Wacky Wednesday!

Its time for wacky Wednesday!  contact me and you will receive 50% off of any one item!

In other news.  Today is Lily's 5th birthday.  I never had a dog growing up, so this has been quite an experience!

We have had so much fun.  When I first got her I was determined to crate train.  You see I did all of my reading about what to do with puppies.  That didnt even last one night.  those whines and cries made it impossible to leave her in the crate.  From that moment on, her spot has always been on the right side of the foot of the bed.

She looks so cute and innocent, but let me tell you she is a kisser!  She wants to be included and wants all of the attention.  Why not, she is adorable.

Happy 5th Birthday Lily!

Love,

Momma Hippo

Super Sunday (on Tuesday)

HAPPY Tuesday Everyone!  At least I think its Tuesday.

Super Sunday is bleated this week.  My shout out for Super Sunday for this week is none other than my first nephew Matthew.  

Its hard to believe this little guy is going to be 9 this year.   Matthew is the sweetest little boy.  He is constantly worried about everyone else, making sure they are ok.  Recently he was worried because Grammie didnt call to say she was home right on time.  When she did call, Matthew said she should have been home 30 minutes earlier!

Matthew's teachers adore him.  He told his speech teacher that God loves her.  We are all so lucky to have this great little guy in our family. It's been sop much fun to watch him grow up.  I can't wait to see what the future holds for him!

more to come hippos,

xoxo,

Mrs. Hippo

busy little bee

Hello Hippos!  Ive been so busy at work, but I havent forgotten about you.  Today we have a multitude of sports (well really all weekend) which begs me to answer the question, What do yuo consider a busy weekend and how do you schedule everything?

I have become dependant on my outlook calendar.  Mr. Hippo uses Google calendar and swears by it.  Up until this past year I still had a planner.  

photo courtesy of www.daytimer.com

But what I find funny is that I still print out schedules and post them right next to my desk at eyesight.  I guess some habits are hard to die:)

Here's to modern technology:)

Hope you all have a wonderful Saturday!

XOXO,

Mrs. Hippo

Super Sunday vol. 1

today is the first ever Super Sunday!  Every Sunday we will take a moment out of our  day to honor someone Super, a super action or a super thing!

Today we are going to highlight Mr. Hippo.  We got engaged one year ago today.  He is so thoughtful and I am so lucky to have met him.  Mr. Hippo works very hard at his job, but still takes the time out to come visit me at all of my work events.  Friday he came to women's basketball and brought me chocolates for valentine's day.  Saturday he came to softball and brought me girl scout cookies and today he came to baseball and brought himself!  What more could a girl ask for?

We are sitting here right now, he on his loveseat and me on my lazy boy, both on our computers working and we look like an old married couple.  I hope we are like this for the next 30 years.

Three cheers to Mr Hippo and his thoughtfulness for being so super.

Stay tuned to see who/what is honored next Sunday!

XOXO
Mrs. Hippo.

and the winner is

drumroll please:
Honeysuckle, the Pantone color of the year 2012

I just love this color.  It was the inspiration for my wedding last year.

So today caps off a full "day off", which we scheduled 3 home SB games.  Oh what fun.  Truley I love what I do, but there has to be a way to involve more people in working, especially when there are 3 games.  Oh well, 7:40 BP tomorrow AM!!!

Mr. Hippo has been a trouper, coming to games each day this weekend.  Lets see if the trend continues tomorrow;)

Im off to bed, stick around to see whats in store for Super Sunday!

XOXO,Mrs. Hippo!

Happy Valentine's Day

this is by far my most favorite holiday of all time!  Everything is pink, red and white!!  I love the cliched roses, chocolate, everything!

So we had baseball and wbb tonight.  This was a makeup wbb game and was also our pink game.  Which leads me to point out that there are a billion and one variations of pink now adays.  Out team wore light pink, the visitors wore hot pink and everyone else wore every shade in between.  I myself was in a coral pink jacket.

So what is your favorite shade of pink?

Light pink

Hot pink

salmon

coral

I will tell you my favorite tomorrow!

xoxo,
Mrs. Hippo

back to life!

back to reality!

