Seeing Red

These babies are all wrapped up and sitting in a box at my moms house.

How do I know that? Because my mom told me. :)

There's a story here.

Have I ever mentioned to you about how I get on these obsessive little searches for things I think I 'need'...especially when they are on clearance? :)

Like the time I called every Younkers department store in 6 states looking for a pair of $95 dollar shoes that were marked down 85% and I just had to have them?

Then come to find out that the local store here, after I called three times asking if they had it and then finally went in there and stalked the shoe dept, because I just had a gut feeling they had the shoe but weren't looking for it, that they did indeed have the shoe I was looking for!

I paid $8 for a $95 pair of shoes...and I do wear them at least a few times a week, so it was worth it.

Back to my story....

A few weeks ago a friend at work had these amazing red numbers on and I just had to know where she got them...I had been searching for the perfect pair of red shoes for a long time...because every girl should have a pair of red heels, right?

I had bought a pair back when I was frantically searching for the pair mentioned above, but they are a little high...and I save them for occasions that do not require alot of walking...

So I asked my friend where she got them and she told me Kohl's and that they were on clearance...that's all I needed to hear.

I drove to two different Kohl's near me looking for them...no luck.

I called the other three Kohl's in/near town...no luck either.

As a last resort, I called my sister, in another state and told her to call Kohl's and ask them if they had them...she was too busy to do so...but gave me the phone number.

I called. Got the Shoe department. Told the lady the shoes I was looking for. What color I wanted, what size I needed...then sat on hold for what seemed like an eternity.

When she finally came back to the phone, this is the conversation we had:

Her: "Today is your lucky day!"

Me: "You have them?"

Her: "Yep. They are the LAST pair we have have."

Me: "Are you serious? The red one? Size 10?"

Her: "Yep..the last pair."

Me: "Sweet! You have no idea...I don't even live in KC...my sister does...and I called every store in my town...and they didn't have them..and they were sold out online..and I called my sister, and she gave me your number, and I called and you have them...She'll come get them for me...hold them for her, PLEASE!"

And she did..and she brought them up with her from KC yesterday..and says they are for my birthday on Monday...but she left this morning again and won't be back until Tuesday...so I'm getting those babies today!

Good Lord, I'm neurotic..or something. I'm sick. It's a sickness. I was overly excited about a stupid pair of shoes. I promise, I'm not like this all the time...I don't think.

I'm not even going to mention that I did the same thing a few weeks ago looking for a stupid pair of running shoes because they were 'cute'...I gave up on that because they were also expensive..so maybe that doesn't make me too crazy, right? I mean it's okay to get excited about a $10 pair of shoes....but I still know when to draw the line and give up when I can't justify spending alot on other pairs. :)

That makes me feel better....I think?

Girls Are Weird...

That's the name of the font I'm using in my new header image, and I love it! Super Cute!

Have you ever checked out www.1001freefonts.com?

I've downloaded tons of free fonts from that site over the years and they have some pretty fun ones!

Check it out!

Because Everyone needs a 24 Pack of Sharpies...

Can I tell you that I'm just the teeniest bit obsessed with school supplies?

I love them.

This is seriously my favorite time of year...when the stores put out all the new school supplies. I want to spend hours at Target looking at them all. My next favorite would be Christmas when there are a million different spools of ribbon and I want to buy them all to wrap gifts with....but that's another story for another time...

I stock up on 5 packs of College Rule Notebooks...because you never know when you might have to take notes I guess. Because I actually take notes with them at work. (In high school I would by 10 different colored notebooks and then by 10 plain 2 pocket folders in the same colors so that I could color coordinate them by subject for each class....Red folder and Notebook for History, Blue for Math, Yellow for English etc. I was a freak like that.) I still have a different color notebook for each meeting at work I take notes for. I'm Crazy...

I buy boxes of ball point pens. Blue. No Black. They are only 50 cents a box!

I contemplate whether or not I really need 24 different colored sharpie pens. So many colors! I want them so bad, but ouch! the price.. :(

Highlighters...Oh my goodness DO NOT get me started on the highlighters! If there is a pack with yellow, pink, orange, green and blue....I'm sold. I have no idea what the heck I'm going to highlight, but I NEED them.

Remember Trapper Keepers? LOVED MINE!! It was red and blue and had crazy rainbow circles on it. :)

I'm so psyched that Christian is starting school this year..I can't wait to take him shopping for supplies! ;)

6 Years

Yesterday Scott and I celebrated our 6th Wedding Anniversary! I can't believe it's been that long...doesn't seem like it. The years have sure flown by!!

Here's a few pics I thought I'd share of 'The Big Day' way back when. :)

Look At Me Being All Domesticated

and Crafty!

For once in my life. Ha!

I helped host a baby shower for an old and dear friend of mine on Saturday. She is having her first baby, a little boy, at the end of next month and I was incharge of the desserts for the shower.

I had a small panic attack on Friday afternoon that there would not be enough dessert for everyone at the shower. (55 people were invited!) So I decided that I would attempt to make these babies below.

Cake Pops...stollen from the website of the one and only Bakerella!

She is way better at this than I, but for my first attempt I think they turned out pretty well...and a note to self...it only takes 1 cake to make about 45 cake pops...wish I would have realized that before I baked two cakes and glad I didn't do all three of them! :)

Found another awesome use for the cooling rack. :)

The little 'baby boy' ribbon is the cutest!!

Time Flies When You're Having Fun

Yesterday my first 'baby' turned 5 years old. I cannot believe it! The years have sure gone by fast. This is him right after he had his very first birthday:

I had the last two days off of work, so for his birthday yesterday we met up with some friends at the Children's Museum. I haven't been there in years..probably since I was 5! :) And the boys had never been there, so it was a fun time for all.

Here are a few pictures of our day:

The Birthday Boy:

My Little "Zebra":

The Life-sized Shark we 'had' to buy in the gift shop with our birthday money:

See Shannon Run

So..I wasn't going to add this to my 'blog role' for fear that I'd never get past the first post, therefore embarrassing myself for even mentioning my plan and then not completing the task...but then I thought If I threw it out there and actually made it known that maybe it would hold me more accountable for actually following through with this crazy idea.

So here you go! :)

http://seeshannonrun.blogspot.com/