all set for the snow!

I swear he keeps getting cuter!!

bummed out.

I could totally be leaving on a plane for Florida tomorrow to hang out with two of my friends for a couple days! I am sad, I know it would have really been a lot of fun and probably one of the last trips I could go on with friends before we have kids. Chris of course is happy that I am not going because he was so jealous, haha. There was just no way I could get off of work on such short notice, I knew my boss would be sooo mad at me so I didn't even bother asking. Plus it probably wouldn't have been smart because I would need to spend a little bit of money here and there but come on! It was a round-trip ticket from Lansing to Florida for only $60!!!! And I have never flown before. I know I will regret not going, haha....
Oh well....

mmm..pumpkin pie.

Chris brought home a pumpkin pie this week from Russ's. We've been eating it since like thursday or something. He kept telling me how good they are, well everyone who knows me well knows that I am like the "pumpkin queen". I've had my fair share of pumpkin pie so I was a little skeptical, it had a lot to live up to. But he was definately right, they are so good!
Speaking of pies, I made my first one ever yesterday. It was "Peach Crumble". I wanted to take something to my Skin Care Class for MK, so I was going through this little recipe book I bought a couple monthes back. It had all of these great fall/Christmas goodies in it and I love to bake this time of year so I had to have it. It actually turned out pretty good, I was kinda proud of myself. I will be making another one very soon because I bought waaaay too many peaches so if anyone is interested....it goes really great with French Vanilla ice cream too.
So yeah, yesterday I got up and went to the store, did some laundry, baked a pie....and right as it was almost finished, and I had the last load of laundry in the dryer...oh yeah and I was just about to get in the shower...our power went out. So frustrating! So I packed everything up and went to Muskegon sooner than planned and just got ready there. Thankfully I have amazing in-laws who let us treat their home like our own. I packed up the laundry and finished drying it there too. There is nothing worse than wet laundry sitting in the washer or dryer. I did that on accident once. It didn't smell so great the next day, haha.
The drive to Muskegon was amazing as usual. I actually believe that it is more beautiful this year than it was last year, the trees are so gorgeous. If it hadn't been raining on and off it would have been the perfect drive. The weather was sort of nasty the past couple days.
I ended up going out to eat with Chris's parents before my MK party, we went to a little place called Hearthstone. They have some really good French Onion soup. The first question Chris asked me when I got home last night is if I got the FO soup, I was like Of course!!! And then he asked me if it was better than Panera's. I actually didn't think so. Surprisingly.
My Mary Kay class went really well. We had four women from Chris's family show up, they were a hoot and everyone did a lot of laughing and talking...it was fun. And I made some money, which is always great too, haha. It was just nice to talk and hang out and get paid, I know that once I get busy doing this that it is going to be such a fun job!! I know working with Mary Kay is going to end up being a huge blessing in my life, it already has been already! God is good!

Samuel Bryce

Sam is almost 8 monthes old now, he is getting so big!! I cannot believe how cute he is!

Fall is here.

