5 Questions

My blog friend Sam over atLife is Beautiful tagged me to answer these 5 fun questions with 5 answers each. And if you haven't already, I highly recommend popping over and checking out her blog too!

Question 1: Where were you five years ago?
- I was 20 almost 21 years old!

- I was a Junior in College

- Zach and I had been together for 3 years

- I made a really good friend in College who today is one of my best friends!

- I worked for a photographer and an after school program. The photographer was actually the photographer at my wedding!

Question 2: What is/was on your to-do list today?
- Laundry

-Grade Paper/ Plans for this School week

-Gym

-Clean my bedroom/bathroom

-Make Chicken Parm for dinner

Question 3: What 5 snacks do you enjoy?
- Healthy snacks: apples with peanut butter, celery with laughing cow cheese, triscuitts, cheese stick, almonds/walnuts

-Unhealthy snacks- oreos, cookies, chocolate, spicy nacho doritos, munchie chips

Question 4: Name 5 places you have lived
- Warren, RI

-Providence, RI

-North Providence, RI

-North Kingstown, RI

-Lawrenceville, GA

Question 5: What 5 things would you do if you were a billionaire?
- Write a check to charity not sure which one, there are so many i would love to give money too.

-Buy my mom a condo wherever she wants to live.

-But Zach and I my dream house

-Get a black Range Rover Sport for me and some nice car for Zach

-Go on an around the world vacation to Italy, Greece, Australia & Hawaii

-Save half so we can have kids and be comfortable

(Sorry i cheated i know that was 6 :) )

The 5 lovely ladies I tag are:
- Jennie @ A girl in Pearls & A boy with Toys

-Elizabeth @ musing experience

-Brittany @ Simplicity in Baltimore

Neely @ Neely's Nothings

Kelly Marie @ Confessions of a Law school Drop out

Today's the Day!

Today is my friend Krissy's baby shower at my house. It is a small diaper shower that we are having for her. She is the one who is always throwing us showers for weddings or babies and we wanted to return the favor. I will post pics either tonight or tomorrow after it is over.

This is Krissy at her other shower opening my gift! I think she liked the outfit :)

This is a group shot of us at her other shower. I look awful :(

This is an old pic but a fav of mine! :) Jamie is the girl in the middle and she is the co-host helping me with the shower!

Hope everyone has a good Saturday!

Favorite Fridays!

My friend Jennie has started a new weekly post! I love it. Follow along if you can!

This week's topic is Favorite Vacation Spot

My Favorite Vacation Spot: Mexico!

I know your probably thinking where in Mexico. Well there are two places that I have traveled to and love them both equally. The first is Cancun. I have been there 4 times. A former friend of my mom's owns timeshare so we use to travel with him.

The second is Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. We went there on our honeymoon. It is beautiful and relaxing at the same time. Though the ocean is not quite a "swimming ocean" It was such an amazing trip.

Wishful Wednesday

Every Wednesday Kelsey over at The Seattle Smith's does a Wishful Wednesday Post which i love to participate in. This week the topic is

"I wish....I could play a character's role in a book and it would be Becky Bloomwood from Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella!

I Love these books. Becky is a hilarious character that loves to shop and boy does she know how. Although my husband and mother say I am a shopaholic I am not nearly as bad a Becky is. If you haven't checked out this series I highly recommend it. She will keep you laughing the whole way through!

If I were...

Brittany over at Simplicity in Baltimore had this as her post today and I thought it was fun!

If I were a month, I’d be July, I love the heat and no matter what state I'm in it will be warm!

If I were a day of the week, I’d be Saturday.

If I were a time of day, I’d be noon.

If I were a planet, I’d be Earth.

If I were a sea animal, I’d be a dolphin.

If I were a direction, I’d be east.

If I were a piece of furniture, I’d be a comfy king chair with ottoman.

If I were a liquid, I’d be water.

If I were a gemstone, I’d be turquoise.

If I were a tree, I’d be dogwood or cherry blossom.

If I were a tool, I’d be a drill.

If I were a flower, I’d be a big beautiful lilly.

If I were a kind of weather, I’d be Sunny and 85.

If I were a musical instrument, I’d be a piano.

If I were a color, I’d be purple.

If I were an emotion, I’d be perky! (Use to be my nick name in the 4th grade!!).

If I were a fruit, I’d be a strawberry small and sweet :)

If I were a sound, I’d be music.

If I were an element, I’d be water.

If I were a car, I’d be a new Black Range Rover Sport!

If I were a food, I’d be cookies!

If I were a place, I’d be the beach.

If I were a material, I’d be pashmina.

If I were a taste, I’d be sweet.

If I were a scent, I’d be lavender.

If I were an object, I’d be a picture.

If I were a body part, I’d be the eyes.

If I were a facial expression, I’d be a smile.

If I were a song, Stronger by Christina Agularia.

If I were a pair of shoes, I’d be a pair of any Tory Burch shoes or Uggs! Both my fav. and too hard to choose! hehe.

Repost and join in on the fun ladies! Happy Tuesday :-)

Sorry for being M.I.A. :(

Sorry I've been M.I.A. As a school teacher in the south we don't have February Break. I have been so busy at school with tutoring before and after school and working the after school tutorial program, that all i want to do when i come home is eat dinner and go to bed. This is usually my time with my hubby too. Here is a little recap of the past week:

Last weekend it snowed on Friday. It was beautiful. We went to Johnny's Pizza with our friends to celebrate my friend Jess's husband Andrew's birthday.

Here are some pictures of Snow in Georgia:

Saturday was my friend Jamie's son Ryan's first birthday party.

Here are some pictures from the birthday party:

Ryan opening his present from me!

The family!

