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    Monthly Digest – March 2023

    April 7, 2023 - By 

    LIFE Happenings It’s been a month of catch-up and clean up and trying to get back to normal…if that’s a thing. Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Loving These Trader Joe’s goodies are so good…don’t jive with my healthy eating, but a good little treat here and there. Trader Joe’s Mini Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Trader Joe’s Mini Dark Chocolate Mint Stars Happy The signs of spring and the warmer weather. Excited for our upcoming trip!! Reminiscing Honestly, not thinking back to any particular time right now. Social Rob…

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    Week 13::2023

    April 6, 2023 - By 

    We left that Sunday to go down Florida to help Rob’s family in his grandparents house. With our jobs if the death in the family is so many miles away you get extra days of bereavement leave. We got 5 days off and ended up using all of it. Here’s some highlights from the week. Monday Since we were down in Florida and needed to do something besides go through stuff and pack, we took Monday to drive over to Dunedin for the last spring training game of the year there. Dunedin is our favorite Spring Training town. It was…

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    Week 12::2023

    April 3, 2023 - By 

    Happy Monday yall! Let’s jump straight in for week 12 highlights (March 20-26, 2023). Monday Not sure how many of you know what’s going on with the Methodist church. You may have heard rumblings of different churches ‘disaffiliating’ from the United Methodist church. My church is finally beginning to entertain the idea of allowing discussions and to set out all the facts. We had a meeting to share some facts. Then, we did a survey to get a feel for what people are thinking as far as entering discernment. When I find an article that sums it up in a…

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    Carnival Glory:Day 9 & 10:Key West

    March 23, 2023 - By 

    Key West, oh how, I adore you! Key West was a place my Dad loved and I think that’s why it has a special place in my heart. We’re going to jump into our day in Key West on our back to back cruises on the Carnival Glory. Before getting off the ship, we had breakfast burritos at the Blue Iquauna and then waited for the all clear. Views from the ship Mallory Square is right near the cruise port. This is Key West’s historic Old Town, where you will find the hub of all things touristy, shops, and more.…

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    Week 11::2023

    March 21, 2023 - By 

    Hey yall! How’s everyone today? Here we are for another week of highlights. Finally got some seeds started. These are the new seeds I got for this year. Seeing this cutie every morning never gets old. Wild hair Rob’s grandfather passed away on Thursday at his home in Florida. He was 93. It’s been a long time coming. He was Irish, so in celebration of St. Patty’s day and his life, Rob got some Irish Whiskey. Friday night we had a little of that and just spent time thinking and talking about him. We know he is happy to be…

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    Week 10::2023

    March 13, 2023 - By 

    March 6-12, 2023 Monday Wisteria on my walk – Invasive, but pretty Tuesday Killer sunset on Alex’s 19th birthday Got home from my walk and Alex and Madison were out the house. They warmed up leftovers and hung out until they left for the movies. They saw Knock at the Cabin. Wednesday Wednesday we celebrated Alex’s birthday with dinner at Mikata and presents at home beforehand. He got clothes and lined Crocs. Thursday Gloomy day Proof that pollen is thick! Beautiful blooms in front my house Spring break = kids getting outside. Sidewalk chalk makes me happy. Finally got some…

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    Carnival Glory:Day 7 & 8:New Orleans

    March 12, 2023 - By 

    Now that we’re done with the bulk of the wedding posts, I thought we could jump back into another Cruise post, because yeah, I’m still sharing about this epic trip! One day, I’ll get caught up! If you missed the last cruise post, here it is> Day 6 Cozumel. Day 7 was a day at sea and for most people, they were busy packing their things getting ready to disembark for the final time on that cruise. However, for us since we were doing a back to back cruise we were just finishing the 1st ‘leg’ so we didn’t have…

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    Monthly Digest – February 2023

    March 11, 2023 - By 

    Hello everyone! Hope everyone is having a great day! I’m over here just trying to get my house back to normal and getting caught up on blogging. Hoping one day to get into a good blogging routine. I feel like I’m always saying that. Anyway, here we are for another end of month post. If you want to see last month’s post first, it’s here >>> January LIFE Happenings Such a good month…We can just label February Wedding Month! So many nitty-gritty details. Schedules. Instructions. Since Rob and I were basically the wedding planners, making sure that all of the…

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    Week 9::2023

    March 10, 2023 - By 

    Still playing catch up, because all those wedding posts took awhile! The week after the wedding (Feb. 27-March 5, 2023) was still a pretty busy week. I was so tired of my living room still looking like this: Monday I spent a good part of the day going through all the boxes and reorganizing everything. Most stuff just got thrown in boxes with no rhyme or reason. I also started washing the table clothes. Mid morning, I got a text from Rob’s mom that they were in town and wanted to stop by. So when they got to the house,…

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    Week 8::2023 – Wedding Week

