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Weekend Recap

Weekend Recap!

This past weekend was so much fun!  We packed in so much during Saturday and Sunday because it’s my last weekend before school starts back (insert big eyed emoji)!

Friday

 Friday morning I went over to my sister’s house to “babysit” her while my mom went to her get hair done.  Rachel had her gallbladder out on Thursday and so her husband was having to work on Friday and someone needed to stay with her.  My babysitting consisted of eating some cake and finishing Harper Lee’s new book while watching HGTV.  Best babysitter ever, right Rach?


 I wrote last week that I had started Weight Watchers again to lose the 10 lbs I had gained in the one year we have been married.  I weighed in for my first week and lost 2.4 lbs!!  I had to take some pictures to document.  I know you can’t tell anything but I was feeling good in my own skin Friday afternoon!


 Excuse the lack-luster master bedroom.  Our furniture is getting delivered one week from tomorrow and then that picture will be hung on that wall.  I’m going today to look for fabric to make curtains, too.  Also, I need a small brown belt.

Saturday

 Saturday morning we were up and headed to the river!  We have two friends who own boats and it’s always fun when they both take their boats out.

The blurry pictures below are of Dustin and his friend Wheeler.  I was dying laughing the whole time at them trying to show out!

 Saturday night we went to the funeral home for the visitation of my great uncle.  He passed away after being sick for such a short time.  After, Rachel and I went to a housewarming party while the boys went to Buffalo Wild Wings to wait on us.  We showed up an hour later 🙂  With all of the recent deaths, I’ve been reminded how important it is to tell the people in your life how much you love them.

Sunday

 Sunday was a full day, too!  After church we went to this junkyard/salvage yard type place in Huntsville that had a truck similar to Dustin’s.  (His tailgate is dented in….long story haha)  I had no idea this place existed and neither one of us dressed the part.  I actually should have taken a picture of my outfit because I wore the new top from Anthro that D got me for our anniversary with skinny jeans.  Anyway, I stayed in the office while he went into the junkyard to look for the truck.  The whole time I was standing there (they didn’t have any chairs) sweaty, dirty men kept walking in carrying greasy car parts and I kept thinking of Dustin in his polo and flip flops hoping he didn’t get dirty because we had a ton of places to go still.  About 15 minutes after we got there Dustin walked through the doors with the tailgate he needed.  After he paid and was ready to go back to his truck, I just had to document that moment!

We went to Dillards (polos were on big time sale), Pottery Barn (I bought new bedding since our new furniture is a king size bed!), Costco, and Mattress Firm (we bought a king size mattress for the new furniture!!!!).

And while we were in Dillards, I found this Kate Spade phone cover.  If you know me or my mom and sister, you know that this fits us perfectly!  Mom raised us knowing that it was perfectly okay to eat cake for breakfast since it had milk, eggs, and flour in it!  I’m hoping to find this iPhone case when I upgrade my phone.
Check back tomorrow for a new series that I’m starting on my blog, Home Tour Tuesday!  I will be featuring my friend Kristi’s beautiful home, and you don’t want to miss it!

Weekend Recap!

I am extremely thankful for my husband’s job, but I sure do love it when he has the entire weekend off!  That actually happened this past weekend, so we spent it at the lake with my BFF and her husband!  (And I’m really horrible at taking pictures so I really need to work on that!)

Friday was insane.  I spent the majority of the day running errands for the new house.  I still had about 1/3 of my statistics homework to do before we left for the lake, and the errands I was running took a lot longer than I had anticipated.  Dustin spent the entire day working on our breakfast room table and chairs–he had already stripped them and was staining them on Friday.  I had to run up to my mom’s so I took my statistics homework to do while I was there….and I brought my sheets to wash.  You know, to kill two birds with one stone.  I finished my homework just in time to rush home to pack because we needed to be on the road by 6 PM.


 Unfortunately, earlier that afternoon a man had been killed on the interstate and they shut it down.  So not only was traffic being rerouted for that but there was also a music festival going on and there was a ton of traffic for that.  What should have taken us 1.5 hours took us 4 hours.  This is our interstate selfie.


 This is my best friend, Janie, on Friday night.  She has a hard time staying awake–yes, it was super late by the time this was taken, but she was the only one asleep 🙂  She’s going to love that I put this picture up ha!


I’m not even going to put any pictures of us from Saturday on the lake.  We looked rough!  But we had a great time floating in the lake and riding the jet ski.  I can’t wait to go back.  Next time, we hope our other best friend can go…she was on an anniversary trip this weekend with her husband, so she obviously skipped out on the lake 🙂  

Father’s Day with my dad!  This was taken at my sister Rachel’s house.  

I didn’t get any pictures from visiting my stepdad or my father-in-law on Father’s Day.  Does anyone else have a hard time remembering to take pictures?

I’ll be doing a Day in the Life post tomorrow so that I can remember the chaos in my life right now that is grad school, leading a women’s Bible study, and moving.  🙂

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!