Who pissed in your Cheerios?

It's Wednesday! Your new day for the Who pissed in your Cheerios? Link up with Natalie and I! All you need to do is talk about something or maybe it's a few things that really irk you! With that being said let's begin!

I get so irritated when it comes to being a woman and going to do things such as:

•buy a car 

•go get your car fixed 

•buy lumbar 

•workout at a gym

Why is it that upon entering the facilities needed to do these things people treat you like you're an idiot? Listen if I needed someone (a man) to hold my fucking hand while doing this crap I would ask. I think it's unfair to assume I don't know jack about a car or some cuts of wood or drywall. Society has definitely taken its way with this one. 

The days of being a damsel in distress or needing a man to do everything for you are over. I agree when in a relationship/marriage you should do those things together or obviously discuss...but dang what ever happened to independence?

-Shannon

It's my birthday!

So it's my 26th birthday today! Wahoooo! Kidding, I could care less. It's just another day to me. I'm so happy where I am at in life right now I don't care what day of the week it is. Time sure is flying right by but that's the way life goes.

At my age I have already lived in 3 different states after the age of 17 all on my own. California, Illinois and my home state Wisconsin. I have been married. I also have been divorced. I now have an amazing boyfriend whom I will be getting married to when the time is right...I have an amazing little son and two future step sons who light up my life! 

I am in such a good place I wouldn't trade anything for where I'm at. So on that note! Happy Birthday to me and here is to many more I hope I can spend this happy! 

-Shannon 

Motivation

As everyone who comes to my blog can see I had a baby 8 weeks ago! I love him to the moon and back and I LOVE being a mommy. 

(Hehe showing our pouty lips)

My pregnancy was horrible. I was sick every day (no exaggeration) throwing up. I would gain 3lbs and lose 5. So I actually didn't end up gaining weight during my pregnancy. Sounds great sure but it was miserable. I also ended up with preeclampsia and had my little guy 5 weeks early! 

So now that he's here he is my motivation to do so many things. 

•be a better person

•be the best mom possible for our family

•not only be a mother but a girlfriend too

•not let the little things in life bother me

•work smarter and not harder at my business

•make lots of money to provide things for him and his brothers that they deserve

•lose more weight (I want to drop 20lbs by Christmas. I don't need to but I want too)

•give onto others and not expect anything in return

Amongst so many other things...it's crazy to me how such a small being can make you want to change so much. These are the most impressionable years for Nash and his brothers. I wouldn't trade time with them for anything else. 

These two pics are from 6 days before I had Nash. I miss my little belly. I LOVED it.

This is my progress at 7 weeks out after having him! Still have work to do but I am extremely happy with my results thus far. 

What are some things that people in your life motivate you to do? 

-Shannon

Side note: Nash was THE cutest little Dork yesterday for Halloween to hand out candy to the Trick-or-Treaters. We have costumes for Nash's brothers but that's a long story as to why we didn't get to have them AGAIN as planned. But either way get a laugh out of this guy. 

Who pissed in your Cheerios 2.0

Well it's Tuesday folks. That means another round of "who pissed in your Cheerios" from me. 

Today I'm only going to go off about one subject because it's a huge problem for me when people do this. I am a parent now so I feel entitled to speak on this subject now.

People who spend all their weekends and even some week nights in the bars when they have children at home! 

Okay...so let me get this down to detail. I seriously HATE when parents go out to bars on the weekends and even go out during the week sometimes. I'm not talking your occasional go out have a good time ask grandma and gramps to watch the kids. I'm talk your every weekend bar trash. 

Listen you might think it's cute, or that your "just doing you" and you "deserve to be happy". Well let me tell you this, when your children are young you will NEVER get that time back. Ever. You can pawn them off all you want and then post a few pics on your Instagram, Facebook, Twitter etc. and act like you truly are a great parent when in reality you're putting yourself before your kids.

If you are receiving state aid, living with your parents or child support or all of the above...maybe you should rethink your spending habits. Is all of this really fair to your kids? To not have a life outside of being raised by grandma and grandpa while mommy or daddy goes out and get plowed all the time? No, no it's not. People are selfish. If you wanted to party you never should have had kids. 

The people who do this shit and then go home at night and sleep or pass out peacefully shouldn't have their kids. It's time to grow up and stop being selfish. If that's the life you want to live then give your kids to the other parent or someone who will show them unconditional love.

Just remember in 5-10 years when your child looks at you with resentment and hatred instead of respect and love...you can only blame yourself and your dirty selfish habits. Children are innocent. Don't let your selfishness and lack of priorities taint them. 

I look at this little boys face and cannot imagine going out and getting plowed having my parents watch him then snuggling up the next day to him hungover smelling like yesterday's trash from the bar...I will never give up these years with my children or my boyfriends kids. They are too precious to not make as many memories as they deserve.

