yarn wreath

alrighty ya'll.  i need your advice.


First of all, feast your eyes on these pretties.  yarn wreaths found  via google image search. i'm going to replicate one.

i am making a yarn wreath for spring!  i want it to be bright.  here is the color of yarn i chose.

it's a pretty yellow!  the yarn was on sale at joanns.  did you know that vana white had a yarn line?!?  me either.  that, however is not the point of this post.  the advice i need... what color flowers should i make with this purdy lookin' yarn?

blue-ish? i don't think it's too michigan like.

purple-ish?

OR

pink-ish?

i think all 3 colors is a bit much.

HELP!

smartest dog in the world

her name is jenny. she is the smartest dog in the world.  no she is not my dog, she is my parents' dog.  my brother taught her to play dead and "pound it" (yes she takes her paws and pounds your fist) within 20 minutes.  brilliance.  i wish my husband could be trained as quickly as her! hehe ;-)  on christmas eve, the whole family was in the kitchen having a jolly time eating and laughing.  when all of a sudden, we hear mad squeaking coming from the living room.  so my aunt kris gets the dogs a christmas gift every year.  low and behold, jenny got into the bottom of the bag and dug out the dogs' christmas gifts!  hahahahaha!  i just found this picture of jenny caught in action and had to share it!

yep that is the dogs' christmas stocking lying on the floor.  she was making sure there weren't any other gifts for her in the bag.  

cute hubster

i was just looking back at christmas photos.  and i stumbled across paul opening up the gift that i got him for christmas... a mandolin.  seriously, how cute is my husband?!?

baby mobile for baby davis

remember all of those pretty fabrics i posted a while back?  this weekend i got to see mommy to be Amy Dizzle!  (man, i love that girl!)  I made most precious baby girl davis a mobile.  i used this free pattern to make the birds. they're attached to the inner ring of an embroidery hoop with pink embroidery thread.  it's so bright and happy.  the ribbon was my mamaw's idea.  i hope the colors make you as happy as they make me.

the tops of the birdies

and the birdie bellies

and the pretty ribbon

keep growing healthy, baby girl!  we can't wait to meet you :)

hat&gloves

i complain about how much i hate the snow.  the one thing good about the snow is that i'm getting a lot of use out of one of my birthday gifts!  a hat and gloves that my mamaw made for me!  i LOVE them.  and they are seriously super warm.  I'm being optimistic about this lying ground hog (especially since I woke up yesterday morning with snow in my front yard).

excuse my fat fingers :)

oh and how do you like my roots growing out! hahaha!  i'm growing my hair out and not dying it.  this is after over a year of not dying my hair.  Paul swears to me that it doesn't look that two toned in real life... that it's just the picture.  hahaha!  

Athletic Training Appreciation Month

This month is Athletic Training Appreciation Month.  So the NATA (National Athletic Trainer's Association) is holding a competition for ATEP (Athletic Training Educational Program) students all around the country.  They make a youtube video for awareness and the video with the most views wins.  Ohio University is in the lead.  Their video is hilarious if you know anything about orthopaedics, sports medicine or physical therapy.  It's what athletic trainers do...   click here to watch it!  PLEASE!

Forks Over Knives

is a movie that you all NEED to watch!  We have been showing it at our community Engine 2 events.  Engine 2 is a plant based lifestyle in which you cut out all dairy.  In the article I'm about to share with you, it mentions Dr. Esselstyn, a cardiologist from Cleveland Clinic.  He has about 20 years of research in which he wrote a book about reversing heart disease.

YEP!  completely reverse severe heart disease.  His book takes a group of people... i think it was like 16 people or so who were basically told by their doctors that no more could be done for them and they were going to die.  Together the group had a copious amount of heart surgeries, attacks and were each on over 7 or so medications.  Sorry to be so vague, if you look it up, you can get the facts.  Well all but one person's heart disease was completely reversed and they are still alive today.  The one person who died was the one person who dropped out of the study.

The answer to the problem: PLANTS! yep, all plants and no dairy, meat, nothing, processed food or sugar.  It's possible, I've done the diet 100% twice.  In the meantime, Paul and I stick to about 90% plant strong.  We had shrimp in our stir fry last night.  My biggest weakness is the sweets! Anyone have any suggestions on how to never have sweets again stay away from sweets?!!?  It would make my life a lot easirt!  The E2 book does have a killer all plant based brownie recipe... i like to call them molten lava chocolate brownies.... mmm.... my mouth waters just thinking about them.  That's my go to sweet when I'm being healthy. haha!

So there is a documentary coming out called 'Forks Over Knives' and it's superb!  You all need to watch it.  Click HERE to read this article on from CNN about the movie.  Let me know what you think after you watch it.

After you learn all of the health benefits, it's really not that crazy to be plant strong!