My husband the artist

I'm sure most of you know that my husband is an Visual Art and Design major at SLCC. He took a watercolor class this semester and this was his final. We're going to frame it and give it to my grandparents I think. I am debating on keeping it because of its awesomeness. Please excuse the cell phone picture. I had to snap it while it was drying still. His teacher is currently still grading it but was very complimentary and even used it to give pointers to an advanced watercolor student.

The Christmas Tree

Ok so the very first year Tracy and I were married he had a part-time job at target. It was awesome because we decided we wanted to buy an artificial Christmas tree and we got a discount on one. I love that tree. It's gorgeous, it always looks great and its easy to take up and put down, although time consuming because I am a fluffer. This year when Tracy pulled it out of our storage unit one of the legs was missing. We've searched and searched and we can't find it.
What's a poor (literally) girl to do??
I went to walmart and bought the cheapest artificial tree they had. It was 38 dollars and it was prelit. Now I'm one of those people that thinks the more lights the better, so I was fully anticipating putting more lights on the prelit tree. However, when I got it home, at midnight, I just wanted to decorate it and be done. The front room was covered with Christmas boxes from storage and I just wanted them all to be put back away. So I set the tree up and decorated it with our new decorations. We actually bought the purple and pink ones, and the garland, a few years ago after Christmas for like 90% off, I just never wanted to use them because I liked our snowman tree and then our black and white tree. But this year I decided to go for it.






I love the garland! By far my favorite part of the tree this year. I also love my little penguin that sits on a sleigh under the tree. The only presents under it are for the girls so far. Those are from mom and dad. The rest are going to be from santa!
I was able to snag two Lalaloopsy dolls today at toys r us (my sixth store and second toys r us)It's all Madison asked for specifically so I had to get it for her.


Kelcy wanted one too but she was much more flexible on which one, so LUCKILY the toys r us had the exact one that Maddie wanted and another very cute one! I'm super excited.


I dont know what I'm going to do when Kelcy starts reading my blog...

Boring!!

I really wish that I had more to talk about lately, but really all I've done is job hunt, interview, be denied and then clean. I suppose I could post pictures of our Christmas tree because that's the only new thing lately!
I revamped my resume at the suggestion of the lovely people at workforce services so hopefully that helps. Also they helped me work out some good answers to the "Why did you leave your lost job" question.
Being fired for no reason really has its disadvantages!
Cross your fingers for me!

Kelcy is freaking hilarious!!!

So now that I'm unemployed I seem to spend a large portion of my day aimlessly browsing the internet. Let me just tell you the internet is NOT big enough to keep me entertained. However, while browsing Regretsy today I came across this.

Tracy was on his break from work and we both sat there and laughed for a few minutes at the shear ridiculousness of this. Seriously. So after we stopped laughing I ask out loud, "What do you even do with this??"
and Kelcy looked at it and goes: "Throw it in the dumpster."
Yep!
P.S. I am in no way dissing Etsy. Etsy is amazing and there are some SERIOUSLY talented people selling their handmade goods and art.
However, there is a lot of random crap on there too. :)

Hieb Look-alike Meter

So I posted Kelcys kindergarten pics on facebook and lots of people have been saying she is a mini me. This is confusing to me because i've always thought that Kelcy looks way more like Tracy. Actually I think both my girls look more like him. So I decided to settle the debate... and according to my heritage... I am wrong! lol
she looks more like me by 8%... go figure.

MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Family heritage - Family genealogy

P.S. I had so much fun with kelcys I decided to do one for Madison as well... it said she looks equally like Mom and Dad.

Stress and Distractions

So my stress level lately has been at an all time high. Why?
I got fired.
That's right. Fired. Laid off, let go, terminated... however you say it, it only means one thing. I'm unemployed.
Do you know what that means??
No money.
None.
Christmas is coming. We now have no health insurance (this is very very temporary problem but still)
I'm seriously freaking out.
Unemployment only goes so far (pray that it gets approved PLEASE!!)
I have an interview lined up and am submitting resumes every day but seriously, sooooo stressed. Can't even tell you how stressed.
So in addition to job hunting,I've been filling my days with distractions including cleaning (i need to do this even more still!), reading, playing with my girls, working out and doing "fun" cheap things.
We went to the pumpkin patch:






We took the girls to see Toy Story 3 at the dollar movies. And as part of an assignment for Tracys art class, we went to the Utah Museum of Fine Art









All of these pics were taken with permission from the museum and they were all flash free.
It only cost us $7.00 to go the museum and we took the girls too. Totally a good deal! Tracy and I could have spent hours and hours in the museum and had an awesome date, but since we took the girls we were only there about an hour and a half.
Anyways, if anyone hears of a totally awesome job... Hook a friend up!

Happy Birthday Madison!

My baby is 3!!! I can't even believe it! She is getting so big its totally freaking me out. she talks, she has hair now. It's such a huge change! They grow so fast!