Get it together people. Stop being losers. Be the parents your children deserve. 

End of rant. 

-Shannon

Tutorial Thursday

Happy Thursday all!

So I absolutely LOVE make-up. Which is kind of strange because on most given days I don't wear make-up. Nonetheless I LOVE it, any kind of it I can never have enough.

Today I am going to show you how I do my natural glam look. Sounds contradicting but it's really not. It's a glamorous look using a natural/neutral palate. 

So here is the look I will be teaching:

Step 1:

Start with a fresh face. I like to prime my face with Revlon Photofinish Primer. (Eeek...excuse my no make-up face.)

Step 2: Contouring. I like to use MAC Conceal and Correct palette in Medium. I take the lightest color and go underneath my eyes, the corners of my eyes, my to-zone. I then take the darkest color and swipe under my cheekbones, sides of my nose and my forehead and my chin.

 

Step 3: Blend! Blend! Blennddddd! And add your brow powder to your brows. I use Ardell brow powder on mine. I do not like pencil. It's too harsh. Anyone who knows me knows I am obsessed with my eyebrows. In the pic I did one brow and left the other. It's a subtle difference but you can tell. Also note the difference after contouring. 

Step 4: Eyeshadow and liner and mascara. (Now I'm an idiot and didn't take pics as I did it but I will explain in detail.)

1• Prime eyelids with a shadow primer. I use Urban Decay Primer in "Greed".

2• Start with a light shimmery shadow an pat all over lid and up to brow bone. I used my Naked palette color "Virgin".

3• Take a slightly darker color shadow and pat all over your lid only. I used my Naked palette color "Sin". It's a slightly pinky brown color.

4• Crease color. Now this is where it gets tricky. You want to start slow and you can always add more. You want to put the shadow on your brush and tap off the excess as you want to be smooth with this. Put it only on your crease of your lid. I like to make it heavier on the outside of the crease. Make sure to then take a fluffier eye shadow brush and BLEND! The biggest mistake girls make is lack of blending. It will ruin any make up look. I used my Naked 2 palette color in "Busted".

5• Eyeliner. On the top lid I like to use a liquid pencil. I use one by Lorac. It gives me complete precision. On my bottom lash line I like to use Urban Decays liner in "Zero".

6• Mascara. This is self explanatory. I use "Lashgasm" by Too Faced.

Step 5: Bronzer. Now you want to be delicate with bronzer if you don't have a tan. I do, so I can use it a little more heavily. Swipe bronzer with a fluffy Kabuki hair brush on your cheek bones upward to your temples. Also on the outside of your forehead and down the nose and chin. 

VOILA!!! There you have it! The natural glam look my way. 

Any questions please feel free to ask! 

-Shannon

Oops! Sorry for the hiatus!

Aghhh!!! I apologize for not posting in over a week! Andrew and I have been SO busy moving into our new place. 

I hate moving. Okay wait, I hate packing and unpacking. I love being in a new place and having new things. 

It took us FOREVER to find the perfect place. We wanted a nice neighborhood, we wanted good neighbors, a big place, two bathrooms, 3 bedrooms and newer everything all with a reasonable cost. When we walked in we knew this was it. The neighbors are all so sweet. There is a HUGE playground here for the kids and there is kids on both sides of us around Rylan and Landon's age and our one neighbor is pregnant too! It's perfect. 

Here is pics of the place. It's not all unpacked and settled yet. We are painting the boys rooms. Waiting on the boys bunk beds to come and a few other things. 

Our bedroom 

LOVE my big ass walk-in closet!

Bathroom in our bedroom 

Nash's room 

I love how big the rooms are. Pics don't do justice! Nash's room just got painted two days ago. His nursery is baby Finding Nemo themed. It's gonna be amazing when it's all done.

The boys room. Now if it's any size perspective that's a king size bed in that room. They are huge! I can't wait to paint their room. We have Avengers wall clings and blankets and curtains! The boys are gonna freak! 

The other bathroom. It's super big too. 

The living room and new couches we got!!! 

Our kitchen. 

Now like I said. All rooms are getting painted and everything isn't unpacked so it looks a freight. But as soon as everything is finished I will do a post about it. I CAN'T WAIT!!

Side note: While doing all this moving and stuff we've had a sicky little baby. :( 

My little bean is still so cute tho...sick or not. Lol I'm biased tho being my own child! 

Baths are this guys saving grace. He loves them. So when he really doesn't feel good we sit in the bath tub. Mawwwww just love him! 

Anywho...I'm sure everyone else hates moving as well! Hope you all had a great weekend! 

