Mascara Maheim!

Why is it SOO hard to find a good Mascara?!?!?!  It frustrates me to no end!!! I've got so many tubes of this stuff that I can't bring myself to use because I HATE them so!... This one's too clumpy... This one doesn't wash off.... This one wears off to quick.... This one drowns my lashes and makes them look like SPIDER LEGS!!!!  UGH! Enough!

I think I've finally  found my FAV!  It's Lash Stiletto by Maybeline***.  I like that it really lengthens without CAKING it on!  It washes off pretty easily too, no residual residue from the day before to mess with.  I'm excited to try their new VOLUMPTOUS Stiletto mascara when this tube runs out!  Try it ... Hope you like it!

Is there any fav you guys have????  DO SHARE!!!

***This is not a paid advertisement for Lash Stiletto Mascara....it just sounds like one! HA! HA! :D

Art in the sky!

Ever since we moved to Boise, we've heard about the incredible hot air balloon Festival.  It's sounded amazing!  Alas, the city canceled it (for whatever reason) that same year we got here!  And they haven't done it since!  ....UNTIL this year!  We FINALLY got to see it and it was MORE THAN COOL!  Really! ...A site to behold!  I couldn't put my camera down!  Everywhere I looked there was bright colors against the sky line.  We grabbed some McD's for Breakfast and a blanket and watched the balloons dance around the sky!  Truly, ONE of the coolest things we've done as a family!  And I can't wait to do it again NEXT year!!

"Look Mom! NO HANDS!"

Mason has learned to ride a two wheeler!!!  YEAH!  I'd like to say that we are awesome parents and felt it was time.... BUT, it's really because we are CHEAP!  His training wheels busted off and we didn't want to go buy new ones.  So we took him over to the park where there's ample grassy hills.... and well, we just pushed him down them!  And it WORKED.  So he now graduated to learning on pavement!  He did great!....Except for that ONE pole! :D 

Am I just an AWFUL Mom for posting this?! ...Actually- I'm thinking I'm awful because I can't stop laughing! EVERY time I see it!

Honestly, I expected to pack up the bike for good and Mason to cry the whole way home, NeVeR wanting to try it again.  But, to my surprise-  He got right back on!!!  THAT'S MY BOY!!!!

Manic Monday on a Wednesday~

.....More like PANIC Monday- Money woes, the economy, mommy guilt and such. It's all weighing down on my brain and making it hard to breath a little.  Nothing nobody else is feeling, I'm sure!

Maybe one 0' these'll make me feel better! =D







Yup!  That's Bacon!



Summer of Fun 2010

Put your Clicker on the picture to see what fun we've had this summer!

The Curse Strikes!

The Day after Accident

Type of Coupling that hit him... This is NOT the actual pipe!

So as many of you know, Ben had an accident 3 weeks before Blake was born.  Added for some unnecessary excitement, for sure!   Ben is a Commercial Plumber, he was working on a Hospital in Twin Falls, ID.  (Yep, 3 hours away from home) since June 09.  He went to put some elbow joints on the main line when.... KABLAM!  A piece of pipe went shooting across the room... actually two rooms.  It shot through 2 drywalls and landed in some ducting.  The coupling that holds the pipe (Ben is pointing to in the pic) broke in the explosion and smacked Ben in the left side of his face.  He suffered  a concussion, busted a molar and shattered his cheekbone and eye socket in 8- 10 different spots.  Commonly known as a "Blowout Fracture" for those of you who are interested! :D  Subsequently, he had to have 4 titanium plates put in around his eye!  All of his Doctors  were AMAZED that he didn't have any brain damage AND didn't lose his eye.... Oh yeah!- and to be ALIVE!!!!  He has healed quite nicely and is looking as handsome as ever!  We are soo thankful for the protective hands that guarded him that day.  I know that MANY angels, both Heavenly and earthbound, were watching over BOTH of us that day.  I'm so thankful to our Ward, Coworkers, Friends and Family that helped and Prayed for us!  We COULD NOT have gotten thru this without you! THANK YOU!!!!

BTW-  Ben has deemed this incident, "The CURSE of Marrying A McLEAN Woman!"... since my sister's husband, Mario, also suffered a"close call/Lucky-to-be-Alive" jet skiing accident a couple of summers back.  I think it's a LOAD OF CRAP! .... (no plumbing joke intended!!! HA! HA!)