What I'm Loving Wednesday!

It's Wednesday already?! Wohooo! Half way to the weekend! Here's what I'm loving today!

1. Date nights with my hubby! I seriously can't live without these! It gives us a chance to get out of the house, dress to impress, and spend some quality time together over yummy food and beverages! With baseball season in full swing and a puppy who requires a lot of our love and attention we don't get out as much as we like but when we do we soak up every bit of it!!

2. Proactive Face Wash. I used this face regimen religiously several years ago and loved it! My face was clear and my complexion was glowing. I'm not a fan of ordering it online and after I left my serving career at a local mall it wasn't convenient to get to the kiosk when I needed to restock. I started using another brand of face wash but wasn't getting the results I had hoped! Needless to say I bought my 60 day supply kit of Proactive and after 5 washes I can already tell a HUGE difference! Wohooo for clear skin!

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3. Peanut Butter Eggs. A church in my hometown, Beechgrove United Methodist, is best known for their DELICIOUS Easter eggs they have sold EVERY year since before I can remember. Flavors include, Peanut Butter, Buttercream, Coconut and Fruit and Nut. The peanut butter eggs are a huge hit in our house and family!! We look forward to getting a dozen of them every Easter and they don't last very long at all! Savoring what we have this week since I won't get a treat like them again for another year!

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4. Finally deciding what photos to put in our Wedding album!!! It's only been 10 months since we got hitched haha! I had 900 photos to sift through and narrow down to 100! Do you know how HARD that was for ME?? I'm excited to finally send the list to our photographer, get the ball rolling, and finally have our album in hand! 

5. Booking more meetings for my new business! I have yet to introduce y'all to my side project and promise I will do a post on it soon! I will give y'all a little of the low down to hold y'all over until my REAL post. My momma and I have partnered up and created Something Old, Something Borrowed {Vintage Event Rentals}. Since vintage items are ever so popular right now and since we have an abundance of these kinds of items, we decided to start our own business! Now that wedding season is starting to kick in we have received lots of inquiries from brides and we have already had numerous meetings with photographers in our area! Not to mention I have a meeting on Saturday with another photographer! So excited for the road ahead with this adventure and all the awesome people I have met and will meet!!

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Hope you loves are having a spectacular Wednesday! So very much, looking forward to Friday!!!

Xoxo, 

Time Travel Tuesday - Link Up

Today I am linking up with Britt over at The Magnolia Pair to share my future Dream Home(s)! Obviously, as most females have done, I have pinned lots of house loves on Pinterest! Now I get to share them with the blogging world! Enjoy and feel free to link up with Mrs. Britt to share your own!

I love a mixture of older houses! Colonial, Cape Cods, Victorian; I'd be perfectly content with any one of these styles!!

When it comes to decor I am really indecisive. I LOVE most any decor and can't really pinpoint my style! Here are some rooms I really really really love!

Living Room

Dining Room/ Library

Kitchen

Office/Quiet Get-a-Way

Master Bedroom

My closet!

Guest Room

Nursery

There are a lot more photos I could post, but for the sake of making a mile long home post, I narrowed them down! Looks as though I really like crystal chandeliers!!! By the way all photos are courtesy of Pinterest!

 

Hopefully one day we can all live in our DREAM homes! For now, I'll just keep daydreaming!!!

 

Hope you friends have a fabulous Tuesday! See y'all tomorrow!!! And thank you Mrs. Britt for hosting such a fun link-up!

 

Xoxo,

Ponder This!

I saw this quote while tweeting around on Twitter and thought WOW, how true it really is!

“When you’re all wrapped up in yourself, you’re a very small package.” – Michael Beckwith

When you’re all wrapped up in yourself and your world you miss out on SOOO much and you miss giving and sharing who you are to others. In saying this, I mean the REAL you, the GENUINE you, the YOU who is doing it because you WANT too, not because you will get something in return. The YOU who finds so much joy in just being there for others!

I won’t lie, it is difficult sometimes! We get caught up in our day-to-day routines. We bustle around and forget a 2 minute call to say hi, really doesn’t take that much time. We think Facebook birthday messages are easier than calling the person (this applies to those whose phone numbers you have). And we think saying thank-you to someone via text message is sufficient so we forgo writing a thank-you note. It’s easy to have your blinders on and only see what is right in front of you. We all do it, some more than others, but it’s just as easy to take those blinders off to see all of the beauty around you! The difference between the big packages and small packages, is that those who offer so much, are the ones who take the blinders off!

Big packages don’t hold grudges, they forgive. Big packages don’t wait for you to call, they call you. Big packages drop what they are doing to help in any needed situation. Big packages don’t make others feel guilty for how they feel. Big packages don’t expect ANYTHING in return. Big packages tell the truth. Big packages don’t criticize those for being different. Most importantly, Big packages LOVE A LOT with their whole heart because they’d rather love and do for others than love and do for themselves.