I love fall so much, but I feel like we haven't really been able to enjoy it much this year. Things have been busy, perhaps that is why. But the leaves are starting to look beautiful as always. I always love the ride from Gr to Muskegon this time of year because the trees line the highway.
We finally broke down and turned our heat on, it was freezing in our house. Not that I am complaining because I am lovin this jean and sweater weather, I just hate it when I feel like I am "freezing". Hopefully by next week our new heater will be getting put in.
This past weekend we stayed at Chris's parents house. Saturday morning I had a Mary Kay training class. I have officially started! I am so excited. It's kinda overwhelming, I am still figuring some things out but I am looking forward to all of this, and hopefully I will be successful. I really do love their products. Friday night I am having a class for some of the women in Chris's family. It should be fun.
Saturday afternoon we hung out, I did Chris's dads hair and we watched Evan Almighty, it was actually pretty funny.
Sunday church was great as usual. Afterwards we went to the mall to walk around. Chris and I have sort of started making it our little thing to go and eat lunch at Panera after church. It's fairly cheap, and they have some of the best soup..I LOVE their French Onion and Broccoli cheese.
This past week has gone by quick. Work has been fairly busy. I have tomorrow off so I will be going to Muskegon for the little Mary Kay party. I have so much laundry to do tomorrow, and I have to bake some cookies or something! I want to clean the whole house too. I keep putting it off cause I know it is going to take a while, I just don't want to spend my whole day off cleaning and doing laundry. One thing I know for sure is I am sleeping in tomorrow!
Last night we went to Lansing to hang out with my friend Kevin and his gf Lisa. He just finished at MSU's Law School and is awaiting his BAR results. Next week he has an interview in DC and is most likely moving there shortly after. So I thought we'd better go and hang out with them really quick before he has to leave. We went to the Claddagh, I miss that place. Well more like I miss the food, haha. I am disappointed though because they got rid of some of my favorite dishes and added some not so Irish ones, it doesn't make any sense. It's like they care more about changing things for money purposes than keeping it authentic. I hate it when people sell out!
This morning I had to get up around 7:30 which is pretty early for me. When you get out of work after 11, it's hard to go to sleep right away which usually results in me staying up til like 1ish which leads to not getting up until atleast after 9, but anyways the point is that a while back I made this appt. at 9 am to force myself to get up early. I was really hating myself for that when my alarm went off, haha! I ended up going back to sleep after I got home, it was kinda stupid, but I think in part it was because it was so dreary outside and everything just kinda felt blah. But then the sun came out and I took Niles for a walk and it got all nice. Today was a weird day with the weather and all. I am happy that all of the bad weather missed us. When I was listening to the news at work they said that like 4,000 people in GR didn't have power, and I was like oh no!!! Thank goodness we still had it when I got back home.
ANYWAYS so when I went back to the ENT doc. today we found out what is wrong with me. For as long as I can remember when I breathe in through my nose it just always feels plugged, it's hard to explain. They couldn't really figure out what was wrong with me besides the fact that I have a slighty deviated septum and my nose walls collapse a little when I breathe in, but surgery for that would potentially make it worse. So then I got a cat scan on my sinuses but they were all perfect. They were concerned because my symptoms were worse than what they were seeing. But the cat scan also showed all views of my nose and passage ways. It turns out the partition in the middle of my nose juts out to the left blocking air from getting in ( I could tell that it was worse on the left) and both turbinates on each side jut out so they want to do surgery, trim down both turbinates and also reconstruct the partition and make it straight, allowing more air flow through my nostrils. The question of the day is do I really want to have this surgery??? I don't need it. I could just deal with this for the rest of my life, but it is so annoying! I am not sure what to do. I would end up having to take a week off of work. It's an out-patient surgery so I would go in in the morning and be out by the afternoon. There is a chance of a blood clot which only happens a couple times a year he said. I want it done, but it also means more money to pay and losing money by not working. I am not sure what to do!!! I just want to be able to breathe out of my nose normally.
Well anyways, I think that is all for now! I am going to go enjoy being in the company of my husband since we don't get to see eachother that much lately. =)

One of My Favorite Verses

---Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. If you do this, you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.---

Philippians 4:6-7 (New Living Translation)

And also one of the first verses I ever memorized when I first became a Christian.
=)

Pushing Daisies

Ok, so yesterday I was sitting around with Chris and he was looking at someones blog online and they wrote a little post about this show. We were thinking Hmm....can this new show really be this great? We watched the preveiw which totally captivated our attention, and I immediately was thinking oh my gosh I hope we can watch this online since we missed it last week!!
But oh my goodness, it is seriously soo great! Everyone needs to check it out!



I believe that this will probably be my new favorite show! Also, you CAN watch it online, just go to abc.com! I know you all will love it! =)

3 Wonderful Years

Today Chris and I have been together for three years. I cannot believe it, my longest relationship ever. And it's only going to get longer in years!
Tomorrow it will be one year since our "2nd wedding". I cannot believe it, I feel like we were just on our honeymoon.
I would LOVE to go back to Boston and New York, we had soo much fun.
These past couple years have been such a whirlwind of events that they have just gone by so fast. Everyone keeps saying that the older you get the faster the years go by.
I am afraid to blink anymore!!
=)

I love you Christopher Robert!
My little BoBo...haha. ;)
He will KILL me for writing that, hahaha... *mwah!

