August Fave Things

Here we are again on the last weekday of the month.  Time to link up for the fave things.  First off though can you believe it, summer is basically done, over, finished.  What the ?!?!

Now enough that, let's get onto to some of my wonderful favorite awesomeness of the month.


1.   Things my mommie makes for me. 

 

2.  Exploring/Trying new places. Checked one more item off the Seven Wonder of Wisconsin list and family summer bucket list.  And trying out the Cheesecake Factory for the first time.  That food should be illegal.

 

 

3.   Random fun things from shopping.  Pretty earrings and I am loving the Buxom lip line.

 

 4.  Crazy Family BBQ Time

5. And last but not least...of course, anything and everything related to weekend water activities.

 

Seriously people, it is so hard to pick out fave things for the month.  This month/summer has definetly been an awesome one.  Lovin it all.

Happy extra long weekend lovelies

Dawn Marie

Slinky Day

Happy surprise to the family this morning... according to this site: http://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/slinky-day/

It is Slinky Day.  So my peeps had the priv of waking up to this:

Slinky race...is definetly going to have to be on the to do' s for the evening.

xoxo  Dawn

Wordless Wednesday - Walk into the club like what up I got....

 

 

xoxo

What the ?!?!

Believe I mentioned a month or so ago the fact that we have given up the satelite dish for a period.  Now when my little MSNBC news feed started to get slammed with all the news of Miley's performance at the VMAs, there was no way I could pass up checking out what the heck I missed.

Thankfully I decided to watch the video at work.  Otherwise I am completely sure the words out of my hubbie's mouth would have been something along lines of:  "shut your mouth dear".  You know the inevitable draw drop after the "what the moment".  People have been basically slamming her little performance to the ground.  On a positive note maybe someone should thank her for providing us a clear representation of how not to present yourself in public if you are a young lady (or hey even a young man for that matter).

Now aside from the pure dirtiness of the whole act.  I have to ask, what was with the whole weird creepy teddy bear thing that was going on.   First there was Mr. Space ship teddy that spit out the Miley.  Then the dancing teddies.  The girls with the teddies on there back and Miley wearing the weird teddy leotard.   Really could not figure out how that tied into the whole matter or even the song. Maybe I should watch the video and then I may just get it.  If you were trying to show that you are no longer a kid anymore, running around with your teddy bears may not be such a great idea.  Aside from being tramatized from her performance in general, bet we may have an influx of a  new fear surfacing of teddy bears.  You know kind of like the fear of clowns or Coulrophobia.


Then the creative soul that put this together. 

Photo courtesy of: NY Daily News

To come up with this:.

Wow are the 80's truly coming back.  Grab your aquanet girls. Bravo. This is  just the bomb. 

 

xoxo...Dawn Marie

 

ps. Opinions in here are solely my own. If you agree with them, get a good laugh, fantastic. If not, sorry. Personal opinions make the world interesting and may expand your point of view too. Thanks for stopping by my little blog world no matter how you feel on the matter.

 

 

 

 

Weekend Glimpse

Monday has reared it's head again.  So that can only mean one thing, time to glimpse back at the weekend and rest up for next weekend.

Started this weekend on the slightly craptastic side.  See this girl has to have a crown put on. Not the super awesome sparkly kind covered in jewels either. The hey Mr. Dentist kind. First they start with a temporary one.  Temporary is an understatement.  Put on on Wednesday.  Fell off Thursday night.  They put it back on Friday and Saturday morning...it was off again. Poo.  Think this little sad temp crown may just have to be put on the back burner until the original comes in.   And to finish frosting my cookies Saturday morning, my run stunk. Like horrible.  Need to get my head in the game my half marathon is just around the corner.

After I finished my run did our house shopping at Walmart.  Hate Walmart by the way, going there, the money spent etc.  Hence why I only shop for the house once a month. Anyways, was so proud. I made it thru the self check with a very full cart only getting hung up once! Yes!  The girl in the self check was mighty impressed too.  Even got a good job, I did.

After a little disappoint in the AM, just had a leisurely Saturday afternoon of getting a whole lot of nothing accomplished.  Sometimes you just need that.

Saturday evening was time for a little boat cruise with the family.  It was mom and dads first time on the boat.  Not sure if mom will be joining us again though.  Sad.   Enjoy a few moments...

Captain Dan (not as special as Captain Rod, of course)

We must share the Grandpa

Hold on to your britches...little Morgie Moo is at the wheel.

My view from the front of the boat.  This is a place I rarely sit.

Now it's Coopers turn.

Heron chilling on the shoreline

The bald eagles nest.  No one was home again.

Beautiful sunset to end our day. 

Then once we got home, we ordered Chinese.  Equally as wonderful as a sunset.

 

Scary Sunday Funday...headed out on the water again.  I know huge surprise there, right.  Temps were going to be in the 90's no better place to be then on the water.

Barely even made it out and we had a sleeper.

Sandbar Time

You never know what maybe lurking in the lake....like a swimming monkey

Playing with muck

The babies may not have liked the rocket ship, but Forest and myself did.

