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Friday Faves!!

Happy Friday, y’all!  I hate to say it, but I feel like this summer is flying by and I don’t like that one bit!  I need everything to slow down so my summer lasts much, much longer!

I’ve got a lot of FAVORITES to share with y’all today!!

My first one is this really cute tank that would be perfect for the 4th because it comes in both red and blue.  And it’s on major sale right now!!


 I really love drinking coffee–I mean vanilla lattes, and those aren’t the healthiest to drink every single morning.  I like leaving those as little treats whenever I stop by Starbucks or a local coffee shop.  But I like to have caffeine each morning whenever I wake up which is why I enjoy drinking Spark every morning since it’s only 15 calories!  My favorite flavor is the Mango Strawberry, but they just came out with a new one, Pineapple Coconut, and I’ve got to try it asap.



 Yesterday, i missed the Girl Chat linkup about favorite hair products because Wednesday was super busy, so I want to share my two faves right now.
This spray is a damage control protectant that I spray on my hair after I get out of the shower and before I brush through the tangles.  It works not only as an adult detangler, but also helps keep my blonde hair healthy from the heat tools.



I just went a little ashy with my blonde hair (the picture below is before) and I’ve wanted a purple shampoo to help keep my hair bright and blonde and not yellow and brassy.  My hair dresser told me about this purple masque (conditioner) that not only keeps my hair bright but will also keep it soft and moisturized.  So far I’ve used this product 3x and love it!  You have to keep it on for about 5 minutes before rinsing.


 I never got to write about this, but about two weeks ago I got to meet Amanda from Klein dot Co!  She was as sweet in person and she is online, and we had a great time walking around and shopping Bridgestreet!
 I snapped this while I was under the dryer during my last appointment.  Since I was changing up my blonde, it took a little bit longer.  The sacrifices we make to look good, right?! LOL!



 Tuesday after my yoga class, I met my sister for lunch at Moe’s BBQ.  We’ve decided Tuesday is going to be our weekly lunch date this summer.  Side note:  Is Moe’s BBQ a local thing or is it in other places?  They play really great music (Jimi Hendrix. DMB, Led Zeppelin) while serving only freshly made bbq.



I bought a new face cream to try at night.  I read in Good Housekeeping that they gave this brand’s retinol the award for the best drug store brand, so that was intriguing because the last tube of retinol I had cost $80+.  I’ve used this the past two nights and so far I really like it.  My skin in sensitive and this hasn’t caused me to turn red or my face to burn.  I put it all over my face, neck, and the base of my neck, and it has a nice, light and clean scent to it.  It’s supposed to help the discoloration in my face (aka sun spots) while keeping the lines at bay.  The price was the selling point!


And my weekly FAVORITE song pick is…
Aloe Blac’s newest song!!  I saw him on The Today Show yesterday sing it, and the first thing I did was try to find his new album so I could buy it.  He reminds me a little bit of Leon Bridges!  

When You Become Friends With Your Siblings

For those of you who are new around here, I have two sisters–one older half sister (Stefanie) and one sister only a couple of years younger than me (Rachel).  Stefanie was 14 when I was born and didn’t live with us full-time, so I really don’t think I ever had the chance to get on her nerves as the annoying younger sister 😜 (or at least she hasn’t ever told me haha!).  But Rachel on the other hand….
Rachel is 4 years younger than me, so we were the perfect age gap for her to get on my nerves when I had finally hit my teen years and felt “cool.”  
I remember the fights we used to have growing up and how my mom used to tell both of us that after our parents die some day, Rachel and I would only have each other–so we better make up.  As a teenager I didn’t quite get what my mom was telling us.  It sounded morbid and I didn’t really want to be friends with Rachel at that point in my life.

But things changed once I graduated high school a moved two hours away for college.  Rachel became a freshman in high school as I became a freshman in college and our relationship dynamic began to shift.  No longer were we fighting horribly, but we actually missed each other.

After I graduated from college, I moved back home and got a job teaching at my old junior high.  I lived with my mom and stepdad to save money, and after Rachel graduated from college, she stayed at home and went to a local college.  That’s when our relationship changed the most.  We finally became best friends.

Fast forward to today, we talk every day, live in the same town, and see each other constantly.  I now understand what my mom was telling us so many years ago.  We still fight but our fights as adults look much different than our fights as 12 and 16 year olds.  I’m thankful for our friendship, thankful that we’ve both matured enough to become best friends.  

My Weekend at The Gospel Coalition Women’s Conference 2018

If you watched any of my IG stories from Thursday to Saturday, you probably noticed that I was out of town and at some sort of big event.  A couple of months ago, my best friend sent me the link to The Gospel Coalition Women’s (TGCW) Conference for 2018 asking if I wanted to go.  Of course I wanted to go!  We both love TGC for its reformed theology, loved and read many of the speakers, and it was a very doable drive from Alabama.


 We headed out for Indianapolis before 7 AM on Thursday morning!

Our drive was relatively easy except for the insane amount of interstate construction in Indiana.  It got so bad (and as a result would have made us late for the first speaker) at one point that we followed the detour Janie’s phone was suggesting and it ended up taking us on a gravel road through a corn field ha!


 We got to the conference just before it began!!  Not pictured was the sweat from hustling to get to the convention center 😂  This conference was the biggest one I had ever been to–there were OVER 8,000 women there!  

During the course of the 3 day conference, we went through the book of Deuteronomy and listened to 7 speakers preach on different passages through the book.  The main message of Deuteronomy–love God and love your neighbor.  If you have any questions about this, please feel free to email me at saraheshaneyfelt@gmail.com
Mary Willson and Jackie Hill Perry (LOVED HER!!) were the two speakers that night!


 Day 2 was Friday and we were pretty tired.  Our hotel was about a 15-ish minute walk so not too bad, and the selling point was the fact that Starbucks was located right across the street.  Unfortunately, the Starbucks line was way too long for us to wait in line for coffee and breakfast and still be able to make it before the conference began.

We had 3 speakers on Friday spread out throughout the day–Kristie Anyawabile, Don Caron (president of TGC), and Jen Wilkin.  I had heard Jen speak at a smaller conference a couple of years ago and was excited to hear her again!


 We also attended 3 hour-long workshops on Saturday in between speakers.  These were workshops we were able to sign up for when we bought our ticket, and we were able to choose them based on their topics.  Janie and I chose different workshops for our first 2, but we chose the same one for our last.  Rosaria Butterfield just released a book on the gospel and hospitality so her workshop was centered around that.  (Side note: I went to Nashville with some friends a few years ago to listen to Rosaria share her testimony.  Her testimony is amazing and I would recommend looking her up on Youtube!)


 We had great seats for Jen Wilkin Friday night!



 This was from Saturday morning and we were EXHAUSTED!!!  Conferences are so fun, but they are also so tiring.  We got little sleep and took in lots of heavy information which made for exhausted brains haha!  We were really excited about this day because our FAVORITE pastor and theologian was closing out the day.

Our speakers for Saturday were Kathleen Nielson and John Piper.


John Piper closed out the conference by preaching on Deuteronomy 29-30.  He was even better in person than I could have imagined!  If you don’t know who he is, he has multiple books, podcasts, and runs Desiring God–so check him out!

We had such a great time at this conference!  Everyone needs to take a best friend trip every once in a while!