New Blog....Private Setting!

Hey guys! I am doing the whole private thing with a whole new blog. I will be keeping this one just so people can send me their emails in comments so I can add them to the new one!

Leave a comment with your email & I'll add you to the new blog!

Maggie

P.S. Even if you "secretly" read this blog, I don't care, just send me your email and I'll add you so you can keep "secretly" reading our blog. :-)

Is there an easier way?

I have a ton of pictures I want to upload on here but seriously the process is such a pain. Am I missing a hint on uploading or are people really that patient to upload 20 to 30 pictures each post? Seriously!!

Well here a few photos (ones I actually feel like waiting for on the upload process) - And as for the doughnuts picture, we were headed to Chris' POST graduation and stopped by a gas station to get snacks and what do you think he grabs? DOUGHNUTS! LOL first day as a cop and he is already eating them. LOL

1 year - Forever & Always

I cannot believe that Chris and I have been married a year as of Sunday (08/29/10). He surprised me yesterday at work with a gorgeous flower/plant to keep at my tellar station. I married my bestfriend and my soul mate that day and I still love him as much as I did that day, even more than that day. Here are a few pictures of our glorious day! I love you sweetie! Forever & Always!

visits from the fam!!

My mom, my little sister & her boyfriend came down to visit a couple weekends ago & I absolutely loved having them here. I love them & miss them all so much it's nice they will come to visit. Since I am a total slacker with my camera lately my mom emailed me these pictures so I would have some!!

P.S. I am in desperate need of new make-up so as you can tell, I haven't been wearing any lately.

The Brewer's

Nicholas Sparks

Am I behind or what?

I just finished my first book by Nicholas Sparks, "The Last Song" YUP I cried!

I am now reading "The Notebook" and after that I want to read "A Walk To Remember"

They are SO good!!!

Just thought I would say that.

Finally an update!!

ONE BIG HUGE TRUCK + 3 MEN + THOUSANDS OF BOXES + TONS OF STRESS = THE MOVE!!!

We packed up our house on a Friday and the truck was then left at a storage unit at All My Sons for them to drive to Moab on Saturday to unpack. Chris & I decided to go down Friday evening to Moab & to get into our house so we were there first thing in the morning when the movers were going to be there.

We got to our house at about midnight and had to blow up the air mattress to sleep on, realized all we had for covers was a sheet & the dogs blankets. Luckily we had a fire place to keep us warm. Got a PARTIAL 4 hour sleep, woke up and realized we couldn't shower because we didn't have warm water......talk about a rough night. But all in all we finally got the moving truck there & unpacked.

The next process to moving was enjoying the lake that was 5 minutes from our house that YOU DON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR TO VISIT & DOGS ARE WELCOME!!!! I'm definitely not used to that experience. We decided we needed to teach Cirrus to swim especially after losing about 10 tennis balls out in the water that she wouldn't swim to & Kyra would swim right by them but wouldn't get them (she's to smart to play fetch, playing fetch is for stupid dogs). So, the next pictures are teaching Cirrus to swim (or child abuse....I haven't quite decided what to call it....) All - in - all she learned to swim!!

I have to give a special thanks to my madre!! She spent the whole week after we moved with me & got my house completely unpacked!!! As soon as I can take pictures of the house all done up I will post them on here. We have our garage to organize (which will hopefully get done this weekend) and then we are completely done. I do have to mention. The next time we move, life will be a lot easier because I got rid of a TON of stuff and have stuff put away where it should be instead of just cluttered around the house.

Living in Moab has been great. I work at Amber Waves Salon doing nails. The only hard part is Chris is still up at POST in Salt Lake until July 15th when he graduates. He goes Monday thru Thursday and then comes home to Moab Thursday night & then leaves Sunday afternoon, so atleast I get to see him every weekend.

I have been asked about a thousand times, "When can we expect a baby??" Well, we have decided to put off having a baby until we are officially settled in Moab, since we do believe we will have to move again in a year (hopefully to our own home in Moab) we don't want to have to move a baby. So sorry folks, you still have to wait a while!! :-)

Love you all!

The Brewer's

You know you live in the GHETTO when.....

You know you live in the ghetto when you put an old junky entertainment center and a box full of JUNK out on your front side walk with a "FREE" sign on it and it's gone LITERALLY w/in 1 hour!!!! NOT A JOKE!!!

As you all know we are packing and moving this Friday so I'm going through the house and getting rid of stuff and I have had this old entertainment center for almost 4 years now and we don't need it anymore so Chris and I drug it out to the sidewalk and I put a free sign on it and then put a box full of junk out there with a free sign as well and they were gone within 1 hour. Now I'm going through my house wondering what else I can get rid of by just putting out on my front sidewalk....hmmm....I have a ton of clothes I want to get rid of maybe I'll do that tomorrow.

Well here comes the big move!! I'll update once we get internet and I have pictures of the new home!! P.S. We did end up hiring movers, we figured it out and with people having to take off work and pay for uhauls and gas etc., it would have cost just about as much, plus my momma helped us out on hiring the movers so, THANKS MOM!!! WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!

Love ya all!!

A New Start To Our Crazy Lives!

Well as you can see my FlyLady blogging has kind of been put on hold, but NOT for bad reasons but GOOD reasons!

