it's fry-day - UP TOP!

Friday, June 29, 2012
high five to you...and you...and you! HIGH FIVES ALL AROUND!

it's been a busy week, but allow me to share five highlights:

1. i NEVER in 2000 years thought i would EVER be excited about a stinkin' crib. but guess what...i most certainly was jazzy-jazzed when this guy was delivered to the farm! totally retro. totally clean lines. totally perfect for le bebe.

an no worries...i'll be sharing my little inspiration board for le bebe domain soon-ish. (in case you cared.)


2. a super-huge high five for an impromptu sister dinner! i was on my way to nebraska to visit a college admissions team. long story short - plane was too hot + stuck in denver for the night = SISTER DINNER! isn't she the cutest?


3. a reverse high five for the lack of AC in my sister's car. (kelli...you better get this fixed!) you see...kell bell is a diy-er. she's fixed lots of stuff on her own on that little subaru of hers. she just looks it up on the internets and goes to town. all 100 pounds of her. the gal can weild a wrench if you know what i'm sayin'! i digress...

but when it's 108 degrees outside and you're driving to the airport on the freeway...windows HAD to be down and hair HAD to be protected. luckily...i'm a scarf fan and had two of these packed away...


4. a huge thank you to pottery barn (and myself) for this glorious little certificate that showed up in the mailbox. apparently when you spend enough money somewhere, said store begins to send you a percentage of that money back. it's practically like they are paying you to shop there.

(don't worry, i'm under no illusions that i have a severe problem. i'm seeking help.)


5. last but certainly not least...JUST LOOK AT WHAT ELSE CAME TO OUR MAILBOX!!!!


that's right y'all. farmer and i are going to hit a concert in the big city. i could NOT be MORE thrilled for august 6th. i love love LOVE my counting crows. granted, this will be an outside concert, in the heat of the summer, in idaho, i'll be as big as a house, and my farmer doesn't even really like the CC. what could go wrong?! i'm thrilled.

happy fry-day y'all. i think i'll go eat french fries.

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and then my belly went pow!

Tuesday, June 26, 2012
we are talkin' ba-boom.



it seems like just yesterday i was rockin' my normal gut that i have learned to embrace over my short 28 years.

that same gut my farmer told me he liked because...well...i'm not sure why. (i think it's because it reminds him that i'm not perfect...no matter how many times i insist i am.)



that same gut i helped make bigger my freshman year of college with lots of...errr...games and chicken strips and midnight bowls of p. corn.

****all pictures from freshman year have been...ummm...missplaced!****

my gut and me, we've really "grown" together. figuratively and literally.

but now gut...yes, i'm talkin' to you gut...we have some pretty serious bizz goin' down. you know what i mean gut? are you listening gut?



i think it goes without saying that I give you full permission to grow and get awesome. within reason, gut.

i know you and me are typically over-achievers and all, but let's keep it modest. we don't want to be accused of showing off. right gut? right.


i hope y'all had a fab weekend. i sure did! can you tell we went 4-wheelin' in glorious fairfield, idaho!? we're talkin' some BEAUTIFUL country right on up there in those parts.

speakin' of 4-wheelin'...are you supposed to do that at six months?

the emotion game

Wednesday, June 13, 2012
things have been pretty emotional up in here...what with all the hormones coursing through my body. i mean...i cried over a baby cow with a hurt leg a few weeks ago.

(but that's a story for another day...)

regardless...i cry, on average, once a week. and it's not a quick cry or a happy cry. it's a "i'm crying and i can't stop and that makes me cry harder cry." it's a "i'm crying in the shower. i'm crying in my pillow. i'm crying in my farmer's shoulder kind of cry.

people...either my farmer is a saint or he gets some sort of amusement out of it...because he's dealing with it quite well.

but let's talk about the "emotion game." this has nothing to do with crying...and EVERYTHING to do with laughing your pants off...figuratively.

here's whatcha do:
  1. gather group of friends
  2. one person takes the camera
  3. shout out scenario or emotion and snap picture as quickly as possible
for example:
  1. kelli just farted (or)
  2. you've just been proposed to! (or)
  3. a dog just ran off with your shoes!
you get the idea.

well, this past weekend, some of my very most favorite gal-faces and i ran in a little relay race. the night before the race we stayed in a little cabin.

no cell service + 3:30 am wake-up call = great opportunity to play the emotion game. yup.

enjoy...

emotion: ecstatic!


emotion: dumbfounded


scenario: kelli farted


now...for this emotion/scenario, i don't even know what i said because all three gals had VERY different reactions. but just look at rachel in the blue. what is going on in her head? what's she thinking? what's she feeling? i want to hug her.



when the preview of the previous shot flashed on the camera i burst into tears. but the good kind of tears. i laughed until it hurt. i laughed until i had to sit down and cross my legs.


but back to the game...

scenario: someone stole your purse


scenario: fazio (fazio is a team member's late doggy. faz had an under bite, and was blind/frostbitten in one eye. she also growled to show affection.)

our very best impression of fazio...


and while the emotion game might not put our best foot forward...i have some seriously good-lookin' friends, yes?


thanks for an AMAZING weekend gals! i wouldn't want to run 62 miles in a blizzard at 7000 feet of elevation with anyone else!

hiya five FRIDAY!

Friday, June 08, 2012
1. first and most importantly...high five for friday. i've got a suppperrrr weekend ahead of me with my gal-faces. we're runnin' in a relay race y'all!


2. high five for one of my best gals sah-weet graphic design skillz. our team name is "bad banana" this year and she put a banana...in bootay shorts...running through the sawtooth mountains...with a whip. this bad banana is BAD.


