Weekend Recap

A Week + End Recap: Celebration Edition

Monday, December 14, 2015

(This post is filled with lots of pictures so feel free to skip this post. This is written for my memories in mind!)

This past week and weekend were jam packed with Christmas celebrations and birthday celebrations. I mentioned on Friday about how exhausted I was and this weekend didn’t leave any time to rest–but I’m so lucky that I’m able celebrate with those that I love and go and do what I want to do. Below are just snapshots of a few of the things I did this past week!

Abide Women’s Ministry Christmas Party–This was our 2nd annual Christmas party and it was a blast. I love serving and worshiping alongside these ladies.

Door prizes!

Thursday night was the Hartselle Christmas Parade! Last year Dustin worked that night (boo) but now that he’s on straight days, he was off! When I was a little girl, my grandfather owned a business downtown and before he retired, he used to park his truck outside his business early on parade day. All of the grandkids had a place to sit and watch the parade from! Spots downtown are valuable! This year Dustin and I carried on that tradition and he parked his truck downtown and one of his friends brought him home. Then I drove us back downtown that night in order to walk to our parade watching spot!

We also had some visitors!

Downtown before the parade started

Our parade consists of tractors…

…floats…

…and ends with horses!

Friday night I watched my first ever hockey game. We went with one of Dustin’s friends and his wife to watch the Huntsville Havoc.

Please note how exhausted I am haha

Saturday I did Christmas shopping for HOURS and then celebrated my mom’s birthday that night!!!

Sunday was my dad’s birthday!

And we all rode in his new vehicle!

And this is the last week of school before Christmas break!!! Can I just talk about how true this meme is?? They were going crazy last week so I can only imagine what this week will be like. But…exams!

Linking up with Biana today.

Thanksgiving Break in Pictures

Monday, November 30, 2015

Thanksgiving break is over and it’s back to the real world today. I can’t believe that there’s only three weeks left until we’re out for Christmas break–time will fly by! Yesterday started the Advent season, and if you don’t have a devotion that you do during this season, I highly recommend the She Reads Truth Advent devotional. The past two years I’ve done both of John Piper’s devotions, and I’ve loved them so much. But he didn’t put out a new one, so I’m doing She Reads Truth!

This break was filled with lots of family gatherings, and I enjoyed every minute of it! Dustin and I take for granted the amount of family gatherings we have to attend in a short amount of time, but when I step back and think about it, I realize how blessed we are because some don’t have any family gatherings to attend.

These are pictures of just a few of the things we did this break.

I took off work Tuesday since we had a Friendsgiving at our house that night. I wanted the whole day to clean and prepare for that night.

I started my morning with an egg white and Advocare Spark breakfast and read my favorite blog.

Lunch with my dad at my favorite place after we made a quick run to Hobby Lobby.

Wednesday night we did Thanksgiving with Dustin’s dad’s side. This is who I married ha 🙂

Thanksgiving day started with lunch at my mom’s.

I didn’t get any pictures of the rest of our Thanksgiving day, but we also went to my dad’s side and Dustin’s parents. I didn’t want to look at food anymore after all of that!

On Black Friday, my mom met me at my house at 4:30 AM and we headed to Lowe’s to see if I could get Dustin the present he wanted.

(Notice my mom fixed her hair and put on make up. And I woke up, brushed my teeth, and bobby pinned yesterday’s hair.)

Our next stop was Cabela’s. This is only part of the line! It was insane!

We then headed to Bridge Street where we did a lot of shopping!

Later that day, my sister asked if I wanted to go to Lowe’s with her (a different one than that morning) to look for some stuff for her house. I decided to just see if this Lowe’s had the present Dustin wanted since the one that morning didn’t–they did! I bought it and Dustin had to pick it up that night after he got off of work. He can’t open it until Christmas!

Saturday Rachel and I went to the gym. Then we did a little grocery shopping together. Apparently I’m a slow grocery shopper, and this is Rachel’s “I’m happy to finally be in the check out line” face!

Sunday I wore a Black Friday purchase to church! My top looks like a sweater, but it’s a sweatshirt!!!!!!

It’s a high-low hem–I love it so much that I ordered another one online!

Mom and I also saw Love the Coopers. Don’t expect a funny movie and you won’t be let down. It wasn’t my favorite and it wouldn’t bother me if I never watched it again.

Linking up with Biana today!

A Weekend Recap in Pictures

Monday, November 9, 2015

This weekend was so much fun! We stayed up late both Friday and Saturday night out doing stuff so on Sunday, we were in bed and asleep by 9 PM. #oldpeopleprobs

Friday

Dustin got me tickets to see Ben Rector for my birthday so we ate at Mugshots before the concert!

The problem with having a concert in an old theater–you can’t see! I took this picture to remember how hard it was for me to see, and I’m not short! I stood on my tip toes a lot.