Are you a small package or a big package? Just something for you to ponder for the day!



I hope you all had a wonderful Easter weekend and are enjoying your Monday!!

Xoxo,

Easter Weekend 2012

What an eventful weekend we have filled {with lots of food} all in the name of Easter and Jesus!

I’m not sure what tonight will consist of, normally Friday evenings are spent relaxing in front of the tube, however I’m thinking a date night may be in the works! A movie, dinner, dessert, mall… who knows?! Knowing we have such a busy weekend ahead it may just be a Red Box Chinese Takeout kind of night!

Saturday morning while I’m making the Family Secret Special Deviled Eggs the hubby has baseball practice! Then we will be heading to my mom’s house with sixteen other family members and friends for, what I know will be, and unforgettable Easter celebration! This is the first holiday we will all be together since my Pappa passed! It will definitely not be the same without him there but we know he will be there in spirit laughing with us all! Really looking forward to Nanna’s broccoli and cheese casserole! It’s always a staple at any holiday dinner and it is definitely my favorite dish!

Sunday we will be headed to brunch with the hubby’s momma’s side of the family! I’m looking forward to spending time with all of them. It is always eventful with so many family members together. After brunch and lots of together time and good conversation we will head to the hubby’s Memaw’s house for even more family time! At this point we will probably still be full from brunch but I have no doubt Memaw will send us home with platefuls of leftovers! Can you say YUM?!

You may be reading this wondering why there is no mention of visiting church for Easter. I’ll give you a wee bit background. I was raised in church and I am without a doubt a born again believer and Christian, but I haven’t been to church regularly in some time. Yes, Easter is special, but why should I just go on Easter Sunday if I don’t go any other Sunday? Being at church on Easter isn’t about showing off your new Easter ensemble or proving that you are a believer to others. It’s about worshiping God and I can worship my Lord anywhere. So, I will do that in my home and with my families.

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I hope you all have a wonderful weekend celebrating Easter in whichever way and form that you do! Please feel free to share your holiday plans!!! I love hearing what my readers are up too!

See ya’ll beautiful people Monday!


Xoxo,

Throw Together Thursday

Throw Together Thursday is back this week! Polyvore has come to my rescue once again to save me from my horrible closet! Take a look at what I’m wearing today:

Throw Together Thursday by lhharrell0611 featuring patent leather pumps

This is what I came up with out of my closet! Very budgeted to say the least. I bought these pieces forever ago when I was tight with the cash flow!

Carolina Blue Blouse - White Stag {Wal-Mart}, Black Pinstripe Slacks - George {Wal-Mart}, Black Patent Pointy Toe Low Pumps - Qupid {It's Fashion}, Black and Gray Pearl and Beaded Necklace - Premier Jewelry Designs, Black Belt - Merona {Target}

Hope everyone is having an awesome Thursday!! The weather here is cold and rainy but it can't keep me from being thrilled that tomorrow is Friday!!!!

Xoxo,

What I'm Loving Wednesday!

What I am loving and appreciating today and this week!!! Enjoy loves!

1. The company wide praise my sweet hubby received yesterday! He works so very hard at what he does and I know the public acknowledgement and pat on the back made him feel good! He deserves it and I’m so very proud of him!

2. My Honda Civic coupe. With gas prices in our area at $3.95 per gallon I can honestly say I am extremely thankful I have my little beat up silver car! It helps having this non-gas guzzler at times like days when I’m commuting 20 miles {an hour of sitting in traffic} twice a day. Granted I can’t wait to upgrade to a new vehicle here in the near future, but for now I’m appreciating my car at the gas pump!

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3. Easter! Hello?! What’s not to love about this holiday! Family, Friends, Food, and our Father! It is definitely one of my favorite holidays to celebrate and makes me so very thankful for the sacrifice Jesus made for me {and you} so long ago.

4. Reading in bed with the hubby! I absolutely love this! The hubster isn’t a book nerd like I am, but last night he got a wild hair up his rear and decided to re-read a book titled “The Baseball Codes” that he started forever ago and never finished! I of course was reading “The Girl Who Played with Fire”. It’s nice to be close in bed {with the pup of course}, snuggled up, television off, windows open, just reading! The quietness is such a joyous sound to me!

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5. My work makeup routine. I basically work in a cubbie hole and flip through files all day, meaning I don’t have to deal a lot with outside people as I did in my other position. Because of my lack of people contact I’ve become a bare minimalist with my makeup routine for work. It started out first because I always wanted that extra 10 minutes of sleep in the morning, so I’d sleep, slap on the little amount of makeup I had time to apply, and head out the door, all the while HATING my face! Now, I’m completely comfortable with it. Maybe because time has nothing to do with it and it’s actually my choice to wear how much or how less I want. Some may think you should ALWAYS look your BEST, and while I agree with this, if you are stuck in a cubbie hole, and you’re okay with powder, blush, and mascara to get you through the day, and your HAPPY, then who cares how much makeup you’re wearing?! I don’t have anyone to impress and until I have to deal with clients and high management, I’ll stick with my low-key makeup routine!


