Friday Favorites

Friday Faves!

Friday, August 17, 2018

Happy Friday, y’all! This week has gone by pretty fast and I’ve survived my second week of school haha! Now, when are we out of school next?! 😜 Just kidding!

I posted an adoption update on Wednesday!!! So if you missed that, you’re going to want to head over there to see where we are in the process. We are almost 1/4th of the way to our goal, so if you still want to donate you can at paypal.me/DustinShaneyfelt !

We still covet your prayers! Please pray for the lady who will choose us to parent her baby…pray for peace over her decision and for her health. (We’re not matched yet.) Also, please pray for Dustin and I that we just trust in God during all of this. We (as people) have a tendency to want to control everything (thanks to our sinful nature) so there are times when we feel like we’re totally trusting in God and then other times when we worry about finances or timelines or really anything that can be worried about ha! Just being real 😊 We’ve been blown away by the people who have given so far and we are so humbled by that! Thank you!

Okay, now onto my FAVORITES!!!

I think it’s taken me a while to figure this out. I’ve been working on losing the weight I gained while taking fertility meds. I don’t know if it’s just me or if it’s all women, but I used to think that I just needed to hardly eat anything in order to lose weight. But then I’d end up with my stomach growling at 8pm and either be miserable or eat way more than I should. I’ve really learned this time around that I can eat a good sized meal, but it needs to be food that’s good for my body. And when I do that, I step on the scale the next day and see that I’ve lost weight!

Yesterday I wore a Lilly top to school. During my planning, I opened up a can of La Croix and my partner teacher walked in and made the comment about how I matched my drink! So Lilly or La Croix, if either of y’all want to send me free products to put on my blog, PLEASE DO!!! 😂😂

Emily and I are gearing up to host our 3rd annual Fall Favorites link up!! We have had so much fun doing this the past two years and we’re really excited to bring it back. I’m really excited about the Crock Pot meals link up day because using my crock pot just screams fall and cold weather to me. Go ahead and mark your calendar to join us the first three Wednesdays in September!!

And for my latest favorite song this week…

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND, FRIENDS!!! I’ll be heading to the movies with some of my teacher friends today after school to see Crazy Rich Asians!!!

Friday Faves: First Week of School!!

Friday, August 10, 2018

Hallelujah it’s finally Friday!!!! The first week back to school is always the hardest and I am exhausted. I am going to turn my phone on silent tonight and sleep in tomorrow morning!!!

Today’s post is going to be pretty short because I feel like I’ve been in a fog this entire week and literally haven’t taken any photos! But before I get to my favorite things, I’ve been thinking a lot about infertility and adoption and so I hope to have a more “real” post out next week about my feelings currently.

And we are still taking donations through PayPal for our adoption!! I know August is such a hard month for some people because of all the back to school fees, but we are so very appreciative of anything donated! Things are getting so close to being done and getting ready to go active!! Eek! And once we go active, we need about 15k-20k just in case we get matched with an agency that requires a match fee. So for those who still want to donate to our fund, you can through paypal at paypal.me/DustinShaneyfelt THANK YOU!!!

I didn’t get a photo from the first day of school and I wish I would have!! I wore a cute yellowish dress from Anthro that I snagged a couple of years ago. I stayed at school until 4 that afternoon working on things for the next day and then I came home to do more school work. I made myself stop for dinner and then after dinner I relaxed in our bed drinking a La Croix and watching a Hallmark Christmas movie haha! My favorite way to unwind!

I absolutely LOVE that Lilly finally has brought out longer hemlines. Until now, I really have avoided buying lots of Lilly because all of the dresses are too short for me to wear to school and sadly, most of the clothes I buy I have to make sure I can wear them to school. I had a gift card to use before our beach trip, so I picked up this dress. I threw a blue jean jacket on over this for school since my district requires wider straps for the shoulders.

I hope y’all have a great weekend!!! I’ll be working on our adoption profile book and scanning in all of our documents into a dropbox for our consultants!!

Friday Faves!

Friday, August 3, 2018

I don’t know if I want to start this one off with Happy Friday because I’m already back at school ha! 😜 Teachers started back yesterday, and instead of doing our normal institute, we toured local industries! I was a little unsure of this but I ended up really enjoying it! I was sent to a local dairy industry and some of the places it supplies are McDonald’s soft serve ice cream and their frappes, Cold Stone Creamery, and the whip cream at Cheesecake. I got to tour the entire plant and watch production and then at the end I got ice cream! It was so interesting, and I really love watching how things are made.

Yesterday I also mentioned in my IG story that I tried two new (to me) things and am totally hooked. First, I’m reading Crazy Rich Asians and so far I’m really enjoying it! And Tuesday morning when I was putting on my make up, I accidentally broke my concealer wand off into the bottle. Luckily I was almost out of that concealer, but I didn’t have time this week to drive to Sephora so I ran into Ulta since it’s closer and remembered that the Tarte Shape Tape was only carried at Ulta. I decided to try it since everyone who has used it loves it and now I DO TOO!!! I feel like it made my skin look flawless, so it may be a product that I buy just at Ulta haha!

top (only $5!!) | shorts

Yesterday afternoon when I got home, I changed into my workout clothes and completed week 1 day 2 of BBG. The workout is designed to complete on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, but I’m doing it on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. I’m still struggling through the workouts but I know that they will get easier the more I do them.

One of my former students just started a blog and it’s so great!!! Maggie was a student in my first year of teaching and now she’s a student at Alabama!

I’m finally caught up on Suits (except for this week’s episode)!! I talked about starting to watch Suits at the end of May, so I spent all summer watching all 7 seasons. Originally, I started watching after the royal wedding because of Meghan Markle, but it quickly turned into my favorite tv show because of the writing. I’ve had so many people tell me they started watching Suits because of me, so if you’re looking to binge a new tv show, watch Suits on Amazon Prime video and then you can catch up with the current epiodes On Demand!!!

Have a great weekend!!