Kesha Thomas

Shame on me!!! Here’s the recipe!

Kesha Thomas — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:48:52 +0000

Please, make these! You wont regret the extra couple calories :-)

A good day.

Kesha Thomas — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:01:09 +0000

This morning I milked laying in bed under warm covers as long as I could. Isla woke up kinda early so I set her up next to me with a cartoon, some grapes and milk. I leaped back into my warm snuggly bed. I managed to stay in bed for another hour while Isla was content. After Co woke up I kinda decided it was a stay-in-your-pajamas-and-bake kinda day. I literally had a dream about a delicious chocolate chip scone and naturally I couldn’t really go on in life until I had one. I had to load up the girls into the car and make a quick trip to Trader Joe’s for a few ingredients. I prayed I wouldn’t run into anyone and I didn’t (Thanks, Lord).

Well, I made the best chocolate chip scones I have ever had. Seriously.good. I’ll be making them every day until I can’t stand the sight of them any longer :-)

A few pictures of our morning.

First things first.

This is a glimpse of our trip to the store. Sans baths and brush.

Trader Joe’s packaging makes me happy.

Spatula sword fight. A normal thing in our house.

Isla going down

Yum.

Chocolate chip lips.

Desperately waiting.

So good. So low fat (not). So perfect.

Adios!

These days.

Kesha Thomas — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:18:12 +0000

These days have been….well……crazy. I imagine my little “world” seems pretty great and perfect at times. I’ll give the internet all credit for that false sense of perfection. All seems perfect and right in the world when you read someone’s blog. Especially when they’re all

“Today I woke up literally bouncing out of bed at 6am. My cute babies woke me up and they were all smiles! A rainbow unicorn flew past my kitchen window as I was happily cleaning my dishes and drinking my perfect cup of coffee! I got showered and dressed by 8am and wore this outfit and my hair looked like this!! I didn’t have any laundry to do because I love it so much I stay up late at night to finish it! I took my kids to the park, the library, and then we did some home school (did I mention my spiritual gift is patience?) and I made them a perfect organic lunch with fruits and veggies from our garden and fresh eggs from our chickens! They ate every single bite! My kids LOVE to eat the great food I make them! Then they napped for 3 hours while I did yoga….” (this is a joke people, I hope you can have a little laugh)

I have people tell me my life seems ‘untouchable’ when I share with them honest struggles I live and go through every day. This kinda makes me sad. This reality is not reality. No one has a perfect life. It’s rare to read a blog that is raw and honest. I understand that! I’m not even close to as raw and honest as I’d like to be. I hate pretending. I hate being fake. I usually avoid blogging all together when times are at their worst. Notice my large gaps in blogs?

I wont come on here and barf all of my problems and hardships but I will be honest enough to say I’ve dealt with many. In every area in life. I’m waiting patiently as God walks me through some of the most difficult trials so that I can come out in the end and be someone who can love and help others who have gone or are going through hardships in their life. I believe God is the ultimate healer and He is lovingly taking me through some major healing.

On a different note, my little imperfect (but very cute) family had a little vacation to the Oregon Coast this past weekend. It’s always nice to get away from every day life and be in a fresh new environment. Thankfully the weather was on our side and we enjoyed the beach.

A little quiet time on the cute front porch of the beach house.

Isla is pretty much my shadow. Co wouldn’t come down to the beach so she’s not in the pics.

The pretty beach houses

Dad and Co coming to enjoy the wind free beach!

The sun breaking through. This was pretty amazing!

Loves of my life.

Can I brag about my sil Katy?? She is such an amazing woman. I adore her!

us in all our Oregon beach attire glory.

Diggin.

The sunset was kinda pretty….

The unicorn was too fast for me to capture! But this was my view as I did the dishes :-)

Dinner with Q and K

Sambos.

Not sure what is on my cheek but it kinda makes me want to have a “cheek mole”

Our morning cup-o-joe

I’m one of those fuddy duddy traditionalists. I have to get peppermint icecream and carmel corn when I visit the coast.

And man, my pink chipped nails are awesome.

Da end.

28….what!?

