Super Weekend

Mr. Hippo and I had a fun weekend.  We started off Saturday going to the Atlanta Car Show.  We had so much fun!  Mr. Hippo got to pretend he was driving all the cool cars. (Like the Shelby GT 500 Mustang)

After the car show we went out to watch the Florida game (Go gators!) and met some friends.

After that I started sewing!  which I continued to do through today!  Think I've been busy?

xoxo,
Mrs. Hippo

#TBT

Today's Throwback Thursday is an oldie but goodie!

This is one of my favorite pictures. Having 2 older brothers, I was constantly terrorized.  Kev and Steven wrapped me in BLUE Charmin toilet paper.  Who remembers that?  What wold everyone say today if we all used Blue toilet paper??

Anyways, my bros dressed me up like a Mummy and as you can see, I was terrifying.

Hope you all have a wonderful thursday!

XOXO

Mrs. Hippo

Baby its cold outside

this cold weather has to stop!  today Mr Hippo had day 2 of his beer sampling.  its a sweet gig, he gets $50 per day and I get $20 for driving him.  He spends 39 minutes sampling gross beer:)

So we have finally caught up on laundry, dishes, and most importantly, Chicken!  We only buy chicken when it is on sale and we got it for $1.99.  Mr. Hippo has a process for wrapping the chicken.  Each pice gets washed, wrapped in saran warp, and wrapped in tin foil.  Then it is put (in order) in in the freezer.  when we are going to eat chicken, we thaw it out the night befor.  it is truly a genius process.  i think we shoulc patten it.  Maybe call it the manual chicken sorter freezing food storage application, or "ba-gaaaaaaaawk".  (chicken noise)  

back to the grind again.  3 more orders tonight!  dont forget, check out my new items at www.thepreppyhippo.com

xoxo,

Mrs. Hippo

Happy Monday!

this is my first week with nothing planned for the weekend! No games, events, NOTHING work related wooo-hoo.  I think the last time I had nothing planned for work for an entire weekend was my wedding back in October!

best day ever!

Event though this weekend wont be as epic, it will still be nice to sleep in and lounge around, although I will probably be embroidering!.  

Speaking of, check out some of my new products:

Hope everyone has a Terrific Tuesday!

xoxo,

Mrs. Hippo

Wacky Wednesday

Hi everyone! Happy Wednesday!  Not too exciting today, unless you count the 3 hour nap I got this afternoon:)  Lily and I took a long dog nap.

So many of you have been wondering whats the deal with Hippos?

It all started Mr. Hippo went to work one day wearing a kahki shirt and kahki pants.  He was picked on and his coworkers started saying he worked for the DNR (department of natural resources).  He is our little park ranger!  In one of his dnr dress days, the guys at work mentioned a job site story and the perosn in the story said they were "going to swim in your river like a hippo".  I know really silly... but since then we have joked about hippos and it grew (especially since Mr. Hippo wears his DNR outfit to work still).

I even gave Mr. Hippo cuff-links shaped like hippos for the wedding:)

Anyway, that is the backstory. Something silly that continues to be a running joke.  And since I love Ralph Lauren and anything nautical, preppy just fit!

Hope you all have a wonderful Thursday!

xoxo,

Mrs. Hippo

m baaaaack

Well hippos, my silly season is over!  That wonderful time of year when we have basketball (men's and women's), softball, baseball and tennis.  We have had no less that 5 events a weekend.  this was supposed to be my first weekend off, but it looks like softball will be here due to bad weather in Syracuse.  shocking I know.

Speaking of Syracuse, how many of you have ever been there?  I was born there and moved when I was 8.  We went back on and off, so I don't have as good memories as my brothers.  But, I will tell you this, it was always overcast and cold.  IT always felt like rain or snow was on the way.  

But I do have these vague memories of our above ground pool, and it being warm.  There was this thing in the sky called sunshine...clearly I was hallucinating, since we know Syracuse is dull and dreary.

Funny story to leave you with regarding the pool:
picture me being 5 or 6 and full of sugar and vinegar.  I had this grand idea to make water balloons in the pool.  So, I took the airless balloon and tried to skim it over the water to fill it up.  Me being my undiagnosed ADHD self, quickly forgot about them.  Since I am such a water baby, I would swim around better than nemo, only I kept my mouth open a lot and swallowed the chlorinated water.  

Low and behold I I swallowed some water with a a balloon in it!  I think I scared my mom to death.  She called someone (not sure if it was a "doctor"), and they told mom to have me pass the balloon.  So mom grabbed the only thing handy, Oreo cookies.  To this day, I am not sure how many I ate, but boy or boy, the balloon came out!  At least it was a tasty way to go!

I am not sure if this was the start of a life long love of oreos, or if I was born with that desire to lick all of the frosting out and return the "cookie" part to the container.  It was however, the start of never trying to make water balloons in a pool again.

ta-ta for now Hippos.  Go enjoy your oreos.

Love, 
Mrs. Hippo

Happy 5th month anniversary!

Mr. Hippo and I celebrated with Laundry, dishes and watching DVR!  Whoo hoo! Does anyone else feel like they are boring?

Typical night, we each have our seats (I have a lazyboy he has a loveseat) and we watch tv here, eat dinner here (the table has become sewing central) and hangout.  I ask Mr. hippo all the time if he thinks we are an old married couple.  He responds with nah, this is what normal life is. I guess I thought we would be eating on our fine china every night wearing diamonds and tiaras:)

Our Fine china and Crystal...still with the price tags:)

what is your normal night like?

Toodles for now,
XOXO
Mrs. Hippo

Project bag complete

My first large bag order came in this week.  I got the bags in today and worked away to finish them!  We only had to pause for a trip to walmart for thread and once for a broken needle.  

(For those of you wondering the score is now needles 3, mrs. hippo 1)

Here is the middle of the project:

This is once I got the right shade of pink!  Canvas bags were a pain in the booty because of how thick they are.   I am so clumsy it is funny watching me try and work with these tiny, delicate threads.

Drumroll please, the finished product:

 Ready to be shipped off!

What a night...but now I have three big sales under my belt!  (That's one for each damn needle)

Xoxo

Mrs. Hippo

Welcome to technology

Well I've done it. I have added the preppy hippo on Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook.this is going to be exhausting:). More to come but for now check me out :

@thepreppyhippo

Happy Tuesday!

Today was a normal day for me, wake up, snooze as late as I can, throw some dry sampoo on the hair, and make it to work for my 8:30 meeting.  

Oh, an get stopped waiting for a school bus, a trash truck and a cop checkin on a crash on the interstate.  Needless to say I barely made it in.  I think my middle name could be murphy, as in murphy's law.  rain on the day of a big tennis match

murphys law states Anything that can go wrong — will go wrong. I use this every day with my job, since I have to plan on everything going to pot.

what are your murphy's aw incidents?  mine always seem to be involving traffic.


xoxo,
mrs. hippo

whoops

i totally missed super sunday!  this weeks super shoutout goes to a broad category, teachers.  we just had the ghsa class 6a bball semi finals and we were surrounded by teenagers.  i dont know how teachers handle classrooms full of them!  we could barely take 1 afternoon.  

i fuond this interesting poem online toda, written by a 14 year old.  read it all the way through and follow instructions.  it says a lot about the youth today...

thank you to all of the teachers out there, from Sunday school to grad school.your countless hours ND dedicationn is a testiment that you all are angels walking among us.

xoxo

Mrs. Hippo