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Weekend Recap

Weekend Recap!

This past weekend was so much fun!  I’m also exhausted from the busyness of it, but I wouldn’t do it any different.  I am, however, SO glad that deer season is officially over because Dustin had been gone since Thursday!  It was nice at the beginning of the season because I kind of did whatever I wanted and relaxed, but it got really boring toward the end of the season.  So what did I do to occupy myself?  Shop 🙂

Friday after school another teacher and I hit the road to go visit a teacher from school who had just had her baby girl!  Taylor, the blonde in the middle, doesn’t even look like she had a baby less than 24 hours ago.  When we walked in the room, I couldn’t believe how amazing she looked!
Elizabeth was so precious and so tiny.  I could have held her forever!
Saturday morning I ran to the park to walk and run the path around it.  The weather was amazing and it felt like spring.
Then I headed to Sephora with my mom and sister.  Rachel racked up on a ton of new make up and mom and I each picked up a new lip stain.  Then we went to Target where I seriously contemplated getting this shirt and wearing it to school.  When a student asks me a question, I would just point to the shirt haha!
Even though it was warm outside, any girls’ day calls for Starbucks.  I ventured out and got the caramel machiatto–not too bad and a relatively healthy drink for Starbucks when you get it nonfat.
Saturday night my best friend Kristi and I went out to eat and then came back to my house to watch make up tutorials on Youtube by Jaclyn Hill.  That was the first time I had ever heard of her and we watched a lot of her videos that night–which of course made me want to go right back to Sephora!  
We should have taken a picture at the beginning of the night when our make up was fresh!

Sunday morning I skipped out on Sunday School to eat breakfast with my dad’s side of the family at Cracker Barrel.  Both my aunt and older sister were up from Birmingham, so it was a nice little reunion!

I spent the rest of Sunday relaxing, doing laundry, cleaning and watching TV and Youtube videos on make up!

Y’all don’t forget to check back tomorrow!  It’s House Tour Tuesday and I had so much fun photographing this house!

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Weekend Recap: Blizzard 2016 Edition

This weekend was a little extra-long because of the snow.  We had an early dismissal on Friday, and the few hours that we were at school, we all kept looking out the window waiting on the snow.  I was finally able to leave school at noon and that’s when it started sleeting.  It wasn’t sticking so I stopped by Subway for a pizza.  (If you haven’t ever had a pizza from Subway, you should!  They are good and solve your pizza fix!)


I took this picture just as the snow started sticking to the ground.  This was probably around 1-1:30 that afternoon.  
That evening after Dustin got home from work and we ate dinner, he wanted to get a picture of our house in the snow since it’s our first snow there.  The amount of snow pictured is how much snow we got during our “blizzard” haha!  Being a southern girl, this was the perfect kind of snow–not too much and doesn’t stick to the road so I can go places the next day!
Our attempt at a snow selfie in front of our house!
My sister facetimed me Saturday morning while I was looking at dining room tables.  We decided to go to the gym together after she got out of bed 🙂
I did the usual on Saturday–laundry, grocery shopped, cooked dinner.  Then I decided to try my hand at making a homemade chocolate buttercream icing.  IT WAS DIVINE!  I’ll be posting the recipe soon because it was so easy to make.


On Sunday I had church.  I watched the remake of Cinderella for the first time ever–and teared up during it.  The storyline was so beautiful and I loved the theme of “Have courage, and Be kind.”  After I got home from church on Sunday night, Dustin was home and we hung out until it was time for bed.  

How was your weekend?

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Weekend Recap!

It’s Monday morning and I’m typing this while sitting in front of the fire with the Today Show on the TV.  I love off days!  MLK day comes at the perfect time in January because it’s like you need a little short break from school even though you just had two weeks off at Christmas.  Plus, it’s cold today, so it was nice to not have to get up at 5 AM and get ready.  

Here’s a little look at what I did this weekend:

I woke up Saturday morning and finished my grad school homework for the week and submitted it.  I had already finished everything for one class and just needed to finish an assignment for my other class.  Then I headed to the gym.  (Also, Saturdays are for washing sheets.)

Janie came into town on Saturday so we had plans to meet at the local coffee shop to grab a cup (since I’m a coffee drinker and all haha) but it was closed #smalltownprobs.  So we went to McDonalds to grab a McCafe.  I wish we lived in the same town again!

Then I headed to Bridge Street to do some shopping.  My main reason for going was to go to Sephora to pick up some retinol night cream by Philosophy.  It turns out that they were out of the regular size tube and only had the large one–for $75.  Since I haven’t ever used it before, I just decided to order it and headed over to Anthropologie to check out their sale on sale.  They didn’t have anything I liked in the sale area, and I had been eyeing this dress since it came out so I got it!

Then I walked over to DSW to find some white Converse.  I’ve needed a casual shoe to wear with skinny jeans and a t-shirt or casual top.  I pretty much only own skinny jeans and I got tired of wearing moccasin flats with t-shirts.  Now I can look like all of my students haha! #foreveryoung

For supper, I headed over to my favorite grocery store to eat off of their salad bar.  Seriously, it’s so good!

Late Saturday night I turned on the fight on Showtime.  Weird fact about me:  My dad’s side loves boxing and I can remember going to family gatherings as young as elementary school age to watch a rented fight.  I even watched the fight where Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield’s ear!  Anyway, a guy from Tuscaloosa was defending his heavyweight title against a Polish guy so I watched that fight–it was a great fight!!!  Oh and he won so Tuscaloosa is filled with championship titles!  Roll Tide!

Sunday morning I went to church and then came home and changed into my regular clothes to go grocery shopping.  I’m loving these shoes!

And since Dustin had been gone since Thursday to go hunting, I was very excited when he got home Sunday afternoon!  It was getting very lonely around the house.  He also shot at a big doe and hit her, but since it was right before dark, he had a hard time tracking her through the thick stuff.  Then he couldn’t find her on Sunday after his morning hunt, so no deer for us 🙁  One more off weekend for Dustin during deer season and then I get my husband back!

My mom and stepdad cooked us steaks on Sunday night.  Look at how cute my mom is.

They were so excited to take a picture haha!

Love the height difference between Dustin and Rachel!

Our steaks were so good and my brother-in-law brought pheasant that he had killed on Saturday and it was great!  I ended Sunday night prepping a healthy cinnamon apply oatmeal recipe in the crockpot to cook overnight.  It was so good this morning that I’ll be blogging the recipe soon.

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