Ok, here goes....the start of my "List About Me"

1. My maiden name is LaFave
2. My birthday is Feb. 5th
3. I was born in Bad Axe, Michigan
4. I have two younger brothers Joe and Charlie who are really related to me.
5. I have an older brother Jesse, older sister Megan, and brother Nate the same age as me who are like my "adopted siblings". They kinda adopted me into their family. =)
6. I have moved 11 times. I hate moving.
7. I went to three different high schools.
8. I went to the Douglas J Aveda Institute in East Lansing and have my cosmetology license.
9. I love doing hair! I just hate working in a salon.
10. I am going to start selling Mary Kay.
11. I want to start having kids, stay home, and start my business doing hair and skin care.
12. I think that once our kids are all in school it would be awesome to be a labor and delivery nurse.
13. The reason I don't pursue this is because I hate going to school.
14. I think that I would be more willing to go to school if I didn't work full time.
15. My husbands name is Chris.
16. He is awesome and a great husband.
17. Oh, and I love him.
18. We have been married for over a year and a half.
19. We had TWO weddings! How sweet is that!
20. Our second wedding anniversary is coming up Oct. 7th. That will be on year for that one, haha.
21. We have a dog, Niles, and he is just over 4 monthes old.
22. My favorite shows right now are Days of Our Lives, The Bachelor, The Biggest Loser, Kitchen Nightmares, and the Office.
23. I also love Friends and Frasier.
24. I love to bake.
25. And I think I'm kinda good at it.
26. I LOVE candles!
27. I love anything pumpkin.
28. I have a small obsession with the Eiffel Tower.
29. I hope to one day travel to Paris.
30. I love it when fall starts to come around and the leaves start changing.
31. I love jeans, sweater and hoodie weather.
32. Christmas is the BEST!
33. I love buying presents and wrapping them and giving them to people.
34. I am SO excited to buy a real tree this year, and decorate it, and put it in our huge big beautiful window in the dining room!
35. I am worried that Niles will probably eat the lights and knock it over, haha...
36. I hate lysol. Chris always sprays it and somehow it gets in my mouth.
37. I had a kidney stone a couple years ago. It was pretty painful.
38. I didn't get wisdom teeth and the dentist said I never will. Yay!
39. I have some of the most amazing friends.
40. I used to be a cheerleader.
41. I really miss it sometimes! Especially going to the games.
42. I actually don't mind doing laundry.
43. I hate doing dishes. Thank goodness a dishwasher came with our house.
44. I don't get enough excercise.
45. I wish I was more motivated sometimes.
46. I administer medicine to residents at my job.
47. I think I am really good at what I do.
48. I really like to scrapbook, I just wish it wasn't soooo expensive sometimes.
49. I wish I liked to run.
50. I hate running.
51. I recently found out that I love to do puzzles!

Ok that is all for now, I'll do more later. =)

Update.

I really need to blog more often, because the more I put it off, the more there is to write about, and then I put it off even longer because I know that it will take me a while to write.

Things around here have been really great lately. I am happy, or I am trying to be, but I will get to why I am not exactly in a little bit.

This weekend was awesome. Saturday morning we got up and went to do the Aids Walk downtown. We noticed that other people had their dogs so Chris went back and got Niles, he was so good throughout the whole walk, and it was 3 miles, I was almost surprised he made it the whole way without plopping down. The weather was great and everyone seemed to be in a great mood, it made me feel good that we were doing it for a good cause. Everyone who walked also entered a raffle and at the end they drew my ticket and I won a gift basket with some hair products and a free shampoo/cut/and style from a little salon downtown, how ironic huh. We were hoping for the Grand Prize of a free nights stay at the Amway Grand. We want to do that so bad but for some reason just can't bring ourselves to waste the money on it. Eventually we will I guess. Pic from before the Aids Walk:

After that we came back home, made some lunch and just hung around and relaxed. I finally got to bust open my puzzle, which hasn't been going too well so far. We got the border together and a couple other pieces here and there....1000 pieces is just so much harder than the 500 piece puzzles! Plus I have been so busy, I am having a hard time just sitting down to work on a puzzle when there is like a billion other things going around in my head that I need to be doing.