Kesha Thomas — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:41:33 +0000

I am officially 28 years old. Yesterday was my birthday. It started out like any other day. I was texted and facebooked (made that one up) over 100 “happy Birthday” greetings, met my Mom and Grandma for breakfast, took Co to ballet and gelato, then ended the day with church. It wasn’t a bad day by any means. Just a good old regular day. It’s funny how your birthday can make you feel extra loved by the people in your life. It’s slightly overwhelming for me sometimes to accept gifts and greetings. I find it difficult to express my gratitude to those who shower me with love. I want to hug and squeeze them and cry my eyes out to them for being so kind to me. It’s a bit freaky so I don’t actually do it but I want to!

I missed my Dad a lot yesterday. I wondered what He and I would have done. He used to take me to lunch to the BBQ Pit, it was my most favorite place on earth, and give me $100 cash for shopping wherever I wanted. He wasn’t the worlds best father but He did love me and those times were special. He always made an effort on my birthday. It consumed me most of the morning, how much I missed his presence in my life but I soon reminded myself that He’s happy in heaven and one day I will be able to run into his arms again.

Wednesday night my besties and I (I have the worlds BEST friends, seriously. Be jealous) enjoyed LOTS of laughter, inappropriate sex talk, food, cocktails, jokes, good conversation and company up at the lovely Bridgeport Village. They spoiled me with gifts and sweet cards. I am one year younger than the 3 of them so it’s always fun to whine and complain about turning 28 when they’ve all recently turned 29. Muahahah!

My birthday evening I celebrated with our amazing church group PAX and Vin went ahead and brought a full Claim Jumper Red Velvet cake to serve to everyone. Nom Nom! And there goes that 5 lbs lost :-)

Here’s a few snap shots of our Bridgeport evening. I’m so lucky to have these ladies!

Oh yes. And I got 3 Aprons for my birthday! I went from none to 3. Awesome!

Wednesdays.

Kesha Thomas — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:22:44 +0000

We have extra special Wednesdays in the Thomas house. We get to have Madi over for a few hours to hang out! She’s pretty amazing with the girls and they can’t run to the door fast enough when she gets here! I decided since I have about 1/1,000,000 of the patience she does I would set her and the girls up to make some fun Valentine’s Day cards. She was calm, normal and having fun… meanwhile I was pulling my hair out watching Cohen write an “e” backwards and witnessing Isla dumping glitter on every inch of our kitchen table. Bahhhhhhh!!!!!!! *keep calm and carry on, keep calm and c.a.r.ry on…..

Today is a gloomy, rainy day in Salem but that wont stop us from having a little fun even if that means I will have red glitter in and on every square inch of my house. And probably coming out my nose and ears for a while too.

Oh well. Here’s to being a super-cool-laid-back-care-free-mom.

Ima go breath deeply into a paper bag……

Martha Stewart glitter makes me want to frolic and giggle.

And then we took a lunch break for some Chicken nuggets and french fries.

I’m so thankful to have people in our lives that I can trust with my girls. It’s a huge help and blessing to me. Love ya, Madi!

<3,

Um, it’s pretty much flooding.

Kesha Thomas — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:45:13 +0000

So yeah. If you already live in the Willamette Valley chances are you’ve noticed the little bit of rain we’ve had. About 4 inches or so in the past 24 hours. Our town is flooding. Literally. Sometimes I wonder why I live in Salem. Ror reals. (I left that typo because I thought is was seriously funny).

So I wont bore you with all my lavish complaints about the weather. If you know me, or read my blog enough you will know the relationship I have with rain. Not exactly a courtship.

Any way…. I wanted to share some fun craft ideas I think I want to try for Valentines Day. I dont hate this Holiday. It’s fun, cute, harmless, and another reason to eat bad.

This is just adorable. Here is where the tutorial is…

Next time you’re at Walmart or Lowes or whatever grab a bunch of paint samples and get working!

This is just scrumptious to me. I love making wreaths! They are very easy and you only need a few things to make one. JoAnn’s has everything you need. Here’s the tutorial for this…

Mmmmkay. You couldn’t pay me to make this thing but how cute is it? If you have an ounce of patience in you Go for it and make one for me too, k?

