Razorback Background–For Fangirls

Another Hogs background for the gal fans out there.

Enjoy!

 

~Much love,

Tamara

Things I love Thursday: Evernote

I first downloaded Evernote on my Android phone to keep track of those random things I came across online that I wanted to go back to (usually giveaways that I wanted to enter, one day I will win a Silhouette Cameo!). I remembered that you could get Evernote for your computer too and downloaded it onto my new laptop. I had been looking for a good way to keep track of my thoughts and ideas for the wedding and my Pinterest board is a bit over full (anybody else?) and I wanted to make my wedding master list and have everything there in WORDS and PHOTOS.

I can break things down into Notebooks and then Notes… so I have lists and then sub lists. Does anybody else get excited about sub lists like I do? I can break down things and think about them one tiny element at a time.

And I can do this from my laptop AND my phone and they sync together so I can work on a note tonight and then go off somewhere tomorrow with my phone and be able to pull it up and remember what I need or the look I’m going for.

I really think this will be a life saver for the wedding!

{edit btwn writing this and posting it: I also added another “notebook” and converted my massive craft to do list over to it. I had a 19 page list in categories in my purse for the last month. And now it’s in Evernote!}

Much list love to you all,

Tamara

Weekend Wrap-up

Last week went by so fast! Life moves too fast!

Saturday I got to celebrate one of my besties birthdays. Amber and I made it a good one! Amber picked up balloons!

That’s the birthday girl!

We kept saying it was a balloon car wash.

Which the birthday girl Caitlyn loves, and I picked up a gluten free, and therefore guilt free, cake!

We then headed up to Greenbrier for some egg dying fun! I only ever remember dying eggs once, at someone elses house. Not only did I get to dye eggs but Caitlyn picked me up a Phineas and Ferb set! I love Phineas and Ferb cartoon! I'm such a kid sometimes!

After dying eggs we headed into town to pick up a book being held for me at Hastings. (3 used books for $21! Can't beat that!) Then it was time for fried rice! After all the yumminess we made way to air up the kiddie pool to float our drinks in!

And drinking we did! Good times!

Sunday I got to see a friend of 14 years that I haven't got to see in over a year. Oh how time flies! I got to try a new restaurant and talk for hours! And I got to see her new house that I'm jealous of (I will have a house of my own soon!). And she even let me borrow seasons 1-3 of True Blood!

Then Yesterday I worked on decor for a charity event. Wine corks on a Styrofoam ball! 

And this morning I joined the crowd and downloaded Instagram for Android!

 

~That’s my update… lots of photos! Thanks, Tamara

Of campfires and pride

This weekend I went camping. Wait… Let me rephrase that… Scott took me into the woods… that doesn’t sound good either… Lets just see how this went…

Saturday:

We got up and got packed and ready and headed over to Brad & Jexica’s to group up. Stopped at Kroger to  get some food. MMMM S’mores! Then we headed out… We went to a part of the Ozark National Forest that Scott is very familiar with. His family has hunted there since he was a little kid. We stop and look out at a few different spots. 

Then we head down to where we are going to start hiking to go see a waterfall. Now here is where it gets… interesting… You see, I don’t hike much. I walk on small trails, like Petit Jean mountain… Where the path is dirt and stones set to be like stairs… That is NOT where we are Saturday. We are straight up just walking in the woods. I don’t see a trail… Do you see a trail?

I had to learn proper hiking. Like going down a steep incline with your heel and the side of your foot so you fall backwards and not forwards if you do happen to lose your footing… After years of Flagline drilling in “point your toe” it was difficult for me. Not to mention the fact that I had on some Nike running shoes and not proper hiking boots. Oh and of course the fact that I am severely out of shape.

We did see some awesome stuff…

They climbed a big rock…

Then an even bigger rock…

 

Then came the part of getting down to the waterfall… This was extremely steep, and not only do you have to get down there… you have to get BACK UP the mountain…

I was determined to see the waterfall, it could have been bone dry for all I could care but I was not going to sit behind like some … there really isn’t a proper word here… city girl?

