Dealing with OCD

About a week ago, Manuel and I decided to invite some friends over for dinner! It was really nice to be able to visit and let the kids run around downstairs and play!! We used to have friends over all the time until we moved to Grandview.  I think the real reason why we didn't really have anyone over anymore was because I am such a freak, and everything has to be soo perfect.  Well, I'm finally getting over it and realizing that in order to get through this problem that I have, I just have to let it happen. (Does that even make sense?) Anyhow, so while we had them over I just let the dishes sit so that I can enjoy my company.  My dear friend offered to help out with dishes but I just couldn't let her help.  I just kept thinking to myself that "if I want to fix this OCD that I have that I just gotta let them sit."  It finally got to the point that our friends had to leave and of course like always all I could think about was those darn dishes that I needed to clean up.  So as I'm heading in to the kitchen to clean them up, Manuel calls me to the other room.  He's says "Lish, just come sit down and relax with me and just let the dishes be until morning." When he says this, I was like "ummm.... don't know if I can do that." So to make him happy, I just sat down and relaxed.  It was kinda nice to be able to just relax instead of doing those dishes! But let me tell you, all I could think about was doin' those cotton pickin' dishes (my head shaking side to side)! I kept talking to myself saying "I can do this."  When it came time to go to bed, I wanted sooo bad just to do those dishes, but I just ignored them and went to bed! Oh that's not it, I didn't just go to bed, I swear I was just laying there just thinking about those dishes! (By this point you guys probably really think I'm crazy!) After fighting with myself over and over again, I finally got to sleep! The next morning I woke up and much to my surprise the dishes were still there (I thought for sure I was gonna wake up and end up doing them in my sleep)! "I did it, I did it" I told myself! "I let the dishes sit" jumping up and down! Here's the proof! 

So I think that I'm getting better and go about my morning and get the girls ready for school and send them off.  Then I finally get to those dishes! I just couldn't believe that I actually did this.  Then as I'm doing the dishes, I find my self doing them in a certain order.  I first do all the silverware, then the bowls, then the plates, then the cups and so on.  "Seriously Alisha, what are you thinking" I thought to myself.  Not only that, I found myself even color coding them.  Man do I have a problem lol!

Needless to say, I finally got the dishes done and put away!

Oops, forgot to put the bib away!

There, all better!!

So, as you can see, I do have OCD.  But I'm working on it okay!!

Pillow Makeover

I decided that I was tired of my boring pillows in my living room which looked like this (pics down below).

Pretty boring huh? So I called up my Mom and the two of us went shopping for some fabric and got on the ball with redoing these pillows!! Here's some pics of our process.

My Mom and the girls cutting the fabric.

My Mom surging the ends.

Me, sewing the sides up.

Me again, this time saying CHEESE!

So are ya curious what these bad boys turned out like??? Well here ya go!

Now that I'm looking at this pic, I realize I need to change my curtains out. The colors don't quite go with my color scheme.  Oh well, guess that can be my next project!!

Don't know if I like the little flower that I tried to make in the middle of the pillows.  I think maybe I should have made them a little bigger. But hey, at least I tried right?! I do know this much, if my Mom didn't help me, than they would have turned out a lot worse lol.  Thank goodness for Mom!!!





The Perfect Ballet Bun

Well, I got this from the same website I get most of my ideas which is here http://www.princesshairstyles.com/2011/03/perfect-ballet-bun.html.  It's just as easy as she explains it and I love the end results!! The only thing I did different was I didn't put a hairnet cause I couldn't find one at Wal-Mart and didn't feel like going all the way to Tri Cities just to get one.  I still think it turned out pretty dang good for just using bobby pins and a little hairspray!! 



Happy Easter!!

What a FUN weekend we had!! We started off with a fun tradition I think we're going to do every year and went to go EGG people's house:) Yep, you heard that right, so if you were wondering who it was,   now ya know! Then the next morning we went to the wards Easter egg hunt.  It was a lot of fun, I got to get a lot of good pics!

After going home from the hunt, we wanted to get ready for the Easter bunny to come and made some really cute cupcakes! The girls just loved making them with me!!



Then the kids went sleepy night night anticipating for the Easter bunny to stop by and drop off a little somethin' somethin'! I actually had a lot of fun this time and made a little scavenger hunt for them to find their surprise!

We ended the day with the most important part of celebrating Easter and that was sitting down and reading the Easter Story from the scriptures.  As we were reading that, the Easter bunny was hiding the eggs for our own little Easter egg hunt!!

Phew...it seems like so much, but we really had a lot of fun! Like Arieanna said, "this was the best Easter ever!"

Oh, and here's some fun pics of the kids that we tried to get after church.  It's soo hard to get all of them to look at the camera.

Happy Easter!!

Rollin' with my Homies

 Aren't they sooo cute! I was watching my good friend Carina's kiddos and they were itchin' to ride the jeep.  They had such a blast! Just imagine them when they're all grown up, they be rollin' down the street like there sooo cool!! Okay, don't know if I wanna think about that yet lol! Poor Noah didn't get to be in on the fun cause he was sleeping...maybe next time huh!

Carson got a little distracted and decided to play on the play set!

And when that got boring, he decided to go play with the tonka truck!!

Alex just had to try out driving, he's not bad at all, I don't know about the backing up part though...Jeremy might have to work with him on that one lol!

What a fun day for the kids to hang out!! Thanks Carina for letting them come play!!

Girls Day Out!!

So today the girls and I decided to have a little outing by ourselves and go get hair cuts!! It was really nice to get out and try something new with our hair. It was also nice to get away from the boys for a while!!