• Life

    Wedding::Reception Part 1

    August 25, 2023 - By 

    It’s been awhile since I’ve posted more professional pics from the wedding and there’s still so much to share. We’re into the reception now. Grand entrances Welcome & Toasts while people finished dinner First Dances We danced to Truly Madly Deeply by Savage Garden. Then the party really got started and that band hit the stage. The Bride and Groom wanted pictures with everyone, so they did a fast photo, where the band played 1 song and Drew and Caitlyn ran from table to table and got pictures with each table group. Here’s a few of those pics… From there…

  • Travel

    Desert Trip – Day 4

    August 23, 2023 - By 

    Today I’m sharing about our 1st full day in Vegas. We got up and ended up walking quite a ways to Firefly* on Flamingo for lunch. While we ate lunch, we discussed what show we were going to see that night. Continue reading to find out who we ended up seeing. I got Sangria We had several tapas. This is the Chicken Skewers, which were yummy. We walked back over to the strip and made our way down. Checking out the Flamingo… And the flamingo exhibit. The iconic Caesar’s Palace. Inside the Mirage Outside the Mirage I spy our hotel!…

  • Life

    Week 33:2023

    August 22, 2023 - By 

    Hello! Another week down. Here’s the highlights from week 33 (August 12-20, 2023)! I had someone recently ask about our church search and I’ve been meaning to update yall. So we visited several churches. I think there was only one Methodist church we never went to mainly because we wanted a church that had multiple services (that offers both traditional and contemporary) options as well as Sunday school. We think we have found our new church home. It’s in Opelika, which is the neighboring town; about 15 minutes from our house. Trinity disaffiliated and our now Global Methodist. We have…

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    Week 32:2023

    August 18, 2023 - By 

    Here we are for another weekly post. (August 7th-13th, 2023) I use Walmart pickup. I was so excited to see on the app recently where they give you the option to not have them put everything in bags. So I ended up ordering these and I really like them. So easy to bring inside and unload. The weekend before school started we went and heard the marching band play through all their stand tunes. It always gets us so excited for football. Drew, Caitlyn, and Bigsby came. We also brought Kayleigh. We finally got our hands on some of this…

  • Life

    Week 31::2023

    August 11, 2023 - By 

    Happy Friday! Here’s last week’s highlights (July 31-August 6, 2023)! Monday, Rob and I had lunch with Alex at the Savahn Thai Kitchen. Always enjoy my time with that boy. I have really been struggling with sleeping some nights. Maybe products from TopShelfBc might help. Last Tuesday I ended up having to go into work later because I was just so dead when the alarm went off. I made myself breakfast before heading into work. I’m in a search committee chair for an open position that I supervise in my department. My 1st time chairing a search committee. Last week,…

  • Travel

    Desert Trip – Day 3

    August 8, 2023 - By 

    Today I’m continuing to share about desert trip. If you missed the first few posts, check those out too (Day 0, Day 1, Day 2) And by the way, I have shared many of the latitude and longitude coordinates with links directly to that location on Google maps for anyone curious where each photo was taken. Highlights of this day include: Grand Canyon – Historic Route 66 – Hoover Dam – Vegas! Day 3 we woke up early and got showers and packed. We headed over to the market and grabbed some breakfast. This was the quickest way to sustenance…

  • Travel

    Desert Trip – Day 2

    August 1, 2023 - By 

    Today I’m continuing to share about our Desert trip. If you missed my previous posts about this trip, you can go here>>> Day 0   Day 1 So on Tuesday, we got up, packed, and had breakfast at the hotel. We headed to north towards the Grand Canyon. We stopped at Black Canyon Visitor center, which was a great idea. The retired couple that works there were full of great advice. We also got some maps. The views on the way… Not sure if other people do this, but when we’re in a beautiful spot we’ll sometimes pull over (in a safe…

  • Life

    Week 29-30:2023

    August 1, 2023 - By 

    Here’s a run down of happenings from July 20-30… I got these while in New Jersey at Trader Joe’s. So yummy! I picked one of these up somewhere along our trip and found it to be really good. My new favorite sparkling water for sure! This week back after vacay I really got back to cooking, but then after several nights of cooking I’m back to being burnt out with it. With that being said, when we got back from our trip, Rob was pretty sick. Caitlyn and Drew were so sweet to bring soup over for us that weekend.…

  • Tech & Entertainment

    Watching on YouTube (June & July 23)

    July 28, 2023 - By 

    So last month I decided I would alternate my Watching & Listening posts and YouTube posts each month. So today I’m sharing some of the YouTube highlights from June & July. Hannah’s Happy Home [242K subscribers – 520 videos] – Home – Hannah shares videos all things home; decorating, renovating, organizing, and cleaning. I enjoy watching her clean and organize as it often gives me motivation to get up and do the same! But First, Coffee [1.05M subscribers – 586 videos] – Home – Kallie shares great life hacks, organization, productivity, and motivation, motherhood, simple DIYs, and frugal shopping. Liz…

  • Life

    Monthly Digest – July 2023

    July 27, 2023 - By 

    LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 26 Week 27 Week 28 & 29 We were on our trip. Week 30 is happening now. 🙂 Loving just having down time at home. Work is super stressful right now, so I’m NOT loving that. Happy we had a great trip to New Jersey/New York and the cruise. Excited Meh! I’m honestly not excited about anything about it right now. Reminiscing With us being in NYC part of our trip, I’ve been thinking a lot about our previous trip to NYC in 2019. We also went to New…

  • Life

    Week 27::2023

    July 22, 2023 - By 

    Playing catch up after being gone nearly 2 weeks on vacay and man, does life slap you in the face when coming back to reality. Here’s July 3rd-9th highlights. Tuesday 4th of July Party Thursday Day at Six Flags Got my first tomatoes off the vine finally! Friday Rob and I headed out to the airport to fly to New Jersey, which I’ll write about at some point!

