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Friday Favorites (6.12.15)

Happy Friday, y’all!  It’s been a fun but busy week, and I’m really thankful Friday is here.  Once again, I’m linking up with Andrea for Friday Favorites.



We’ve had Vacation Bible School all week at church and this is my precious and FAVORITE  2nd grade class!  This year, my friend Sarah and I had the smallest class–as in, kindergarten had over 30 each day!  But they’ve been super sweet and wonderful each day, and I have been praying for these kids and will continue to pray for them!
My sister and I drove by our old house this past week and just had to take a selfie 🙂  This house was my FAVORITE for so many reasons!  We had fantastic neighbors, lived on a cup-de-sac, had a huge yard, and was in town.  We have lots of memories here….like I ran down that driveway naked when I was 2 or 3 one time, I also backed into my mom’s car twice in that driveway, and Rachel flipped over her bicycle in that driveway and now has an indention in her forehead.
This house is my FAVORITE!!!!!  We went by last night to check on the progress and they have completely finished the outside.  The painters finished up all of the touch ups yesterday and now they are completely done!  They still need to add our mirrors, hang our hand towel racks and stuff, and put up our shower door.  And clean.  I am so so SO ready to move in!
Y’all, this guy is my FAVORITE.  First of all, he’s obsessed with our grass at the new house and this is him trying to stick a sprinkler in the backyard to water the sod.  Yesterday, I saw where he had posted on Facebook this not so good picture of me working on statistics.  Then he basically wrote about how I am pretty much superwoman super busy because I’ve got so much going on this summer and I give everything my 100% all the time.  He’s the greatest and I’m so thankful for him and for how much he loves me!  He also keeps me laughing!

Here’s to a weekend full of NO GRAD SCHOOL because I finished my classes already!  (Who am I kidding?  I’ll work on next week’s assignment this weekend.)

Friday Favorites (6.5.15)

Happy Friday, y’all!  It’s Friday and right now, I’m just glad I knew it was Friday ha!  Since it’s the summer and I’m a teacher, I can’t remember what day it is half the time.  Every day is Saturday in my life!  (Except not really because….grad school, but I’m dealing.)

As usual, I’m linking up with Andrea for today’s post.
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On Monday I went with my dad to Birmingham and he let me pick our lunch place!  I took him to my FAVORITE restaurant, the Little Donkey in Homewood, but didn’t think to take any pictures.  I guess I was too ready to dig into my guac and Green Goat salad.  BUT afterward, we walked down to Steel City Pops and had a popsicle.  I tried something new and got the strawberry lemonade one while my dad just got plain chocolate.  It was good….until I got sick.   I have a bad stomach and acidic things make me sick but I love them!!

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Since summer has started I literally have not had a break.  I’ve been so busy and taking two grad school classes hasn’t helped.  I recently bought my FAVORITE magazine, Southern Living, and made the time to sit down a read it.  I still haven’t read through the entire magazine, but I love everything I’m reading so far.  I loved the article about the vintage bungalow renovation in all white.  I dream of someday living in a home consisting of various shades of white, but it’s not a reality with Dustin. 🙂



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Speaking of the busyness that is my life right now, I had scheduled to paint my entire classroom on Wednesday of this past week.  I had a few high school helpers who needed philanthropy hours so I decided to bake them some goodies Tuesday night to show my appreciation.  I’m normally pretty good at baking things…especially pre-packaged cookies.  For some reason my first batch turned out runny.  I baked them on my FAVORITE cookie sheet, The Pampered Chef Large Bar Pan, and I decided to let them sit a little longer to harden.  I grabbed a regular cookie sheet to bake the rest and realized that I misread the instructions and turned my oven from 325 to 425.  Next batch:
Apparently the recommended oven setting is 350, not 325 or 425.  This is what happens when you’re trying to multitask and bake at the same time!


