Military Tag Game

I guess this post should be pretty self-explanatory. Please post a video response and play along yourself!


If you want to play, please just respond to this video.

Military Tag Questions:
1) How did you and your spouse meet?
2) How old were you when you two met?
3) How long have you been together?
4) Where are you and your spouse originally from?
5) How did you feel about him joining the military?
6) Where did your spouse go to Basic Training?
7) Has your spouse ever been deployed?
8) Ever been to his promotion ceremony?
9) How long have you been a military wife?
10) Did you marry him before or after he joined?
11) How did your husband propose?
12) Where did you get married?
13) How old were you two when you got married?
14) Did he wear his uniform on his wedding day?
15) Where are you and your spouse currently stationed?
16) Do you live on base?
17) How long were you married when you had to go through your first separation?
18) What is your favorite base so far?
19) Do you think your spouse looks good in his uniform?
20) Do you think military life is more advanced than civilian life?
21) Do you like the benefits you receive as a military dependent?
22) Do you have a lot of military wife friends?
23) What is the hardest part of the military life?
24) Do you own military wife stuff?
25) Do you support your spouse as a member of the military?

Happy Xmas!

Merry Xmas and much love to all of my readers. Here's a special song dedicated to J Walker Photography.

Hearts.



So what's your favorite Xmas song?

Xmas Time

Some fun, light videos for the holidays.

Snowman Treats Activity

Kids getting bored over Xmas break and you're looking for something fun and creative for them to do other than watch TV or play games? Try this no-baking food activity of making snowman goodies!

Moxie the Corgi

Well, long story short, after a lot of protest, my husband basically ignored me and got a dog anyways. But, I do have to say that she is the cutest dog in the universe. This is Moxie, and she's a Pembroke Welsh Corgi. Very smart, trainable, agreeable dogs, and she has really been a big change of pace to our last dog, who hated kids and was afraid of everybody.


Moxie is going to branch out into her own blog at followthatcorgi.blogspot.com

Happy Halloween and Finally a Diet Update!

Alright my la-la-la-la-lovelies, I have a 2 month 65 Gram Diet update. :)

65 Gram Diet Update

So I did an update on my diet program, the 65 Gram Diet. I've lost six pounds so far doing nothing extra (no pills, no exercise routines, just budgeting my grams of fat).



Anyone hearing about this diet for the first time, the diet is very simple to follow. You just look at the fat content on everything before you eat it (if it's at a restaurant the information is typically online or available from the staff upon request). You can have whatever you want, as long as you budget your entire day's intake to be 65 grams of fat or less. I posted a different vlog that goes into more detail about the 65 Gram Diet here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EjZP433CWc

Here's how my fat count went yesterday:
Otis Spunkmeyer Chocolate Chip Muffin - 11 Grams of Fat (GoF)
Small Whopper Value Meal at Burger King with no Mayo - 39 GOF according to BK.com
= 50 Grams of Fat for the day.


If you're friend's with me on Facebook, you guys might also notice a lot of animation posts coming up. I decided to split and make a separate vlog for my grad school postings, which is animatimon.blogspot.com. So I'm not trying to shove someone elses blog down your throat out of the blue, but any actual blog only subscribers are welcome to check me work out over there. Thanks! :)

Review of PixieKids Toys

I love their Food of the Month program, and you can find them on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/PixiekidsToys If you have kids from 1-10 they will love these cool eco-felt food items.

Loris' Lovables Customized Hats Review

I have gotten so busy sending my kids to school this past week, and gearing up to start grad school, I forgot to make this a public video!

This is my review of my order from Loris' Lovables, a super cute hat making place where this lady makes them all by hand and out of yarn. She has tons and tons of samples on her Facebook page that you can get to by clicking HERE.




I've also decided that I will start doing more reviews on a more regular basis from smaller companies and home businesses. So, if anyone out there would like me to review your product, get in touch with me and I will give you more details on that. I will note that, at this point, I won't be reviewing items from direct sells companies like Avon or Scentsy, because there are usually compliance issues with me doing that. So small companies and businesses making their own products, I'm looking for you! :)

Color Jamz Hair Dye Review

I really wanted to have some fun hair for the Summer and to celebrate my acceptance into art school, so I thought I would try out this hair coloring on a whim.



As promised here is my hair during dying:


I loved how vibrant the colors were, and my hair is very light due to constant bleaching, so I really hoped it would stick to my hair with colors as poppy. However, the dye stuck to my skin a lot better than my hair, and the end result was this:


Even my daughter tried it out to get pink bangs (and of course I didn't bleach her hair first because she's too little), and not a drop of color stuck except for on her forehead.


I reapplied the dye a few days later and it was somewhat thicker. My buddy J Walker took some neat photos where the colors looked amazing, but sadly, that was mostly a lighting and photo editing trick over the dye looking that good on its own.

Love, Sex, and the IRS

Here's some fun for the day (if you have a LOT of time to kill). This is a piece of community theatre that I was a part of back in 2002. I'm the blond one in the show, which was many, many pounds ago, haha. There are so many things I would change about my performance today (like the volume!), but it was my first show so cut me a little bit of slack, okay? :)


This is about an hour and a half long, and has the oldie situation comedy feel to it. Basically, one roommate does the taxes for both himself and his male friend, but he's been lying to the government to get special tax breaks. They get audited and comedy breaks out!

So sorry for the abrupt transition cuts between the videos, I've never worked with VOB files before and they were unfriendly!

Photos of Me Done by Friends

So, since I can't quite vlog while I'm on my extended vacation, I thought I would share some photographs that some of my amazing friends took of me here in my vacation area. :)

I've mentioned in previous blogs/vlogs that I am an avid Model Mayhem user, so if I refer to myself as a model at any time, that is what I'm talking about. I know I am NOT a fashion model by any means - but I am wonderfully flawed.


Before going into make-up.


Loved the blue eye shadow look!


Totally one of my favorite pictures ever taken.


Beautiful downtown area with a fountain.




I like this one, but I think it makes me look so much older!


I was really impressed with the shading here.


I adore working with this photographer, we always have fun and I got to get my geek on! haha!

I was bummed that one of the shoots I was supposed to be photographing at got canceled, but it's still fun to be the center of attention in a photo shoot every now and then.

I'm also on Networked Blogs on Facebook, so you can subscribe to us there as well if you're interested.

Thanks so much for reading and looking today - I don't say it often enough, but I appreciate you all!

Going Greek

I know there are a lot of negative stereotypes out there about Sororities and Fraternities, but a lot of those are just myths and things blown way out of proportion. Perhaps, long, long ago, a lot of hazing did exist within some groups, but that is really far from the truth in sororities as they exist today. The world changed and most of the Greek lettered organizations adapted. Hazing is illegal and wrong, period, and the Greek world of today is a plethora of positive experiences and life long connections that you shouldn't miss out on. The goal these days are to build people up to be strong leaders that know how to work and manage a team.

I am such a proud sorority girl, and my sisters have done a lot for me, so I hope this might help one or two people seriously considering going Greek in college.

If you are outside of your college years, there are still options available to you! The alumnae end of things is a lot larger than the collegiate, and it can be a perfect group to become involved in. I'll do another vlog on that topic later on, but you can check out this website in the mean time! :) http://alumnaeinitiate.110mb.com/

"From the outside you can't understand it, from the inside you can't explain it" - unknown