BeautyBlondie – Page 11 – Elisabeth Johnson

Posted on November 5, 2013November 6, 2013 by BeautyBlondie — 2 Comments

The Beginning of our Love Story / Recap of the Last Month.

As most of you might recall, things have been pretty crazy around here the last few months. Probably the craziest my life has ever been. Yet in the midst of it all, Brandon and I have only grown closer together.

Every story has a beginning… Some are more predictable than others. Most stories begin when something eventful happens. If you are a new reader let me recap the last month for you so that you will be up to date on the beginning of Brandon and my story.

I married the love of my life – Sep 7 We bought a House – Sep 13

We bought a house

Our House Flooded (The day we bought it) – Sep 13

We went on our honeymoon (Coming soon) – Sep 14

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I got sick on your honeymoon (Also coming soon) – Sep 15

We are in the middle of fixing up our house

I washed my iPhone (With all of the pictures of the last 2 months… losing everything on it) – Oct 9

All while living at my Mother-in-law’s house.
I don’t know how most marriages start, but this is the beginning of our love story!

Are you married? If so, I would love to know how the beginning of your marriage started? Did you run into any road bumps like we did?

Posted on November 4, 2013November 4, 2013 by BeautyBlondie — 2 Comments

1 Dress, 2 Different Ways of Wearing It! {My Style}

You might remember this grey dress from one of my Chicago outfits that I wore this past summer. I usually try to wear my clothes in many different ways depending on the season. It is amazing how you can completely changed the look of the outfit with changing a few minor things.

Since it is cooler out I wanted to show you what I did different: For this outfit I added black tights, black leather shoes, a fake black leather jacket with a grey handbag.

I don’t know if any of you know this, but since our wedding Brandon and I have been living at his mom’s house because our new house actually flooded the day we bought it. Since we are in the middle of fixing everything up, I don’t have my usually wardrobe because a lot of it is still boxed away.

Repeating outfits and changing up how they look have been a necessity around here. Although it is hard to imagine, I am beginning to like living a little more simple. It is amazing how much faster I get ready in the morning when I only have a few things to choose from.

Now I must ask, what do you like about the way I changed up this grey dress? Have you ever felt like completely changing a statement peace in your wardrobe?

Posted on October 30, 2013November 4, 2013 by BeautyBlondie — 1 Comment

Our House Flooded!

First I would like to thank everyone for all of your support, comments and advice from my Johnson Home Tour.

What most of you don’t know is that 3 hours after signing the contract for our house, we walked into our new home full of water. Sometime in between our final walk through (which was a few days before. Keep in mind that this is just 6 days after our wedding and the night before our honeymoon) and us signing the contract a hose in the bathroom disconnected from the wall and was shooting out water like crazy.

Our plummer seems to think that the hose was shooting out water at about 3 gallons a minute for a solid day. Now get this, Brandon only took a long lunch to sign on the house and went right back to work. My Mother-in-law and I were the only 2 people present when arrived at the house and we had nothing to clean it up. So…. we had to call in some reserves: My family, Brandon’s family and our neighbors of about 3 hours to come and help us clean up our house. (Luckily we knew some of our neighbors prior to buying the place.)

Here come the ~~good~~ (bad) part. Do you remember when I washed my iPhone? Well all of the pictures from the flood were on there and I lost everything off of it. I hadn’t had the phone that long and I never set up my iCloud! So I only have 4 pictures from that day and that is only because I text them to my sister and she still had them.

So here they are: Our living room. We had to pull up the carpet that night.

Once it was all out we had to put fans on it. I think we ended up having 10 to 15 fans going in the house at one time and 5 in this room alone.

Our basement: The water was dripping from the ceiling for a couple of hours while we tried to clean it all up. You can also see the stairs going up had padding on it….

… and all of that had to come off because it was soaked. As well as the drywall.

After the water settled down a little, my neighbors helped me clean out the vents throughout the basement because they were full of water as well.

Need less to say, we didn’t get done cleaning the house until 11:30 and in bed until after midnight and we had to get up at 3 for our flight the next day. But that is a whole other story for a different day.

I just can’t get over the fact that hours after closing we walked into that… have you ever heard of such a thing? Did anything crazy like this happen to you or someone you know?

Posted on October 29, 2013October 29, 2013 by BeautyBlondie

Pumpkin Spice Smoothee Recipe

There are so many reason why I love fall… and most of the revolve around all of the great food.

Even with a little chill in the air, I still love having my morning smoothie. There is nothing like a healthy and nutritious breakfast to start off the morning. It not only gets my body up and moving but it also gives me energy to start my day. I have many favorite fall recipes and this Pumpkin Spice Smoothie is one of my favorites. I got it directly from Shaklee’s website and it is simply delicious.

You will need:

2 Scoops Shaklee 180 Vanilla Smoothee Mix
8 Oz Milk
2 Tbsp Canned Pumpkin
½ Tsp Pumpkin Spice
Dash of Vanilla Extract
Dash of Cinnamon
4 – 6 ice cubes
Blend until creamy.

This recipe is seriously like fall is a cup, you are defiantly going to want to try this.

Now that I have shared one of my fall “must have” recipes with you, now it is your turn. Do you have any fall favorites that you would like to share with me?

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