Reasons To *not* blog::

-Pretty Little Liars Season 3 is on Netflix – must. finish. entire. season. in. three. days.
-My cat loves to snuggle
-Vegetables need to be picked – and canned. and water bathed. and put away.
-Laundry needs to be done – I’m one to only do laundry when we’re out of underwear. That would be tonight.
-Meals need to be planned for the next 2 weeks – because I am a super grocery shopper menu planner
-Makeup needs to be played with – bought the newest Covergirl BB Cream. I. Am. Obsessed. I wear it under my foundation and it is like glue.
-Mosquito bites need to be scratched – why can’t I remember to spray some bug repellent before going outside. why??
-And finally… because it has looked so beautiful, such mild weather, no clouds, amazing weather and I cannot sit inside for one. more. minute.

I raised the blinds in my office so I could see the beautiful weather – love the sunshine!

a little drink for me.

oh yes I love some wine. I think my favorite I’ve had so far is from a wine tour husband and I took in the Smoky Mountains. If you visit all three wineries throughout the area, at the end, you receive a signature wine glass. And visit all three we did. We started at winery #1. Tasted 3 or 4 and purchased our favorite one. Left to winery #2, tasted 3 or 4 and bought another bottle or two. And finally rounding it out, we headed to winery #3. At this specific winery the lovely gentleman pouring our tasting glasses happened to normally work in the bottling part of the plant. Today he got to try his hand at pouring. Which led to our “tasting glasses” being 4 or 5oz. each. whoa buddy. by the end of this little outing I happened to be drunk. All by 11:30am. It was fabulous.

All of that leading me to this. I love wine. I even like to put it in food some times. So any good recommendations for a nice bottle of wine? I love a nice sweet moscato but a deep rich red is great too.

truth on a monday.

the truth is::

-I’d love to have one weekend where I didn’t have to work up some vegetables. squash. zucchini. tomatoes. jalapenos. banana peppers. habaneros. green peppers. corn. it never ends. I love gardening but holy vegetables batman! this year’s crop has ben cray. [come this winter when I want a nice hearty vegetable soup, my tummy will me thanking me for all of this summer hard work. I just know it]

-this weekend I drank way too many cups of coffee. way to late at night. which made for a lot of weird dreams.

-we moved our guest bed mattress into the master bedroom and the master bed mattress over to the guest room on saturday. that night’s sleep was amazing! the pillow top was such a dream. like sleeping on clouds. why didn’t we do this sooner?

-I am obsessed. obsessed. with the Wild Fern candle from Hobby Lobby. It is such a clean, refreshing aroma – not fern-like at all. I’ve gone through 5 since January. and the best part is they go 1/2 price every other week. score.

-my cat is the most loving, fluffy, dog-like cat I’ve ever met. he plays fetch. comes when called. and love any attention you want to give him. he is always looking out the window when I pull into the driveway after work and jumps down from his table to greet me at the door. he’s the best.

-I need/want a new couch. ours has been through hell and back. children spilling who knows what on it (not our children, we used to babysit a lot). it has had 2 different support beams on the bottom collapse, which led us to ripping the cloth off and nailing the boards back in. the cushions you sit on are flat and we didn’t know how to buy a good piece of furniture when we bought our couch (the very first piece of furniture we ever bought). it’s all wrong.

-on saturday night, husband and I started to head out to dinner – I needed to put on my rings. see, I am one of those people who are unnecessarily scared about damaging/losing/messing up my important jewelry [important being: engagement ring, wedding band, and right hand ring he bought me] – so anytime I’m doing yard work, cleaning, cooking, sleeping, showering basically anything around the house I take my rings off and place them in my jewelry box – they weren’t there. they were NO WHERE to be found. I’m telling you I looked in every single place I had ever set my rings – bathroom cabinet while I’m washing my face in the morning, master bedroom where I normally keep my rings, guest room where I keep my clothes and other costume jewelry. I searched through my make-up bag, I dumped out my entire bag of 100+ nail polishes from where I had painted my nails earlier in the day to see if I had dropped them in there. I checked the pizza box that had leftovers in the fridge from Friday night. I thought I had lost my mind. then as I was laying down on my stomach to check under the ottoman, I remembered!!!   the medicine cabinet in the kitchen. earlier in the day husband had said for us to run down to the garden and see what all we had before the rain came in so I placed my rings in there for “safe keeping” and forgot all about it…. where is my mind going??

Now & Then

then - 2006

now-2011

my how time has flown, husband.
and to me, it looks as if we have aged quite a bit. eek.
I wonder what we’ll look like in another 5 years or so.
maybe I’ll finally have a tan?
and why didn’t I fill in my eyebrows in either picture?
are we finally starting to look like adults?
maybe one of these days I’ll stop getting carded?

love you though. always and forever.

what the $&!*#

so when we have a slow day at work, I like to be the “fun boss” (haha) as long as the work is finished, we’re good to go. thursday was one of those days. and thursday, one of my team members opened my eyes to a whole new world of funnies. please enjoy these videos while your party is reached.










and I'm pretty sure the fact that I have those above listed videos do in fact make me a cat lady?

BridgeBox #1

so my very first BridgeBox arrived today is all of it’s glory. and let me tell you it lived up to the hype I made it out to be in my head. love it! I know when I checked my BlogLovin’ feed today and saw Heather’s post showing what would be coming our way I was giddy with excitement. please see the magnificent items that are the BridgeBox. well worth the $10+shipping. well worth it.

high five for friday

this morning I’m linking up over @ lauren elizabeth my newest favorite blog for her weekly High Five For Friday link up!

1-veggies from our garden (one day’s worth!)
2-little boy Max sleeping on momma’s leg
3-youngest nephew Peyton – he really enjoys marshmallows
4-I top knotted it yesterday for work
5-Shoney’s hot fudge cake. oh my.

That’s Important To Me

so I was reading a post from Lia @ Sunkissed & Southern and she had a song posted at the bottom of the post, saying it was her dad’s favorite and we should listen to the words. Well, listen I did. then Googled the lyrics and as I read and listened, I felt those words speak to me. like they were singing what I’ve been feeling for the last month or two but haven’t had the words to say. Please enjoy a few of the lyrics.