and we are looking at making a little corner art studio for the boys stuff. We will see.

Of course this was before Christmas. Brant and I have had issues with curtains. 1. We never can agree. My style is different that his, not that I cant appreciate it or even like it. Its more of a stickler to well I've already done this in the room that wouldn't go with that... so.... I went with what I liked and what my parents liked too and I think it is just awesome. The mood change in the room with curtains, AMAZING. The room is so warm. I love the sunlight through the curtains, it has a nice warm amber color to it.

I'll go through today after nap time and after the cushions to the couch are done in the drier - yesterday the boys found Hershey kisses and proceeded to devour them and in the midst smeared chocolate all over the denim couch.

ANYWAYS.

Another view.

Our family is going through alot right now. Lots of changes, lots of possible changes, two kids that really seem to take up an entire weeks worth of time in a matter of 12 hours. So I apologize, I've been at the computer daily but for some reason really havent known what to share. Strange huh.

We do hope everyone is having a great month of January. We hope our month ends better than it started. Actually I hope that for everyone!

New Years Eve

So last night was a good night to end the year! Wow I've been blogging for alittle over a year. How cool, there are moments (like recently) where I just don't get on enough to do a post but moments like last night make me want to share share and share.
I was getting ready to go to our Youth's - Brand New Year party and until there is light in the spare room where my vanity is to go I put my makeup on downstairs near the computer lol - silly i know. Anyways after I got done the boys were in the office and thought... lets take a photo.
They love playing with the web cams. so here is the product of last night.
Parker loves to stick his tongue out and be foolish. I thought we could join in on the fun.

The one body part he will always answer (usually by honking someone Else's nose) is his nose....

I'm getting alittle flustered at this point cause they will not look at the right camera and wont stop wiggling on my sunburn (fake tanning bed burn).

This is about as good as it gets! And I must say I was pleased to see us three together and smiling and having a good time.

Growing up my parents would either have my grandparents or my godparents over to play Rook. Rook is similar to Hearts, kinda the same concept with the betting and the trump... but not done with face cards... Plus there is a mysterious Rook (a bird - crow looking thing) that is worth the most out of points - it is coveted always.

Anyways we've not played cards with my parents in a long time. So we asked if they would play with us on new years eve. They obliged. Brant knows my dad is a very good card player - he is a card counter and knows strategy very well... so instead of couples we did men/women. Which made Brant happy so that he could be with my dad.

First game as you can see they whooped mom and I... there were many exchanges between my father and mother and sly trickery on my dads part to get her to play cards thinking one way..... the phrase "tonight is going to be cold" kept being said lol....

Anywho.... As you can see the women came back on a BIG come back and whooped some rear for the next two games.... I must say mom did rub it in their faces often... we were both giddy that we had beat them as badly as we did... I took the score sheet up and am thinking about framing it.... it is on the Internet now for all the world to see just how good my mom and I at Rook.... got any takers for next game?

Happy New Year

Enjoy. Photos to follow.