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 This was a FAVORITE sight to see this past week!  Since I started blogging in October of 2014, I finally hit the 10,000 pageview mark!  That was a really exciting sight to see.  I  remember when my published my first post and it got over 150 views.  My highest number of pageviews was on the post announcing our decision to build a house–over 500!  I am so thankful to each and every one of you who takes the time to read this little blog.  I love this blog and can’t wait to see where it takes me!

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Who’s ready for some house pictures??  This is the month that we get to move into our house!  I am so excited that I talk about it to anyone who will listen 🙂  Here are a few updates from Wednesday night after church:

 laundry room—I’m obsessed with that tile!!  It really is a FAVORITE of mine!  It took some convincing on my part to get Dustin to agree to it, but I’m so happy he followed my design.

 Downstairs guest bath–that tile really ties in the countertops….love in an understatement 

 Dining room–they had the hardwood out ready to put in the next day.  I love that chandelier, too–another FAVORITE!  That was the first thing I picked out at the light store and so we based all of our other lights around the chandelier. 

They cut into the front porch and will stain it to look like tile.  Seriously, I’m in love.  And if you can see my reflection in the front door, you can see I’ve had my roots done and it’s like I’m a whole new woman!






Friday Favorites!

Last Friday I was on the beach, and today…..I’m at home.  I have loved my first week off of school because I’ve literally had so much to do each day that I know there’s no way it could have gotten done if school was still in session.  Here are a few of my FAVORITES from this past week!

Summer is one of my FAVORITE times of year because I can go to the morning classes at my gym!  I’ve decided each week to go to the Tuesday and Thursday morning classes.  The first 30 minutes of each class is a cardio class and the last 30 minutes is a core class.  Tuesday’s class was not that bad, although I was just a little bit sore Wednesday morning when I woke up.  Yesterday’s class—umm, a lot harder!  I love being challenged in my workout because I need it.  Group classes help me stay motivated because I know that if I were working out alone, I might have quit.  But if there are other people in the room, I have to keep doing it.  Is there anyone else like me?


We have a healthy grocery store about 35-40 minutes away from us and it is one of my FAVORITE places to eat a meal!  I think it’s so funny that this grocery store has an area for people to eat a meal, but it was packed when we went.  Dustin had never been and we had to go to Huntsville to pick out appliances, so I talked him into asked him to eat there.  He was hesitant at first and then fell in love!  I had salmon, rice, and creamed spinach (not pictured is my tasty kale lemonade).  Dustin had sushi and a salad.  Their salad bar is awesome, but you have to be careful.  You pay by the pound, so you better make sure you eat everything you put in your bowl!

This week I read THIS blog post by Jen Hatmaker and it is my FAVORITE blog post I’ve read this week.  She wrote about the Yes’s and No’s of parenting.  Even though I’m not a parent yet, I really appreciated her post.  As a teacher of seventh graders, I see too many kids getting everything they want and having their summers packed full with so many activities.  Jen talks about how she tries to always say yes to things with emotional attachments–building forts in the living room, spend the night parties, toys strolled out everywhere, and she says no to a lot of material items that aren’t a need and says no to micromanaging her kids’ lives.  I loved it!  She encourages parents to let their kids just be kids and to play instead of constantly planning activities for them (she’s not against planning activities for her kids, but not constantly).  I hope I keep this mind when I have babies 🙂
(I stole this photo from Jen’s blog–it’s kids….playing outside!! Do they still do that?)

I took a print I had bought online to my local framing store, and while I was picking out the matting and framing, I asked about needing more prints for the new house since I didn’t buy anything for our apartment.  The owner told me to check out art.com.  I went home and checked it out that night and found lots of prints I loved!  It is my new FAVORITE place to order artwork.  The best thing about it was the prices–they weren’t ridiculously expensive.  I was talking to my bff about this website and we both agreed that we don’t know the first thing about art other than if we think it’s pretty or not.  So this website is the perfect solution for people like us.  Below is one of the prints I ordered, and I ordered a 30×34 because I have some big walls to decorate!
(I am not being paid to promote art.com….I just loved it.  And this print is by Georgia O’Keefe, and I have always loved her.)

Happy Friday everyone!