Weekend Whereabouts!

Friday:

Shopping with K, new dress for $15, "last day of summer break" swim party at D's, hanging with my extended family, asleep by 10!

Saturday:

Up at 10, showered, dressed, packed and out the door by 11, in Athens by 12, doing updo's for 3.5 hrs.

I had about 2.5 hrs to waste and still needed to touch up my makeup and change clothes, so I meet up with M who was already at the venue with BIL/groomsman.

So we: sat in the car, did our makeup, I changed and fixed my hair. then we sat around the chapel and watched the bridal party take pictures and I was blowing up L's phone because he was running late and not answering. And then finally the wedding started.

It was a beautiful and amazing wedding. I don't know two people more meant for each other than Beau and Nikki. It was only the second wedding Hubby and I have gone to since our own so even though I was mad a L for being late it was still very surreal to sit there with my husband. And it was very nice not to have to get on the dance floor and pretend like I cared to catch the bouquet!

The reception was really nice as well. The food was delicious even if I did eat something that I thought was spinach artichoke dip but then turned out to be bacon blue cheese dip (barffff) and L went home early cause he wasn't feeling good.

 I didn't get home til after 12 and went straight to bed. It was a long and exhausting day but all in all it was wonderful.

The one picture I have of the happy couple taken back in Oct 2010

Sunday:

L still not feeling good, I went to church and lunch with K and my parents. Went back to parents to do K's hair, caught up with Mom, got back home at 4:30 and soon after drama unfolded (more on that later), dinner, L went to bed at 10 and I'm sitting here watching tv and blogging and getting excited about my first day back at work tomorrow.

This weekend was full of ups and downs. Filled with family, friends, and the joining of two lives forever and I'm so glad I was a part of it!

Hope Y'all had an equally great and blessed weekend!

Semi Wordless Wednesday

I figured since I'm still kinda new to this whole blogging thing, I would do Wordless Wednesday as kind of an introduction to me and my family/ friends.

The most amazing man in the whole world!

The two most amazing people who raised me, my parents!

Sisters being Sistas!

MO and D

niece and sister

M and J. My twin and brother in law

L and his brother P :)

This crazy group is some of my oldest and dearest friends.

We're like a little "family"

I refer to these people as The Creek Crew! They are full of love and no judgement.

Two of my best friends, they were there at the beginning of L and Mine relationship,

we have grown up but not apart! BBB

Fairy, one of our really good friends, and V, L's best friend.

 C and B, You'll probably hear alot about them.

K's sorority sisters who have become apart of our little "family"

Just a handful of some of my favorite gals from MacGrill.

It still amazes me after 5 years we are still close friends.

N, C,A, N, me and T

me, C,W,T,K,and A

Hope y'all enjoy getting to know some of the important people in my life!

A Bittersweet Farwell

Psalm 23 (NKJV)

A Psalm of David.

 ¹ The LORD is my shepherd;
         I shall not want.
 ² He makes me to lie down in green pastures;
         He leads me beside the still waters.
 ³ He restores my soul;
         He leads me in the paths of righteousness
         For His name’s sake.
       
 ⁴ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
         I will fear no evil;
         For You are with me;
         Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
       
 ⁵ You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
         You anoint my head with oil;
         My cup runs over.
 ⁶ Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
         All the days of my life;
         And I will dwell in the house of the LORD
         Forever.

Lat Saturday after a courageous battle with esophageal cancer my friend G's dad entered into eternal rest. Today we attended his memorial mass. He was at peace, the family had been expecting it for a while now, but he hung on as long as he could. Mr. F always had a smile on his face even during the most difficult times  under going treatment after treatment. But we all know he is in better place, free of pain and looking down on his wife of 38 years, their daughter and three sons with that infectious smile of his. After the service today the family invited everyone back to their house to have a swim because that's the way Mr. F would have wanted it, I think that says alot about a man and his family. I ask that you say a little prayer for this family as they still go through this difficult time in their lives of adjustment.

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.

What I'm Loving Wednesdays

Happy Wednesday and June Everyone!!

I'm Loving... that today is June 1st!!

I'm Loving... that June means: schools out and I get to spend more time with my sisters and niece; that alot of my friends are coming into town for summer; and it's my niece, my sister, my Granny, and My birthday month!

I'm Loving... that in 6 days I will 25!

