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The Beginning of a Fabulous Week!

Y’all, I cannot even begin to tell y’all how wonderful my Monday was!  

Why?  

NO GRAD SCHOOL!!  

Okay, I’ll quit talking about it (eventually) but the newness of not having to do any sort of school work hasn’t worn off yet 🙂

This week is Teacher Appreciation Week, so when I got to school yesterday, I was so shocked to see these sweet notes on my door!  The junior high students had written and taped notes to every single teacher and aide’s door before we got to school yesterday!  It was so sweet reading some of the things they said about me and my classroom.

Then since I had SO MUCH FREE TIME Monday after school, I did a 20 minute barre workout on Youtube (my first one–and Dustin did some of it with me haha!!) and then whipped up a homemade whole wheat pizza!  It was so good–even Dustin said so!
Obviously, I’m super proud!

And then later that night, someone fell asleep before Southern Charm started–he must have been tired from his mini-barre workout 😉

Linking up with Stang&Co

Weekend Recap: Weather Day Edition

Two things about this past weekend:
1. All weekends should be 3 day weekends
2. I was horrible at remembering to take pictures this weekend (I did take a few)

I believe 3 day weekends should be the new norm.  Dustin was off Friday-Sunday and so was I and it was wonderful.  The weather was perfect, and I felt like this weekend was a snapshot of this summer!

FRIDAY
I am working on getting back into running shape.  For me, that’s being able to run 3 miles comfortably, so Friday I got out and ran 2 miles.  Then I enjoyed a post-run snack of Greek yogurt and protein granola while reading the latest Southern Living–my favorite!
Then Mom and I ran a few errands together, I took a nap, and Dustin and I hung out the rest of the night.


SATURDAY
The weather on Saturday was even better than Sunday!  I took my dad grocery shopping with me early Saturday morning since he needed to get a few healthier food items.  On my way home, I called my sister to see if she wanted to meet me at the park to walk, and she asked me if we wanted to go out on the boat with them.  Of course!  Dustin and I got ready really quick and headed out on the river with Rachel and Nick.
 We’re excited to be backing out of the boat slip!  The first ride on the river is always the best.


 Rachel’s dog, Ralph, was so excited to be going out on the river, too!


 We tied up next to my cousin’s boat and floated for a few hours!
Bathing suit is from Victoria’s Secret–sold in stores only

After a few hours on the river, we ran home to shower and realized that we still had to go up to Mom and Bill’s to feed cattle while my step-dad was out of town.  I had just gotten out of the shower, so I pulled my hair up into a top knot and showed Dustin what I used to do out on the farm!
 Dustin snapped these of me without me even knowing it.  He said, “I took these of you for you to put on your blog.”  Love him!

I wasted zero time getting those feed buckets filled for us Dustin to carry into the different pens/pastures.  I did what I used to do–open gates.

Then we rushed back to the house for me to dry my hair, straighten it, and put on make up for us to go out to eat with his friends.


SUNDAY
After church, we came home to eat and get ready to go to Lowe’s to get a few more things for Dustin’s latest project:
And we had to pick up fresh strawberries from our local peach farm.
I ran again and Dustin finished his cooler!
 See the level?  He’s showing me how perfectly level it is haha!

We grilled and enjoyed supper out on the back porch while listening to oldies–Sunday night couldn’t have been any more perfect!


How was your weekend?

Linking up with Biana

A Day in the Life (4.18.16)

I’m finally linking up with Andrea for one of her Show and Tell Tuesday posts!  Today we’re all sharing a Day in the Life, and these are my very favorite posts to read!  I love learning about the daily lives of others–you never know what you’ll find you have in common with another blogger!

I’m sharing my Day in the Life from yesterday 🙂

My alarm goes off at 5 AM during the week day and you can see I stayed in bed a little bit longer.  I got into the habit during grad school that if I wanted to read and comment on any blogs, I had to do it first thing in the morning because afternoons and evenings were devoted to school work, Dustin, or the million other things I’m involved with.  I’m sure I’ll stick with getting up that early after grad school because I love having that time to myself in the morning.

Drinking Spark and reading blogs!  (And charging my Fitbit)

We finished up watching The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe in my English classes today.  This was the first year that I showed a movie during testing week because I really spent so much time reviewing for our state standardized testing–as in, my students wrote 5 different essays preparing for the writing section on the test.  They loved watching this movie, and we completed a worksheet during and spent lots of time talking about all of the biblical allusions in the movie (book).

Then I got home and ran.  It feels good to know that I’m working my way back into shape.
We (I) enjoyed cooling off on the front porch before supper.

Supper was a crockpot meal–SO good!  Chicken, corn, salsa, adobo chilis, brown rice….amazing.

I took a shower and then remembered I had to wash towels.  White towels are perfect except when you live with a man and can’t keep them white 🙁
While the towels were washing, I decided to relax a bit and watch last week’s episode of Real Housewives of Dallas.  Thoughts so far: Leeanne is mean.  I’ll have to catch up on last night’s episode later.

This is a day in the life, right?  Here’s what I look like post-shower with still damp hair–it got bigger after it dried completely.  #thankgoodnessforstraighteners

Then someone wanted me to sit with him while he wrote out a few checks.
(Also, does anyone else still use check registers?  Or are we just old souls in young bodies?)
I started reading a new book, did my quiet time, and ended up going to bed around 10 PM.