So I did it, I climbed down… And got to see some pretty water and trees…

Then it took me 3 times as long as Brad & Jexica to get back up. If Scott weren’t there saying how proud he was of me for doing it I probably would have broken down. I had a mini melt down at one point when I kept slipping and couldn’t get footing and skidded down some rocks and hurt myself. But I did it. I made it to the top of the steep part… and then of course the 2 mile hike back to the trucks…

Once we made it back we headed down to our campsite. And I have to say, someone says camping and I am all for it. I grew up camping. But not the way Scott grew up camping. I grew up with Tents, then progressing to the pop up camper, then the pull behind, and now my grandparents have a slide out side 5^th wheel camper. So camping for me is just going to the lake and going without some of the nicer modern conveniences…  Camping for Scott is no electricity, no water, no tent. We slept on an air mattress in the back of the Jeep. We started a fire for warmth. And we cooked dinner on a tiny propane stove (now the stove I am familiar with, it’s how Memaw always made her coffee).

It was cold. So cold. Our campsite was beautiful though. It made me wish it was warm enough to go swimming.

We had some good ole s’mores and told stories of my Thursday night of playing wingman (heehee). And quoting movies and comedians and just good ole down time. And putting up a canopy, that Scott didn’t realize he bought a pink one! (But now I have a pink canopy for craft fairs!)

Sunday:

My back, thighs, calves, ankles, and feet are so sore. 

Poor Brad & Jexica their air mattress had a hole in it and they had to just sleep in the back of Brad’s Tahoe. Jexica snuck in some zzzzzs by the fire in the morning. 

But I got breakfast in bed...

Isn't that beautiful sight to wake up to?

Then we packed up and went to head out and my boyfriend decided to be a boy… and did this….

He is paying for it now though. He punctured the oil pan (after just doing an oil change) and Brad had to tow us up the mountain to a point when his dad, John, could get a trailer in to haul it back. Full amount of damage has yet to be seen.

Brad & Jexica brought me back to Cabot and we stopped off at her Grandpa’s to check out the land where they are planning on getting married. 

I got to pet some horses, one of them kept sniffing my head, it was weird. Lol.

 Ignore my chipped nail polish...

Lesson of the weekend: I can do it. After climbing a mountain, a 30 minute visit to the gym should be no problem. Walking up the stairs at my apartment? Pffst… I climbed a mountain… I realized I can do it. Don’t get me wrong, I hurt today, but I am so proud of myself. And that is priceless.

Not to mention that I got to see my boyfriend in his element. And I fell in love with him even more. I got a good one.

~Tamara

Upgrade

In keeping with the New year, I upgraded my phone and moved over to my boyfriend's plan. I have been a Verizon (Alltel first) customer for 7 years. And I am now a Sprint customer.
My old blackberry didn't have much in the way of processing power. Or even neat features. When the Androids came out to be competition for the iPhone  then blackberry pretty much got left in the dust. And you get stuck with a bad phone for two years! Plus I used the back button on my old phone so much that it started typing "B$" instead of backing out. It got to be very frustrating.
But alas, an upgrade. I got the Samsung galaxy s 2 aka the epic touch. It's so shiny and new! And the full Android market! ! !

Include the serger I got for Christmas and I'm moving on up.
2012 is going to be a good year.

Tamara

2012 is a whole new year... and a whole new outlook

If you happened to see my blog about a day ago you may not recognize it now. I have gone from 250+ posts down to a mere 50ish. I did a little cleaning. And in the process got to take a look at myself from the past 2 years. I was quite a different person. I have kept some posts just to help people learn more about me. I'll be adding the much needed pictures to the posts over the next month or so.

This is just a new fresh start. A new year, a new me, a new life. A new outlook.

I look forward to sharing all my inspiration and ideas with you!