Made it through the slush today to work.  We had one game moved to today, the women's game moved to tomorrow baseball shifted and we added 6 softball games!  yay, busy weekend!

So for today's first throwback Thursday, I am showing you a picture of when we got engaged.  One year ago this Sunday!

Hard to believe a year has passed!  It is so funny I still smirk when I refer to Mr. Hippo as my husband:)

Off to hippo sleepland!

XOXO,

Mrs. Hippo

Trapped day 2

Hi there hippos!we are trapped here in snopocolypse 2.0.  its been such a differnt storm now one trapped in their car for house, not one walking 6 miles in the snow, etc.  mr. hippo and i have been working all day.

i think i have a new book title: how not to embroider: a collection of tips of what not to do.  it not that bad.  my mom and mr. hippo keep telling me how wonderful all of my products are, but arent they supposed to?  i have learned a lot in my 4 days as a seamstress.  i have only broken one needle and ruined one towel.  all in all that sounds like a solid effort.

i will keep you posted of my progress.  in the mean time, check out my store for new items~

xoxo,

Mrs. Hippo

The second coming of snowpocolypse

Here we are on the verge of snowpocolypse round two, and yep, we have men's and women's bball at home...

On another note,I have been busy embroidering.  Check out some of my products.

ok corral

another day in the ok corral...

so in grad school i had to read a book called "death by meetings".  it basically surmized that we meet just to meet and don't get any productivity.  i swear, i have to get to work before the wprkday to get any good work done!  the problem with that is that the minions have caught on so now we have a company of more people getting to work before work, thus we are all working 60 hours!

rain is a ciming this weekend.  WIsh us luck with our first softball tourney.

Exciting news is coming tomorrow!  i have expanded my crafting!

ta ta for now hippos,

xoxo

Mrs. Hippo

jeopardy and other monday night routines

Mr. Hippo and I are sitting here, he in his loveseat and I am in my lazyboy.  only 3.5 months in and we have settled into married life.  our nights include seinfeld, himym, bbt and of course jeopardy.  We both like to think we are smart and well educated but man some of those questions make us feel like we are failing kindergarden!

Speaking of, I have a batch of new students I have hired and MAN they are so smart.  How do these kids know what they want to do with their lives already?  I swear I dont even know what I want to do yet:)   Once girl is studying IE and knows she wants to be a consultant for the big 4, tax firms that is in atlanta.  she wants to be a consultant for them and travel and work for them for 2 years then get another job.  Yikes!  She is only 19.  Whats funny is they all think what I do is so cool and neat, if only they knew.

well see what tomorrow brings hippos.  more adventures to come from my people.

xoxo,

Mrs. Hippo

Happy Superbowl Sunday!

The gang is all hear to watch the superbowl!  Mr. Hippo's dad is here to make us dinner and celebrate the game!  Speaking of the superbowl, let me share my best memory ever.

2007 in Gainesville Florida.  I had just graduated form Florida the year before and was living in Orlando.  I went back to a friends house to watch the game.  There were all kinds of snacks and goodies.  They game was ok, I honestly dont even remember who played.  So halftime rolled around and instead of watching the entertainment, the host put on a DVD.  Not just any DVD.

The greatest DVD of all time.

It was "Journey's Greatest Hits-Live"

It was without a doubt the best halftime entetainment.  IT is funny the things you remember, like I dont remember who was there or the game, but I will never forget that halftime!

Don't stop believin' hippos,
XOXO
Mrs. Hippo

The dirty side of snow

i love how everyone wants it to snow because it is so pretty...three days after it is so gross.  

cars look like they havent been washed in decades.  

gray slush is everywhere.  

gravel and salt remains on the roads and sidewalks.  

yucko-the dirty side of snow.

that would be a good book title, yea? there ive coined it.  the dirty side of snow.  lol.  thankfully i moved from syracuse when i was 8, so i didnt grow up with it.  what else could we add to this book?  corrupt shovel dealers? fake ice melt?  i bet there are lots of corruption, let me do my research.

mr hippo and i are enjoying the weekend off.  this is the last weekend i dont have work until april, so we are going to enjoy it!

more to come hippos.  

xoxo

Mrs. Hippo