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September Stylebox by Jamberry

I am in no way affiliated with Jamberry. I’m just a customer that loves Jamberry and pays for a monthly subscription box. 

For a while now I’ve had a huge crush on Jamberry Nail Wraps.

As someone who absolutely hates the stink of regular nail polish, these are the ideal alternative to getting my nails done. Better yet, I can do them in my own home, when I have the time (because I usually end up having to chase a 1.5 year old around).

My September Stylebox by Jamberry came in the mail yesterday and I just HAD to put the new wraps on my nails.

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Stylebox by Jamberry

Jamberry really chose a fun design and gradient for this box.

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September Stylebox Insert

Unfortunately I didn’t get such a great picture of the nail wraps in the packaging. But they came with a nail file and orange stick.

To apply the nail wraps, there are some things you need. A heat tool like the Jamberry Heater or a blow dryer/heat embossing tool will work. Also, some sort of nail cleaning solution, like alcohol wipes or a ph bond will do. And make sure to push back those cuticles!

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The Jamberry heater and accessories bag.

Once you apply your nail wraps, apply a cuticle oil and then your nails are set!

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My nails all done

Beautiful aren’t they? I already received a compliment on them today at my optometrists office.

Have you ordered from Jamberry? Do you love your nail wraps? Having trouble? Post in the comments below!

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The End of Co-Sleeping

With PCS’ing comes some givens. With a toddler, it means getting a new room.

Until we received our stuff, Rylie was sleeping with us. It was just easier to have her lay down next to me on the floor (yes, the floor!) than trying to get her to lay down on the floor in her room by herself.

So once our stuff came in, we had to remove the new habit we had created by letting her sleep with us, and thus she got to nurse at night whenever she wanted.

Talk about tiring this mamma out!

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Building Rylie’s crib in her new room.

Jesse had quite the job of building the crib. We debated about doing a Montessori style bed and just putting the mattress on the floor, but that wasn’t going to work out at all for us. She would just come right out, and I do not want to have that fight with her. She needed to re-learn how to sleep in her crib.

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What do you mean I gotta sleep in this again?!

This was her face when I told her she was going to be sleeping on her own again. She clearly thought I had grown 4 heads.

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The crib is almost finished

For a while she was super interested in what daddy was doing, then she started playing with toys and trying to grab my DSLR from me.

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After the crib was done, she wanted to get in!

But once it was completed, she wanted to get inside. So of course, I obliged.

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Inside her crib, altho she wasn’t quite sure what to think.

She hung out in the crib for a few minutes and then wanted out. I think she knew what was coming and decided she could wait until that night to be in her crib.

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Sleeping in her bed, night 9.

It’s been 9 days since she’s been in her crib and she’s doing so much better. Of course, we did have to add pipe insulation to her crib because she was trying to climb out and ended up bruising her knee pretty badly by sticking it out of the railings and then getting it stuck.

I will say this, we had to CIO a bit with her. Overall, it’s been an awesome transition and we’re all sleeping a lot better now since we got our furniture (most specifically our beds) from TMO.

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Yogurt Is Yummy

You know what’s great?

Yogurt. 

You know what’s better?

Yogurt eaten with not 1, but 2 spoons. 

 

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Rylie eating yogurt with not 1, but 2 spoons.

It’s amazing how fast she’s learned to use a spoon.

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Yogurt is so gooood!

Granted, she still gets super messy when she uses a spoon. It will take some time to truly master the skills of eating with utensils.

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Rylie’s messy yogurt face

Yeah, I post a lot of pics of my kiddo eating. So sue me.

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Happy Labor Day!

I hope everyone has a great labor day today! For those of you who have to work, I’m sorry!

We spent this weekend hanging out with friends who are stationed here in Ohio (friends we haven’t seen since Vegas 2009!) and eating some pretty delicious ice cream from the local farm in Yellow Springs, Young’s Jersey Dairy.

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Pumpkin Ice Cream with Marshmallow and Whipped Cream topping.

Rylie also got her first up close and personal look at some farm animals, including cows, pigs, ducks, geese, and chickens. Unfortunately for us, she was quite the tater when we were at dinner at the farm.

She was having a grand old time playing with the rocks outside while we waited for dinner, and when we picked her up to take her inside once we got a table, all hell broke loose. She screamed and hollered and the ONLY thing that calmed her down was giving her food, fried cheese curds to be exact.

They were so delicious I want to go back and get more!

We don’t have any plans for today. I did my PiYo workout this morning and we’ll be making Nachos for dinner (ooooh yes!) and I’m going to try my hand at making a messenger bag (tutorial here).

Tomorrow we’ll be seeing my mom, which I’m very excited about. Rylie hasn’t seen her since she was 7-8 months old, so it’s going to be great “re-introducing” her to Rylie.

What are your plans for labor day? Leave me a comment and let me know!

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Appeasing Picky Toddlers

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Rylie Eating Breakfast

Do you find that you have a picky toddler when it comes to food?

I do. 

It’s rather infuriating sometimes.

I try to provide a wide variety of foods for her to eat so she gets used to not having the same thing over and over, but sometimes, the old reliable just needs to kick in.

When you find a food they love, you want to keep it on hand, at all times.

We learned a few months ago that Rylie LOVES all forms of sausage. Kielbasa, breakfast sausage, chicken sausage, brats…you get the gist.

So what does she get for dinner most often if we’re having something spicy or that we think she won’t like? Sausage.

Sometimes, you just have to appease your picky toddler.

The same goes for breakfast and lunch.

Hey, if I can get my toddler to eat something other than crunchies and cheerios, I’ll take it.

The one thing I’ve learned to do to introduce new foods to Rylie, is to giver her old reliable and 1 new food. Last night, we introduced her to broccoli. Guess what? She loved it!

It might have had something to do with the fact that I cooked the broccoli in chicken bouillon and garlic.

But hey, she tried it and then ate a good amount of it so that’s all that matters!

 

 

 

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The New Hottness

As the first post for my new blog, I feel it’s rather appropriate to say “Hello” and give a little blurb as to what all this “new blog” business is about.

I guess I should start from the beginning…or rather the end.

I got pretty tired and felt limited with my old blog, The New Momma.

Sure, most of my posts were about my daughter, her stats every month, and general mommy misc, but I felt the writer’s block really quickly and ended up getting rid of the whole darn thing.

Enter now, 6 months later. I feel like I’ve had time to really think about what I want in a blog, and what I want to come across to my viewers. I am not limiting myself with just mommy posts, kid posts, etc.

This is a lifestyle blog, where I discuss EVERYTHING in my life. From trying to conceive to what we did last weekend, it will be laid out for you to see.

I want a blog that my daughter can look through later on in her life and feel like she has a really good idea of who I am as a person, as well as her mother.

Oh, and I would also like to relate to a wider range of readers. That’s pretty darn important in my book.

I hope you as a reader will smack that subscribe button and follow me along in my journey. You and I will both learn quite a bit, I think.