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Life Lately…

…has been crazy!!!  I finished up with my very first grad school finals on Sunday night, so I’ve got about a three week break before I start my summer term.  I didn’t have time to do a Friday Favorites post last Friday because I was so busy with wrapping up grad school projects and papers.  So I’ll do a Friday Favorites on Tuesday!
 
I got to help judge a food competition in Home Ec last week.  This was the cute little set up they had for me when I got into the classroom, and the jam was a thank you for judging.  So cute!

 

This mini apple pie won hands down.  So, so good that I might have eaten the whole thing…

 

We baby sat for some friends last week.  This was the sight I saw after I got done picking some toys up.  Be still my heart!

 

Praise the Lord, it’s May!  And I also drank healthy smoothies for breakfast for two weeks straight!  I think that calls for celebration 🙂  And I did.  I had whole grain blueberry muffins this past weekend as my celebration haha!

 

I saw this in Hobby Lobby this past weekend and immediately send Dustin a picture.  It would look great as an entry way table!  (Hint hint, Dustin)

 

Remember when I blogged about my Lilly for Target purchase?  Well, it came in and this sad looking photo resulted.  It was too snug, too short, and I was hiding the snugness in the chest area.

 

So now my mom is the proud owner!  Doesn’t she look so cute??  She looks so much better in it than I did and I’m so glad that she loved it, too!

Weekend Recap!

This weekend was a ton of fun!  The weather was absolutely gorgeous, and Dustin was off work, too!

Friday night started off exactly how I wanted it to–at home doing nothing!  I had seen advertisements for Barbara Walters’s interview with Mary Kay LeTourneau (sp?), the teacher who had a child with her 6th grade student.  They are married now–and have been for 10 years–with two teenage children.  She’s 53 and he’s 31.  The interview was weird and you could tell that there wasn’t any love between them.  Yuck.  I just remember when the national news was covering her affair and thinking how disgusting it was.  And now that I’m teaching 12 year olds, I can’t even fathom what that woman did.  The thought of it makes me want to throw up–they are children!  Little kids!  Yuck yuck yuck!

Saturday morning I went to a boot camp class at the stadium.  It was a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to more!  After the class I went to my friend Sarah’s house for a quick visit.  It’s nice to be able to go for a quick visit to a friend’s house.  Then Dustin and I went fishing.  It was gorgeous outside and I even caught a fish!

Dustin caught one first though 🙂

We had lots of company, too!  Actually they just wanted to know what was in our tackle box ha!

Saturday night we went to Bridgestreet to eat at The Melting Pot!  We got there about 2 hours before our reservation so that we could walk around and look for some flip flops for me.  Side note:  Friday at school I tripped UP the stairs and broke my favorite flip flops.  I was so sad about my flip flops because they I bought them while I was in college at the Clarks store.  Well, of course, they don’t make them anymore.  I thought I had settled on Rainbows except that none of the stores had my size 🙁

The Melting Pot was such an experience!  I had been there before but Dust hadn’t.  They came around and took pictures of everyone (not sure why?) and I found it on their FB page.

We were a little sunburned from spending all day outside.

Sunday we went to church, and we went to a birthday party at the lake for Dustin’s little cousin.  Then we decided to go by our new house with Dustin’s family to walk around the inside with them since they hadn’t done that yet. Saturday the workers got a good bit bricked and the entire roof shingled (is that a verb?).  I LOVE THE BRICK COLOR!  While we were there, Janie and her husband Chris drove up–which was so funny because they now live an hour away and were in town to see Janie’s parents.  So we showed them around, too.  The last time Janie had seen it was after they poured the slab so it was a big difference!

This weekend was a blast!  I am so thankful for the perfect weather and the time with my husband.  We really cherish these weekends that we have together since he works two weekends a month.



Weekend Recap

This weekend has turned into a four day weekend for me!  It’s been wonderful!  I started my weekend off on Friday by heading to the gym with my sister.  We met there at 6:45 AM to do a 45 minute spin class on the Peloton app.  We absolutely love this app!!  I know the biggest fad right now in the big cities is Soul Cycle.  We don’t have anything like that in small town Alabama, so this app is the next best thing.  We can access this studio in NYC at any time for a spin class!  My favorite instructor is Nicole, and Rachel likes Jessica’s classes!
We did one of Jessica’s Throwback Thursday archived classes Friday morning.  It kicked our tails!!  I’m pretty sure we sat down for a total of maybe 12 minutes during the whole 45 minute class!

Then I headed to the doctor.  I knew I would be spending about two hours at the doctor so I brought along something to read.
I’m only about five chapters in but I’m really enjoying this book!  I’ve learned that as a Christian, we’re all theologians–meaning we all have some knowledge of God.  I started learning about theology in college and I’ve enjoyed learning about it ever since then!  If you’re ever interested in learning more about theology, make sure that whatever you’re reading is scripturally-based and of sound doctrine.  This is just a short list of some of my favorite authors and/or pastors: John Piper, Francis Chan, David Platt, Tim Keller, and Paul David Tripp.

Friday night, Dustin and I had our Valentine’s dinner.  Since we waited too late to make reservations, we ended up going to Las Vias in Decatur because Dustin had never had the creamy jalepeno sauce and I knew he would love it.  He loved it!  He even got extra to pour over his nachos.  We went home after and exchanged presents.  I got him a Drake shirt that’s similar to the Columbia PFG shirts, and he got me a Fitbit Charge HR!!!  I’ve been wanting one so bad!  I was saving my birthday money to by myself one when they came out in January, but I ended up using that money to buy Dustin a gun for Christmas.  I plan on doing a post about it soon once I figure out how to utilize everything it offers!

Saturday, we started off Valentine’s Day by heading to our local park to walk and run a little. We bundled up because it was VERY cold and I tried to figure out my Fitbit a little more.  After doing my weekly meal planning and grocery shopping, Dustin and I hit the road for Nashville.  His friend (who was a groomsman in our wedding) was getting married!  We got to hang out Saturday  night with some of Dustin’s friends and had a fun reception at the Hard Rock.  

It was SO cold in Nashville Saturday night!  Parking was interesting.  We spent the majority of our money paying to park in these badly-designed parking garages.  I think we’ve decided to go back to Nashville to spend a weekend once it warms up because Dustin told me he had never been to downtown Nashville before.  I love any excuse for a trip!

Sunday was pretty laid back.  We went to church.  After lunch, Dustin watched some Nascar prelim thing and I took a short nap.  We both cleaned our house before heading back to church Sunday night.  After church, we rushed home so I could finish putting together supper (a new recipe coming tomorrow!!) and watching The Bachelor!

It’s Monday and I’m still off from school thanks to this unused weather day!  While we were threatened with snow, I woke up this morning to nothing.  I was kind of wishing for a little snow but maybe we’ll get some on Wednesday–my weather app has snow flurries as a possibility!