Friday Favorites

HAPPY FRIDAY!!! Y’all, it’s been a great week! We had fall break Monday and Tuesday, so we’ve only had a 3 day school week–and I could definitely get used to that!

As always, today I’m sharing a few FAVORITES with. y’all!

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I blogged about our Disney trip on Monday and Tuesday. You can read about our travel day, the first day of Magic Kingdom, and Animal Kingdom here. And you can read about our rest day, our second Magic Kingdom day, and our Hollywood Studios day here! It was the best trip!

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This one has two favorites–first, we took the kids on a train ride to the pumpkin patch on Saturday morning and we had lots of fun! The boys are obsessed with trains so we surprised them with this and it was fun! Full disclosure though, Banks had gotten up super early that morning so he was over it by the time we rode the train back to the station…you can imagine how enjoyable that was 🙂

My second favorite is that I colored my hair!!! I went back to my natural hair color and I LOVE IT!! I was ready for a change and have wanted it brown for a couple of months, so I did it! My hair dresser did the best job giving me what I wanted. Dustin has only known me as blonde, so you can imagine his shock when I came home after I didn’t tell him what I was doing to my hair ha 🙂

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I read Last Night Was Fun over the weekend and LOVED it! It’s so cute! The main character, Emmy, gets a text message from a random number and she starts texting with the stranger. They end up meeting and you’ll have to read it to find out what happens :). It reminded me of Lynn Painter’s book Mr. Wrong Number (which I also really, really loved), so apparently I love the wrong number trope.

That’s it for the week! I hope y’all have a great weekend! Alabama plays Tennessee and I can’t wait to go watch this game. Dustin has been to all home games this season, Harrison has been to most, and this will be my first game of the season–let’s hope it’s not too hot and that we win! Roll Tide!

It’s Friday and it’s October! Could I BE any happier?! (Pretend I said that like Chandler Bing haha!) I absolutely love this time of year leading up to Christmas and I plan to soak it all in and enjoy every moment!

As always on a Friday, I’ve got some FAVORITES to share with you!!!

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DISNEY!!! I cannot get over our trip to Disney last week and how wonderful it was! I plan on working on my Disney blog posts this weekend (probably tomorrow night) and have those posted next week. The re-entry from Disney has been pretty tiring and I’ve been collapsing in bed each night. This picture was taken at one of my favorite restaurants, Woody’s Rodeo Roundup, on our last day at Disney.

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I know these have been around a very long time, but I just recently bought these self tan face drops! I went back and forth between if I should buy the light drops or the medium drops. I ended up buying light since it’s my first time using them and I wasn’t how sure dark they would actually end up being. They are so easy to apply and there’s no smell or stickiness involved like I have sometimes with my body tanner. The first time I used them, I added 2 drops to my nightly moisturizer and woke up the next morning unsure if they actually worked (I should have taken a picture the night before of my skin). So I waited a couple of nights and then added 3 drops to my moisturizer and definitely could tell the next morning!

You won’t be able to tell when I have make up on, but on the days I don’t wear make up, my face will finally match the rest of my body since I try to keep some sort of color year round haha! Once I use these drops up, I plan to buy the medium shade just to see how those work next time. But I don’t see me buying any for a while–these will last a long time!

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We got back from Disney last Thursday night, and Harrison had his Sockhop Dance that Friday night. We didn’t waste any time haha! The theme this year was the Wizard of Oz and first grade dressed as scarecrows! I had been so focused on getting us packed and ready for Disney that I totally forgot about getting his sockhop outfit together. My mom came to the rescue and made his costume and it turned out so cute!!!

We are all Harrison’s biggest fans!!! (And I had to go to work that day–I feel like you can look at that picture and see how tired I am haha)

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The boys built light sabers at Disney and we’ve had lots of battles in our house 🙂

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This book is my book club pick for this month and we meet Sunday evening to discuss. It’s historical fiction for those who enjoy that genre (me!!), but it’s also pretty long. I remember when the musical Hamilton was finally released on Disney+ and I was so enamored with his story. I’m enjoying this book so far, but the only thing that bothers me as I’m reading is knowing Alexander Hamilton is a cheater. If you watched the musical you saw it, and the book began with Eliza (or Betsy as he calls her) telling us how much she loved but also hated Hamilton for what he did to her. If there’s one thing I can’t stand in life (and in my books or shows I watch), it’s cheating! Aside from that, the story about the founding of our country has been interesting to read.

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I can’t quit this weighted vest!!! I know I shared this summer about it, but I’m still wearing this when I go on walks. I took this picture on Monday when I walked, but I was thinking yesterday afternoon on another walk that I feel like this 9 weeks has been much harder to have any sort of workout routine. School starting back and being tired from that along with having to cook dinner each night and Harrison in soccer season and having games twice a week has really made it hard to workout. Once I’m “free” at 8pm, I’m ready to sit down or I’m having to wash my hair or fold laundry. Soccer season is almost over and I’m hoping that will make it easier for me to get a quick workout in after Dustin comes home because he also won’t have to mow the grass or anything when he gets home from work.

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This girl. She is something else haha! The weather was so nice yesterday that we stayed outside once we got home from school. I looked up and Merritt was trying to climb UP the slide, but her hair was so staticy lolol. Dustin said the other day that if we don’t think something can be done, just watch Merritt. She gets into things that both boys NEVER did! She’s showing us things we didn’t even think about baby-proofing :). But she’s a sweet girl and we all love her so much.

Long time no see, friends!!! I have missed blogging so much this month, but being back at school is kicking my tail! Over the summer, I took a nap pretty much every single day when the babies napped and while Harrison had his quiet rest time. I can tell that I am missing my daily nap because it is so hard for me to get up each morning when the alarm goes off at 4:45. Dustin hops up and I usually don’t get up until 5 ha

Today I’m going to share a few of my FAVORITE things with y’all!

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I am OBSESSED with this show!! I’m kicking myself for putting off watching it for so long. I always just thought that it was for teenagers (and I guess it is but who cares), but my best friend finally convinced me to watch it this summer. (I started this and I convinced her to watch Silo on AppleTV). I am Team Conrad 1000000%! I love how Jenny Han puts all of these “Easter eggs” in the show and I follow a few people on IG now who analyze each episode. My English major heart loves that. I’ve had great conversations on IG with so many people about this show, and I’ll be so sad when it’s over in a few weeks! Please tell me if you’re watching it!

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Harrison is playing soccer again this year (year 3!!) and this is his best year ever! He’s done great out there on the field! He scored two goals his first game, and last night he almost scored another. I really love soccer season–and I never thought I would!

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Speaking of soccer season, Harrison’s biggest fans love the snacks that come along with watching him play haha! This season we’re playing soccer on the baseball fields while the city works on the soccer fields, so last night the babies played on the infield while Harrison played soccer on the outfield.

And we’ve got a false fall going on right now, so the weather was the most enjoyable ever!! It’ll be really hard to go back to the hot weather we’re used to right now when this false fall is over.

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I’m loving this new polo dress I got this year! It looks shorter here in this picture because of the angle, but I’m also 5’7″ so keep that in mind. I think it’ll be great to wear to Tuscaloosa this football season and I love that the flounce hem makes it stand out from the normal polo dress.

I also have started using this clean lip crayon! I got the color PAMPAS to start with and I’m definitely going to be adding to my collection. Once I found out lipstick has formaldehyde in it (along with other toxic chemicals), I new I needed to hurry and find a clean swap. This one is also hydrating so my lips aren’t dried out while wearing it.

Okay, short and sweet today! I’m off to enjoy a library day with my students and then a THREE DAY WEEKEND!!!! Woohoo!!!