second most embarrassing moment ever

Thursday night I humiliated myself. At the Piggly Wiggly.

I blame my new face wash.

You see, I started using a new face wash because my skin has been pretty oily lately - well apparently the wash dried my lips out horribly because I constantly need chapstick (please imagine me saying this in a Napoleon Dynamite voice). My favorite has been this super fat tube of "Blistek Silk & Shine"..

Well Thursday night I had to run to the local Piggly Wiggly to grab some dog food at like 8:30 p.m. since we were completely out. When I got there I was trying to grab my coat, get my wallet and lock my doors all at the same time and threw some more chapstick on my lips as I was climbing out of the car in the dark.

Well I noticed a lot of people were looking at me really weird but I thought it was because I am 25 years old but was wearing my high school soccer hoodie so I paid no attention.

Then the chick at the cash register looked at my very strangely, but I assumed it was because she knows my little sister and thought I was her or something.

I was very wrong.

When I climbed in my car and glanced in my rear view mirror to back out of the parking space I realized that that super fat tube of chapstick apparently feels the exact same as my lipstick tube. Because instead of chapstick, I had rubbed dark, brownish-red lipstick all over my mouth. I mean, I had put it almost all the way down to my chin and at the base of my nose. 

I was too embarrassed to even take a picture, but here is what it basically looked like:

I am so glad I didn't see anyone I know that well.

Sawyer the Lion

In case you missed it, I purchased Sawyer a little lion costume to wear to the Land of Oz on our mountain trip... which turned out disastrously (read about that here) and discovered that the feet were sewn on backwards! Luckily Toys R Us was really nice and let me exchange it so he could live out his lion dreams on Halloween instead.

backwards feet, facing the tail of the costume

Sadly, a certain little ginger boy was not about the Lion costume once Halloween rolled around.

sad little lion, and an unhappy looking Joshua

But he sucked it up long enough to wear it to the Fall Fun Festival at church and pose for a very blurry family photo and a not-so-bad picture with me too.

thanks Aunt Dee for a great picture... pitiful

happy with his green sucker

I really want to dress up in a "group" costume next year. Like have Josh be Luigi, Sawyer be Mario and I be the princess or Princess Lei, Hans Solo and Yoda (or an Ewok).

what day is it?

I am crawling out from under the pile of work on my desk and the stacks of boxes at my house to let ya'll know I'm still alive.

officially ours!

The move went fine Tuesday afternoon, despite the misty rain and cold. We closed at 2 p.m. so we moved all our stuff inside by around 7 p.m. before stopping for a quick bite of take-out Mexican food.

We just concentrated on getting everything in the house and putting the TVs where they needed to be since the Dish Network guy was coming the next day. But first priority? Making sure our bed was set up and ready to sleep in that night, we were exhausted.

Comforter from ZGallerie and Pillows from HomeGoods and World Market

Yesterday our furniture got delivered and out locks got changed so now we are just waiting for the guy from Lowes to come measure for our plantation blinds... which means we have big open windows except in our bedroom and bathroom (which have super classy-looking sheets over the windows).

(that thing in the black plastic is a shelf going over the couch)

Our first priority might have been the bed, but our second was to make sure people knew this was a Pirate household - up went the wreath, Pirate marker and yellow flower pot on the front porch! arrghhh

I can hardly wait to hang all our pictures and art and such and make some gallery walls in the kitchen and entry way - promise to post pics!