3. a HUGE high five for my glorious sissa of denver flying in. kelli belli is traveling westward to run in this little race with us and we could NOT be more thrilled WE'VE MISSED YOU BELLI!

sawtooth sisters - sawtooth relay circa 2010 (pardon the blur)
4. high five for the glorious media table thingy that was sitting at our front door last night. i've been waiting on that sucker for over a month. i guess my extremely specific instructions helped:

"go to mile marker 70. go past it. you won't get to mile marker 69...it's been stolen. now take your first left onto mormon blvd. there is no 'mormon blvd.' sign. it's also been stolen..."

seriously...those are the directions i have to give to people...


5. and lasty...high five for bebe clothes. i found a little sale yesterday. i blacked out in the store and left with a bag-full. i'm still not sure what happened. but in all seriousness...when you find gender neutral you kind of have to jump on it...ya know what i'm sayin', y'all?



i'm linked up over here with this darling gal...

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embrace the bumpage

Tuesday, June 05, 2012
*deep breath*
*stop sweating*
*you're not the first*
*panic attacks not welcome here*

oh...in case you were wondering, i'm about to drop a bomb on y'all.

i'm real REAL nervous. but people, things have been happening on the farm. life-changing things. rock your world things. sink or swim things.

and while i wish i was one of those gracious, beautiful, lovely women inside and out that seem to have a light shining on them...

i've turned into...me. just a more aggressive, unfriendly, argumentative, cry at least once a week me. it ain't pretty.



i'm all knocked up y'all! that's right...during those final winter months on the farm...i'll spare you the details. but think about it:

farm + winter = ????

so here we are, 21 weeks later. embracing the bump. it's been a little difficult for me, to say the least.

not because i've been sick or tired or symptomatic. but because i've discovered something about myself that i wish wasn't there.

i hate HATE hate attention. *GASP!*

you may find this to be a bit of an oxymoron. i mean...i write my little bloggy and then i advertise everywhere for people to go read my bloggy.

that doesn't sound like a girl who doesn't like attention, now does it?

uh, no.

you see, the attention i get from the blog is just a quick note or comment saying, "i read your blog!" or, "i loved your post today!" and then it's over.

the attention you get when someone finds out you're with child is a whole new level of zero boundaries.

we're talkin tears, hugs, and some serious invasion of personal privacy. and let's not forget the most popular question:

"how are you feeling?" "how are you feeling?" "how are you feeling?" "how are you feeling?" "how are you feeling?" "how are you feeling?" "how are you feeling?" "how are you feeling?" (and about 1000 more times.)

answer: i feel just dandy. like a million bucks. i feel like ME. and maybe that's why i'm having such a rough go at it all. it's like people are looking for a different answer. they want to hear that you feel different and are radiating love and are floating on cloud nine and...i hate to disappoint...i really feel no different...minus my now even more giant tas. sweet mother of...

oh, and those aren't off limits for people to talk about either. actually, it's the first thing they usually say, "your (tas) are HUGE?!" or "look at the size of..." or "they were always big,  but they're even bigger!"

yes people, i know this.

i digress...

i guess these people are crying, hugging, invading, exclaiming out of pure love. right?

seriously...i didn't realize how much my farmer and i are loved until we started telling our nearest and dearest. it makes my cold, dark heart fill up (just a little) with emotion knowing that the love they are showing us now will be multiplied by one million when our prize arrives.
and so...i declare...EMBRACE THE BUMP.


that's what i'm going to have to do, isn't it? i can't just hide in our farm house until it's here...or can i?

while i know i'll never be one of those beaming, beautiful, gracious women who is more fabulous because they can put it all out there...i'm sure going to try.


and holla holla to the fabulous miss amy for taking these pictures of moi in the middle of her yard/hay field/silo.

i wasn't exactly the best subject. there was a lot of standing and "what should i do's?" and some pretty ugly faces.

WINNER: jamison rae jewelry giveaway

Monday, June 04, 2012
mornin' lovies. today is the BIG day! are we all so excited? so thrilled? so totally pumped?

i have the winner in my hot, little hands...someone is getting some fabulous lucky dangle bangles from the most glorious JAMISON RAE!

lucky dangle bangles can be found HERE

but first...a story:

so this morning as soon as my eyes fluttered open i ran to the computer to generate the winner completely and totally randomly via "rafflecopter"...and boy was i disappointed.

as i clicked the "pick a winner" button a name/entry flashed on the screen.

my farmer. my farmer won the dangles.

"FARMER! FARMER! YOU WON THE DANGLE BANGLES!"

he was so excited...


i mean, we're talkin' thrilled.

and then i broke the news, "farmer, as much as i want you to have those lucky dangle bangles, we can't have you ACTUALLY win them. i mean...i entered your name because i was testing rafflecopter."

and he was real REAL sad...


and he begged, and pleaded, and bargained with me.

in my heart of hearts, i knew farmer couldn't have the lucky dangle bangles.

but THEN after i sat farmer down and explained to him why it would look awfully funny if he won the dangle bangles...i was able to pick a new winner.

and that winner just happens to be...

MISS MOLLY MCCALLUM


girl! you're going to be rockin' some new, loverly jamison rae jewelry!

LUCKY GAL! (totally jealous.)

(miss molly - i'll be in touch to make the necessary arrangements!)

and if this wasn't already a THRILLING blog post...allow me to leave you with a teaser...

BIG things happening on the bloggy tomorrow. get excited. ya? ya.


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