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a few weeks ago my friend gave me a bottle of a night cream called nerium.  my friend asked me to try it and report any changes in my skin.  i put it on at night after my face was clean, three pumps and then went to sleep with it on.  within three days my face brightened up, my freckles were getting lighter, my expression or emotion wrinkles (as i like to call them) on my forehead were becoming smooth and my smile line on my left side of the face became smaller.

i read more about NERIUM and saw other's people's results.  i have now been using it for almost three weeks and my face has been softer, looks younger, the redness is almost gone, its tighter and better than i could have ever expected from just one cream.  being in the beauty industry, i am around people who have me try masks, hair products, face products and never have i been so impressed.

three of my good girlfriends have a well-known blog that is called "lunch pails & lipstick" that has been getting a lot of press.  my friend jenna who lives in new york with her family wrote about it when they did their giveaway for Nerium here.  i really like what she wrote about it and love that she is coming from the skin side of beauty.  anything jenna recommends, i know it's quality.  i normally don't talk about products i like unless i really know it works and i have to say this one does!

i have an account set up where i can send you some at my discount.  it retails for $150-$200 but i can get it for $80 if you get it every month... just email me if you are interested.

if you would like to learn more information about Nerium or are interested in becoming a brand partner, click here or contact me at melislundquist (at) gmail (dot) com.

in the meantime

here are some more surprise ball hearts I made for one

 of my friends of a friend for her three boys and spouse.

i sent a tackle box over to some of our best friends who live all the way in Yakima.  they fish a lot and just got married so we wanted to send some love!

brady and i celebrated our two year anniversary!

we don't need a lot of glam and fancy things, so we stayed in, made dinner, watched a movie and made a gluten free pazooki.  it was nice.  cannot believe two years have passed.

jackers got my postcard!  oh he melts my heart.

on valentines day i got to see baby finn.

then worked a little, then brady drove down to my salon to surprise me with flowers he put together himself, a sweet gift and we re-did our first date in laguna beach.

we brought dinner down to the montage in laguna beach and added playing skip-bo to our anniversary date by candlelight.  it was pretty romantic and simple, just how we like it.

we spent more  time this week together.

we explored this new area that has lots of parks and cool places to live.  

he is just the best. love both of my boys.

jackson's home!!!

brady and i picked jackson up in the burbank airport.

so excited to see him.

he ran up to me, jumped on me and had the biggest smile on his face.

he told me how much he missed me and loves me.

brady surprised us and took us to kids castle right around the corner.

it was so fun to run into it, play games right before it closed.

we felt badly that jack had to wait several hours to get onto the next flight since he missed his original flight so we tried to make it fun for him after.

on saturday, we played with a rocket brady built!

the boys were pretty stoked, to say the least.

here are some videos of two of the launches...

le tigre?

right after he ran after it!

so cute, right?

we did it three times. jack loved chasing after it.

10 minutes after finished letting three rockets off, we rushed to my parents house for our "drive in movie night"

i handed them out monopoly money, ticket stubs that brady ripped.

jack had some of his good friends come over.

they decorated their numbers for their cards and we put sheets over laundry baskets.

it was fun to see them get so excited to watch a movie in their little cars at their own little drive in movie theatre.  brady helped me to put together the concession stand 

where we had popcorn, pretzels, candy, etc.

i had all the boys line up to buy their food.

they were so cute being all thrifty when they spent their fake money.

the rest of the weekend was spent having fun, 

enjoying the simple things we use to enjoy on a daily basis.

family dinner for sunday where we all came together.

it really was a weird feeling it wasn't going to last past monday.  

i held onto every second i had with him, forgoing as much time possible that i would have used to do my hair or makeup, so i could spend the most time with my babe.

monday morning:

he set up all of his animals to watch Marley and Me with us.

we snuggled and then cried together at the end.

why did Marlee have to die?

then we went to target, spent time with our dog charlee, went for a bike ride and then headed to the airport... stopping to grab lunch together and then boomers for fun.

then, just like that, he was gone.

airports i'm finding have so much emotion now.

from the excitement of first seeing him, the anticipation 

to the walk, alone, away from the terminal.

i completely held back tears that felt like they were almost gushing from my eyes, to just sit in the drivers seat in the john wayne airport parking lot and let them all out.

all of jackson's toys he loves were left in the back of my car.

his blankey. the things he said to me during the drive there will hold me through the next week, until we see each other again.