I'm Loving... that in the month of June I'm house-sitting for my sister and my aunt, so that means our water and electricity bills will be low!

I'm Loving... that I'm having a birthday frozen yogurt with one of my really good and beautiful friends Mrs. Whitney F tmrw!

I'm Loving... that I got to spend this past weekend with some great friends at the lake even if I am still a little crispy!

I'm Loving... that Katie is coming over tmrw to lay out by the pool with me!

I'm Loving... that I'm still going strong with my blog and loving every minute of it, I feel like I can't go to sleep if I haven't blogged for the day!

I'm Loving... that June will be MY MK month! I've got a lot planned and it's all fixing to pay off!

And as always... I'm Loving... my amazing Hubby!



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Weekend Whereabouts!

Well it being a holiday weekend, this Monday isn't so manic, so I'm going to do my first Manic Monday on Tuesday and fill y'all in on the weekend today.

This is a long one and gets a little tedious at some points but this is me and I want to share my whole self.

I love long weekends cause it gives me more time to spend with my hubby. He works hard to support us so he usually comes home, takes a nap, eats dinner and goes back to sleep. So weekends are our time together, so I'll gladly take an extra day now and then.

Our long weekend started with Friday afternoon when I finally got home from lunch and shopping with my mom. I met L at Macaroni Grill for dinner, we caught up with some old friends that still work there from back in the day when I did and had a really good time. When we got home that night we went out to the pool and swam for a couple of hours and crashed pretty early that night. We are such an old married couple sometimes!

Saturday we got up early and L headed over to my parents to finish sanding my new desk (transformation to come). I waited for my family to come pick me up cause when Mom and I went shopping Friday she found a dinning room table she wanted, so she was bring Dad out to see it on Saturday and of course everyone else had to tag along. So once we finally got done buying the table we went to lunch. After lunch we decided to go past Megan and Jeremy's new house because I'm the only one who didn't get to see it the first time. When we got there we kind of broke in let ourself in, had a look around, and measured all the rooms. I really like the house and can't wait to help her decorate! We spent almost 3 hours at the house, cause it turns out that after they had put the offer on the house Megan found out that a friend of hers from Piedmont College lives right across the street, so her and her husband come over for a bit. When we finally got to my parents house, Megan, Katie and I decided to head to Mall of GA to do some shopping for me, I didn't find anything so we decided to go to the furniture stores then had "dinner" at TuttiFruitti, a self serve frozen yogurt place, it was some good quality sista time. I ended up staying the night at my parents in participation for Sunday. After L finished with my desk he spent the rest of the day with his brother and friends.

Now here comes the highlight of the weekend Sunday Funday!!

Megan& Jeremy, L and I got up early to head to Lake Occone to spend a fun weekend on the lake with some old friends. Barrett & Ashely were outside waiting for us!  The boys started out the morning at 10:30 with jagerbombs and the girls took a tour of the new addition to the Harris house. After blowing up the floats and getting the coolers ready we headed out for a quick little ride on the boat waiting for the rest of the group to get there. Once W&J got there we went back out to the sandbar and once it got to crowded we drove back to the cove the house is in and swam there til lunch. After lunch we hooked up the rafts and went out once again, we only did that for about a hour til Lauren & Grant got there. I hadn't seen them since our wedding and was very happy they had made the drive considering all that they were going through. B took the new group out for a while and L, A and I swam out into the cove, talked and caught up for a while. L&G are getting married in November so we were talking wedding stuff, ever since my wedding 7 months ago I still have the planning itch so I guess it's good that I have so many friends getting married, lol. We left after dinner and got home really late but we had so much fun and wish we could go it more often, maybe we can this summer!

Our extra day together Monday. again another boring old couple day but it's the kind I love and greatly appreciate after a busy weekend like we had. We slept in, picked up a late lunch, layed around watching TV and talking, accidental took a nap, laid around some more. We had planned on going out to the pool but it was really crowded and L got a little to much sun at the lake and didn't feel like being out in the heat again today. We had dinner and L has since gone to bed and I'm just trying to finish this long weekend blog so I too can go to bed.

This weekend had it's up and downs but it's the kind of love, spent with friends, family and the one person I love the most. Hope everyone else had a fun and safe Memorial Day weekend. Thanks to the troop of past and present fighting for us, especially my cousin Glen and one of my favorite people W's husband Robert who are over seas right now. My prayers and thoughts are with you and your families daily.