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A Spring Break Day Trip

Can I just start this out by saying that I cannot believe it’s already Wednesday and that the week needs to slow down–I need more time off!  I’ve booked my week with so many things that I feel like I don’t have time to go back to work haha 🙂  I’m sure Dustin would agree 😉

Yesterday we left the house bright and early and headed to Nashville for the day.  The weather was perfect even though it started off chilly.  The only negative was that the wind was insane at times…..meaning my hair was difficult to brush last night.  I’m so glad we live close enough to be able to take a day trip.

We stopped off in Franklin, Tennessee, first to walk around their downtown and eat lunch.  I love Franklin!  Janie and I went one time in high school and walked right by Leann Rimes when she was still married to her first husband!  I remember being so starstruck and that he skin looked really smooth, and poor Janie never noticed her because she was talking the whole time!

  One of the stores that we stopped in was this gorgeous home interior store only to realize that we couldn’t afford anything.  Sorry, not paying $3500 for a mirror!

Lunch was at Puckett’s and it was so cute inside!  I got the strawberry field salad with grilled chicken and Dustin got the Philly sandwich with chicken.  The atmosphere was so fun!

**I would also like to note that I walked right past Anthropologie in downtown Franklin and did not go inside.  Dustin says I deserve an award, and I think my reward should be clothes from Anthro haha!



 Then we went to West End in Nashville to tour the Parthenon.  I was excited because it was used to film scenes in the Percy Jackson movie, but I learned so much about the building while touring it.  The lady in gold is Athena.



The bottom level was an art gallery.  One exhibit was paintings from Grimm’s Fairytales.  Guess who enjoyed that more? ha!



 It was such a pretty day!  I wish we had brought a blanket to sit on and relax on the lawn.  Actually, I wish I had brought running clothes because so many people were running in this park.  We both agreed that this would be a great area to live.


Then we headed to 12th South!

 First stop: Jeni’s.  
I allowed the diabetic to get a small cup of ice cream.  #givemoreinsulin



 I got a scoop of salted peanut butter and chocolate flecks and a scoop of praline and cream.  I can’t pick which was better–I liked them both equally!

Then we walked around, and I made sure to take us straight to Draper James!  Dustin loved the store and picked me out a romper he liked and wanted me to get.  I tried it on, but it was too snug in the chest–so sad!

While I was in the dressing room, he overheard that Reese comes in once a month to check on the store and meet with her head fashion designer.  I would die if she had walked in while we were there!

We did LOTS of walking, and my fitbit thanked me!

We stopped in Cool Springs on the way back to grab a quick bite for dinner.  Overall, we had a really fun time and I was so glad the weather cooperated! 
Linking up with Jenn and Jess today!

Three Ways My Husband Shows Me He Cares

Sunday night before the Oscars started, I made myself a Spark and sat on the couch to watch the first 30 minutes or so of the show.  For those of you who don’t know, Spark is a vitamin and energy drink from Advocare, and typically you’re supposed to drink it in the morning or early on in the day.  I didn’t think it would affect me very much, but I was wired Sunday night and probably didn’t fall asleep until midnight where I slept horribly after that.  My husband had to work yesterday so before he went to bed, I jokingly told him to get my side of the bed ready (I sleep with a blanket over my side of the comforter to keep me extra warm).  When I finally went to get in bed that night, I walked in to see that he had left my lamp on, put my blanket over my side of the bed, and moved my pillow right next to his.  It’s little moments like this that remind me how much he really cares about me 🙂


THREE WAYS MY HUSBAND SHOWS ME HE CARES

1. He honors my strange requests.  Just last night I made us a few quick smores after our supper.  As we were eating them standing up in the kitchen, I reminded Dustin to eat them over his plate since they will drip chocolate.  He jokingly asked if we wanted to go eat them on couch…our off white/cream couch.  I love that he can joke with me about how I am when it comes to keeping things clean, but that he also honors that too.  He shows me he loves me by consciously taking care of our things.


