My Newest Lip Addiction

Baby Lips by downtownsouthern on Polyvore


This is my first Polyvore so bear with please!  I'm still learning.

I know these Maybelline balms have been around for a while and I've actually had the clear color in the blue tube for over a year.  But just recently I picked up the peach color/flavor in the purple tube and I was hooked from there.  It gives a great subtle color and shine and for $2.99 you can't beat it!  So now every time I go to Target I pick a new one up.  So I've got all of the ones shown above and I pick between the three colors every day.  I don't really wear the clear one since it doesn't give me any color.

The only thing I will say is the balm doesn't actually last very long on your lips, so you'd need to reapply often.

Do you have any of the Baby Lips?  Can you recommend which one I should get next?

The Pregnancy Diaries: My Little Boys 1st Pics

To kick off a series I'm going to call The Pregnancy Diaries, I thought it would be fun to show off Little Man's first pictures.  I'm talking ultrasound pics! oh yeah! 

This one is called the Gummy Bear, this little rascal was doing the cutest dance/shuffle you've ever seen.  It melted his Mommy and Daddy's heart to see him and see that he was doing okay and had a strong heartbeat!

Here is my favorite ultrasound pic!  This was his 12 week pic and it's my favorite because he just looks so sweet and so much like a little baby already, I just wanted to cuddle him right then and there!

Here we have the gender reveal pic, obviously he's all boy! 

Hard to believe that's the little boy that hung out in my belly for 9 months!

Side Note: The Pregnancy Diaries is going to include everything from bump pics to symptoms I had to my favorite pregnancy products and everything in between.  So if there's anything in particular you'd like me to post about in The Pregnancy Diaries just let me know!  I'll be happy to share!

One more thing, I consider my blog a lifestyle blog so I'll still be posting about anything and everything, so please don't think this will be all baby all the time because it won't be!  Happy Hump Day!

It's been 9 months.....

Well it's actually been longer than 9 months, but that title seemed apropriate given the reason I've been away. See the last post that I wrote was about my birthday last year and I actually received another present that I wasn't able to share at the time but it turned out to be the best present I've ever gotten!

That's right, I found out that I was pregnant two days before my birthday and it was so exciting and scary at the same time since JR and I had actually been trying to get pregnant for quite a while (2 years). I'll be sharing some highlights from my pregnancy journey with you here on the blog soon. I'm not really sure why I stopped blogging while I was pregnant it just sort of happened. I've been following a lot of you but like the no blogging, I've been a very bad commenter as well. Shame on me!

I'm looking forward to getting back into the blogging scene! <3 p="">

My 31st Birthday

Was this past Friday and it was a pretty darn good one!

I took the day off of work and relaxed which was fabulous!

Here are a few things I received for my birthday.

Jimmy Choo perfume that I've been wanting for a while, it's a great scent to transition into fall with.

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               Totally out of the blue was this Emporio Armani watch, which I LOVE!  This was actually from my MIL and FIL, seriously I have the best in-laws ever, hands down!

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               JR took me to a local french resturant called Can Can Brasserie, amazing and delicious!

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And now the celebration continues because I'll be having dinner tonight with some of my besties, drinks tomorrow night with some bloggie friends, lunch and dinner on Thursday with some more dear friends and I'll get to see my parents this weekend for my birthday!  I know ya'll wanted to know my itinerary for the week, right?! haha : )

What can you get for $42?

All of this! 

 

From Left to Right:

Bath and Body Works - I had two coupons, one was for a free travel size signature fragrance and the other was 20% off your entire purchase.  So I got myself a hand soap for the kitchen, the 5 mini hand sinitizers (I had already put one in my car) and they were having a sale on the beach candles, buy one get one free, yes!  So my total and BBW came to roughly $16 not bad for all of that! 

Next up came Target - I needed some cotton pads for my mani's and I've been stalking all of the target's in my area for that watch in the picture and finally found it!! I also found my absolute favorite sally hansen top coat, Double Duty, I didn't think they made it anymore.  My total came to roughly $20 at tarjay.

Then on to Victoria Secret because I had a free pair of panties coupon, and yes I'm that girl who goes into VS and only gets the pair of free panties and I am not ashamed to admit it, if you want to send me a free merchandise coupon then I'm gonna use it and may or may not buy anything!

Last stop was to Old Navy where I got the bargain of the century ya'll!!! As I was perusing their racks I came across the above maxi dress and looked at the price tag, WHAT?!, I thought there's no way this is right!  And then I saw a couple more of the same dresses and checked their price tags and they were all the same $5.97 I KID YOU NOT!  That maxi dress was under $6, they didn't even have t-shirts on the sales rack for less than $8! 

And that my friends is how you have yourself a little shopping spree for $42!

What are some of the awesome bargains ya'll have found lately?!  I'm dying to know!

What's on my phone

Happy Thursday Friends! 

I love taking random pics with my iphone and thought I'd share a few of the ones that are currently living in my phone : )

1. My morning coffee - I try to alternate between tea and coffee because I take my tea without sugar, trying to be a little healthy.

2. Okay so if you were a kid growing up in the late 80's early 90's like me then you totally remember the kool-aid commercials with the big kool-aid man/pitcher busting through the brick wall and yelling, "OH YEAH" so as I was leaving the mall I looked over at this building and that's what I saw, totally took me back to Saturday morning cartoons and made me crack up laughing because it was so funny to see!

3. Peonies, peonies, peonies at Fresh Market, oh my good gracious the heavenly scent of this flower, ugh so good!!

4. A little afternon snack -- Cheerwine and shrimp with Old Bay seasoning -- doesn't get much better than that ya'll!

1. My favorite breakfast oatmeal -- the Quaker Real Medleys are sooo yummy, my favorite is the peach and almond, seriously good and healthy!

2. My new favorite razor, hello smoothness!!! This razor is amaze!

3. My water cup and orange nails a la elf (I am actually not happy with this nail color and had to take it off because it started chipping, boo!  I love the color but not good quality for some reason?  I wore one of the other elf nail colors last week and it was fine, not sure what happened with this color though?

Tomorrow's Friday and I'm getting excited for the weekend! : )

The best of my Vacation-Staycation

JR and I were off the week of the 4th for our annual "staycation" and I have to say that I had a GREAT time.  We did something every day so it felt like we got really good use out of our time because nothing is worse than going on vacation and then coming back from out of town and feeling like you need another vacation to recuperate from your first vacation, you know what I mean? 

Yeah, you know what I mean.

Here's a little rundown of some of my favorite things I did while on my staycation!

Went to the Movies.......

Oh yeah, Magic Mike was some kind of good ladies, if you haven't gone to see this yet, then grab some of your girlfirends and go, you won't be dissapointed!

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Went with JR to see ted, hilarious!

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Went out with Friends.............

Went to On the Rox to watch the european soccer championships, lots of mimosas and lots of fun!

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Went to The Funny Bone comedy club and had even more fun!

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Eddie Ifft was the stand up comedian and he was pretty dang funny, either that or I had a little too much wine, hard to tell.....

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Fixed some yummy food.........

This greek salad is my favorite!

Bought a couple things.........

This e.l.f. nail polish set I scored at TJ Maxx for $3.99 and I'm dying over the colors!!!! I'm obesessed with any shade of coral right now!!!

Went to the River...........

Ended my staycation with a lazy day on the river, nothing beats drifting in the water on a float when it's 110 degrees out!

Great week ya'll!  Does anyone else love their staycations as much as I do??!