It's Wednesday!!! Only 2 more days until the weekend :) Hope ya'll are having a fabulous day!!!

Xoxo,

Up All Night

Baby Reef gave us quite a fright on Thursday evening and I can honestly say that night was the equivalent of what a mom feels like when her child is up sick all night! Thank the good Lord above I’m experiencing incidents like this now, because it is showing us a glimpse of what our future will look like when we decide to expand our family! Yes, a baby up all night will be far more frequent but at least we know how to work with no sleep and constant wake ups!

Thursday evening was like any other. The hubby had a baseball game to coach and I was home doing “housewife” duties with the pup. I fed him his dinner at 6:30 and let him play in the yard for an hour or so. I was extremely tired and looking forward to a really good nights sleep so I headed up to bed at 8:30pm. Yes, that’s right I crawled into our bed at 8:30 that night! I was going to enjoy my sleep, so I thought.

At around 11:30 I randomly woke up and noticed Baby Reef wasn’t sleeping on the bed with us as usual. I heard him pitter pattering around downstairs and wondered what he was doing walking around. Then, I smelled it! A foul and very unpleasant smell. I got up out of bed in the dark, as to not wake the hubby, and with the light of my IPhone I looked around our room praying I wouldn’t step in “a surprise”. I didn’t see anything so I headed downstairs. At the front door I saw a small amount of what was putting off this horrible stench, but knew that couldn’t be it, it wasn’t “enough”. I then found it, in the kitchen and was horrified! How did my sweet 8 month old pup produce this?! {I apologize if this is graphic. I am trying to refrain from actually telling you what it was or what it looked like, just use your imaginations!} I opened up our sliding glass doors to start airing the house out and proceeded to clean the mess up, yellow rubber dish gloves and all, which were my saving grace. Once all was cleaned up, sanitized, and aired out, we headed back upstairs to go back to sleep.

An hour and a half later I woke up to Baby Reef jumping off the bed and making a slight heaving noise. At this point because he was in our room I had to turn on the light which woke the hubby up. What greeted us were two piles of undigested dog food! Everything he ate for dinner was on my bedroom floor! AWESOME! Yellow rubber gloves where are you?! We gathered the cleaning supplies and went to work on the floor. After this incident I started to get worried! Why was my baby sick? I already made up my mind to take him to the vet first thing in the morning, this just wasn’t normal! And to validate that decision even more, ten minutes later he was back downstairs making another mess for us to clean up. He looked so upset that he was making more messes for momma to clean up, but he was sick! Of course I couldn’t be upset with him! The funniest part to me was that I cleaned it up as any mom would clean up her own child’s mess. It didn’t bother me like I thought it would have. He is my baby and I’d do anything for him, plain and simple.

I decided I would stay downstairs on the couch for the rest of the night with him. Meaning I didn’t get a wink of sleep, I constantly watched him while he was sleeping to make sure he was still breathing and caressed him to soothe him! Ya’ll may think I’m nuts but whether he has fur and four legs or two legs and can talk, he is my child. I was legitimately worried.

We went to the vet as soon as they opened that morning and they were able to fit him in! They did a full body check on him, took stool samples, took blood work, and gave him shots to make sure he didn’t dehydrate. While at the vet he was his playful puppy self! Wanting to see everyone and get his pats and rubs from the front desk ladies and assistants! The vet didn’t seem too worried and made a recommendation to change his food diet from what he was currently on. He also prescribed him an antibiotic to help with some small amounts of bacteria in his bowels. Other than that he was a perfectly healthy pup! Great teeth, eyes, ears, skin, etc.! I was a proud momma!

Since that horrible night Baby Reef has been perfectly fine! We had him on a rice and cottage cheese/chicken diet for a few days to help soothe his tummy and he just started on his new food yesterday evening. We aren’t giving him ALL of the food servings as to not shock his stomach, just mixing a little bit with the rice and cottage cheese! He has also been a champ at taking his antibiotics! He's been sleeping through the night and so have I! We are still keeping close tabs on him, but all and all I do believe he is perfectly fine now!

Seriously hoping we don’t have to experience a night like that with him again! I think it’s a bit harder with animals, since you can’t feel their foreheads to see if they are running a fever and their symptoms are different and a lot of times not recognizable to humans like babies and children's are. Needless to say it was an experience and I am beyond grateful that nothing serious was wrong with our sweet boy! We’ve talked about it before and can’t imagine our little family without him!

I’ll leave y'all with a photo of his precious little face! Such a good boy!!!

Happy Tuesday to y'all! Hope everyone is enjoying the gorgeous weather today!! Loving that sunshine!
 
Xoxo,