Pastors, Pizza & Patriotic Fruit - H54F

It's a little ridiculous how excited I am that it's Friday now, considering I only worked four days this week. But who cares - it's still Friday, and I'm still excited! It's been a pretty crazy busy week, and the weekend will be just as crazy. We've been trying to get in a ton of wedding planning before June 8, because that's when Jeff's boys get here, and they'll be here for three full weeks!

Put It All in The Crockpot

Good morning my dear blog friends! It's been a while since I've shared a recipe with y'all, so that's what I've got planned for you today! We had planned to go to a movie on Tuesday night, but that morning I just wasn't feeling it. I wanted to just stay home and rest a bit. So I decided I would cook dinner for us since we would be staying in. So I ran to Publix on my lunch break to grab some

Picking A Wedding Venue

My week is still feeling all crazy and weird. Monday felt like the longest day ever somehow, Tuesday felt like Monday, and now today just feels strange. I guess the whole week is gonna feel a little off, until we get to the weekend and everything gets reset back to normal. And to make it even weirder, I'm not doing my typical weigh-in Wednesday post today. Sure, I'm still going to share what the

Pair of Shoes for You - Giveaway!

It's been a while since I've participated in a group giveaway like this, but today I'm bringing you a pretty great one! It's a chance to win a $90 gift card to Zappos.com! I for one wish I could win this myself, but since I can't, I'd at least like for one of you lovely ladies to be the one to win it! So head on down below, and enter your little hearts out for a chance to grab a cute new pair of

Parasites & Pelorosaurus: FFTL Link-Up

Well, most of us are all back at work today after a long, three-day weekend, which makes today feel like a Monday. Which isn't the greatest feeling, until you remember that it IS in fact Tuesday, and we only work four days this week! So then it's not too bad :) And since it's actually Tuesday, and not Monday, that means I'm going to skip my weekend recap for now (maybe it'll happen later this

Preview of the Reception

She had a lot of cute ideas and things for her reception, and everything ended up looking really cute. We did a pretty great job doing all of the decorating and everything ourselves, and we were very pleased with how it all turned out for her big day! And once again, I can't wait to get all the professional photos back and see all of those! We ourselves didn't even get pictures of everything

Puzzles & Parks - My Summer Bucket List!

Apparently the thing to do around blog-world this summer is make a summer bucket list. So of course, y'all know I just had to jump on that bandwagon! I mean, hello? Summer is my absolute favorite season. (Thanks Florida for basically an 8-month summer!) And obviously I'm a sucker for a good list or two, or three, or forty-five... And so the two together? Summer and a list? I just had to! And now

Peek of the Ceremony

Obviously I wasn't taking any pictures of my own during the ceremony, so I only have a couple that I was able to swipe from a couple other people. The majority of these come from our friend Allison, who is also the mama to the precious flower girl and adorable ring bearer. And then a good amount also come from my sweet fiance who set up some video cameras (unbeknownst to us!) and was taking

Pampering the Bride

Saturday morning, the day of my baby sister's wedding, we grabbed all our bags of clothes and cosmetics and extras, and headed out. We stopped for some coffee of course, and made it to the church by 9 a.m. Megan had asked Kaley (her brother-in-law's girlfriend) to do her hair, and so she arrived early too. After the tears had dried from reading letters from Bo, my mama, and myself, I did her

Post-Wedding Weigh-In

Wednesday means we're half way through the week, and only two more work days before we reach a  3-day weekend! That makes me a very happy girl. And since today is Wednesday, we all know that means I hopped on that scale this morning, and snapped a quick picture to share. Today's Weigh-In Wednesday post will once again actually be pretty quick and easy, because there's not too much to share. And

Practice for The Big Day

(If you missed it, I already shared about the Bridesmaids Luncheon yesterday.) So on Friday night, we all did the usual rehearsal and rehearsal dinner all together. A very long time ago, Megan and Bo had asked me and Zach (Bo's brother) to sing a song together during the ceremony. So Friday night, we got there early to practice one more time and run a sound check. Then once everyone else was

Princeton, NYC & Elizabethton - FFTL Link-Up

Yesterday I took the day off work for an extra day of wedding recovery. It was much needed, and definitely a good thing for me, but I really wish I could have taken another day or two still! I'm back at work today, but absolutely wishing I was still at home. At least this coming weekend is a long one! I am excited to be back in the blog-world though, because I really haven't been since this time

Party Chicken for the Bridesmaids

I'm back from a crazy wedding weekend for Megan! It was exhausting and fun and crazy and amazing. And I can't wait to share it! Since so many things have happened over the last five or so days, I'll be recapping all of my sister's wedding events in a couple of posts over the next few days. So today we'll start with the bridesmaids luncheon from Thursday!

My Aunt Suzanne hosted it at her house,

Pace is So Crazy, Race is So Worth It

It's incredibly strange and weird and amazing and fantastic that today is my little sister's wedding day!! While putting this video together, I had so much fun looking through these old pictures, but then balled like a baby when I put the music in and then watched the whole thing as an actual video. It was extremely emotion, and it definitely got to me!

I really wish I would have had time to go

Prompt #17 - Favorite Photo & Why

Day 17 - A favorite photo of yourself and why...











Well first of all, I'm cheating and including two pictures, because I love them both so much. These photos are both from our engagement session last month (with the amazing Phil Pullen Photography!) and I just love them both so much. 



A few reasons why: 

One - my sweet fiance is adorably cute, so of course I like that :) 

Two -

Paleontology to Plantation

Last week, my blog-friend Kristen posted about using Wikipedia as a boredom-buster game. She suggested you start on one page, and click through to five different links, reading a bit about each one as you go, and just see where you end up! Well that's fun, but I play that game a little differently. I was first introduced to this my some of the kids in my youth group over two years ago, and I even

Party Time is Almost Here!

