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Friday Faves!

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!  I have lots of FAVORITES today because this has been a great week!

Thank you to everyone who wished me happy birthday yesterday!!  Since I had to go to work yesterday, my students sang me happy birthday approximately 500 times and I had a student bring a birthday cake because he and I both had birthdays yesterday!
I always do an ice breaker activity on the first day of school where I make students line themselves up in order of their birthdays without talking, and he and I  figured out on the first day that we had the same birthday.  Well, he never forgot that haha.  It was very sweet!



After school yesterday, I met my sister at the nail salon where she had made us an appointment  She also picked us up coffee to enjoy while we got our nails done.  I sat next to her while she got a pedicure and then she sat next to me while I got a manicure….perfect afternoon!  I will do a post next week about my birthday celebrations!


Yesterday I shared in my birthday post that I am 5’7″ and a lot of y’all didn’t think I was that tall.  Well, notice how tall Dustin is haha!  One of my first questions when my coworker wanted to set me up on a blind date with him was how tall he was 😂  I still like to wear heels, so I needed someone who was much taller than me and he checked that box off ha!


Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas starts TODAY!!!  They’ll be showing all older movies today and the new movie starts tomorrow night and I am so excited!!!


Nordstrom price matched the sweater I’ve been wanting forever, so I bought it yesterday thanks to some birthday money!!  I also grabbed this sweater in green in hopes that it looks good with both jeans and skirts this Christmas season.


Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have been on a 16 day tour of Australia and surrounding areas, so all of the MM fan IG accounts I follow have been posting all of her looks from the royal tour.  When I woke up one morning and saw this look, I about died–IT’S BEAUTIFUL!!!    
There are so many things I love about this look–it’s a beautiful shade of blue on her (blue is my fave color), the cape is a gorgeous detail, and I know you can’t tell in this picture, but you can see the smallest little baby bump in this dress.  I love how modest this dress is and the fact that it still makes a huge fashion statement!


I hope y’all have a wonderful Friday!!!  I’m getting my hair trimmed and watching Christmas movies after school today 😂😂😂

A Few Facts About Me on My 31st Birthday!

Happy Birthday to ME!!!! 

 I turn 31 today so I’m going to be eating my most FAVORITE food ever tonight for supper–pizza!!  Last night we went to my mom and stepdad’s house because my mom cooked for me (healthy food minus the cake).  I’ve been celebrating all week ha!  Today, I thought I’d share a few fun facts about me that you may or may not know!

Last night at my mom’s

1. I have a hard time staying up past 9:30-10ish.  I enjoy getting up early and having quiet time to myself instead of staying up late at night.  I’ve always been that way!

2. I’m very particular about taking care of my hair.  

3. I’m 5’7″

4. I played softball growing up (mostly first base) and quit in junior high because I wanted to focus on my grades.

5. Speaking of, I was so obsessed with my grades in high school and becoming the valedictorian.  My mom begged me to make a B.  (And sadly, I didn’t graduate valedictorian, but I did graduate with over a 4.0, and now as an adult, I know that means absolutely nothing!) #nerd

6. I’m very particular about how my bedding is when I sleep.  The sheet has to be perfectly aligned with the comforter.

7. My eyes change from blue to green.

8. I know lots of music trivia, and I love playing all kinds of trivia!

9. I’m such a rule follower, but my senior year of high school, I got brave and started skipping school at lunch to run and grab fast food.  I was always terrified I would get caught haha…my school was pretty strict!

10. I prefer sweets over salty.

11. I have the highest pain tolerance ever.

12. I am pretty spontaneous when traveling whereas Dustin is a planner.  After college graduation, my bff and I randomly bought plane tickets to DC and went on vacation without planning a single thing.  It was the best trip, and one I couldn’t see Dustin being able to handle haha!

And a few things on my wishlist….
–This sweater
–These shoes (in brown)
–And these shoes
–These leggings


Weekend Review: The One Where I Took Zero Pictures

Happy Monday, y’all!  I’m up early Monday morning writing this and it feels more like winter than fall with the 33 degree temp right now!  This weekend was a fun one, but I didn’t take hardly any pictures–I guess subconsciously I decided to live in the moment instead of having my phone out the whole time.

We’ll start with Thursday since that was the start of the weekend when I was in college…😂
 It was cool on Thursday so I was really excited to get to wear my Spanx leggings to school! They are really comfortable yet stylish.  Obviously I have to wear a longer top with them to school so this tunic top is perfect!  It comes in a lot of other colors, but I like the black with this outfit.

 Friday night we kicked off my birthday week celebration by going to eat at one of my favorite restaurant’s in Birmingham, Little Donkey.  I like to refer to it as hipster Mexican food haha!  This restaurant is owned by the same people who own Jim N Nick’s BBQ so the meat is all cooked the same way and everything is fresh.  I decided to order something other than my usual tacos or salad and got a chicken quesadilla–it was great!  I also got the Mexican street corn but this time I had them cut it off the cob so I didn’t get corn all over my face–the best!!

Then we headed over to The Summit to walk around and do some window shopping.  I also have some money saved up from the blog that I still haven’t spent yet (surprisingly 😜).  But Dustin’s insulin pump started malfunctioning and wouldn’t deliver his insulin–obviously not good.  That caused us to scrap the rest of our plans–which included going to The Cheesecake Factory for dessert–and instead I ran in to grab myself a slice of cheesecake to eat on the way home.  Thankfully once we got home and he changed out his port, his machine was able to deliver insulin.  I hate diabetes.


 I slept in until almost 7:30 Saturday morning and did a little reading in this book.  Remember when I went to The Gospel Coalition Women’s Conference back in June?  They had the biggest book store there, and both Janie and I spent about $100 on books–we just couldn’t help it! LOL  I’ve been slowly making my way through my stack of books, so this is my book that I’m reading currently.  I’m going to do a review about it because I’ve pretty much told everyone I’ve come in contact with to buy this book because it’s that good–good in that I’ve been extremely convicted in how I really am ungrateful and encouraged to show more gratitude in the hard season….like the one I’m in now haha.


Our Adult Bible Fellowship class (just like Sunday School class) at our church threw us an adoption fundraiser social Saturday night at one of our leader’s home.  It was such a fun night!!  We ate really good food (click here for the cookie recipe), the ladies played Bunco, and there was a money tree and dessert silent auction with all money going towards helping to bring our sweet baby home!!  Dustin and I were talking about how it’s been a little over a year since we officially became members at our church and I thank God for giving us such a good community to be part of.

Sunday I took zero pictures but it was a pretty average Sunday.  We went to church and I didn’t get my act together in time to order my groceries online Saturday for Sunday pick up, so I actually went to Walmart after church (never again).  Dustin and I cleaned up the house, I made taco soup, and we watched another episode of Jack Ryan together.  We ended the night with him watching Yard Crashers and me watching The Office–see how different we are 😜