• Travel

    St. Louis Trip::Day 1

    August 21, 2022 - By 

    Rob had a conference he was presenting at, as well as attending in St. Louis back in April. I’ve never been, so I decided to tag along to take full advantage of the paid for hotel room. He had to be there Sunday evening for a meet and greet and since Alex had prom the Saturday before we ended up flying out Sunday morning. We got there in the afternoon, Ubered to the hotel, checked in, and then explored a little bit of the area by foot before he had to go to the meet and greet. Citygarden Sculpture Park…

  • Life

    Monthly Digest – April 2022

    May 8, 2022 - By 

    Traveling at the end of the month really messes me up when it comes to blogging! Here we are for another Monthly Digest! LIFE Happenings Why is that at the end of every month I can’t remember all that went on!?!?! That’s the exact reason I write these posts. Haha! -Saw Toto & Journey in concert in New Orleans -Bridal shower for our friend’s finance -Easter -Watched my nephew play LaX Loving when we get to eat lunch with Drew. Happy for safe and fun travels we had in April. Excited for a crazy busy month. Dreading change. I’ll just…

  • Tech & Entertainment

    Watching & Listening – April 2022

    May 6, 2022 - By 

    In April, we kind of just held steady with all the same shows. We are trying to catch up on our DVR from being gone 2+ weeks in March and April. Here is my previous posts to show what we’re catching up on… January 2022 – February 2022 – March 2022 I have started watching some new YouTube channels, but I’ll share those in a YouTube post at some point. In case you missed my Spring YouTube watching post. Music In April I listed to a lot more of Journey. I already listen to them quite a bit on the…

  • Photography

    iSpy #69

    May 2, 2022 - By 

    Hey iSpyers! I have been out of town this last week and I had hoped to be have time today to start looking through my photos to post, but I am slammed. I figured I’d go ahead and get this posted even without pics. I will come back at come point this week and post my pics. Hope everyone is doing well! On Your Plate – quarterly Kansas City BBQ Outside Walking around the Gateway Arch outside is such a beautiful place. Starts with T T is for Trunk. Artwork made from tree stumps/trunks. Where You Are Now? If you’ve…

  • Photography

    iSpy #68

    April 25, 2022 - By 

    along the way Had no idea what to do for this one. I had thought about snapping a shot as we drove to or from Louisiana last weekend, but I’m not sure I took any or at least can’t find them right now. Here’s a pic of some interesting hot sauce I found as we shopped along the way to find some crawfish… black and white Missy is black and white. overdue This one was hard, but we finally were able to visit family in Baton Rouge, so I would say that getting these 2nd cousins together was overdue! branched…

  • Photography

    iSpy #67

    April 18, 2022 - By 

    WorkSpace – quarterly Out of the blue I’ll write more about this past weekend (hence the reason this post is late getting up.) We were in New Orleans Friday and we spent the afternoon walking around. This baby goat just appeared out of the blue. He was so cute. Starts with B B is for Band…Journey to be exact. The reason we were in New Orleans on Friday. Apple Your Choice Don’t know why but I love this shot I snapped while walking around New Orleans. Just a windowscape showing off all the local stuff. You are invited to the…

  • Life

    Currently::April 2022

    April 7, 2022 - By 

    /getting/ Finally, getting my house back in order after being on vacation. So much to deal with after having to buy 8 days worth of clothes and we ended up not using everything we bought, so I’ve got to return a bunch of stuff to Walmart. Unpacking bags that never got opened during vacation…Read about that here. /going/ Hmmm…I guess this weekend I’ll be going to an AU baseball game (nothing new there) and a bridal shower/lunch for Drew’s best friend’s fiance. /planning/ We just booked another cruise for July. The deals for Carnival VIFP (Very Important Fun Person) members…

  • Photography

    iSpy #65

    April 2, 2022 - By 

    This week’s pics are actually from our trip that we got home from on Monday. It is so hard to come back from being gone 10 days, so I’m struggling to get unpacked and everything. trees Palm trees in Aruba scenery outfit – quarterly This is a new dress (in the suitcase that my in-laws brought) that I wore for one of the formal nights on the cruise. My dress shoes I had planned to wear for this night were in the lost suitcase, so I settled for these shoes that were in my carry on. Starts with D D…

  • Life

    Sentence a Day – April 2021

    May 4, 2021 - By 

    1 / Thursday – Started trying to clean up garden area on the deck. Need to get pots ready to plant stuff in and have the place looking better for company on Easter. 2 / Friday – Rob in pieces about MLB moving the All-Star game out of Atlanta for political reasons. He had purchased A-list member tickets in hopes of getting to purchase All-Star event tickets. He’s absolutely heart broken that it won’t be in Atlanta. 3 / Saturday – Prepped Easter meal. Rob still emotional about the MLB Atlanta All Star situation. We went to nephew’s LaX game…

  • Life

    Week 17 [2021]

    May 3, 2021 - By 

    Week 17 was April 26-May 2, 2021, which happened to be my week in the office. Getting home every afternoon, I collapsed in exhaustion at least for a bit. Then it’s up to cook dinner or do work in the garden. I still have so much to do in the garden. I’m actually way behind on planting, but I just haven’t wanted to fight the mosquitoes and really don’t have the energy. Anyway, on Thursday night, we went to the Korean BBQ place to celebrates Rob’s brother’s birthday. Unfortunately the restaurant was not a great experience. On another note, I…

