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What’s Up Wednesday–February 2016

Happy Wednesday, y’all!  I’m linking up with Shay today for What’s Up Wednesday–and I’m in a VERY good mood today!  Why you ask??  I finished all of my assignments for the week yesterday!!!  Yes, you read that correctly….yesterday!  I think since my finals are next week, both professors decided to take it easier on us this week and I am NOT complaining!  I seriously feel like my load has lightened tremendously since turning in that last assignment. All I have left is my finals next week, updating Livetext, and then one more term and I’M FINISHED WITH SCHOOL FOREVER!

What we’re eating this week…
I’m making this recipe tonight–Sweet Potato and Black Bean Chili.
This past weekend I was reading my Shape mag and read about how healthy brown rice is (which I love so yay) and how it’s even healthier when refrigerated overnight because it’s a resistant starch.  Sounds great, right?  They had a few easy recipes in the mag so I tried one Monday night and let it sit in the fridge overnight.  I took it for lunch yesterday…..SO GOOD!  Recipe coming soon 🙂


What I’m reminiscing about…
Monday night D and I booked our summer vacay/celebration of Sarah’s graduation from grad school and we’re going…….TO THE BAHAMAS!  We booked a 5 night cruise and I am so excited because I’ve only been on one other cruise (which was insane because who knew that a cold front in the ocean created 16 foot waves = cruise from hell) so this one should be much better.  So basically I just wrote all of that to tell you that I’m reminiscing about the awesome weather one my first cruise (until the cold front hit).


What I’m loving…
Monday night my friend Sarah came over for us to discuss our She Reads Truth Lent study and pray together.  She brought along…

Baby Nate!  
I kept him in the nursery on Sunday so I was so glad she brought him!


What we’ve been up to…
 Prepping our taxes

 Some of us have been resting

 DNOW hosting

And working out 😉


What I’m dreading…
the amount of work I have to do for grad school before the end of April….yuck


What I’m working on…
Eating healthier and losing weight…post on that tomorrow!!


What I’m excited about…
June vacation!  And my few days of a break in between terms–I’ll really be hitting up the gym with all of my free time


What I’m watching/reading…
I haven’t been reading a lot because of grad school, but check back with me on Thursday, March 10 because Victoria and I are hosting another Book Club Thursday!  Our first link up was so fun and exciting (plus lots of great book recs) that we’re doing it again!


What I’m listening to…
The Avett Brothers since I’m going to see them in May!


What I’m wearing…
This comfy little sweatshirt from GAP
Other than that, nothing exciting.  This weather is so confusing….muggy one day and cold and rainy the next, so I haven’t worn anything cute or picture worthy.


What I’m doing this weekend…
Taking my husband on a surprise date!  I can’t say anything else since Dustin reads my blog ha!  I’ll post about it on Monday 🙂


What I’m looking forward to next month…
SPRING BREAK


What else is new…
-Thinking about what I’m going to wear on our vacation this summer (anyone like me who books a vacation and immediately starts thinking about clothing??)
-Working on planning our second vacation this year
-Trying to get together a Shaneyfelt family vacation like last year 
-Looking around at options for a new car for me…yayyay


Bonus Question: 
What is your favorite Easter tradition?
My favorite tradition used to be buying my Easter dress until last year.  Last year we all wore…

Shirts from Forget the Frock–this organization gives the money you would have spent on Easter clothing (and actually probably one sleeve of Easter clothing) to Feeding the Orphans while you wear a shirt to raise awareness of the hunger and orphan issue in the world.  This year Forget the Frock is supporting Feeding the Orphans again along with two new organizations aimed at getting women out of the sex trafficking industry.

Weekend Recap: DNOW + Nashville Edition

This weekend was jam-packed!  We were a DNOW host home for the 7th and 8th grade boys at our church and on Saturday I took a quick trip to Nashville for lunch.  We’ve been exhausted and Dustin was asleep by 9 on Sunday 🙂

Dustin worked this weekend, so he got home about an hour before the boys showed up.  We fed them a lot of pizza, and then we retreated to our room while they had Bible study in the living room.  This picture was taken before all of the craziness went down haha!  We prayed that the Lord would open the hearts of these boys to know Him more and for them to grow in Christlikeness. 

Saturday morning my mom came to stay at the house while the boys were still there and I hit the road to Nashville to the 12th South neighborhood to visit with Victoria who was in town for the weekend!!!  First stop…..Reese Witherspoon’s store, Draper James!  I was so in awe of every single thing in her store–not only her classic, timeless clothing designs, but the interior design of the store.  Apparently her interior designer designed this store to look like the inside of Reese’s home.  I loved it!

