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Friday Favorites!!

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Yeah yeah yeah–it’s FriYAY!!  


But seriously.  This has been a crazy week at school.  Yesterday was a pep rally at school so the kids were wound up and today is the Friday before our fall break.  All prayers are appreciated for all of the teachers! 😂😂

 I tried this on at Loft last Saturday and I’m soo sad I didn’t buy it!  I bought the shirt in my next picture instead (and I had already bought other things so one shirt was it for me), but now I’m regretting my purchase because this would look so cute with my faux leather leggings!



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 I got invited to a blogger event in Birmingham last Sunday so you know I had to take blog pictures 😊



 I got to bring someone with me so my friend Hailey came along!  We always have way too much fun together.  Hailey is also my teaching partner at school (we also graduated high school together) and she probably didn’t realize what she signed up for when she got hired to teach with me.  This week she’s already given me a shot in my belly and put eye drops in my eye.  #realfriendsrightthere



 Birmingham is trying to get Amazon to build there so they’ve put these boxes all around Birmingham.  This was really fun to run in to!



 1. I love Loverly Grey  2. I wish my hair could be just like hers   3. I saw this top and thought it looked just like me BUT I didn’t order it 😞



 …because it’s my birthday month!!!!  I cannot believe I turn THIRTY this month 😩



 sweater | jeans | booties | necklace | bag

I shared this look on Wednesday and…



…Kendra Scott liked it!  Now if only they would contact me to do a sponsored post.  A girl can dream, right?!

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July, August, and September READS!

I didn’t read very much in July and August (reason why: here) so reading one book per month wasn’t really blog-worthy.  But September came along and I got out of that rut because I read FOUR WHOLE BOOKS!  I know!  And basically I read three of those books within a 5 day span 🙈  Dustin wondered if I was ever going to talk to him again ha!

In July I read The Sinner after seeing the mini series previews that featured Jessica Biel as the main character.  Those previews were so intriguing that I immediately downloaded the book on my iPad because I wanted to read it before the tv series started.  This book wasn’t written in English, so it’s been translated but done in a really great way.  The book opens with Cora, the main character, at the beach with her husband and infant son.  She is stuck in a marriage she hates, so she plans to drown herself.  Then out of no where, she stabs the man in front of her on the beach to death.  The rest of the book deals with trying to figure out why Cora did killed a man.  Let me just say this about the book, I wouldn’t suggest it unless you’re a fan of sick and twisted storylines like Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl or any of her other books.  I only finished reading it because I wanted to know what happened (didn’t see it coming), but I didn’t end up watching the mini series because I thought the book was so gross.



In August I read The Glass Castle so I could have the book read before the movie came out in theaters….see a pattern with my summer reading?!  I was hooked from the start with this book.  I still don’t know how Jeanette Walls has grown up into a functional human being.  I’m not typically a fan of memoirs, but her life was so interesting (and even shocking) that I really enjoyed it.  I would highly recommend this to everyone–even if you don’t like reading anything autobiographical!


Ever since Shay started posting reviews of Elin Hilderbrand’s books on her blog, I started reading them and couldn’t stop!  My local library only has Winter Street which is the first of the series, and since I knew it was Christmas themed, I thought I would wait until Christmas to read it.  Nope.  I picked it up the weekend Hurricane Irma hit and started reading it.  Then I immediately bought the other two on my iPad and read those within two days.  The stories center on the Quinn family.  The parents are divorced and the husband, Kelley, runs an inn on Nantucket island with his second wife.  Their inn is known for their Christmas party.  Kelley and his ex-wife, Margaret, have three adult children so you get the stories from the points of view of all of the characters.  Elin Hilderbrand is so good to write well developed characters who also deal with issues in their lives.  She released a fourth book, Winter Solstice, on Tuesday and I’m waiting to buy it after I finish my current book.  You should read these books even though it’s not the Christmas season–they are that good!

What are you currently reading?

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The Color of Fall

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I have been dying to wear this sweater since I got it during the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale back in July!!  It runs true to size and the back has a really fun split back which you don’t see a lot with sweaters.  This sweater isn’t thick so you can wear it comfortably during the crisp fall nights.  And when it get freezing cold outside, layer it under a camel coat.  Don’t judge me when you see me wearing these fall outfits during Alabama’s “fall” season 😂

In other news, Dustin and I started another round of IVF meds on Sunday night.  I don’t know how much I’ll talk about it on my blog, but we would really appreciate your prayers during this time.  Please pray that my body responds to the medicine like it should, and when it comes time for egg retrieval time, that we rest in knowing God is sovereign over that process.
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