The Nail Files: XIV

Welcome to another week of The Nail Files! I'm happy to be back. This week I am actually going to have to go back on what I said about Sally Hansen Complete Manicure nailpolish.

I have found a color that I actually didn't like. Now it might be because it sat on a shelf for a while, or it might be because it's just a bad batch. But this is the color that I chose this week, and I would have a picture of it, but it was so thick that it smudged and smudged until I finally just said you-know-what and took it off. It's called I Pink I Can.

I managed to get it to stay on my toes, it doesn't look the greatest up close but no one looks at your toes up close!

My first nail polish flop.

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The Winds of Change are Coming....

Man, I am so lost when it comes to my blog now!

Man Candy Mondays are officially over...no more link-ups. (I am SO SAD about this!)
Waist Watcher Wednesdays have officially flopped.
Significant Other Saturdays have NOT been successful.

At least I have The Nail Files. (This week's will be posted on Saturday)

So, I leave this question:

What would YOU like to see on my blog?

I'm a newbie to Instagram, but I'm lovin' it. Maybe a weekly photo dump with an Instagram link up/follow party? If I did that, and you link up I could choose my top 3 photos from the links and feature them the next week, and offer some link love in return? (PS you can follow me @thegrowingtree)

I can call it the Instagrammys! OOOOO.... nobody steal that! I'm pseudo-tradmarking that RIGHT NOW!

I also love Lena's "Tuesday 10s" so I think I may do that. The next topic is "10 favorite books".






What about a "Current Obsession" post?

Or a "Pinteresting"/"Wanna be Crafter" post where I share things that I want to make/share things I do make?


So tell me! I wanna know!

Leave me a message in the comments and tell me what YOU would like to see from The Growing Tree. More Natalie? More me? Or neither?? It's up to you!!

And while I'm at it, thanks for the input and thank you SO MUCH for reading!!

Not Waist Watcher Wednesday

So, I know I've been slackin' on my good ol' blog lately. And honestly, I haven't gotten alot of traffic here either, especially on my Waist Watcher posts. And let's be honest, my weight loss journey has pretty much sucked lately anyway. So, I'm officially retiring WWW until next year. I'll probably pick it back up around the first of the year with ideas and tips to get ready for bathing suit season. (which it currently is RIGHT NOW and I am no where near ready) Thank you SO much to all who participated, I appreciate you all SO MUCH, and I hope that you decide to stick around.

Now, a quick update on the pups: They are a week and a half old and we still have all seven! They're doing great =) Here's a quick pic.

I am IN LOVE.

Other than that I don't have much to report. I have a Nail Files post scheduled for Friday, and a Significant Other Saturday post coming up this weekend, so I'll be around a little bit more. I've just been super busy with the baby and the puppies, and getting the house together and cleaned in preparation to rip our carpet up. We're almost there.

Have fun this week!

Oh and if you want to get more updates than on my blog, you can follow me on Twitter @growingtreeblog or on Instagram @thegrowingtree!

An Unexpected, yet Awesome, Surprise

So, I'm not sure if I mentioned this or not, but if I haven't it will be a surprise for you as well.

Back in February, we had an "incident" with our doggies. To recap, here they are:

Our male husky, Marty

And our female beagle, Vala

So anyway, back to the "incident." You know what kind we're talking about, but here's a clue anyway. Neither of them are fixed. So, just imagine the worst and there you have it.

We were suspicious for a while, but last week she started getting REALLY BIG and when we put our hands on her tummy we could feel the little kicks from the puppies. We had NO idea how many were in there or how long they would STAY in there.

Well, we got our answer on Saturday night...actually it was more along the lines of Sunday at 2 am. Hubby is woken up by Vala, who put her paws up on the bed and scratched him until he woke up. Not out of the ordinary, because she normally does this if she has to pee really badly. So, he asked her if she needed to go out, and next thing you know she's plopping a PUPPY down on the bed in front of him!! We immediately start freaking out, because I have never had a preggo doggie before, and had NO clue if I needed to watch her or help her, or just plain leave her alone. So I watched her for about three hours while Hubby went back to bed, and watched puppies #2, 3, and 4 enter the world. After that she seemed to calm down, and I figured the pups were so big that there couldn't POSSIBLY be any more in there. So I went back to bed.

YEAH..... I was SO wrong!

We woke up the next morning and there were TWO MORE puppies!!! Then we checked again about an hour later and figured out we had miscounted and there were actually SEVEN!

Oh. My. GOD! What are we going to do with SEVEN puppies!!!??

So, that's why I haven't had much time to blog. And probably won't be here as much for a while. And, without further ado:

The black ones

The spotted ones

Puppy #1 - the oldest

 Puppy #2

Puppy #3

Pudgy Spots - Puppy #4

Puppy # 5

Puppy #6 or #7 (not sure) - I call him Tubby!

And lastly =)

Oh my god the cuteness!!! I can't take it! Feel free to scroll up and look through again and AWW at them! They're definately AWW-worthy!! =)





The Nail FIles XIII

Here we are! Another nail polish post. I have so many new colors to try, and this one is no exception! I've been wanting to try this color, but I was worried that it would be too dark for spring/summer. But today, I did it anyway! I've never been one to be "trendy"anyway! So anywho - here it is!

And here's how it looks on!

I love it! It's dark, so dark that it looks almost black....only it's NOT! =)

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