So I just had to try on a dress.  When I walked into my dressing room, there was a huge curtained off area to the left.  I opened the curtain and this was behind it…

 My own personal bathroom!  It was so interesting because we had already checked out the bathroom on the other side of the store (we would have walked through the stock area if they would have let us haha!  We were so curious about everything!)


This is the dress I tried on–super cute for fall/winter, but not practical for the warm temps we have now.  P.S. Can you see the curtains behind me, and the bathroom behind them?

Lunch was at Bartaco which reminded me of the Little Donkey in Homewood (which is my favorite place to eat).  We each got two tacos (I had one chicken and one mahi mahi) and then we split the corn and lime pineapple.  Oh my gosh, it was so good!  We both agreed that we literally could have just made a meal out of sides.

Bartaco had massive glass garage door windows rolled up so the whole restaurant felt very airy and open.  While we were eating, we saw this little food truck across the street–so cute!  And I love Smores, so I would have gotten some if I wasn’t getting Sprinkles cupcakes to take home.

How cute is this neighborhood?!  I will be going back soon with Dustin because it was such an easy drive from our house.

I had SUCH a fun time in the two hours we spent together and it was so fun meeting in person!  Love that our friendship first developed over a love of reading and has transformed into so much more!  I also got to meet her husband and his old college roommate and they were all so nice–I hate that we live so far away from each other!

I got back home at 3:30 and Rachel was at my house.  After the boys got back, we went in my room and laid on the bed and just hung out for a little bit.  I love being able to just hang out with my sister–I love our relationship and how close we are!

I went upstairs to make sure nothing was broken and the majority of them slept in the bedroom upstairs.  

After church on Sunday, I rushed home to CLEAN!  I scrubbed the house top to bottom before heading to a bridal tea at church.  I added this duck to the mantle that I bought in Nashville with Victoria.  I am SO pleased with this purchase!  The funny thing–when Dustin saw the price, he said, “You spent that much for a duck?!”  And I just had to remind him that it was my souvenir from my day trip AND that wasn’t it so pretty?  He agreed and that was it ha!  Love him 🙂

Linking up with Biana today!

Currently on a Thursday

I thought I would try linking up for the Currently post today!
Linking up with Christy and Annie today

Reading…
the She Reads Truth Lent Study and I LOVE it!  I love SRT studies because they give you the portion of Scripture that you read, and then you read a very solid commentary after.  So far one of the things that’s really resonated with me from this study during Lent is that while Christmas is such a joyous time of celebrating Christ’s birth and everything is decorated beautifully, Lent is a time to really understand the seriousness of sin and the weight of it.  Repentance is not just turning from your sin and to God, but walking with Him in obedience. This study has really helped me to not only see my sin, but to see my Savior who is so much bigger than my sin.


Listening to…
anything by the Avett Brothers!  I’m so excited to go see them live in May!


Watching…
I have so many things recorded on my DVR but haven’t had time to watch any TV because of grad school and the million things I have to do!


Cooking…
Monday I made the baked chicken parm from the Skinnytaste website.  I’ve made this recipe lots before, and we always love eating at my house.  We cut out the noodles and just ate it with roasted asparagus….yum!


Looking forward to…
We’re a DNOW host home this weekend for our church–I hope we get some sleep.  And I’m looking forward to Saturday when I get to meet up with Victoria!!!  We’ve been joking about how it’s like just seeing an old friend you haven’t seen in a long time–aren’t friendships like that the best?


Wishing…
I was already done with grad school!  I think I have 10-11 more weeks left and then I’M DONE!  Almost there!


Enjoying…
the days staying brighter longer….that means spring is on its way!!


Loving…
4 day work weeks!  It’s really thrown me off though because I continually second guess myself throughout the day about which day it really is.


Wanting…
warmer weather to be here for good!  I’ve been seeing in other parts of the country temps in the 60s–I’m so ready for it to get in the high 60s and low 70s here!  That also means that I need to get my Costas fixed so I can wear them again!


Wearing…
nothing that I remember to take pictures of.  This week has been so stressful because of the amount of homework and the fact that I don’t understand some of it mixed in with commitments that I have after school.  For example, yesterday we went and met with our accountant after school.  That lasted over an hour and then we made a quick stop by Target to get a rug pad to put under the runner in the entryway so the boys don’t slip and fall this weekend.  I ended up getting home about 6 and immediately changed clothes and sat down to work on homework.  I felt like I had missed out on 2 hours of homework time already because of things that I had to do, and so I had to stay up later doing homework.  Oh well, I’m almost done!


Grateful for…
doing the She Reads Truth Lent study has really reminded me of the enormity of my sin and the fact that Jesus took on my sin (when He was completely sinless), became the perfect substitute for me on the Cross, and whose death reconciled me to God–all before I was born.  Doing this study and really focusing on repentance at the beginning of it has made me extremely grateful for Jesus


What are you up to currently?