Well today is just three short days before my sister's wedding, and Party Time is Almost Here!! So I'm super busy today doing wedding stuff and helping her move some things into her new house! So today's weigh-in post is going to be short and sweet, with just the minimum info :) And as usual, of course I'm linking up with Erin & Alex!





Initial starting weight = 227

January starting weight =

Public Relations - FFTL Link-Up

Guys, I'm usually super on the ball with this link-up, but things at work yesterday were crazy busy, and also - it's wedding week for my sister, so we've been doing all sorts of stuff to finish getting everything ready! So it's comin' at y'all a bit later than normal today, but that's alright. The link-up stays open for an entire week anyways, so we've got plenty of time to all get this one done!

Particularly Good Weekend

Good Morning! It's Monday. And HO. LY. CRAP people - this is the week my little sister gets married!! I woke up this morning almost as excited as if it was my own wedding and not hers. We still have a lot to do, but it's almost here and we're definitely all ready for it! I'm only working today and tomorrow, then Wednesday is slam-packed full of stuff, Thursday is all sorts of luncheons and

Pizza, Presents & Purple Flowers

FRIDAY! Hooray :) I'm so glad it's here. It hasn't been a particularly rough week or anything, but I've been feeling exhausted this whole week. I think it is still stemming from super early mornings last weekend, followed by super full days. And I just never was able to catch up after that! I think I get to sleep in a little bit tomorrow, so that will be oh so lovely. Hopefully at least. Anyways,

Prompt #9 - Moment

I just went to lunch with my girl Angie for our very first blate! We both work downtown, so we chose a restaurant downtown to meet at, and we both ended up walking to the restaurant from our offices. We had a great time, it was a beautiful day, and I also got a few photos from my walk!







I used my RunKeeper app to track my walk (just because I was curious about how far it actually was), and

Pinterest Cupcake Success

Thursday is finally here, which means that thankfully, tomorrow is Friday! This has been a long week, and I have been exhausted pretty much the whole time. I need some rest and a break. Not sure much "rest" will happen this weekend, but I'm gonna try at least! Today however, I'm excited to be linking up with Katie at Keep Calm & Carry On and her blog-bestie Stephanie at A Beautiful Mess for "Saw

Prompt #8 - Advice

Sooo....I've kinda failed already at these "Blog Every Day in May" prompts, but I knew that would happen from the very beginning. My goal was just to do them when I can, rather than kill myself to do it every day, and so I'm doing my second one today, on day eight of the challenge.

Today's prompt is to give advice - anything at all. One of my dear blog-friends, Emily @ Be Blessed, Y'all, did her

Punch it Into High Gear

I was trying to think of a "different" way to start off this post today, because I feel like I always start each Wednesday post in exactly the same way. So I racked my brain forever a few minutes, and still could come up with nothing. Apparently it's tough to be creative when posting my Weigh-In Wednesday results to link up with Alex & Erin...





Initial Starting Weight = 227

January Starting

Puzzle Piece

Today is my fiance's 32nd birthday! So I couldn't let that just get ignored, now could I? Nope, absolutely not. And of course he's so special, he get's his very own post :) And so that's why there are two posts today! The first one from earlier today is here. I just want to share a few of the reasons why I love him so much, and why I'm so thankful for him...



Today at VooDoo Dog for his

Produce Aisle First - FFTL Link Up

Hello friends and bloggers and readers! I'm so excited today, because today Hallie and I are re-starting our weekly link-up, with just a slightly spiced-up version, From Firsts to Lasts! In case you missed the 'big announcement' from last week, you can read all about it back here for more information of what's going on with the changes. Today though, let's just jump right into our 'first' topics!

Peeps Be Graduated!

This title was for my family, specifically my dad, who has been wanting me to use "peeps" in one of my post titles ;)

Good Morning lovely ladies, and Happy Monday! A couple of weeks ago, I decided to have a positive attitude on Monday morning, no matter what, in order to hopefully create a better day for myself. And it worked! So I'm trying that again today, and forcing myself to have a positive

Places To Go & Things To Do

I haven't shared a good "About Me" style post in a couple of months now, and my blog has definitely grown a lot since then. So today I've decided to give y'all a little more insight into my life! I've seen this in blog-land before, so I can't take credit for it, but I have no idea who came up with it to give them credit....Oh well. It's gonna be fun anyways :) So here's a reverse pyramid of

Plus-Size Workout Barbie & Other Randoms

I liked writing down my random thoughts last Thursday with no rhyme or reason, and I think most of y'all said that you liked it too. So I'm gonna do it again today and see how it turns out this week!

Tomorrow night my  baby sister graduates from college!! It just seems so weird. Sometimes I hardly feel like I'm old enough to be a college grad, but that was three years ago for me now! And now my

Prompt 1 - My Life in 250 Words

Back with a second post today (my weigh-in was posted earlier this morning), because I want to share my super quick auto-biography, in 250 words or less. (Mine turned out to be 249! Bam.) I just found this fun idea today, and I can't wait to join in the rest of the month. I doubt I'll be able to do every single prompt, but I'll do what I can, when I can. If you want to join in on the challenge

Portion Control of the Proper Foods

Let's not waste time, y'all know what's happening today...I'm linking up with Erin & Alex for Weigh-In Wednesday!








Initial Starting Weight = 227

January Starting Weight = 217

Last Week, April 24 = 190.4

Today, May 1 = 191.4


And so now that's another gain this past week, of exactly one pound. And now that means I've been toying around with these same two-ish pounds for about a month