    March 8, 2023 - By 

    Wedding Week!!! February 20-26, 2023 Wedding week was busy, of course. I didn’t really take pictures early in the week. However, I did share old pics of Drew on FB. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday – Read about here. Thursday – Read about here. Friday – Read about here. Saturday – Wedding Day! Pre-Wedding Wedding No rest for the weary. After the reception at the banquet room was over, we had to get everything wedding out of that room and ready for a Men’s breakfast that was taking place at 7am on Sunday. So thankful for many of our friends and…

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    Wedding

    March 7, 2023 - By 

    This post will cover the wedding ceremony, social hour, and reception. In case you missed what happened the rest of the day you can read about that here>>>Pre-Wedding Day Wedding Ceremony The ceremony was just so special. I always find it so bizarre how wedding ceremonies are often like 5 or 10 minutes. There’s was about 40 minutes. He later told me he was getting emotional with the bridal party walking down the aisle and “Marry Me” (by Train) being played by the string quartet. Sweetest moment – Drew and Caitlyn did not see each other before the wedding, so…

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    Pre-Wedding Day

    March 6, 2023 - By 

    As I worked on this wedding day post, I realized it was going to be really long with tons of pics from my and other’s cellphones. I have since divided it into 2 different posts to keep it a little shorter. I posted this pic on FB really early on Saturday morning. I had actually woke up at 3am and ended up getting up at 3:30. I just kept thinking about all I had to do and just decided to go ahead and get up to glue twine on the back of the pew flowers. I didn’t realize we had…

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    Friday – Wedding Week

    March 3, 2023 - By 

    Friday was wedding eve!! Still so much to do, but Rob and I were ready to hit the ground running. We went over to Walmart to get labels for the water bottles for social hour. I had taken all the plastic labels off, because they are just an eye sore and I had planned to have the bottles on the tables. We realized there was a little bit of the sticky stuff on the bottles and we knew we needed to cover that. We printed the wedding logo on the labels and had my mother-in-law stick the labels on. We…

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    Thursday – Wedding Week

    March 2, 2023 - By 

    Thursday, Rob and I got up and put the table seating sign together. We had it designed where the tables could be updated and switched out, because you know there is always people can’t come at the last minute. However, by Thursday there wasn’t going to be time to update and reprint the table sheets. It was going to be that way even if more people couldn’t come. After that on our schedule was to go get the tea and put it in the fridge at the church. We ended up at Kroger. From there, it was time to deliver…

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    Wednesday – Wedding Week

    March 1, 2023 - By 

    I’m doing a day by day recap for part of Wedding Week. So here we go… Wednesday, I only worked for a couple hours. I was feeling overwhelmed at all I had left to do before Thursday, which was the day we were set to start decorating the reception hall. Alex came over that afternoon to meet up with one of the grooms men’s mom who was dropping stuff off for the lake house, which is where Drew, and Alex and several of the grooms men were going that night for the bachelor party Wednesday and Thursday. We also cleared…

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    Week 7::2023

    February 20, 2023 - By 

    Feb. 13-19, 2023 happenings!! Monday Chili morning and cool milage number I landed on. Rob and I were frantically trying to get people to RSVP for the wedding so we could place the order for food for the reception. Tuesday Lunch at Moe’s BBQ I think I’ve said this recently, but the sunset skies have been spectacular lately. Wednesday I went to bed Tuesday night feeling like I was getting sick, so when I woke up Wednesday morning with a terrible sore throat and a pounding headache I knew I was in for a rough couple days. However, with wedding…

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    Week 6::2023

    February 13, 2023 - By 

    Here’s my (Feb. 6-12, 2023) highlights. Tuesday Tuesday during lunch, I had to run across campus for the Auburn ‘made’ honey for the welcome gift bags for hotel guest. Thursday Thursday morning we woke up to a weird color in the sky that casted down on everything. I tried to get a picture of it. You can kind of see there’s a oranginess to everything. It’s that weirdness you see sometimes before a storm rolls through. I’ve been feeling super lethargic and just more tired than usual. I’ve also felt like my blood pressure has been running high, but its…

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    Week 5::2023

    February 6, 2023 - By 

    Wowzas, yall! Another week down. Here’s my (Jan. 31-Feb. 5, 2023) highlights… Monday I came home from work to find a bunch of packages. My neighbor across the street was like you must be Amazon’s favorite customer. I was like, well we got a wedding coming up so that’s what all this is for. Katniss hasn’t laid on my bed in awhile, but she made her way back to her spot early this week. Wednesday Alex and Madison came to hang out before they went to the basketball game. Thursday Alex and Madison came over to hang out with me.…

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    Monthly Digest – January 2023

    February 2, 2023 - By 

    Here we are for another end of month summary. LIFE Happenings It’s been a pretty good month. Since I’m doing my Weekly highlight posts again you can see all the happenings here: Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Loving I have used the Collect Photo Journal Diary App keep a photo from each day to make a calendar like this at the end of each month. Happy I got to hang out with Buster right after the new year. But sad too, because Caitlyn and Drew made the difficult decision to put her 16 old dog Buster to…