  • Life

    Memories of the Month {4.2021}

    April 30, 2021 - By 

    I’m on the blogging struggle bus, but I’m working hard to try and stay on top of things or at least get posts out as I can. This month I was happy about: getting to go to church in person and life being a little more ‘normal.’ This month I was sad about: my hip pain (sciatica) coming back. Here’s my rating system for entertainment: ♥ ♥ = Love it! A must read/see! ♥ = Really good! Highly recommend. ✓ ✓ = Good, not great ✓ = Not much to talk about X = Awful. Total waste of time Movies…

  • Life

    What’s Up Wednesday ~ April 2021

    April 29, 2021 - By 

    I’m late getting this post up, but here it is. I’m linking up with Shay and Sheaffer for What’s Up Wednesday. What We’re Eating nothing exciting really. Still haven’t felt motivated to cook or menu plan. I need to start menu planning again. What I’m Reminiscing About 10 years ago around this time that we traveled to Tennessee. What I’m Loving Spindrift Sparkling Waters – I’ve tried this flavor, Orange Mango, and Blackberry. Orange Mango is not my favorite, but I loved the Blackberry. I’m really anxious to try more flavors. What We’ve Been Up To Last night we celebrated…

  • Photography

    iSpy #16

    April 24, 2021 - By 

    Kitchen Sink Flower Flowering Kale Up Looking up toward sky next to a Kohlrabi plant that is going to flower soon. Mixed a mixed box of tomato plants that need to be planted your choice I didn’t have anything really exciting to choose from, but a cute dog pic is always good. This week I continued to use my new iPhone 12 Pro. You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter I’d love you to join along with us next week! Challenge yourself this week to step out of your comfort zone. Get low, go high,…

  • Life

    Week 15 [2021]

    April 19, 2021 - By 

    Week 15 was April 12-18, 2021. I’m enjoying every day that I can while still working from home as I suspect that will be changing soon. Here’s some highlights of the week. Tuesday I brought Rob lunch at work and we sat outside near the pond behind his office. After work, I went outside to check on my newly transplanted tomato plants only to find that Kayleigh had dug some of them up and made a huge mess. Needless to say I was not happy. Wednesday Buster came to visit for the morning. He enjoyed laying on my warm heating…

  • Photography

    iSpy #15

    April 17, 2021 - By 

    This week it was a struggle to get the pics to for this post. It took everything in me and if it wasn’t a link up I wouldn’t have gotten it done. I did absolutely love this gorgeous shot! turquoise (my favorite color) – a small collection of my turquoise/teal colored items. I actually have a lot more because it is my favorite color. pill(s) Yeah, I take lots of vitamins and a few pills. dots or stripes rainbow dots starts with A Asparagus your choice Scary caterpillar This week I used my new iPhone 12 Pro. You are invited…

  • Life

    Week 14 [2021]

    April 12, 2021 - By 

    Here’s a quick drop of a few photos from this last week. Kayleigh’s eyes looked different when she was taking a nap. On Saturday, we went to watch some of Rob’s D-group guys play lacross. It was an exciting game against Homewood and Auburn won! It was such a beautiful day. After the game, Rob and I went to El Patron for a late lunch. I had a yummy margarita and the Burrito Blanco with steak. Sunday Rob cooked pork chop surprises out on the grill. We also tried Asparagus on the grill. I wrapped in foil with soy sauce.…

  • Life

    iSpy #14

    April 10, 2021 - By 

    Welcome back to another week of iSpy! I heard from some of you that some of these prompts seemed kind of difficult. If you participated did they end up being as hard as you thought? I found a couple of them to be a little challenging, but that’s what makes me think more about those. Honestly, when I look through my list of prompts, I don’t usually have something preconceived in my head for what I want to do. In fact, I try really not to think about what I would do as I’m making the list. Anyway, let’s get…

  • Life

    Currently – April 2021

    April 7, 2021 - By 

    /arranging/ We are still working on re-arranging some stuff in our closet. I mentioned before that when we got new carpet upstairs it forced us to remove and pack up everything in the 3 bedrooms upstairs. This helped us to get a fresh start. We have an extra closet in the master that will become an extra closet for me. Rob has added storage in his office’s closet, where a lot that stuff will go. Once all that is done, I’ll finally show pictures of the new carpet upstairs. /craving/ Hmmm…I’m really not craving much of anything. I told Rob…

  • Life

    Week 13 [2021]

    April 6, 2021 - By 

    Here’s this last weeks summary in pics. Week 13 is March 29-April 4, 2021. I was looking at my seedlings and saw this little curly Q and just couldn’t help but take a picture of it. Nature is amazing! And Kayleigh just has the funniest expressions. She tilts her head sometimes when she’s listening intently. Cracks me up. Pumpkin flower Messy work hair Date night at Hamilton’s Downtown. Here’s dessert – Irish Cream Crème Brûlée. We also had the Fried Green Tomatoes and Shrimp, which we have loved in the past. Wasn’t great this time. Don’t need to get it…

  • Life

    Easter 2021

    April 5, 2021 - By 

    This Easter was quite a bit more ‘normal’ than 2020! Hallelujah! Rob got up early to be at church by 6:30. Our church is one of the only churches that I know of still requiring you to sign up online. Of course, Easter is a very popular church going day, so all 3 in person services filled up quickly. Our church added a 7am service and that is why he needed to be there early. Not sure if I’ve ever mentioned it here, but he is a volunteer for the Media Team. He is in charge of song lyrics and…