P.S. By that night the snow was melted..lol

Sunday was Valentine's day with Zach! We went and saw Dear John at Phipps Plaza. It was a toss between Dear John and Valentine's Day. I told Zach to pick. He picked Dear John because he thought it would be like the Notebook which he liked. Well we both were a little disappointed. Then we did a little shopping I was able to finally get my new Tory Burch shoes :)

We went over to Nordstrom Rack(Nordstrom outlet) This is our favorite store we love going there we always find great deals. I got 2 dresses, 2 tank tops and a sweater!

We ended our day with dinner at Olive Garden.

Monday- Friday were typical days at school. Wednesday as many of you already know was Ash Wednesday. This year i was able to talk Zach into giving up something with me for Lent. He has agreed to give up Pizza and Soda. I am giving up Chocolate Candy and Starbucks. Wish us luck!

Saturday i met up with my friend Jess and her two boys and we went to the park. It was 60* in GA. The rest of my weekend has been spent cleaning the house and doing laundry. Next week is the baby shower for my friend Krissy at my house!

Hope everyone has had a great weekend!

Zach and I have been watching alot of the Olympics! Have you been keeping up with the winter Olympics?

Portfolio Updates!

Stationary!

I also make wedding invitations, programs, table numbers, place cards and thank you notes. Here are some from my wedding:

My wedding invitations that i made. They were pocketfold invitations with embossed butterflies.

This is a picture of the program that i made. The inside was printed on Vellum paper

The table numbers and place cards that i made.

I also made these diaper invitations. I am having a diaper baby shower for a friend and made these!

Portfolio Updates!

Here are some more painting that I have done.

All my painting are custom made. If you would like a painting please click on order form to email me more details and we can go from there.

This is a 12x24 personalized name canvas

these are 4 8x10 canvases each one is personalized with the boys name

A giveaway and Saturday Plan

Head over to Trendy Treehouse become a follower and you can be entered in a drawing for either a $25 visa gift card or a $25 michaels gift card. Who doesn't need this!!

Last night it snowed in Georgia. We got actual Snow. Zach and I went to get Pizza with some friends to celebrate Andrew's birthday. Today i am going to my friend Jamie's! Her son Ryan turned 1 yesterday! I made him a special project for his present. I will post lots of pics when i return! Stay tuned and check out Trendy Treehouse!!!

Thankful Thursday!

I have seen some blogs that do a thankful thursday and think it is so sweet. I will try to post something every thursday that i am thankful for. Today i am thankful for my husband. He is truly my best friend. A little history: We met my senior year in high school in the airport. I know you are thinking thats not possible. Well believe it. My best friend in high school is a triplet. She and her brothers played on a traveling soccer team. The day after Christmas they were going to a tournament in FL. She asked her parents if i could come with them and they said yes. I knew who he was because when we played his school i knew him as the "ward-smith friend who is really good a soccer" hehe! Anyway he later told one of my BF's brothers that he thought i was cute. We exchanged numbers and talked when we returned home. I asked him to my winter ball that February. 2 weeks later, February 19, 2002 we officially started dating!! We made it through College together and he even moved with me from RI to GA when i was offered a job! He told me that he gave me 3 months. If he could live with me, he knew he would marry me. On October 1, 2008 we traveled home for my BF's(same one who introduced us) wedding. When we landed in Boston, he proposed. He said he felt that he should do it at a place that brought us together!! We got married the next summer on June 7th, 2009!

Me and my Best Friend on her wedding day! I was her MOH!! :)

Our Engagement photo

Our Wedding Day!

I changed into this dress!

Our Honeymoon in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Our wedding rings :)

A new look!!!

Jamie from Designs by Jamie created my new look! I love it. My favorite colors are purple and turquoise. I love butterflies too. She did an amazing job. Welcome all my new followers.. Thanks for following me!

2 orders of business!

Happy Monday! well at least i always try to make Monday happy...it was especially hard today after the excitement of last nights super bowl game. Mr. Tobin was for the Colts and i was for the Saints. We had a friendly bet... well i won!!! Yay

Still feeling under the weather.. i actually feel like I'm loosing my voice today :(

Ooo well!

2 things:

1. I need followers. I am so new to this Blog world if you can suggest any followers that would be great. I am welcome to following anyone's blog as well. I love reading them and getting tips and tricks from everyone.

2. I am having a baby shower at my house the end of this month and I'm stuck on menu items. I am open for any ideas. We want to keep it simple. There will be about 12-13 of us total so small. Thanks so much

Have a great week. I am looking forward to Wedding Wednesday and Wishful Wednesdays on your blogs!!

Justine

Super Bowl Sunday!

Yay for Super Bowl Sunday!

I have had a sore throat for 3 days and counting. I have had 3 kids out sick this week with the stomach virus. All in all i am going to get through a laundry list of things i need to do today.

1. Clean house
2. Laundry
3. Grade papers and plan for this week
4. Finish my friend's painting for her son's 1st birthday present**pictures will be posted when it is complete
5. Make food for the game: we are having

• wings
• pepperoni calzone
• buffalo chicken dip
• chicken quesadillas
• possible french onion soup
• possible chocolate chip cookies

Hubby is routing for the Colts... which i normally i would too but i love a team that has never won.. So i am routing for the Saints..

Happy 8 month anniversary to us today!! In just 4 short months we will have been married for 1 year!!

Tobin inc projects continued

Here are some of the recent projects I have completed. This one is a 20x24 canvas with a monagramThis is a 24x32 canvas in grey scale jungle animals

This is one of 6 16x20 Princess Tiana paintings i did.
This is a second princess tiana painting.

This was a mural i painted for a friend. Her son was have a jungle themed nursery. **Please contact me for orders and prices. All painting are customized for what you want.