2. He shows concern for me when I don’t feel well.  I’ve always had major stomach issues, and I don’t think Dustin fully understood those until we got married and the stress of graduate school took a toll on my body.  Whenever my stomach issues flare up or any other time I’m sick, he always asks what he can do to help.  If I ask him to bring me medicine or to even go to the store to grab something, he does it immediately.


3. He values my input.  It doesn’t matter what it is–vacation, job, clothing choices–Dustin always asks for my input and he values my opinion.  Us women love to give our opinion on anything, and I love that Dustin honestly wants my opinion on things.  My favorite is whenever he’s off and I’m at work, I’ll notice I have a text from him and it’ll be a picture of his outfit asking me if it looks good or matches.  Even when I’m away from him, he wants my input!


Dustin, thank you for loving me and putting my needs before yours in our marriage.  I love you and I can’t wait to experience so many things with you!


Love that my husband can fall asleep anywhere and at any time of the day!

Linking up with Andrea

Weekend Recap!

It’s Monday morning and I’m typing this while sitting in front of the fire with the Today Show on the TV.  I love off days!  MLK day comes at the perfect time in January because it’s like you need a little short break from school even though you just had two weeks off at Christmas.  Plus, it’s cold today, so it was nice to not have to get up at 5 AM and get ready.  

Here’s a little look at what I did this weekend:

I woke up Saturday morning and finished my grad school homework for the week and submitted it.  I had already finished everything for one class and just needed to finish an assignment for my other class.  Then I headed to the gym.  (Also, Saturdays are for washing sheets.)

Janie came into town on Saturday so we had plans to meet at the local coffee shop to grab a cup (since I’m a coffee drinker and all haha) but it was closed #smalltownprobs.  So we went to McDonalds to grab a McCafe.  I wish we lived in the same town again!

Then I headed to Bridge Street to do some shopping.  My main reason for going was to go to Sephora to pick up some retinol night cream by Philosophy.  It turns out that they were out of the regular size tube and only had the large one–for $75.  Since I haven’t ever used it before, I just decided to order it and headed over to Anthropologie to check out their sale on sale.  They didn’t have anything I liked in the sale area, and I had been eyeing this dress since it came out so I got it!

Then I walked over to DSW to find some white Converse.  I’ve needed a casual shoe to wear with skinny jeans and a t-shirt or casual top.  I pretty much only own skinny jeans and I got tired of wearing moccasin flats with t-shirts.  Now I can look like all of my students haha! #foreveryoung

For supper, I headed over to my favorite grocery store to eat off of their salad bar.  Seriously, it’s so good!

Late Saturday night I turned on the fight on Showtime.  Weird fact about me:  My dad’s side loves boxing and I can remember going to family gatherings as young as elementary school age to watch a rented fight.  I even watched the fight where Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield’s ear!  Anyway, a guy from Tuscaloosa was defending his heavyweight title against a Polish guy so I watched that fight–it was a great fight!!!  Oh and he won so Tuscaloosa is filled with championship titles!  Roll Tide!

Sunday morning I went to church and then came home and changed into my regular clothes to go grocery shopping.  I’m loving these shoes!

And since Dustin had been gone since Thursday to go hunting, I was very excited when he got home Sunday afternoon!  It was getting very lonely around the house.  He also shot at a big doe and hit her, but since it was right before dark, he had a hard time tracking her through the thick stuff.  Then he couldn’t find her on Sunday after his morning hunt, so no deer for us 🙁  One more off weekend for Dustin during deer season and then I get my husband back!

My mom and stepdad cooked us steaks on Sunday night.  Look at how cute my mom is.

They were so excited to take a picture haha!

Love the height difference between Dustin and Rachel!

Our steaks were so good and my brother-in-law brought pheasant that he had killed on Saturday and it was great!  I ended Sunday night prepping a healthy cinnamon apply oatmeal recipe in the crockpot to cook overnight.  It was so good this morning that I’ll be blogging the recipe soon.

Linking up with Biana.