Weekend Recap

Last week was one long work week for me! Being off for two weeks and the 1st full week back is hard for myself as well as all my kids! I sure was happy to see Friday get here! I went over to my sisters to help her and one of her newly engaged friends get some ideas for her wedding! Saturday Jeff and I got up and had such a productive day of finally taking the lights off the house, yard work (that was jeff's part), I went out and ran a few errands. I had to get a cap to go under my wig. Our friends are getting married next month so her  bachelorette party was local but she asked us to wear a wig. I decided since I'm blonde I would go to the other extreme and get dark brown. It was funny to see everyone in their wigs. It definitely wasn't the most comfortable thing to wear the entire night. 

Are you ready for some football?

I can't say I am that excited over the game because I do not really favor either team. However I do favor Sean and the bachelor which is currently on at the same time. However Jeff on the other hand is obsessed with football so I ran up to publix after school to get a few things to make some football treats but in a healthy way! I of course turned to skinny taste.com. I decided to make the hot spinach dip ( except I used fresh spinach leaves instead of frozen) and buffalo chicken potato skins! I do weight watchers and the points were on 2 and 3 points a serving which is great in my book!  I didn't tell Jeff they were from skinny taste and made with all fat free items and he loved them. Whether he was just saying that or truly enjoyed them I don't know but he ate quite a bit! I highly recommend you trying them and they were super easy to make. 
Anywho I am off to watch bachelor and real housewives! If I had to choose I would say Go Notre Dame really only because a few of our friends like them!

2013!

We have so much to be thankful for this past year! Most importantly little Delainey was brought into this world and my goddaughter, Haigan as well. But Jeff and I had a big year of purchases we bought our first car and house together. There seems to always be a project or something we want to do with the house but we couldn't be happier with where we are at now! It is a perfect place to start a family. 

When we look into 2013 Jeff and I didn't set to many resolutions so it isn't unattainable! We both put on the usual try to loose some weight! I started back up on weight watchers and getting back into a routine of working out since all the holiday madness is over! Weight watchers worked pretty well for me two years ago and then I sort of went relaxed last year but I am going to get pretty serious about it again. My goal is to loose weight before we try to have kids so that is something to work for so I can just put it all back on with a baby griffin! My flag football season started this past week so that always help have practice and game each week to keep me active as well. We won our game on Friday 26-0 to a team that was suppose to be pretty good but didn't turn out that way. 

We have quite a few weddings coming up this year and a few trips are planned with our family and friends so lots to look forward to!

Today after we went to Church and lunch with the family we decided to walk around the town center to do a little shopping. We have some bachelorette and wedding parties coming up so we needed to grab a few gifts. But while we were out I have been searching for some sheets for our master bedroom but to be honest sheets are so expensive and that is just something I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on so I always am apprehensive! I came across these little pinstriped sheets that we could get monogrammed and they happened to be 20% off right now so I decided to go for it! We just got our last name on them instead of our monogram. We got some sheets and pillow cases! Of course my husbands response was is this really a necessity? But we haven't got new sheets since we got married which is coming up on 3 years ago so its definitely time! I can't wait for them to get here! 

Honky Tonk Badonkadonk

I think I still hear country music playing. It definitely isn't called Music City for nothing. We just got back from Nashville yesterday and it was definitely a good time. We flew out on Saturday morning extremely early with Allie and Brandon. We lost an hour so it was still pretty early in the morning when we got there. We all stepped outside of the airport and said Oh my Gosh! We left Florida Saturday morning at 6 am and it was 70 degrees we stepped off the plane in Nashville and it was low 30s! We were not ready for that. It was sort of wet and there was a possibility for snow so we were pretty excited. We went and got breakfast and long and behold it started snowing. At first it was just little snow flurries but  then it started coming down pretty good. Brandon had never seen snow so we were pretty happy!!
It is amazing that Broadway street is just full of bars and starting at 10 am there are live bands playing everywhere and the drinks started flowing. We all love live music we would go from place to place to have a drink and listen to music. We would stop sometime in between to eat! All we did was eat, drink, and walk around.

Sunday we went to the Jags vs Titans football game. One of Jeff's old teammates from Wake plays for them now so we got free tickets. We did not go because the jaguars are any good but because Jeff and Brandon are good fans and love their team. The sun was shining which made it not be to bad. There definitely weren't to many other jaguar fans so the poor boys were on their own.

We ate at so many delicious restaurants and heard so many great bands! I don't know if I will hop on a plane to move there just yet as it is pretty cold we definitely loved getting back to where its in the 70s in dec/jan. but we will definitely go back for another visit. It is always great spending time with Allie and B!

Broadway St!

view from our hotel room

jeff got to meet up with two of his old football buddies

best mac n cheese I've ever had! They even kept it in a doggie bag for us and said we could pick it up anytime before 3 am because we didn't want to throw it away but we weren't going back to our hotel right then. So nice of them and we did pick it up after the ball dropped!

The street was filled with thousands of people. one of the bartenders told us this is like one of the top new years eve party in U.S.A. It was a little rainy but it was worth it to see them drop the music note and see the fireworks. The streets were filled with beer carts, food trucks, funnel cake stands and was all roped off. We stayed inside one bar for hours on end because this band was amazing. We popped out at 11:30 to not miss the show and get soaking wet!

Here's to another year! 

Happy New Year to all of you!

