I am ALIVE!

Hey ya'll! 
It's been over a month- I swear I haven't forgotten about my whopping TWO repeat readers (which are probably my mom and husband).. 

Anyway I am here, as the summer is winding down, I have so much to tell ya'll about. Over the next few days (I swear!!), I will be posting here's a preview of what to expect-

Key West Reviews on site seeing, adventures, restaurants and KEY LIME FREAKIN' PIE! 

My Favorite Brownie How-To Recipe! 

My IPSY July un-boxing VLOG (yes, you read that right! You get to see my gorgeous face ;) ) 

My Gwynnie Bee Review (like redbox for Plus sized clothes!)

My craft how-to's or how don'ts that completely fail! :) 

Plus more! 

Family Vacation

This time of year it's all about family and vacation. My family consists of me, The Husband and two boys, whom my husband refers to as "Turd Monkeys"..no idea where that came from. Anyway The boys are ages 5 and almost 9 (going on 18 some days). We have been saving up for awhile now and trying to decide where to go for vacation. We were thinking about the wonderful world of Mickey Mouse and friends but decided we would rather spend several days on the beach and not completely break the bank. 

Last year, we went to Arizona for 10 days, including 2 days of straight driving. We went with my dad and brother- let me just say 10 days with that much testosterone is probably 2-4 days too many :) Anyway we had a great time, went to the Grand Canyon, two zoos, and a few museums. 

Here we are at the Grand Canyon- My brother, The Husband (and his ridiculous hat), the "Turd Monkeys" and of course myself in all my scared sh*tless glory. 

Let me just say really quickly, I am afraid of heights. I was there for the picture and wanted to get up as quickly as possible, forget saving my children I wanted to get off that rock ASAP. My hands were sweating the whole nine yards. 

That being said, we are leaving for the Florida Keys in two weeks for a 6 day vacation- where we plan on Parasailing. Yes, you read that correctly. After my whole fear of heights, I promised the turd monkeys I would parasail with them. What can I say? I am a sucker for little boys with long eyelashes (both Turd Monkeys inherited this trait from The Husband) and pretty pretty pleases. 

I will blog about our vacation and hopefully- I will also VLOG about it as well. Yes- I said VLOG you will get to see me in all my chubby (curvy?) glory :)

The point? Yes, I know you probably read these blogs and say what is the freaking point to this, Carrie? What is it? Oh yes, it was to tell you I'm going on vacation and I will review restaurants, locations, and hotels we are staying at. Along with other random info on what activities the turd monkey's enjoyed, what they hated (let's be realistic, kids aren't going to be 100% happy on vacation- at least one disaster is bound to happen), and what I liked and didn't like and how much The Husband annoyed me ;) 

Thanks for reading ya'll! 

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The First Post...

Sometimes when I replay conversations in my head, I start to think did I really say that?  Was that even politically correct?! My husband and I have been around each other for over 10 years so he is never dumbfounded by my thoughts or theories which I later find hysterical or just dumb. 

So what’s this blog for you may ask- you know that junk drawer in your kitchen where you shove random sh*t and later go where the hell is “xyz”? Oh yeah in that drawer full of crap. That’s what this blog is full of random crap that I want to write down and save *forever* because what if one day I get Alzheimer’s like the Notebook lady ( and I am not trying to be rude here.. seriously) and I can’t remember any of the fun, exhausting, depressing, exhilarating, liberating, crushing… okay I will stop there with the descriptive talk- but these kinds of conversations, ideas and just life happenings around me- I will always have my spot permanently engraved online.. Unless some freak accident where a server or something computer related crashes and deletes EVERYTHING.. Okay not likely- or is it? Maybe I need to consult my resident computer nerd- the husband on this issue... 

Okay back to the main issue at hand this blog is mainly for me and my family (so I can embarrass them to death) and whoever reads it- if you like it great… if not well.. just don’t read anymore posts J So there will be random posts about everything I love from my family, cooking, baking, DIY, just think junked up kitchen drawer and that’s this blog literally.

To whoever just read that entire blabber above- I appreciate that at least I got to one person- even if that one person is probably my mother..