New address

So, hopefully you made it my new address. I actually changed it and then changed it back the other day to see if would lose anything. It looked the same. The tonight when I made the actual change, I lost my blog list. (Not the private ones though). So I have just spent the last hour trying to rebuild it from memory.
If you aren't there, please don't be offended and just leave a comment with your blog address again! Thanks for your patience.
Love, Julie

Friday's Favorite: I looked out the window...

And what did I see?

Popcorn popping on the apricot tree!

You asked for it. Now hopefully you won't regret it and be bored. I'm going to start
Friday favorites! Why don't you join me?

Today's favorite is popcorn. This is probably more of Tristan's favorite than mine. I like popcorn, I eat popcorn, but I don't crave and absolutely need popcorn in order to make me know my weekend is complete.

I grew up on Air-Popped popcorn with soggy margarine and salt. Isn't that the only way popcorn is eaten? The thought makes Tristan shudder. I kind of like those soggy little pieces.

Tristan grew up on stove-made popcorn with real butter and no salt. (They don't even have any salt in their house, but that is another post). He used to make it just in a pot, but then his mom gave him this crank-handled maker for his Birthday. It's probably his most used gift he's ever been given.
If we don't have real butter in the house, he will NOT use margarine. He has been known to call the neighbors or drive ½ mile to his brother's house to borrow some. If it is Sunday and he is craving popcorn and there is no butter, it is total devastation!

He got this from his mother, as she is the same way. When we lived with them we had popcorn on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night.

His brother actually got one of those theater style popcorn makers for his Birthday. That is good popcorn.

I will eat this stove popped corn, but it is actually not my favorite. I like good old microwave popcorn now. I even found this microwave popcorn maker to make your own (I heard you can even make microwave popcorn in a brown lunch sack, I haven't tried this though). This way you can put less butter, or they even have popcorn flavorings now.

Fat-free microwave popcorn is actually a great diet snack. You get a lot more and it is a lot more filling than those 100 calorie packs where you get 2 small cookies and need about 5 of those bags to feel satisfied.

Movie popcorn: I've always been too cheap to spend that kind of money. For the cheap summer kid movies we actually pop our own and smuggle it in. Do you buy movie popcorn?

What kind of popcorn do you make at home?
Or do you have a husband like Karen's who can't stand the smell and won't let it be made it your house?

Also, remember that tomorrow this will no longer be my blog address. I will be at http://www.dreamingofbeaches.blogspot.com/

This will not be private, so you don't need an invite. Thanks-Julie

Random photo tag

You've been tagged. Here is what you do: grab your camera and take at least 5 random pictures around your house. No cleaning up first, this is your house as is:

Here is some catergories you could use:

Room that stays the cleanest

Work in progress

What someone else is doing right now

Favorite decor or display

Something that represents your current life

Favorite relaxing spot

Something hand-me-down

Etc. etc.

Work in progress: This is going to be Capri's room. Right now it is a library/junk room.

I got 12 boxes of girl clothes down to 9. Hopefully this will be a room fit for a little princess

in the next couple of months!

Favorite display. I got the clock for $12 at Winco (thanks to my MIL). The surfboard

and the violin are from Cocoa Beach. The frame is from our cruise. All good

memories. (Even Winco)Favorite place to relax. It may be big and not too attractive, but boy is it comfortable.What someone else is doing right now. Jumping from the couch the love sac. Nuf said.
Somethign that represents your life right now. Absent husband. Empty plate

ready for him to reheat dinner and eat by himself.

Room that stays clean. We don't use our living room a lot, but I am glad for a room

that stays (mostly) clean when people come to the front door. A great room for HT's.

Now tag three people: Joy, Tammie, Jana and whoever else wants to play.

New Blog Address

This Saturday, Feb. 14th I will be changing my blog address. As long as the name is still available, I will be www.dreamingofbeaches.blogspot.com. I decided to do this as a safety measure. Drop me a comment to let me know you read this change so that I can know who to notify. Thanks! Julie

Pray for Veiyah

I don't really have anything to post about, but I did want you to notice my site because I wanted you see my button to pray for Veiyah. She is a premature twin who is having open-heart surgery today. For more info click on the button.
We love you Ani! We are praying for her.

T's Birthday

#3 turned 3 years old yesterday. I can't believe he is already three, and I can't believe we had

a baby this week. I guess you can survive anything. It's also weird that he has three Birthdays being the youngest. Not for long though.

I found an ebay seller who sold every kind of chocolate mold you can think of. It was cheaper on shipping to buy more, so I had each of the boys pick something for their B-days. T picked Monsters Inc., B picked Star Wars and C picked Batman and Spiderman.

It took me 4 hours to make 10 of these suckers. And then I was asked if my kids made them!

Oh well, T liked them.

See New Years resolution #10 He got lots of fun things including a Viewmaster Projector with lots of reels, Elefun, cars, a string art set, new jacket etc.

A new playdough set.

Happy Birthday T! We love having you in our family!

Today's favorite: Shoe Carnival

A while ago, my friend Krista starting doing Friday's favorite on her blog. Every Friday she picks something that is her favorite from a food, kitchen utensil, color and blogs about it.

I know today isn't Friday, and this probably won't be consistent, but I decided to do a favorite today.

My favorite is the Shoe Carnival. I love this store. I am a picky shoe person and this is the only place in Idaho Falls that I can really find shoes that I like. These shoes were clearance and all of their clearance shoes were buy one get one free. So, I was going to get both for $20.

If you've never been to here, they make announcements every few minutes (even if you are the only one in the store) about how if you buy in the next half-hour you get the spin the wheel, etc.)

So, I go to buy my shoes and I spin the wheel and get an extra $5 off. Then he asks me my name and announces that Julie has just got $5 off her purchase (luckily the only other people in the store were my friends Tammie and Shannon, and my mom and Tyce.

So anyway, to make a long story short I got both of these shoes for $15. And according to Stacey and Clinton a red shoe can be a neutral and be worn with lots of things that "go" not "match".

We'll see!