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    4th of July 2023 Party

    July 21, 2023 - By 

    4th of July this year was on a Tuesday and we all had to work on Monday, which was a total bummer. However, we made the best of it. Rob’s Mom and Step Dad threw a big shindig. Rob made Jambalaya over the fire the Drew made. Lots of homemade ice cream Caitlyn’s beautiful dessert creation just like her mom used to make. Gramma and the newest grandchild Drew and his newest cousin Lots of fun on the water slide. Fireworks in the front yard to end the day. More pics from the day here>>>4th of July 2023 How did…

  • Life

    Week 26::2023

    July 7, 2023 - By 

    Last week’s highlights (June 26th-July 2nd, 2023)… It’s been a good week besides it being so dang hot. Monday Back to work. Beautiful day outside… Thursday My department had a little going away party for one of our staff members. Saturday Saturday was Lake Day with friends, so we got up and loaded the car and headed up. We made a stop for lunch at The Burritos Corner Mexican Grill. I got the Bistec a la Mexicana. Yummy! Such a beautiful day. Really hot, which made for a warm lake. Luckily cold pockets in the lake still showed up here…

  • Tech & Entertainment

    Watching & Listening – June 23

    July 3, 2023 - By 

    I think what I’ve decided to do is to alternate YouTube post and Watching & Listening post every month. So since I did a YouTube post in May , its time to do a Watching & Listening post. You can also follow along with what I’m watching on the TV Time app. Jump to: Movies  |  TV Shows  |  Podcasts  |  Music Movies Take Care of Maya (Netflix) Reality (MaxTV)

  • Life

    Monthly Digest – June 2023

    June 30, 2023 - By 

    LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 22 Week 23 Week 24 Week 25 – Texas Trip Loving some new podcasts that I’ll share at some point. Happy to finally have all the details booked for our trip in July. Just finished that last night! It’s been a bit of a struggle. Excited to see tomatoes starting to ripen. Hoping the bugs don’t get to them first! Reminiscing End of June (connected with 4th of July) is often when we take a short and sometimes long family trip. Sometimes we go with extended family. I’m just…

  • Life

    Weekend Highlights

    June 29, 2023 - By 

    I got back from Texas on Wednesday, but has already put in for time off on Thursday and Friday as well. Thursday to recover and Friday to take Rob for another epidural. When I got home I was excited to see Rob had installed our new smart lock and new handle. Here’s the outside…we really need to replace the entire door. I have never been a fan of the red, but I guess haven’t cared that much since I’ve never painted it. And the inside Friday morning, I took Rob to the pain center for another neck epidural. Then, we…

  • Travel

    Week 25::2023 – Texas Trip

    June 28, 2023 - By 

    On Saturday, the 17th I flew to DFW, rented a car, and drove a little over an hour to my sister’s house in Weatherford, TX. My sister was due to have a baby the week of June 16th. However, Baby Lu came a month early, so I had to adjust my plans for a visit. Luckily nothing was set in stone with my trip so I was able to do it over a holiday (Juneteenth) weekend. I’ve taken solo trips to Texas before but this was the first time to rent a car on my own. I will say I…

  • Life

    Week 24::2023

    June 26, 2023 - By 

    I’m a week behind because I was in Texas the beginning of last week. So this is actually the week before last happenings… (June 12-18th, 2023) Monday Saw this in a neighbor’s yard. Tuesday Garden is really growing! Alex and his girlfriend made this lego set he had gotten for Christmas. Wednesday Eye doctor time for Alex. Thursday The side of my left foot hurts after I’ve been standing/walking for really long periods of time. Doc sent me for X-rays of my feet to see what it might be. Such an x-ray may have embraced advancements like an ai radiology…

  • Travel

    Desert Trip – Day 1

    June 20, 2023 - By 

    Today I’m continuing to share about our Desert trip… The next day (Monday) even though it felt like we went to bed at 2 or 3 am because we went from central time to pacific time, we got up at a decent hour. We wanted to start exploring before it got really hot. We had breakfast at the hotel and ventured over to South Mountain Park. We saw this interesting place on the way and stopped, because we were obsessed with cacti! Rob grabbed this cute selfie of us at Scorpion Gulch. We had wanted to explore Mormon Trail. However,…

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    Desert Trip – Day 0

    June 17, 2023 - By 

    Now that I’m done recapping our cruise, I’m going to jump into our most recent big trip. On Easter Sunday, we went to church and then had lunch at our house, before jumping in the car and heading to the airport. Travel days I often label Day “0” in case you’re wondering. Phoenix here we come! We were late taking off because of maintenance issues on the original plane, but the sunset I got to witness made up for it! The plane wasn’t very full, which was nice. Rob and I had a seat between us as the rows sandwiching…