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Friday Favorites!!!

Friday, May 20, 2016

Happy Friday, y’all!

One of my most FAVORITE things about today is that this is my last Friday to work until August!!! This year our school calendar has next Thursday as the last day for teachers and we are thrilled. Until then, we’re all like…

Earlier in the week I was getting ready to peel and chop these sweet potatoes in order to roast them in the oven. Roasted sweet potatoes are Dustin’s FAVORITE thing to eat, and he would want me to cook them every day if I would. My old vegetable peeler was awful and I hated the thought of making these, but I just ordered a new one from Pampered Chef and had these babies peeled in no time!

My sister and her husband were gone to the beach for a week–yay for her and sad for me! I missed having her here, so when I talked to her on the phone as they were driving back Tuesday, I immediately invited them over for dinner. I knew she wouldn’t feel like cooking anything after getting back from the beach and unpacking. After dinner, we all went on a walk around my neighborhood. Our walks together are always a FAVORITE!

Even Nick and Ralphie came! Walks might be Ralph’s FAVORITE thing, too! Right after doing all of his tricks!

I typically cook 4-5 nights out of the 7 day week. And my FAVORITE food ever is pizza. Like I really could eat pizza multiple days a week. Before I began my weight loss journey, I ate Pizza Hut, Dominos–you name it. Now things have changed and the only pizza I order out is the vegetarian one from Papa Murphy’s. But I’ve just recently learned to make my own dough (whole wheat of course), so we pretty much have homemade pizza once a week!

Yesterday I wrote a post about how my husband falls asleep everywhere. The fact that he sleeps when we’re trying to watch a TV show together is definitely not a FAVORITE, but yesterday’s post was! #wheredustinsleeps

Finally, my most FAVORITE thing today is the community I live in. The little girl pictured above is a first grader in my little town. She was recently diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. My community has banded together supporting her and her family and raising lots of money to help with any sort of costs the family may have (She is receiving treatment at St. Jude’s in Memphis and of course, this is free for children). If you get a moment, please go check out her Facebook page Prayers for Kayleigh and read about the amazing faith her parents have during this time in their lives.

I and a few other teachers will be raising money and running the St. Jude’s half marathon in her honor in December.

#wheredustinsleeps

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Last night I posted this photo on Instagram and Facebook:

We were supposed to be watching Friday Night Lights together on Netflix, but this was what happened 10 minutes into episode 1.

My blog friend, Erica, commented and told me I should start a hashtag of #wheredustinsleeps….so I did. I went back through Instagram tagging old sleeping photos of Dustin. The man can sleep anywhere and in any position. I remember him once telling me about the crazy places he used to sleep on hunting trips with his college buddies, and now that we’re married, I believe it!

Enjoy these pictures of #wheredustinsleeps!

Are you like Dustin and can fall asleep anywhere?

Sense of Sarah: The Story of How We Met

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite

Dustin and I went to the same high school in a small town. It’s one of those towns where there’s one junior high and one high school, so your graduating class is the same since the sixth grade. One would think that with the same mutual friends we had (or mutual friends who were siblings) that we would have known one another in high school, but we didn’t. Our age gap (in high school, he was a senior while I was a freshman) was just enough to keep us from knowing one another in school. And that’s probably a good thing.

I hadn’t been teaching for an entire year when the social studies teacher across the hall called me on a Sunday afternoon asking if I would be interested in going on a blind date with someone. She told me all about this guy who was from Hartselle and went to her church, but he was currently working and living in Mississippi and would come back to visit every once in a while. She also let me know that he had an interview back home and was actively working to move back. Since I trusted her, I agreed and let her know that she could give him my phone number. Remember, this was on a Sunday (and it was the Sunday before Thanksgiving).

I didn’t hear from him until Tuesday evening when he called. I missed his call and he left a voicemail. I wish I still had that voicemail because there’s no telling how awkward he sounded haha! I called him back and got his voicemail. He called me back and we talked for a hour. That was my first sign that we were meant to be together.

We were out of school Wednesday-Friday for Thanksgiving break. I got a text from him Wednesday night just asking how my day had gone. I thought that was so sweet of him because no other guy had ever done that. Then we texted some on Thanksgiving and decided our first date would be that Friday night to go out to eat and watch our high school football team compete in regionals at home.

Because I lived with my mom and stepdad at the time and we lived way out in the country, I told him that I would meet him in a central location to ride with him. My main reason for doing this was in case this turned out to be a horrible date, I didn’t want to be stuck with him driving me home at the end of the night–like I said, I lived way out in the country.

After I met up with him and hopped in his truck, he took me to Chili’s to eat (not my fav) and he barely ate his hamburger while I proceeded to eat almost my entire salad haha! That’s the only time I’ve ever seen Dustin not finish a meal 🙂 We talked the entire meal and I thought it was going really well.

Then we went to the football game and sat with his friends and he quit talking to me after that. We’ve since laughed about our first date and I’ve told him it was a horrible idea to take me to meet his friends on a first date since he was so awkward.

After the game (our high school won!), he took me back to my car and worked up the nerve to ask me to watch the Iron Bowl the next night at his friends’ house. I made up something about already having plans because I definitely didn’t want to go watch a football game again and have him ignore me the entire time.

Well, I ended up giving him a second chance and the rest is history!

Linking up with Jenn and Holly today!