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Happy New Year!

Happy 2017, y’all!  I hope everyone had a great weekend!  I definitely did–so much that I’m keeping today short and sweet as I enjoy my last day off from school.  Cue the tears as I think about going back to a structured schedule!

 We welcomed our 5th New Year together.  Five years ago, we were only dating and decided to make things “official” a few days after 2012 started.  Literally so crazy to think about haha!  I learned that it’s pretty hard for me to hang until after midnight and that I really do enjoy an early bedtime 😊



Yesterday we enjoyed the Wiley family annual New Years Day lunch–pork (I didn’t get any), turnip greens, black eyed peas, cornbread, and other fixins’.  I always enjoy this southern tradition with my family, and I know Dustin is glad to get to join in now.


I’ll be back tomorrow to share my goals for 2017!

Linking up with Biana 

Friday Favorites: Last One in 2016!

Happy Friday, y’all!  It’s the last Friday of 2016, and sadly, the last Friday of my Christmas break.  Doesn’t the time always seem to go by fast when you’re having fun…and when you’re older ha?!

I’ve got a few FAVORITES to share with y’all today!!


I shared my 2016 Year in Review on Wednesday.  2016 is a year I’ll never forget, and I’m eagerly looking forward to 2017 and to what it holds.



Yesterday, I shared my book review for the books I read in December and I’m counting this cookbook as a book I read 😜  As weird as it sounds, it was my favorite book to read this month!  (I πŸ’— Chrissy Teigen)



 Last week I had to make an exchange the day after Christmas at a local mall.  After I finished and since I was alone (and on my own time schedule), I stopped in Barnes and Noble to grab a coffee and picked up the February read for my book club to get a head start.  This one looks interesting to read.



 I went to Nashville for the day on Tuesday and dusted off my parallel parking skills from college.  I literally hadn’t parallel parked since college and was so excited that I did it perfectly that I made my best friend take a picture.  She was equally as excited haha!
P.S.  This outfit is a FAVORITE!!



 I’m working on burning through my Christmas candles to make room for new candles.  Even though my tree isn’t up anymore, my house still smells like a real Christmas tree!



Taking the ornaments off the tree is the worst thing in the world.  I hate it.  This year I tried a new strategy in order to keep my attention and to hopefully make me less bored.  I used to take all the ornaments off of the tree in one section, wrap them, and then move onto the next section.  This year I decided to take them off based on size and I started with the smallest ones first.  That kept my attention a lot better and I only took a few social media breaks during the process haha!


Linking up with Erika, Heather, and Amanda

December 2016 Book Review

I didn’t read very much in December for the same reason that I didn’t read much in November…..Hallmark Christmas movies!  I read two books in December and they were very different from one another.  One was another suspenseful thriller like Gone Girl (which I love) and the other was a cookbook!  I’m totally counting it on my book review because I literally read the entire thing!


Amazon.com says…In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie’s works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first, Lo’s stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain accounted forβ€”and so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Lo’s desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrong…


This book was enjoyable to read and did get suspenseful, but it wasn’t my absolute favorite. I felt frustrated along with the main character when no one would believe her story about the woman being thrown overboard.  This book got creepy at the end and when I thought it was over…it wasn’t and kept on going.  I would recommend this book for anyone to read as long as they’ve read Gone Girl and Girl on the Train first.  Gone Girl is my favorite suspense-thriller novel, and I keep comparing everything else to it.  This novel doesn’t hold up, but it’s still not a bad story!




Amazon.com says..Maybe she’s on a photo shoot in Zanzibar. Maybe she’s making people laugh on TV. But all Chrissy Teigen really wants to do is talk about dinner. Or breakfast. Lunch gets some love, too. For years, she’s been collecting, cooking, and Instagramming her favorite recipes, and here they are: from breakfast all day to John’s famous fried chicken with spicy honey butter to her mom’s Thai classics. 


Salty, spicy, saucy, and fun as sin (that’s the food, but that’s Chrissy, too), these dishes are for family, for date night at home, for party time, and for a few life-sucks moments (salads). You’ll learn the importance of chili peppers, the secret to cheesy-cheeseless eggs, and life tips like how to use bacon as a home fragrance, the single best way to wake up in the morning, and how not to overthink men or Brussels sprouts. Because for Chrissy Teigen, cooking, eating, life, and love are one and the same.
I finally got this book at Christmas and could not put it down.  Y’all, I LOVE it!  Chrissy’s humor is fantastic–a mix of sarcasm and wit–and I love that she has a humorous story for every recipe.  Plus, how can you not want to eat the food that she makes?  I actually made a recipe from this last night and it got Dustin’s approval.  He liked it enough to make sure there were leftovers for his lunch today.  The pictures in Cravings are both of the food (which looks amazing) and of Chrissy and her husband, John Legend.  Now if she’d come out with a book on how she keeps such a good and fit body….