Christmas 2012

Well Christmas eve is with my family and we did Church and went to a little Italian restaurant down in Riverside. My poor husband had to work and they didn't even let them off early I couldn't believe it. So sadly he missed church but just met us for dinner. We then went back to my parents and we all got to open up our pajamas and played a game. We headed home to get right to bed because Jeff knows me to well that I get up entirely to early for being an adult. I can't help it I love Christmas! I was rolling around the bed waiting for Jeff to get up and finally at 7 I said forget it and just woke him up. We opened up all our stockings and again I was impressed he picked out a david yurman bracelet for me all on his own. He knows better and takes my sister along with him just to make sure. But it was beautiful and I was surprised! 

We got ready and headed over to my parents to open presents with them and my sisters family. Delainey was a riot to watch open up her presents really just eating the paper and playing. But we all got lots of great stuff and are blessed to have such a wonderful family. We then headed to Jeff's parents to do presents and lunch with his side of the family. Jeff's mom got one of his ACC championship jerseys framed which he was so excited about. Now I just have to figure out where to hang that thing. It is HUGE!. 

Tis' the Season

Well I am back and starting to get some what settled. Not to sure how I feel about going back to school tomorrow. But I will do a quick little recap of what we were up to over the holiday break.

We did a little Festival of the lights 5k with my sister and some of her friends. It was down in San marco and we had a good time even baby D came along for the walk/run.

We went to an Eric Church concert with Al & B and for someone who doesn't like concerts very much the past two have been amazing. Thank you Eric Church and Zac Brown for changing my mind about concerts being a waste of money. 

Jamie and I had our annual Christmas party. This is the third year we have done it and we did it at my house this year. We had a great time and a lot more people came than we expected. I think there was easily 70 people at our house at one point and it didn't end until the wee hours in the morning. I guess its a good thing when we ran out of every single thing even all the wine and liquor people brought as gifts! I took a few pictures of the party. We did a hot chocolate and coffee bar, had signature drinks in ornaments we called jingle juice and some cookies that blew me away by this lady's attention to detail. 

it actually worked out great Jeff went and bought the heater for our back porch which I thought was silly because we live in florida and it was 75 degree a couple days ago, but that night the temperature dropped big time so it was nice to have. My brother-in-law also made a bon fire in our backyard to help keep those warm outside.

The invitations I got made were little coasters that we made look like a heineken beer label but with our invitation on it. 

I'm Back!

I have been on a long hiatus from the blog! Life has been crazy, busy and amazing all at the same time. I have decided now that life is a little calmer and a little slower I can come back to the blog world! We are finally settling into our house and getting projects done, holiday craziness is past us, school is in full swing (halfway over already). So I think i have some time to get back into blogging! I enjoy having an online diary per say to look back and see how things have changed over the years.

My sister and I threw our annual Christmas party this past weekend which was blast! More people than we expected came and it was a great time into the wee hours of the morning. We celebrated Christmas and it was a special one because it was Delainey's first! Jeff and I are beyond obsessed with that child!

We are off to ring in the new year with our best friends in Nashville on Saturday. It is suppose be snowing so I am trying to prepare for the cold weather! So starting 1st of the year I will be back to share a little recap of our holidays!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Weekend Recap

We had quite the busy weekend last weekend. Friday school got canceled because of hurricane Sandy which was even close to us and we had no rain and barely wind but I will take a free day. Hopefully we don't have to make it up. My mom, Jamie and I went to lunch at the french pantry. It was absolutely delicious. It was my first time. But this chicken bruschetta blew my mind. 

Friday night we went to the Zac Brown Band concert. I am not a big concert goer because I feel like they are over priced and I like music but I'm not obsessed with songs and artists like some are. Anyways I went and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. It was an awesome concert and I would go back to see him again.  We went with Richard and Chelsey and ran into some of our friends Austin and Erica so we all had a blast. 

We had a little to much fun so I woke up for FL/GA to go downtown looked outside at the weather and said I rather not go into a wind storm. So Jeff made us breakfast and then we headed over to my moms where Delainey and I took a little nap on the couch to recover!

We then headed over to our friends house as they were having a FL/Ga party! I was so happy to see FLORIDA loose!  

Long but fun weekend! I have another short week this week because it is our Fall Festival. Much needed break after Halloween parties today with a 22 eight year olds!

For other exciting news I found out over the weekend one of my close friends, Lauren, is PREGNANT!! Babies are everywhere! We are so excited for them and can't wait to find out the sex of the little bambino so we can spoil another baby since we are still holding out on having our own! 

Haigan's Baptism

We had quite the busy weekend. After Jamie's birthday party on Friday night we were up and early to head to Haigan's baptism. It was such a special day that I was honored to be apart of. I have the sweetest little goddaughter. Here are a few pictures from the special day that Lauren took of us. 

Cute little Bishop Family. 

Dustin is Brandon's younger brother who is the godfather.

Crunch Time!

Well Jeff and I have shook and the bet is officially on. We have two months to see who looses the most weight. We obviously will be doing it by percentage since he is a lot bigger and has a lot more to loose. We are weighing in tomorrow morning to see our start weight and then we are weighing in on December 21st to see who wins. Whoever wins can get whatever they want under a certain amount. He put a limit on the dollars spent because he knew I would say a trip to europe or something ridiculous.

When I lost my weight year or so ago I just was obsessive about it so I suppose I will become obsessive again and work out non stop. I don't know why I fell off the wagon again but 8 pounds or so have slowly crept back on since last year. I'm going with all the traveling and now football season which is eating dips and drinking beer.

Fingers crossed I win as I have already picked out what I want!!  Jeff said I have no chance, but my only hope is that is still is football season and he loves to drink beer with the boys and watch football so his chances of loosing weight while drinking beer is slim to none!!

Let the working out and dieting begin!!