Reason #1 - I've been in school learning how to do nails since February 2, 2010. I graduate April 1, 2010. 2 months full time and completely FAST PACED. It's crazy but I totally love it! I'll post pictures later of my success in the past little while.

Reason #2 - We are officially MOVING TO MOAB!! Yeah, that's right, you read it right, we are MOVING!!! Chris is now an officer for the Moab City Police Department. We found a cute duplex to rent for right now and it's only 2 years old. We get to have our pets & and everything as well. Life is turning great!! We are moving April 16th while Chris is in POST training and then he will be done in July and then he will be back in Moab and our lives will be finally settled!! I am so excited that I wish we could just move right now. I'll take pictures of our NEW rental home as soon as I can, but until then you can look at the model home pictures to get kind of an idea. http://tierradelsolmoab.com/html/virtual_home_tour.html
It may not be for awhile because once we move I don't know how long it will be until I can get internet. I'm going to have from April to July to get our house organized because I will be in Moab and Chris will be in a dorm room at the POST up here in Salt Lake, since our house will be rented by then.

Holy Cow, I don't know what else to say. Any suggestions on moving? I'm not sure what would be a better choice, hiring or doing it ourselves?? What do you think?

Thanks!

One More Day.....One More Baby Step

Well I took a little detour from our master bathroom, to the refrigerator/freezer. I opened it this morning & noticed there was food in there from New Years....YIKES!!! The pictures don't show it very well but I literally threw away 2 garbage bags of old junky food. It feels great to have a SHINY sink & a CLEAN refrigerator.

BEFORE

BEFORE: REFRIGERATOR

AFTER: REFRIGERATOR

BEFORE: FREEZER

AFTER: FREEZER

You can't exactly tell the difference but I definitely can! It's just one more baby step to having a clutter & clean home!!

Thanks FLYlady!

FlyBaby Maggie

Baby Steps.....The Hall Closet

Well here are my before & after pictures of my hall closet which consisted of towels, wash cloths, hand towels, sheets, blankets, perfumes, lotions, & tons of OTHER JUNK!

The whole cupboard!

Before:

After:The Top Half Of The Cupboard

Before:

After:

The Bottom Half Of The Cupboard
Before: After:

I'm sure it doesn't look like I did much but I literally threw away TONS of OLD lotions & perfumes I honestly think I've had since high school or some that had barely a drop left in them. I also threw away tons of old sheets that don't even fit the bed I have now & I have no idea why I still had them. With the towels, wash cloths, and hand towels I only got rid of 2 hand towels. I just re-folded them to be even and lay right on top of the next towel, that made a huge difference in my closet. It took me roughly an hour.

My next project is going to be my bedroom bathroom. It's just a half bath but it's terrible inside, because I am the only one to get ready in there and you girls definitely know how messy we can be. Makeup, hairspray, hair products, etc., I probably won't be able to do it for a few days since tomorrow is Monday and I will be back at the grind but hey doing 2 big things over the weekend definitely made me feel great!

AND, I have had my tennis shoes on all day & my sink is still shiny & clean!!

Have a great week!

2010: A New Year A New Brewer Way

So for 2010 my goal is to be settled & clutter free by Christmas 2010.

The settled part is on the D.L. (Down Low) until it is offical but I will keep everybody updated.

The clutter part started with my asking my facebook friends for advice. One gal told me to look up flylady.com. I do have to admit the website is kind of a TON to absorb in 2 hours (literally that's how long I've been reading the website), but I have a few pages that have become my favorites. I only have a few because I haven't gotten that far yet. (the space in between FLYingLessons & Routines etc., is an underscore so it should look like this FLYingLessons_Routines, FLYingLessons_Declutter, FLYingLessons_ControlJournal10, I'm not quite sure why it did that)

My Routine!

http://flylady.com/pages/FLYingLessons_Routines.asp

How to Declutter!

http://flylady.com/pages/FLYingLessons_Declutter.asp

Master Grocery List!

http://flylady.com/pages/FLYingLessons_ControlJournal10.asp

So basically I started my day with putting my tennis shoes on and deep cleaning my sink. Like the FlyLady says, if you put your tennis shoes on everyday you have no excuse to not take out garbage or anything else outdoors, and if you keep up with your deep cleaned sink you just have to keep it cleaned up.

The process for deep cleaning my sink went as followed:

-Fill ONE side of the sink with hot water, to the top of the sink & add ONE cup of bleach.

-Let sit for ONE hour

-Rinse WELL

-Poor Bar Keepers Friendly (for stainless steel, or any other scrubbing such as comet) on the sink & down in the drain

-Scrub with SOS pad or scrubber

-Rinse WELL

-Spray Windex all over sink & wipe with rag/paper towel

-For a much more shine, poor a tiny amount of Olive Oil or Lemon Oil on a rag & wipe all over the sink. I used Olive Oil.

Here are some photos of my deep cleaned sink. I didn't take any pictures before (which I regret now) but I also am putting pictures of the rags. They were disgustingly black and I thought my sink was pretty clean, although being stainless steel it hides a lot of flaws.

My 3 rags after it was all said & done

The Windex Rag - normally a white rag w/ red linesThe Drying Rag
The Olive Oil Rag

From now on I will do a before & after picture. My next project is my hall closet with all of my stupid toiletries & towels & sheets etc., This one is going to be a tough project, but baby steps will get me through it!

Happy New Year Everybody!!

Maggie