Here’s how to make it, and I will send you my address with you are ready to make one for me.

These are cute and simple! It takes very basic sewing skills too! Just buy some cute blank cards, Or cut and fold some paper. Cut out some little paper hearts and sew them to the paper. Easy peasy!

Have fun!

Kesha.

We’ve converted

Kesha Thomas — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:29:46 +0000

Today is getting much brighter. I woke up to REAL snow, about 1.5 inches at least. The girls bundled up and played for a bit while I enjoyed a doughnut and some news. I was hoping for the Today Show but apparently Salem considers 1.5 inches of snow a “Winter Storm” that needs to be broadcasted on every channel. Ok. That’s fine. I will take any adult TV show over OPB any day. So that was all good. THEN I hear a little knock knock at my door. It was my beautiful friend Jillian handing me a fresh hot Starbucks! That was the whip cream on my sundae. The Cherry was about an hour later when she came knocking with a fresh hot PIZZA from Paddington’s! Wow. Lucky me! Ok so I really can’t complain this morning :-)

So last night we finally made the switcheroo from crib to a bed for Isla. She was beyond happy to have a big bed to jump on. The pictures pretty much speak for themselves.

I’ll be having fun re-creating her room now. I’ve been drooling over Pinterest the past 24 hours stuffing my brain with ideas! Pinterest is kinda the death of me. In a good way.

So here are the girls, hugging and kissing their crib goodbye. It was good to us!

Cohen wanted to snuggle with Isla and help her get used to her new bed last night. This kinda makes my heart explode into a grillion pieces.

Snow this morning! So lovely.

Straight outside to play!

The hat and 3 sweaters under her coat was a little too much…

She’s loving her room.

umm, yum!

Grump fest.

Kesha Thomas — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:44:38 +0000

I am a major, major grump monster today. Scratch that. These past few days. I’m about to crawl out of my skin. I’m about to book a one way ticket to a tropical island. I’m about to throw, very violently, everything that looks unorganized in my house out of my upstairs window (just for dramatic effect). The sound of my girls fighting (which is currently what I am being serenaded to) is about 1 billion grazillion times worse than squeaky styrofoam and sharp pointy nails on a chalk board combined, and blasted through a blow horn right into my ears.

My back hurts today. My bladder hurts today (Yes. My bladder). My laundry is overflowing, Cohen’s room wont stay clean. EVER. I just dropped over $300 bucks at Costco and I can’t find anything to EAT. (WTF?) This “snow” on the ground just pisses me right off and well yeah.

Grump. Fest. Up. In. HERE.

Mmmkay.

Mad about you….

Kesha Thomas — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:49:14 +0000

I am utterly, madly, desperately, deeply, wholly, in love with these little girls.

They’re perfect for me.

They make me a much, much better person.

And we have this incredible, handsome, smart, thoughtful, godly, funny, talented, amazing guy to take care of us.

We’re lucky ladies!

Just goin’ with it.

Kesha Thomas — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:54:17 +0000

Life has been crazy. I go through these seasons where I just have to sit back and breath while life zips past me. This “season” is different. It’s good. God is working a ton in my life, my marriage, Vin’s life. I’m VERY excited for the new year. I am one of those dumbies who loves having a symbolic fresh start to a new and improved year of life.

The Holidays were nuts. I am VERY glad Christmas is over. I was beginning to get nauseous at the site of my Christmas tree. It’s all put away for next year. I’m holding onto a good 10+ pounds from the whole “holiday season” and welp, I just devoured 5 freshly baked chocolate cookies with toffee chunks AND I texted Vin to pick me up a cold cut trio from Subway WITH extra southwest sauce. Think I care? No. I don’t, and It doesn’t help when my husband likes the extra junk in my trunk. I don’t like not fitting into my jeans. That’s the ONE motivation I have to lose a few pounds. But as long as leggings stay in style my jeans can enjoy their little vacation :-)

So here I sit. About to grab another cookie and sip a glass of cold milk…..

Mmmmmmmkay. I’m outta control.

Kesha~