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Weekend Recap: Party Edition!

This weekend was full of lots of partying and wonderful weather!  It started Friday night with a paint party at my church benefitting two of our college members who are doing long-term summer missions this year.

We had a packed room!

I made a new best friend Friday night.  We bonded over our mutual love of American Girl dolls and now have plans to visit the Nashville store with our dolls 🙂

One of my best friend’s taught the party!  We’ve been best friends since she moved to Hartselle in the 3rd grade.  Thankful our teacher sat us beside each other on her first day!

My mom has way better handwriting than I do!
Saturday morning I woke up bright and early determined to get all loose ends tied up on my internship portfolio and get it mailed off.  It’s due to my professor no later than Friday, but I wanted it gone.  I had to scan a few more documents in and then triple check all paper work.  

I asked the post office lady to take my picture before she put my package in the mail!  That envelope represents months of stress and crying, 300 hours of an internship, and a portfolio demonstrating that I met 47 objectives.  I was so relieved to finally send it off!  My last final is April 28th and then that’s it!

I left Saturday afternoon to drive down to Birmingham.  Janie’s husband had arranged a surprise birthday party and I brought the cookie cake since it’s a tradition of ours.  I had them write Judy because that’s a nickname I gave Janie back in college one day when she gave me attitude–hence, Judy Attitudy was born 🙂

Sometimes we still wished we lived together–life was so much easier then and we got each other.  Now we live with men we have to take care of haha!

Sunday brought 80 degree weather and sunshine so I wore my romper to church!
I hope y’all had a great weekend, too!

Linking up with Biana

Weekend Recap: DNOW + Nashville Edition

This weekend was jam-packed!  We were a DNOW host home for the 7th and 8th grade boys at our church and on Saturday I took a quick trip to Nashville for lunch.  We’ve been exhausted and Dustin was asleep by 9 on Sunday 🙂

Dustin worked this weekend, so he got home about an hour before the boys showed up.  We fed them a lot of pizza, and then we retreated to our room while they had Bible study in the living room.  This picture was taken before all of the craziness went down haha!  We prayed that the Lord would open the hearts of these boys to know Him more and for them to grow in Christlikeness. 

Saturday morning my mom came to stay at the house while the boys were still there and I hit the road to Nashville to the 12th South neighborhood to visit with Victoria who was in town for the weekend!!!  First stop…..Reese Witherspoon’s store, Draper James!  I was so in awe of every single thing in her store–not only her classic, timeless clothing designs, but the interior design of the store.  Apparently her interior designer designed this store to look like the inside of Reese’s home.  I loved it!

So I just had to try on a dress.  When I walked into my dressing room, there was a huge curtained off area to the left.  I opened the curtain and this was behind it…

 My own personal bathroom!  It was so interesting because we had already checked out the bathroom on the other side of the store (we would have walked through the stock area if they would have let us haha!  We were so curious about everything!)


This is the dress I tried on–super cute for fall/winter, but not practical for the warm temps we have now.  P.S. Can you see the curtains behind me, and the bathroom behind them?

Lunch was at Bartaco which reminded me of the Little Donkey in Homewood (which is my favorite place to eat).  We each got two tacos (I had one chicken and one mahi mahi) and then we split the corn and lime pineapple.  Oh my gosh, it was so good!  We both agreed that we literally could have just made a meal out of sides.

Bartaco had massive glass garage door windows rolled up so the whole restaurant felt very airy and open.  While we were eating, we saw this little food truck across the street–so cute!  And I love Smores, so I would have gotten some if I wasn’t getting Sprinkles cupcakes to take home.

How cute is this neighborhood?!  I will be going back soon with Dustin because it was such an easy drive from our house.

I had SUCH a fun time in the two hours we spent together and it was so fun meeting in person!  Love that our friendship first developed over a love of reading and has transformed into so much more!  I also got to meet her husband and his old college roommate and they were all so nice–I hate that we live so far away from each other!

I got back home at 3:30 and Rachel was at my house.  After the boys got back, we went in my room and laid on the bed and just hung out for a little bit.  I love being able to just hang out with my sister–I love our relationship and how close we are!

I went upstairs to make sure nothing was broken and the majority of them slept in the bedroom upstairs.  

After church on Sunday, I rushed home to CLEAN!  I scrubbed the house top to bottom before heading to a bridal tea at church.  I added this duck to the mantle that I bought in Nashville with Victoria.  I am SO pleased with this purchase!  The funny thing–when Dustin saw the price, he said, “You spent that much for a duck?!”  And I just had to remind him that it was my souvenir from my day trip AND that wasn’t it so pretty?  He agreed and that was it ha!  Love him 🙂

Linking up with Biana today!

When Your Friends Live Far Away…

I am a firm believer in sending mail to those you love.  I know whenever I receive something in the mail unexpectedly from someone (like when my sister randomly sends me cards–and I love them…thank you Rach!), I feel so loved and cherished.  Since it’s the Christmas season, I wanted to love on those that I couldn’t be with during this time of the year.  We don’t need to forget the power of regular mail!

With that being said, this year I knew I wanted to bake something (because it’s my favorite) to send to long-distance friends.  I baked these S’mores bars (and doubled the recipe) last Wednesday night.  After letting them cool all night, I cut them up on Thursday and packaged them in these containers that I picked up at Walmart.  I enclosed a little handwritten note with each package when I mailed them Thursday afternoon.

I mailed them to my two BFFS in Alabama and to a blog friend in Texas.  My Alabama girls received theirs the next day and here’s what they sent me!

Mary Beth thought they were great!


….I didn’t really think about how they would mail.  Luckily, they tasted much better than they looked!


And Janie decided to send me a play by play of her getting, opening, eating, and judging my food!
Hopefully this encourages you to send something unexpected to a friend (or even neighbor)!  Never underestimate how a little mail can make someone feel so appreciated and valued!

Linking up with Jenn today!