Photo-a-day 2. Busy

Busy cleaning out my car thanks to toddler #2. Yay puffs!

2. 20 facts about you

Well damnit, this is going to take me all day to write.

1. I hate lists like this and really want to skip this whole post. Boo.

2. I like grocery store sushi. Judge me.

3. I also like Very Bradley. Judge me some more cause I'm carrying a VB bag and wearing VB flip flops right.now.

4. While watching our kids play tonight, I laughed so hard I may have needed to run and change my underwear. I think I need to get back into kegels. If I start tweeting a daily kegel reminder, would that be cool? Or would you be freaked out? C'mon moms...

5. I started this list 8 hours ago.

6. I have exclusively breastfed both of my children. Gabby for 12 months, Genna for 15 months so far. It is something I am very proud of and im a huge supporter of breastfeeding. I'm having a lot of trouble weaning Genna tho.

7. I watch old episodes of Friends most nights. My "me time" is usually 10pm-12am, reading blogs/books/the twitters/clearing out my email. Often with a glass of wine, and my "Friends." This makes me sound kind of sad, huh?

8. This post needs more pictures. I drink water out of this cup all day/every day:

9. This is only #9?? You don't want to know how many unfinished craft projects I have cluttering our laundry/utility room. You don't. I blame Pinterest, obviously.

10. I think I must suffer from what Beth Anne calls "bitch face." I swear I'm a friendly person, but I cannot make friends easily for the life of me, never have been able to, in fact. Today I was on the treadmill at the gym and got all jealous of the chicks who obviously just met ("are you new here? How many kids do you have" blah blah blah blah). Why didn't they talk to me? I'm working out! Look at me! I have kids! Oh wait... Bitchface.

11. Hey look, it's my husband!

12 - 20. I give up.

Photo-a-Day 1. Self portrait

Afternoon, glasses cause my eye was all gross over the weekend, no makeup, post-gym and pre-shower cause toddler #1 is sleeping in our bedroom and I know better than to wake her just so I can get clean. Ha.

1. Introduction and recent photo

Hi. Welcome to This Side of the Fence. I'll be your host, Stephanie.

I'm a (mostly) stay-at-home mom to two gorgeous, amazing little girls, and wife to one pretty cool husband. We live in the suburbs. I like it ok. :)

Why "this side of the fence?" Doesn't it always seem true that the grass is greener on the other side? I'm trying to live our life day-to-day and bring myself to understand that that saying is not always true. It's a hard path. I am grateful for my husband, our children, and our little family, but in this world it's hard to not always want more.

More about me? I'm 29 years old. For the first time. :-P No, really y'all, I'm pretty freaked about turning 30 ... IN SIX MONTHS. Gah! I'm kind of addicted to my iPhone. I seem to be on a perpetually never-ending diet, which I fail at a lot because I love food too much. And all things baked, and chocolate. And shoot, we live in New Orleans. We know good food (none of which is low fat, low carb, blah blah blah) and I enjoy eating it.

Wanna know more? Keep following along.

Oh yeah, and this is me. And my Gabrielle. Back on Father's Day. Recent pics of me are few and far between.

31 Day Blogging Challenge and July Photo-a-Day Challenge

I want to blog more. It gives me a small outlet. Something to share. Something to remember this time in my life. I want to look back and say, oh wow, look at what I did that day.

Despite the millions of pictures I take daily, I want to actually record what went on. Who I was at this time. Who my kids were. They are growing and changing so fast. Don't get me started on that, cause the second I think about Gabby starting preschool in about six weeks, I have the fight off the tears.

So I'll be participating in these TWO blogging and picture-taking challenges. Yes, two. Go big or go home, right? Yes, I am rolling my eyes at myself right now too.

I found both of these via Pinterest over the weekend. Credit goes to whoever is listed in the pics, because lets be honest, I'm writing this from my phone as usual and that's a bit too much of a PITA to link to whoever and blah blah blah. I won't be tagging my posts, but feel free to follow along and post with me. You can follow my blog, or Twitter (where I'll update as I post).

Oh and no surprise here, I'm a day late starting. Weeee!