 

And the boys tubed for a little bit

 

Before the boys had their enjoyable portion of tubing, we did have one incident.  A very scary one.  We can just call this story some form of a public service announcement or something.  When taking the tube to the lake, we stuff it in the front section of the boat.  With the winds etc on Sunday, the tube with the rope and our ladder attached proceeded to go flying out of the boat.  Thankfully the rope did not get tangled around anyone and take them with or do some serious damage.  The little bro has some rope burns. My nephew who was helping daddie drive thankfully came away without a scratch. Very scary.  Please, please if you are on the water make sure your tube is secured.  We definetly will be in the future. That was a little close for comfort.

 

Otherwise we can write this down as another glorious weekend in the books with the family.  Amazing that labor day weekend is around the corner and summer will be coming to a close soon.

 

xoxo,   Dawn Marie

 

 

 

 

Gettin' my fix on

Oh yeah I got my fix on...and for a change it is not some random food I shouldn't really being eating (like glorious cheese popcorn), nor an alcoholic beverage, or anything dirty (sorry).  It was my very first time Stitch Fix.  Talk about exciting.  Seriously fill in information, someone else picks out the clothes, and poof it is on your doorstep.  Awesome.

Behold my very first stitch fix.

 

It is like Christmas.  Unwrap and you just don't know what surprise lies inside. 

 

This shirt would be something that I would never pick off the rack on my own.  Turns out after I tried it on it was fantastic.   This is the item that I decided to keep.

 

Have to say this shirt was also pretty amazing.  The only thing that stopped me was the color.  This girl needs things that can match a navy blue uniform and go from work wear to night or weekend wear.  It was amazingly comfy though.  Sad. 

 

The cardigan. Not going to say too much because honestly I probably didn't know howe to work the darn thing.  So in my little world it just became bat wings.

 

The jeans.  Liked. Except there were a little long.  With the price on these if they were not perfect no way would I keep.  Starting to learn things here.  Like invest in quality pieces that look amazing and fit perfect.

 

Super crazy dress.  The hubbie loved.  Think it was just a little too over the top for this girl. 

Sorry for the poor picture, just wasn't working at the moment.

What I love is that they show you what you should wear with what they sent.  One side being casual and how to dress it up. Awesome.  Love.

Amazeballs people.  That is how I want to sum it up.  My next fix is scheduled for September.  Hoenstly I just can not wait.   Asked this next time they cater the items to something I could wear for when I go see the musical "Jersey Boys" with my mommie.   Super Excited.

Interested in Stitch Fix, sound awesome.  Click right over here and get signed up:   http://stitchfix.com/sign_up?referrer_id=3151546

Oh and I did wear the shirt I bought to work.   Everyone loved it.  Just in case you needed another reason aside from feeling like it was Christmas morning.

xoxo....Dawn Marie

Couch Burning BBQ

Here we are again on Tuesday writing about the weekend.  Of course in all technicalities this weekend for me was extra long and started last Wednesday.  Which in this girl's little brain means that I get a little longer to play catch up.

Alrighty then let's get this thing to light up (literally people).  The day finally came for our little family couch burning BBQ.  Seriously we planned a BBQ aronud burning a couch.  Why would one burn a couch?   Well we kind of had it since we moved in (about 3 years), it was a hand-me down, not really our style, it's fun, and plus we bought a new one.  Yay. 

Perfect BBQ glassware.  Was so excited that I finally had an excuse to buy these. (shopko)

Those little bottle cap tops were actaully coasters.  Found those at Target in the dollar area.

 

Now all those sodas.  Found those at World Market. There were so many flavors from a bubble gum, honey lemonade, orange, root beer, cola etc. It was so much fun passing around and tasting the different flavors.

Our end of the night bottle collection.

 

Now the guest list or line up....

My little brother is just a little crazy.  In an awesome sort of way of course.

 

Goodness then did we have the food....chicken, ribs, watermelon, coleslaw, potato salad, brownies

 

 

Why yes those are red solo cup string lights, oh yeah awesome I know.  Shopko again people.

Grandpa even managed to make it out for dinner.  At first he wasn't going to show (other priorities, he volunteers with an organization).  Then we had the grandkid, Forest, call and poof here comes Grandpa.  Nice that he joined us for dinner before having to go take care of business.

 

The perks of the little bro living by the river.  Took the steppie out on her first peddle boat ride.  We went and stalked the neighbors chicken.  For some reason though those chickens were just not interested in a peddle boat ride with us girls.  Can't blame them with how many circles I managed to steer us in.  Bet they were just sitting on the shoreline clucking at how silly we were.

 

Last and finally not least was when we finally burnt the couch.....

 

The couch went up in flames way quicker then I ever could have imagined.  Fire was so hot you could barely stand by it.  Crazy.

 

And last but not least an unexpected visitor who decided to enjoy watching the fire. Mr Tree Frog.

 

 

Sizzling out of Saturday....Since that was only Saturday and I am a firm believer that we go to work to rest from the weekend.  Let's take a look at our Sunday crazy.  Those darn boys just wanted to take break. This girl whined though and.....we got to go play on the water!!

Trying out the top on swagtime

The sandbar was just a hopping

 

Yet another gorgeous weekend with the family.  Now as I said before, time to rest up for next weekend.  Peace out my people

 

Dawn Marie