the date night that still happened...

So I got some cheap movie tickets a while back and we thought tonight would be fun to use them. SO we went to the movies to see Contagion. About 20 minutes into it a very professional looking man and some of his lackeys walked in turned on the lights and said we need everyone to exit out the emergancy exit please. Go to the front and you will get passes. Thats all that was said. SO I was pretty mad it was looking like it was going to be a good movie. So we stood in the front of the building waiting for our passes. After we got them we thought it would be fun to go to the mall that was attached to it. We walked in and you could smell a REALLY bad fire. Turns out they evacuated the mall too. So much for that date night stefen said. Well I was not going to have it. We were going to finish this movie. So I turned to my handy dandy phone and looked up the other movie theater by us and found out that there would be one playing in an hour (1015) Stefen tried to make his argument as to why we should go to a movie late. But I talked him into it. And it was a great movie! And they took our passes from the other theater and our date night turned all good in the end.

P.s. I thought maybe there was a con in the building because they were searching for something. And not one fire alarms or sprinklers went off!

More crafting...

Have I told you about my love for Pinterest? Well I LOVE it! I have found some fun stuff to make and some yummy recipes to concoct. These 2 crafts that I am displaying today I got the ideas from Pinterest but made them in my own way. The first one is an anniversary gift for Stefen. Dont worry he saw it already! I was s excited to give it him I couldnt wait. I knew he would love it and he did! 

So I got a deck of cards and I used sand paper to make them look worn out. I wanted a really old feel to it so I atteched the paper with why I love him with elmers glue so it would warp the cards. I also burned a couple of the cards and I added some little cutsie stuff. It turned out awesome! And it took me only a day to make it.

The front. 

A burnt page. You can see that i sand papered both sides of every card.

a cutsie thing.

some of them i used a permanent marker to write in some words to make it look like the message got ripped off or forgotten.

Project number 2 this week and the most complicated was a spiders egg with spiders coming out of it. Let me tell you making the egg with only one person is NOT recommended. Unfortunately Stefen was working so I did by myself. I didnt get the globs of glue off like your suppose to but i like how it turned out. I used glue, corn startch and water as my adhesive for the glue and wrapped the yarn and glue around a balloon. and then after it tried it was really cool to watch the balloon detach itself from the yarn. And then we took string and tied the spiders. Which was a pain too because they kept getting tangled. But o well it looks awesome!

Xena...

Often conversations between Stefen and I are confusing and to be honest quite hilarious. We went to a friends house tonight and they are having a baby girl in December. They are naming her Brielle. And her nickname will be none other then Bri. I was telling Stefen how confusing this would be, for me, to have this baby called Bri. (Her parents didn't know my real name is Brianne until they asked if they could name their daughter Brielle after me. I had to explain to them that my name was not Brielle.) Anywho, Stefen suggested that I go by a different nick name. And I asked like what? And he bluntly stated well how about Xena? I was confused as to where this came from and he said that there will not be one other person ever called Xena so then I wont have to have a complex over people having the same names or nick names as I do. I chuckled and for 5 whole minutes he tried to argue his case as to why I should be Xena...


The conclusion: I am still currently Bri. We will see what happens when Brielle is born

Halloween is coming!

I have 3 confessions to make...

Number 1. I LOVE Halloween! Everything about it! I love decorations and make crafts! I just have never had control of my own home before.

Number 2. I LOVE Pinterest. I am addicted. If you dont know what it is: it a site where you can find all sorts of ideas for all sorts of things. Including Halloween crafts.. If you want an invite let me know. I just need your email.

Finally number 3. I have always had a secret desire to decorate a Christmas tree for other holidays. But my mom always said NO! Guess what My house now and  Stefen said YES! So Guess what I did! Look below!

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My very first wreath I have ever made!! I got all the supplies at the dollar store!

Close up there is a snake if you look closely and a spider.

Added a skeleton 

The fnal thing with everything hanging from it!

A Halloween chain and a spooky sign courtesy of Just Becuz 

Yep I did it! I turned my tree into a Halloween wonder

Stefen very excited for our Halloween tree.

Stefen asked if he could be a "Ghosty" for Halloween. So I got table cloths at the dollar store and we will get white make up for his face. Hes thrilled.

I made this ghost out of food coloring, clear glue, yarn, and googly eyes. I made some with elmers glue and some just plain clear ones. They are way cool!

Really cool skeleton guy

A shower!!

I got to help with my very first baby shower!! It was a blast! Here are the decorations and food. We kept it simple but cute. The theme was ready to pop so we did foods that pop..

Baby rattle rice crispies and pop corn..

Cookies just cuz you need cookies and pop corn cupcakes there is a better picture of my facebook page.

Amazing Cucumber punch AMAZING!

An unruly tale: A story as to why decorating should be left to the professionals...

Yesterday as you may already know we went to Ikea. We had a mission and our mission was to protect me from falling DVDs. We looked at all sorts of shelf's, fats ones, square ones, black ones, white ones, and everything in between. We came to a conclusion, a bright red one that could be tipped and tilted in any direction you want. The problem with this shelf is that it is LONG! It is 75 inches long and although you can tip it vertically and horizontly and at different angles we needed wall space. We initially had decided that it was to be in our bedroom. But after several different opinions from only men I got vetoed on having it be very modern. (Read captions for more of this tale)

This was our initial thought. At an angle the movies still stayed on. And it looked really cool. Evan and I were all for it.

But Stefen wanted it straight... 

We tried lesser angles and deeper angles. But a decision had to be made. So we brought in Jack! Jack is our downstairs neighbor who thinks he knows everything and probably does..

Jack (the one standing) and Even debating on what to do. Jack had a though that we should try different spaces in the house.. So those mirrors came off and we tried it there. We also tried it in the corner over there above the humidifier. But alas we would have to try a different room..

The boys thought we should attach it to the ceiling.. Where of course the only person who could reach it would be stefen...

Then an idea had formed. If we attach it to the lower ceiling Bri could reach it and it wouldnt look so out of place... But then realizing that my husband is slightly too tall for this idea to work Jack gave up on helping us and went on his merry way home.

After Jack left it was Evan, Stefen, and I alone again. Wondering what we were going to do with this unruly and long shelf... So it was decided...

We went with the straight position above the dresser...

Fish we love part 2

One of our fishes died earlier this week. So we decided to get some more. Evan helped us pick some out and we had fun trying to name them.

This is Fred. He is a ghost cat fish. He is VERY see through

This is picasso. He is paintbrush guppy

That yellow blob is banana our new snail. You can see the ghost cat fish and our fish kool-aid who is one of our older fish