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Life Lately

Life Lately

Happy Thursday, y’all!  I’m coming at you with a little life lately since I haven’t done one of those in forever!!  Before I get started on it, I have to comment on the Blogger comment email issue.  It’s driving me crazy not being able to respond back to anyone’s comments and for other bloggers who I comment on to not be able to respond back to me!  I miss the communication!!  Does anyone have any updates on it?

And I would have typed out this post yesterday, but any free time I got I was watching Suits #noshame


 I was finally cleared to workout regularly again so this is me after my first high intensity workout–after I changed clothes because I was sweating so badly ha!  I worked out before I went to grab lunch with my dad and put on some dry clothes only to get soaked having to run out to my car in a thunderstorm 🙈



 I talked my dad into lunch at Starbucks!!  My smoked turkey protein box was great.  I ordered the strawberry green tea to drink and it was okay.  Probably not going to order that again.



 I sent this to Dustin to show him the OOTD he was missing haha!  Isn’t my summer uniform glamorous?!  And yes, I wear my slippers even in the summer haha



 Saturday morning I went over to my sister’s house to do a 30 minute Beachbody workout–it was so tough and I was sore for at least 2 days afterward haha!  Later that night, I was her second shooter at a wedding, so you can imagine how well I slept Saturday night 😜



 Again, summer #OOTD!  I ran Tuesday morning, changed into the outfit above and went to yoga, and then stayed in that outfit in order to run a ton of errands.  I also voted in our state primary!



First, I want to give major props to women whose husbands either travel a lot for work or who are married to men in the military and have to go through deployments.  Dustin was gone on a work trip for a week and it was the longest week of my life!  I was fine during the day because I kept myself busy with friends, but I had a hard time sleeping at night while he was gone.  So I was VERY happy when he got to come home finally!  We went out on a date last night to see Adrift (GO SEE IT!!!!  AMAZING STORY!!!) and eat at PF Chang’s with dessert at Edgar’s!  And now I’ve had two great nights of sleep ha!

A Little Monday Coffee Talk + A GIVEAWAY!!!

Happy Monday, friends!  Let’e pretend it’s warmer weather here and I was tan like the above photo haha!  Speaking of weather, it’s supposed to get pretty severe here starting in the afternoons–I’m talking tornadic activity, hail, strong winds, so let’s hope it doesn’t!  Make sure you read to the bottom for the giveaway!


So if we were to sit down and have a cup of coffee together, here are a few things I’d want us to chat about…


Infertility is the biggest thing on my mind right now.  I shared this article on FB last week entitled “God, Why Won’t You Fulfill Our Desire for Children?”  Reading articles like this always come at a much needed time in my life and serve as a source of encouragement.  This article reminded me that God is always good.  And to remember that God isn’t good because of what he does, but because of WHO he is.  Because by nature I am a sinner, I often want God to just hurry up and give us children because children are a good gift (Psalm 127:3)!  But I remind myself that God has given us this season of life and I pray that I don’t waste it and that He is glorified.


And I realized that two years ago this month was when I started my first fertility drug.  To say that my body is exhausted and that I am weary is an understatement.  I’ve had a really hard time lately in dealing with a lot of different things–I try to remain positive, but I do have hard days.  My transfer is within a month and I’m asking that y’all pray for us.  I’m not going to be specific on any dates, but I would really appreciate your prayers.


Okay now onto a topic that isn’t quite as sad ha!  I went Easter dress shopping this weekend and ended up buying a dress on Sunday that I tried on on Saturday.  I should have just bought it Saturday, but it was the first one I tried on and I wanted to go to other stores to see if I could find something better.  Please tell me you’ve done that before 🙈  I found the cutest romper that isn’t appropriate for Easter but would be perfect for our beach trip this summer

This romper would look so cute with wedges out to eat one night!  I didn’t get it, but hopefully soon!


My mom has come up with a new business venture for me and I actually think I like it haha!  I’m going to do trial runs on my sister and my mom, and if I think it’s possible, then I’ll start advertising.  I know that’s so vague, and if I were reading someone else’s blog who said that, I’d really want to know.  I promise I’ll let y’all know either way soon!


And now for the giveaway!!!
I came across Chelsea Sobolik  last fall on Twitter after Russell Moore tweeted that he just finished the forward to her upcoming book Longing for Motherhood.  Now, I trust what Russell Moore tweets because I know he is a solid Believer who has solid doctrine and theological beliefs, and obviously the title was intriguing to me.  This was right before our last egg retrieval, so I started following Chelsea and saw that her book was set to release March 6.  Fast forward to the end of January, and she held a contest to receive a free copy of her book when it released–and I won!  When she emailed me to let me know, we started talking and I mentioned my blog and so she kindly sent me an extra copy to give to someone else struggling with childlessness.

So here’s what I’m going to do…

Email me at saraheshaneyfelt@gmail.com nominating a friend, family member, coworker, yourself, or anyone you know who is struggling with childlessness and who needs a book to remind her to trust in God during this season of sorrow.  I will choose someone on Friday!




Life Lately

Happy Monday!  It’s been a while, so I’m glad to be back today😊  Since I haven’t blogged in a while, I’m bring a life lately to y’all today!

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 Before Christmas, Dustin and I checked off driving around and looking around at Christmas lights together.  During our first married Christmas, I named our Christmas light looking the “Shaneyfelt Christmas Light Drive By” because Dustin drove so fast by the houses that I couldn’t even take in the lights.  The next year he learned to drive slower, so I renamed it the “Shaneyfelt Christmas Light Creep By” that year 😂😂



 Christmas morning opening our stockings first



 Dustin had an overfill bag for his stocking ha!



 Christmas morning!  (And Dustin’s hair looks GREAT 😂)



 Christmas morning brunch with my little sister and cousin–we grew up playing together every single day



 With my dad  (Also, Roll Tide for tonight!!)



 We went to my mom’s Christmas night



 Found this dress at Anthropologie



lipstick color (M401)
 On New Year’s Eve, we had to do an early dinner because Dustin had work SUPER early the next morning.  I’m talking–we were at the restaurant at 5:15 and were seated immediately ha



 Now that I’m able to work out again, workouts started on New Years day!  And how great does my hair look?!  I got a new wand for Christmas and the invisibobble hair ties.  At night, I sleep with my hair on top of my head using that hair tie and it keeps my curls perfect!  I only have to touch up the ones around my face.



And later that day I was in Kroger in a rush to grab salad stuff before we went to our friends’ home for dinner and the playoff games, and I dropped the tomatoes.  They rolled all over, so I grabbed a photo of a small area of the damage ha!  I had to crawl all over picking up those tomatoes 😜