I even got to take like an hour and half nap that afternoon. After that we finally got around and got ready, then went to Macy's to spend the giftcard that I found. I bought a shirt, and two sweaters, all on sale of course, and also a Mac Eyeshadow. Chris bought an outfit, that he looks really cute in by the way. We ate at Panera (they have some awesome French Onion soup, if you haven't had it, I definately recommend trying it sometime.) And then got some Spiced Chai at Beaners, it was fun just spending the whole day and night together, we had such a good time.

Sunday morning we went to church, went grocery shopping and then came home and got some stuff done. His parents went to Ohio this weekend and on the way back home they stopped by and we went out to eat at Kobe. Sushi!! That is all I'm saying. =) Anyways, they went to Ohio because they rescued a little Brussels Griffon dog named Faith (they are gonna rename her Bindi), she is really a cute little thing!

After a late lunch we went to our friend's Joe and Erica's house for House Churh. It was so good, it totally made me realize something about myself. When I find myself getting really mad or frustrated at someone, or a situation, it's because they aren't doing what I want, or things aren't going how I want them to. And the whole time I am thinking about it in my head and getting myself all riled up, it's so ridiculous! I am really trying to work on that. I am also trying to work on the things I say to other people, and what is coming out of my mouth constantly. Sometimes I really have a hard time keeping it shut when I know that I should more often, and I hate that.

After we came home I made 7 dozen cookies! I have been wanting to make them for a couple days now, and finally I just couldn't take it anymore. It only took me two hours. I LOVE my kitchen aid mixer, my nice cookie sheets I got from Bed, Bath and Beyond with a giftcard from our wedding most likely, and our new stove we bought when we moved into our house. All I gotta say is they were like the best cookies I have ever made!

Our little Niles lost his first baby tooth yesterday. He is getting so big! I was wondering why he has kinda been trying to chew on things more lately. I was walking into the living room and stepped on it and it kinda crunched and I was like what in the world, so I bent down and picked it up and sure enough...a little tiny tooth. I was like, oh my gosh!!! Today when he was chewing on his rawhide there was a little blood on it, it was kinda gross, but I guess if he is teething it doesn't surprise me. I feel bad for him because he has a cold right now and has been sick for like 10 days. I know how he feels, haha. But yeah he is all snotty and keeps coughing, it's gross for sure. He's on medication but doesn't seem to be getting all that much better. I hope he gets better soon because it's hard to play with him and stuff, you just kinda want to stay away because he is always sniffing you so he rubs his nose on ya...yeah it's gross. But he is seriously getting so big, I am sure that he weighs 30 lbs. now and I swear he is still getting cuter.

I also got my hair done this week. I was so sick of it being long, I needed a change. And I was ready to go back to brunette again. It's crazy how you can go from this:

To this in only a few short hours:

This week is going by fast already. I am looking forward to friday so I can have a day off, but I know already that it will be filled with things for me to be busy all day with. Right now we are supposed to be going to Muskegon, Chris actually has the day off too, which I am really excited about because that doesn't happen too often, but I may be going home to see my sister and spend some time with her. Which comes down to why I have been sad for the past two days. I got a call from my mom yesterday, she was so upset.....when my sister had gone for her ultrasound, they couldn't find either twins heartbeats. It is so upsetting....you just, don't even know what to say or do. Or how to feel. It's just a sickening feeling. All I could think was...no...no...this cannot be happening. And...if I feel this way, how does Megan feel? I know that they are devastated. This was such a miracle, this cannot be happening. I pushed it from my mind the rest of the day because I had to go to work and I knew if I kept thinking about it it would just upset me more. When I came home last night and told Chris I started crying a little. I could not help it, I just know she is grieving and there is nothing I can do and it makes me so sad. Today I got to talk to her finally for a little while, she seems to be doing a little bit better than yesterday. I just wanted to hug her and tell her that it will be Ok, but how do you tell someone that? This is such a huge loss to them. I guess I still have hope that she will go back and they will hear the heartbeats again. And I just thank God, because atleast now she knows that she can get pregnant. Please just pray for my sister, pray that God gives her peace and understanding throughout this whole situation. Her and Pat are such an amazing couple and would be such awesome parents, they totally deserve to be blessed with children. Please just pray for them.