BFF Tattoos

My BFF, Cherie, and I decided to get 'matching' tattoos - but not REALLY matching. We wanted the same concept but not the exact piece. So, we went to our most favorite tattoo artist, John Law of Skin Flix Tattoo Inc.

Unless John stops tattooing, I will always go to him - I mean, I trusted him to tattoo my face, freehand - now that's trust! John had no idea what she and I really wanted, no artwork to look at, just us describing it to him; a vine with a cresent moon and some stars on our forearms...

He tattooed Cherie first. He drew his idea freehand on her and once she approved he broguht it to life.

My turn! Yes, I wanted the same thing but I did not want small stars in yellow - I wanted red and red is what I got :)

They are both very different, yet the same. We both love what he did. It's definitely a piece we can build on, should we want to sleeve our arms :)

There Are Pirates in My Backyard!

I was very surprised to see 3 pirates in my backyard! They were nice enough to pose for me :-)

Beautiful Singing

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Everytime I try to take a video of these 3 singing, one of them sees me and I lose the moment!

Beautiful Sunday

Stopped at a different park with the kids for a change of scenery. It's beautiful out!

Back From Vacation

We got in Friday night around 10, safe and sound. We had a wonderful trip but I did miss the kids terribly.

There were a few restaurants we tried for the first time during our trip that I will be posting reviews about. I'll be posting those reviews here: Family Disney Vacations

Losing Some of My Freakiness

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Time to get my chest microdermals out :( They just don't like me. I think bewbies are too big and when I sleep on my side my chest kinda pushes them out.

Story Time

Love these moments :)

Traveling on Thanksgiving

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We were on the road around 5:45 this morning, headed to Ohio to visit CJ's family. Stopped to eat around 7:30 and now back on the road. I'd rather be home...OR on the way to Disney!

My Lil Cheerleader

This is the last weekend for cheering competitions. After this weekend, the cheering season is over. Olivia wasn't sure she wanted to be in cheering. After she started, she only wanted to cheer for football. I told her to give the competition part a chance and so she did. SHE LOVES IT!

It was a lot of practices and a lot of hard work and dedication, but the payoff is that the NAA Minis placed in every competition so far!!! GO NANA MINIS! ♥

Passion Turns Profitable

CJ has the drive only I could wish for. He really wanted to work from home with me - so he quit a $52K/year job and earned double that amount in 11 months working at home. When he saw that freelance writing for him was no longer satisfying, he began 'job hunting' again. This time he went back to a staffing agency - one he had used in the past, to see if they could find a place that was a good fit for him.

Instead of diving back into the corporate world, he went as different route, focusing on his machining abilities. Expecting a 'regular' machining job, he was completely taken aback when he was asked if he would like to work at C.F. Martin Guitar - have I mentioned he has been building and repairing/modifying guitars since he was a teen?

In fact, when we first moved into this house, he had his own shop in our basement...there, ZD Guitars was born. This is the second EVX Dominator Custom that he built:

I hope this opportunity turns into full time, permanent employment for him!