Hello there my wonderful readers! Welcome to another weekend and the end of the Summer. Although its sad to see the Summer go by so quickly I'm very much looking forward to the Fall time. There's so many things I want to do in the Fall that I already have a little list made up. Anyways this was a great week for me. Yesterday was my birthday. I had a wonderful day. So many people made it so special for me. I'm very lucky to have such great family and friends:) let's start with last Saturday. Last Saturday night Kevin and I went over Robin and Shawn's place for a bonfire. We ate yummy cookies that Robin made and drank a little. It was a lot of fun. I ended up drinking too much Jack and coke and passed out as soon as I got home. I am not a drinker. On Sunday Kevin and I just hung out at the mall, and shopped around. I got a beauiful new dress for my birthday. We ended up at Barnes and Noble getting strawberry/banana smoothies before we left. Yummy.:) On Wednesday after work my dad came over and took me out to dinner for an early birthday thing. We went to Red Robin. It was really nice to see my dad and to catch up with him. Thursday after work I treated myself to a mani. I couldn't decide what color I wanted to I just went with white because I matched the dress I was going to wear. Friday aka my birthday started out great and ended great. Every year my mom and I spend the day together doing girlie girl things. We started doing this when I was 16 because she asked me if I wanted a sweet 16 party. I didn't want a party but I did want to do something special. She came up with this great idea and we've been doing it every year since. Our day starts off at the spa where we get massages and facials. We went to the Hand and Stone spa. After the spa we go out for lunch at our favorite tea room The Talking Tea Cup. Where we get the high tea. The high tea comes with a pot of tea your choice. I usually go with the earl grey or apricot because they're my favorites but they have a huge list to choose from. Next you get two different scones this time we got honey/vanilla and oatmeal/raisin. Then you get either a cup of soup or a small salad. We went with the salad because its too hot for soup. Soup to me is something you eat when it's cold outside. Then you get little tea sandwiches. Which are so good.:) that's my favorite part. And last but not least you can a little dessert. If you've never been to a tea room you should really check it out. It's a lot of fun. After the tea room we look around in this huge antique shop that's right next door. I don't usually buy anything but its fun to look at all the old fasion things that they have there. Later at night my friends Robin and Carly took me out to dinner. They got me wonderful presents and an icecream cake. The cake said: "Happy birthday to our moon and clouds." An inside joke haha! I had a great day and my birthday celebration isn't over yet because tonight Kevin is taking me out to celebrate yay!!:) so excited! Have a great weekend everyone!:)
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Hello there my awesome readers and welcome to yet another Friday favorites. In has officially been a year since I started doing this. I was looking back on my older posts and thinking about how cool it is to have a recap of everything that's happened to me in the last year. A lot of you don't know this but I used to keep diaries when I was younger. I used to write in them everyday. I wrote about everything. I thought I would keep them forever. When I was moving out last year I found them all in a box that I had put away in my closet. There was 17 of them all together. I read through some of them just to see what they said. It had been so long and I had forgotten what I had written about. I started writing them in high school like 9th grade and I stopped when I was 24. Those were really hard years for me. A lot of crappy things happened to me and a lot of crappy people happened to me and when I read them over all I saw was negativity and a lot of pain and sadness. I was at the point where I was in a better place, I was happier, I was excited about moving out with my boyfriend and I was done with the past. I was done with the depression that I was stuck in for years and these books were just bringing back all the bad times and all the bad feelings that I felt at the time. Ironically "The Butterfly Effect" just so happened to be playing on TV that day. I watched it and at the end he burns all his journals and his friend asks him "are you sure you want to do this?" And he says "I know who I am. I don't need a bunch of stuff to remind me." And that's when I knew the diaries had to go. So I burnt them all in the fire pit. And I told myself if I ever wrote anything again it would only be positive and uplifting. If you want to live a happy life you can't be negative you have to focus on the good things. That's why I started Friday favorites because I wanted to write something positive. I'm very proud of myself that I've written this as long as I have been. I hope you guys enjoy my posts and take my advice. Life is too short to be so unhappy for so long make sure everything you do and everything you say and