-Shannon

Sunday Shenanigans

Yay for Sunday! It's been a long week! We FINALLY got Andrew's boys yesterday after a long awaited time. (I would explain that story but my hands are too precious to give carpal tunnel and early arthritis to by typing that.) Yesterday we went and rented movies, bought candy and popcorn and made a make shift movie theater in the living room. It was a good night.

Today we woke up early got all the littles ready and went to a pumpkin patch. The boys had SO much fun. They rode a train, went thru a corn maze, down the burlap bag slide and then we ate a yummy lunch and picked out pumpkins to take home and paint. 

Andrew and Landon and Rylan riding the "go-karts" as Ry called them lol.

Hehe so cute

Finding the perfect pumpkins!

Our littles together taking a pic nicely! ❤️

All in all it was a great weekend! Now for some more football and relaxing with all my loves. I have chicken noodle soup in the stove and my honeys all around me. Life is grand. 

-Shannon 

From bottles of bourbon to bottles of breast milk

Since I haven't posted much about myself of really done an "about me" I am going to give ya the long story short. Well maybe not super short but you know!

    I am a 26 year old hairstylist from Wisconsin. In my 26 years I have moved a lot since I've been 18 because I wanted to see what I could do alone. I have been married and divorced and I now am the proud mommy of a little man named Nash. 

      I can't say I pictured my life like this but I wouldn't trade it for the world. My last paragraph sounds a little train wreckish I understand that. But I am me and I have a past like everyone else. I just choose not to live there anymore.

     My boyfriend Andrew is a wonderful caring man. He's always doing things for me and he has two other little boys besides Nash and he is the most caring loving father ever. It's extremely sexy. 😉

      I own my own business and I love it. I love what I do I don't ever feel like I'm working. Parts of me miss my fast pace lifestyle in Chicago where I was a colorist down in the Gold Coast area. The money was good and the job was fabulous. But I was that young girl who ran home after a bad break up and threw a huge opportunity with Redken to be an educator away. I sometimes regret it...but now I know it was the right decision. 

      I used to live quite the party lifestyle. Taking shots of Crown Royale nightly with my girls, dancing like a fool, getting in fights and just being a wreck. Then Andrew found me...thank god for that. I guess you could say he kind of saved me. I was in a downward spiral. Now it's been nothing but positive all around. 

    I will leave you today with a few pictures of us all. I'm glad I could let you all know a little more about me. 

This is Nash Ridley. He's 1 month old. Eeeek! Love him! 

This is Andrew and myself. Love him so much. 

What a babe! 

Last but not at all the very least. Andrews two little guys! Rylan in the green he's 4. Landon in the red he's 2. I absolutely adore and love these two little boys. They may not be my very own but I love them like they are. 

-Shannon

Who Pissed In Your Cheerios?

Here's the deal, when people are crabby around me I tend to ask "Who pissed in your Cheerios?". Well I'm gonna give you a laundry list of things that are the piss in MY Cheerios! 

•Lying: Now let me clarify. I realize everyone lies. I'm not talking a white lie like "I'm a size 2!" when in reality you're a snug 4/6. I'm talking bullshit. Straight BULLSHIT. Ex. You constantly lie about things in your life to make yourself to look better to others to the point YOU even believe yourself. Toss your insecurities and man up to what is life. 

•People who are late: Listen asshole, I run a business. My time is money. 

1. At least apologize when you show up. Don't act all nonchalant like I don't have the same clock as you.

2. If you are late to your appointment and come in with McDonalds or Starbucks you best have something in hand for me.

3. Leave a bigger tip. You were late. Now I have to play catch up all while going you the same results as if I had enough time.

4. Just DON'T be late. Simple.

•Cocky Dude-Bro's: Now if you don't know what a "Dude-bro" is let me tell ya! A "Dude-bro" is someone (typically a male although there can be exceptions) who goes to the gym and thinks they are bigger than they really are. They walk around saying things like "Dude! Bro did you see that chicks ass?" Or "Dude! Bro you better go get us a round of Jaeger bombs!" They suck. They take selfies. They normally live in college towns and/or Wrigleyville in Chicago (Dude-Bro central in my opinion).

"Dude-Bro's" girlfriends are usually insecure washed up skanks as well. Rode hard and put away wet.

Please note: any "Dude-Bro" over the age of 25 is then simply considered a douche. 

•Being broke: I don't think I need to elaborate on this one. This is something that makes all people crabby.

•Dropping my make-up and breaking it: I feel like any female feels me on this. It's a travesty when it happens. Your stomach gets all knotted up and you want to cry (maybe you do, no shame). It's just awful.

•Bad hair days: Who am I trying to kid. Lmao that doesn't happen to me. 

I have plenty more things that are the piss in my Cheerios but I'll save those for next Tuesday! What are some things that make you crabby? 

-Shannon