Friday!!

Our week has been a little bit of a roller coaster! Parts of it have been really awesome, parts of it have really not been awesome. Jackson's been in Memphis for work, so I've been a little antsy and missing him.  But hey, that's life, right? So at the risk of sounding too "TGIF"-ish, here are the best parts of our week!  1. We got to spend quality time with our sister-in-love, Jackson's parents, and this sweet gal.

2. We scored $35 in free groceries for using our credit card for rewards! 

3. It snowed. Again. But we got some pretty adorable visitors. Well, what I assume were adorable visitors. All they left were these raccoon-y footprints.

4. While at Dad's this week, I found my label maker in my sister's room. Win. Everything may now have been labeled in our home thanks to my snow day off. 

5. I say I should have a day off of work every week. All of the laundry is done, meals are planned for two weeks, the bathroom sparkles, the kitchen smells like lemony heaven, and I watched all of the Harry Potters... again...! :) 

Friday!!

This week flew by. Like, yesterday was Monday for me. This weekend is going to fly, too, because I'll be so busy with helping my sister move into her dorm, Dad's birthday, etc.  But hey, I'm 100% looking forward to it.   1. Monday, I went to my parents' house to hang with my sister before she moves back to Chattanooga for school.  I snapped this picture with my sweet fur-nugget.    2. My parents also have these little stray babies at their house.  I'm working on socializing them as much as possible so they don't grow up mean and wild like their mama. There are two black and white ones, one yellow, one grey, and one solid black one.  They were only three days old on Monday!!

   3. This happened this week. #win. I found a new favorite resource for couponing and sale shopping called KrogerKrazy.

  4.  I have an interview on Monday for a job with the Department of HR with the state of TN.  I'm 100% nervousexcitedanxioushopefuloverwhelmed. That's a feeling, right!?    5. Cheese alert: I'm so thankful for my husband. Sunday, we finished cleaning every inch of our apartment.  He took the doors off of our linnen closet and our utility closet and vacuumed them to remove all dust because our air filter was way yuck! I am thankful for his servant heart and his willingness to help me with chores when I need. 

 

 Linking up with Karli and Amy and Lauren

Friday!

Whew! Is it just me or did anyone else's week fly, too?  I'm not complaining at all, but I know my blogging suffered.  I spent most of my workday yesterday catching up on reading your blogs! I missed so much fun! haha. Having to work Monday and being off Wednesday cut my week right down the middle, and I would be lying if I said I didn't love it.    1.  It is tax free weekend here in Nashville, and I plan to totally take advantage of it. I need some new work pants because mine are all worn out. Jackson could use some new dress pants, too, and I know he needs good socks for work. I will probably be hitting Kohls, JCPenney, and Target, Walmart for the socks, and who knows where else tomorrow morning while Jackson is at the Duck Blind Drawing!   2. I monogrammed the cutest backpack for a coworker's son who is starting Kindergarten next week!!Love how it turned out! The final product is so worth the struggle and strain I endured to get it in the hoop. My thumbs are in pain.

    3. I played in Home Goods for a while Wednesday when I was off work.  Boomer has had a hard time getting up and down on furniture, especially dad's bed, lately. So I found these steps! They were on clearance for $10. It said cat furniture, but I imagine they'll work just fine, right? 

    4. I finally updated our chalkboard this week. It's been a big black wall staring at me for weeks. I just felt uninspired and everything looked lame.

    5. I'm not going to lie. I had a week of wonderful hairdays and cute outfits. Some days I feel motivated, but this week it was every day! I can 100% guarantee it won't happen two weeks in a row. ;) 

 

I hope you're all gearing up for great weekends!!

 

Linking up with Karli and Amy, Lauren

Weekend Recap

I hope you all had a chill weekend. We did, but it had a busy undertone because we were rushing to chill in a thousand places. Here, let me explain.   Friday, I told Jackson I didn't feel like cooking, so we went to one of our favorite Nashville spots: Los Tres Amigos.  We ate dinner and then went to see How to Train Your Dragon 2 with Jackson's best man and his girlfriend!!

  Saturday, I slept in until 10 (oops)! Jackson and I both had busy days planned.  Last week, Jackson, who sits knee first, broke the middle support of our bed. He spent Saturday constructing wooden support beams for the underside of our bed.  We literally have the most comfortable bed in the world now.  My Saturday looked a lot like this:

Saturday night, we went to go to the grocery, I opened the door, and there was a 4 foot snake in front of our door.  I died, literally.  We called the maintenance to come get it and he took forever.

 

Sunday, we got up and went to church. We hurried home to grab our beans and change clothes to head to a Bible class cookout 35 minutes away.  A 35 minute trip took almost an hour because I-65 was closed! Once we got there, we ate lunch, played in the pool, and went to look at her parents' dog's newest litter of puppies. They're Black Lab, Australian Shepherd mixed.  Jackson and I fell in love with this sweet little nugget. We're trying to look at what we've got going on to see if a dog is a good idea. She may just end up being one of those things that doesn't work out on paper but makes sense anyway:

Sunday night, serious storms rolled through Nashville.  We sat on our friends' front porch and watched the lightning flash.  It was a great end to a busy weekend. 

Weekend Recap

Our weekend was simply wonderful! 

Friday night we were ten times our age and turned in early. By early I mean couldn't keep my eyes open most of the night. 

Saturday, I woke up with a splitting headache... the kind that makes your head too heavy to lift from your pillow.  We had a church clean-up day, but I decided to sit this one out.  Jackson went, though, and helped replace white boards, hang pictures, etc. in the church.  

I got this picture from him at 2:00 or so saying I missed out on snuggles with Ruby Jane. 

So I threw clothes on and went to the church.  We ended up having a bonfire and roasting weenies that night with friends.  It was awesome. 

Sunday, hubs and I had decided that since we got back a kazillion dollars from last year's taxes that we would spend a day just kind of splurging responsibly.

He had been eyeing this humidor for a long long while. Once we got into the cigar store, he was a kid in a candy store.  I can't blame him. Chrissy in JCPenney and Kohls is Jackson in the Cigar Club. The deal was whatever he spent at the Cigar Club, I was allowed to spend on clothes and shoes or whatever. 

Let's just say he spent enough for me to add this baby to our home and still have some left to spend. 

(In his defense, it was on sale for $299 and I had a Target gift card)

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We also went to Men's Warehouse on Sunday because Jackson got a free suit for getting our wedding tuxes there. It was his first time getting measured for a tailored suit.  It was so much fun.