To wear or not to wear...makeup that is

So I read on a guy's blog about how most women look better with makeup and how he wondered why some did or did not wear it. You can read his post here. Don't forget to check the comments they are the best part. I thought nothing of it. I still thought nothing of it when Steve read it later and mentioned it to me (it is his friend from high school's blog). But then I saw it on Danae's blog. She typically gets 30+ comments on almost every post and she had listed this post and told everyone to weigh in on this question. So then I was curious. Sure enough at the time there were 31 comments. So I posted mine....it goes something like this...

Ok, Tyler..I am sure you didn't mean to open a can of worms, but Danae's regular subscribers seem to have come out in force...in fact, I didn't comment the first time I read it, or the second time when Steve read it and told me about it, and would probably have been content to leave it had there not been some many other interesting comments :)

Well applied, makeup looks good on almost anyone. But this is a "social" perspective. I mean, remember when "rouge" or other makeup was a sign of a prostitute or a lady of ill-repute. So of course, if we all lived then, we would rather die than leave our house WITH makeup.

This has obviously changed some. My personal reasons for wearing/not wearing makeup are thus: Please don't think less of me for showering at different intervals than the standard 24 hr cycle....sometimes it is less, or more...
1. I don't have a morning routine. Ask any of my old roommates or my husband. It is just as likely that I will roll out of bed and get dressed as it is that I will "makeup" my face or hair for that matter. Since this is random (not 50/50, just random), whether I am wearing makeup or not depends entirely upon whether I was wearing it the day before and whether or not I showered or washed my face the night before...I know, remind me when I 40 or 50 about how I should have taken better care of my skin...
2. I am going to go with your sisters in that it is nice to know that I do not think less of myself (image) if I am not wearing it...but in direct contrast, I do think more of myself when I am.
3. If I am leaving my house to impress, you better be sure I will have makeup on (even if it is touched up 'residual' stuff)
4. If not...well, I hope I don't scare anyone else too bad...but more than likely they are just wondering if their makeup looks ok considering mine is so terrible :) and I am ok with that.
5. As for inside my house, well, my husband can start his own blog and tell you what he and my four year old think is the answer to my personal "To wear or not to wear question"
6. P.S. I am turning this comment into a post and sending it out there on my own blog...which I should have done in the first place and just left a link in the comments.
So now it is your turn? To wear or not to wear?

A post in support of blogs

Even my mom said she noticed I hadn't updated. Jamie says I need to tell more about Conner and well, to be honest, I have thought about posting but not really had much to blog about.

So here goes....I think I have a few good reasons for blogs. Notice I didn't say "validating reasons" for all the time spent....just good reasons

We went to gma's the last couple of days. So we could see "Baby Rylie' which I think she will always be called and so I could go to a get together with my old roommates. Thanks Jamie for sharing your home with us. It was fun to see everyone and have yummy food and treats. We missed you Shannon.
Reason #1: To anonymously sneak peeks on random people
I totally couldn't remember some of the guys we lived by (Jamie's husbands old roomies). And one in particular who brought forth a collective groan/oh yeah..type moment for everyone else. As if it hadn't occurred to any of them to give him the slightest thought but unfortunately, once mentioned, his 'persona' couldn't be erased from memory or something like that. I mean, what am I? Brain-dead or pregnant? Drew a complete blank. It took checking out one of their blogs to bring it all back. Thank heavens we can sneak peeks on random people.

Reason #2: Have connections in our lives without extra effort
Also, it was funny to realize that I haven't actually had a "conversation" as in using voices, not even on the phone with any of them except one and yet I still felt caught up in all their lives (except Annie who I hear is working on getting her blog going).

Apparently, this is why we all love blogs...I mean, besides the chance to stand up and post the best/worst/most mundane moments of our lives!

Earth shake....

So I have lived a lot of different places in my lifetime. And now I live along a fault line and have lived along this fault line multiple times and years in my life. But never have I felt an earthquake here...

I have felt big ones in Alaska and California, and little ones in Idaho...The big one in Alaska almost knocked my mom down the stairs. In California, it "waved" the house for about a minute.

So this morning when I was literally woken up by an "earth shake" I thought it was a big one or at least a close one.

Imagine my surprise when I heard it was not small, but not huge and that it was quite a ways away. I mean, it WOKE me up. That doesn't happen very often.

It's time

I have been waiting to make this announcement for multiple reasons. I think by listing the reasons, I might not have to make the announcement. Oh, and I guess a lot of your got our Christmas card and don't need any other announcement ... anyways, you'll probably figure it out.

First, I was super excited to tell the world when we first found out but I was a little early. Then I waited and got nervous, which leads to the next reason.
Second, I was hesitant to put this information out to the big wide world, scared of some crazy I guess.
Third, I wanted to wait until the ultrasound to make sure everything was alright. Especially considering our situation with Bella.
Fourth, I have now worked through all the reasons and have mostly just been lazy.

And the announcement is.....

It's another boy!