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Weekend Recap (…on a Tuesday)

We had the BEST Memorial Day weekend we could have had!  Dustin’s family planned a family beach vacation, and I’m so glad that Dustin’s work schedule worked out so he was able to go.  Our long weekend started on Thursday as soon I got home from school (we didn’t have any students on Thursday, so I spent the day doing paperwork and tying up loose ends).  I had packed all of my clothes and beach things on Wednesday night, and all I had left to do Thursday after school was packing my toiletry items–which I think is the easiest since everything is pretty much together.  We left Hartselle around 4:00 P.M. and headed south for Gulf Shores!  We hit Birmingham during rush hour and it pretty much took us an hour to make it through Birmingham.  But after we made it through the city, we had good traffic flow the rest of the time.

We got to the beach house a little after 11:00 P.M. that night and unpacked and went to bed.  We spent the next 3 days on the beach during the day and then eating out that night–which is my kind of beach vacation!

 We left a little later than we had planned on Thursday afternoon, but it was not my fault this time!  I sent Dustin to pick up a beach chair from my sister on his way to pick up his insulin supplies and he completely forgot to stop and get his insulin supplies.  He got home with the chair and had to leave to go back to the pharmacy.

 The beach felt pretty empty on Friday, but that’s only because everyone was probably traveling to the beach for the holiday weekend.  Saturday the beach was PACKED and Sunday met us with 50 mph winds (or what felt like it) and a red flag 🙁

 We took the boys out to eat Thursday night.  (Wearing this romper makes me motivated to lose the last few pounds to get back to honeymoon weight because it looked way better on me on our honeymoon.  I love having motivation since I’ve been lacking there lately.)

 Waiting at Sea-N-Suds Thursday night.  I love this restaurant because of its location right on the beach.  The restaurants at the beach have lots of fried food which I don’t eat (but had a few bites Sunday night), so I got a grilled chicken sandwich.  I’m not the biggest fan of seafood and Dustin is.  Marriage = compromise 🙂

 We took a few beach pictures Saturday night after we ate at Live Bait as a family.  I love him!

 My sister-in-law and I

The whole Shaneyfelt family–David and Jackie and their two boys: Wes (with Brandi, Stoney, and Austen) and Dustin (and me)

 I was very adamant that my purse not touch the sand when we had a big group family photo.  I arranged a few pairs of shoes to sit my purse on and this shows how careful I was with my purse haha!

 We had a lot of fun on this trip!

Me with the boys–this shows their personalities so well!  This is getting ready to go out to eat Sunday night at The Original Oyster House.  And I need my roots done stat.
We left Sunday night after eating with his family to head back to north Alabama.  Dustin had to go back to work on Monday night and it was better for his sleeping patter to stay up late Sunday night-Mondan morning so he could sleep more on Monday.  We left the restaurant at 8:00 P.M. and got back to Hartselle at 1:15 A.M.  I stayed awake the whole time to keep Dustin company as he drove.  For anyone who knows me, this is a HUGE deal!  And I did this without caffeine since I don’t drink anything caffeinated.  We unpacked a few things and went to sleep around 2 A.M. and Monday morning was ROUGH for me.  Thank goodness it’s my summer break!  We had such a great time at the beach and we go back by ourselves for 5 days in 2 weeks!

Weekend Recap!

This weekend was a ton of fun!  The weather was absolutely gorgeous, and Dustin was off work, too!

Friday night started off exactly how I wanted it to–at home doing nothing!  I had seen advertisements for Barbara Walters’s interview with Mary Kay LeTourneau (sp?), the teacher who had a child with her 6th grade student.  They are married now–and have been for 10 years–with two teenage children.  She’s 53 and he’s 31.  The interview was weird and you could tell that there wasn’t any love between them.  Yuck.  I just remember when the national news was covering her affair and thinking how disgusting it was.  And now that I’m teaching 12 year olds, I can’t even fathom what that woman did.  The thought of it makes me want to throw up–they are children!  Little kids!  Yuck yuck yuck!

Saturday morning I went to a boot camp class at the stadium.  It was a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to more!  After the class I went to my friend Sarah’s house for a quick visit.  It’s nice to be able to go for a quick visit to a friend’s house.  Then Dustin and I went fishing.  It was gorgeous outside and I even caught a fish!

Dustin caught one first though 🙂

We had lots of company, too!  Actually they just wanted to know what was in our tackle box ha!

Saturday night we went to Bridgestreet to eat at The Melting Pot!  We got there about 2 hours before our reservation so that we could walk around and look for some flip flops for me.  Side note:  Friday at school I tripped UP the stairs and broke my favorite flip flops.  I was so sad about my flip flops because they I bought them while I was in college at the Clarks store.  Well, of course, they don’t make them anymore.  I thought I had settled on Rainbows except that none of the stores had my size 🙁

The Melting Pot was such an experience!  I had been there before but Dust hadn’t.  They came around and took pictures of everyone (not sure why?) and I found it on their FB page.

We were a little sunburned from spending all day outside.

Sunday we went to church, and we went to a birthday party at the lake for Dustin’s little cousin.  Then we decided to go by our new house with Dustin’s family to walk around the inside with them since they hadn’t done that yet. Saturday the workers got a good bit bricked and the entire roof shingled (is that a verb?).  I LOVE THE BRICK COLOR!  While we were there, Janie and her husband Chris drove up–which was so funny because they now live an hour away and were in town to see Janie’s parents.  So we showed them around, too.  The last time Janie had seen it was after they poured the slab so it was a big difference!

This weekend was a blast!  I am so thankful for the perfect weather and the time with my husband.  We really cherish these weekends that we have together since he works two weekends a month.



Our First Place

While I was getting my hair done this morning, I got a phone call from Dustin.  I went ahead and answered it because he was at work and it could have been an emergency (although I felt horrible because it’s rude to talk on your phone while sitting in the chair).  He said he talked with our builder and I had to go pick out our front door.  Panic set it!  My hair stylist is in the middle of building her first home too, so we spent the majority of my appointment talking brick colors and everything that has to be picked out.  I told her that I probably needed to get on it when it came to picking stuff out, but that I just hadn’t.  And then I got that phone call.  So I went to go pick out our front door–I’ll do a post on that later after it gets installed!!  My biggest decision was double front door or single front door with sidelights–ahhh, decisions!!!
 
Okay, so this post isn’t about our new house.  It’s about our current place where we live. I took some pictures of our apartment during the big snow storm because I wanted to document where we spent our first year as husband and wife (and I had plenty of time ha).  I know I’ll love looking back on this and remembering all the fun we had in that little apartment!
 
Looking in from our front door.
Our first big purchase together.  We bought this before we got married and had it shipped to an empty apartment that no one lived in 🙂  I loved picking out the fabrics!  This was taken from the stairs.
An antique dresser that we use as our TV stand.  This was given to us by our school nurse from when we were in high school.  She is wonderful.  The door right behind it leads to a half bath.  Double doors hides the washer and dryer.
 
Our first Craigslist purchase!  Funny story behind that, but we got a deal on this table and chairs.  Also, the pictures on the wall are my absolute favorite and were our first wedding gift from my best friend’s mom aka my second mom.  
 
The kitchen.  I’m sure you can pick out what it my least favorite part of this kitchen.  Thank goodness I only have to look at those counter tops for just a few more months!!!
View from the kitchen island.  See how bright it is outside?  That’s because of the crazy amount of snow outside!
Our stairs leading up to two bedrooms and one bathroom.  I’ve given up on putting a picture in that frame.  I’ll do it when we move into our new house haha
 
They start framing our house tomorrow!!!  I’ll do another update post soon!