everything you write is positive. When you think positive good things will happen to you I promise you they will. I didn't just get rid of my diaries that day, I got rid of bad feelings, I got rid of bad experiences, and I got rid of the past which I had been holding onto for a long time. Anyways lets talk about the week.:) Last Saturday Kevin took me to NewHope to celebrate 2 years since we met and had our first date. It was fun walking around and going into all the little shops. We ate at Marsha Browns where I got this yummy burger with hot sauce and crispy onions. Then we walked down by the river.:) On Tuesday night I made this really easy, really yummy meatloaf that turned out really good. If you want to recipe I will put it on my recipe page. On Wednesday night Kevin and I were just goofing around and taking pictures. I love him so much! I couldn't imagine my life without him in it.:)❤ I found this picture on Facebook and I had to share it. He was my favorite character on Game Of Thrones:) Yesterday morning I stopped over my moms before work and she made me a yummy breakfast of waffles, bananas, blueberries, and strawberries.😋 That's all for this week. Have a great weekend everyone!!!:) Hey there my awesome readers!!! Welcome to another Friday night! I had a great week. I'm super excited about my birthday coming up in a couple of weeks. I'm excited about the Fall coming soon too. Fall is my favorite time of the year. I love the weather, I love having all the holidays to look forward to, I love doing Fall things like going to the farm, watching scary movies, going on a hayride, and of course having another Halloween party. Well the Summer is not over yet so lets get to what happened last week.:) On Saturday Kevin and I went to my friend Sarah's wedding. It was a lot of fun. I just want to say congratulations again to Sarah and her husband Matt on their marriage. We danced, ate cake and I even won the flower center piece.:) On Sunday I made homemade sugar cookies using my new cookie cutters set. I was surprised by how good they turned out.:) Kevin and I got yummy frozen yogurt. I think I get frozen yogurt more than anyone else I know. lol! It's my obsession of the Summer. I tried this new bacon wrapped chicken recipes on Wednesday night. I took the day off today and my mom and I tried out a new tea room called paint the roses. It was very nice. I love the tea sandwiches the most.:) Have a great weekend everyone! See you next week.:) Hello there my wonderful readers! Welcome to another weekend. Summer is going by super fast which I'm ok with because my birthday is coming up very soon, and I'm really looking forward to Fall. It's so funny. When it was winter all I wanted was for it to be warm and sunny and now that its summer time all I want is for it to be winter again with snow, and Christmas time. lol. It's funny how fast the years go by when you're older. When I was little I used to think a year was a very long time, now it seems like nothing. Anyways enough about that lets take a look at the pictures I took.:) First of all I just want to say Congrats to Camila Guerra! Camila is the winner of my Friday favorites giveaway. I announced the winner last Saturday on Instagram. Last Saturday was also my mothers birthday so we took her out for a nice breakfast at Cracker Barrel. I got this really yummy yogurt parfait with an apple muffin and eggs. Afterwards my mom, sister, niece, nephew and I all went to the baby shower of my old childhood friend Jess. She's having a little boy. Her family did a great job with the shower. It was very nice and creative. All the guests put their thumbprint on the thumbprint tree. These are becoming very popular. I see them more and more. They also had a baby food taste test. I couldn't believe I didn't win. I mean I use baby food at my job all the time. lol I'm so competitive. This picture is so Summer time to me:) green grass, flip flops etc. Me and my mom went out to dinner at a Chinese place. I got the bento box with veggie tempura. Yum.:) Have a great weekend everyone!!!:) Hello there my awesome readers! Welcome to another fun filled weekend. Even though its supposed to rain you can still have fun.:) this week went by so fast. I had a ton of fun so lets start with the first picture. Saturday morning I stopped at Barnes and noble to look for book when this caught my eye. I love Nutella and I almost bought this book. Later on Kevin and I went out to dinner with our friends Carley and Ben. We went to Fridays and all shared a bunch of appetizers. Later that night Kevin, Carley, Ben, Robin, Shawn and I all had a game night. We ate snacks drank and played cranium and quelf. It was a lot of fun.:) On Sunday Kevin and I met up with my dad and brother and went trap shooting. It was fun even though I hurt my shoulder. I shot two traps which was really exciting! On Wednesday I got my amazon package in the mail. I ordered 101 cookie cutters because I realized I didn't have any cookie cutters. Last night Kevin and I went out for dinner. We went to Denny's and I got this yummy chicken salad sandwich. That's all for now. Have a great weekend everyone!!!!:) xoxo |
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