MIAMI....KEY WESY....COZMEL

Chad and I are so excited for our trip tomorrow! We are flying out very early tomorrow morning to Miami. We are going to hang around for a little bit in Miami then board the boat! Our first day is in Key West. We have planned to do a sunrise 28 mile jetski ride! We are so excited and have a water camera to take pictures! We plan to eat and just walk around and explore! We then go to Cozmel to spend the day. We do not have anything planned. Skorkling is supposed to be amazing in Cozmel, so we plan to do that! Anything else is up for grabs! Then we have a day at sea and then home! We are very excited! Can't wait to share pictures!

Relaxing Weekend/ Father's Day!

Another weekend has come and gone...yet again. However, this weekend was especially good then most of my weekends. Chad and I got to finally go home after a couple of months and spend time with our families. I love that God has blessed me with TWO amazing families that I get to share life with! Friday night was full of family, food, and fun. Diana and Allen had my parents and brother over for a nice evening of celebrating our daddys for a wonderful meal! It is always so amazing to have both families together chatting and spending time together! Not everyone can say that you know! ;) Saturday was full of walking in downtown Thomasville, going in and out of shops, seeing friends, and of course eating lunch at Jonah's! Our meal was fantastic as usual! I suggest the blackened grouper sandwich with a side caesar salad! The caesar salad can be a little anchovy, but is to die for as well as the sandwich with the amazing signature Jonah's sauce. Oh, don't forget the hushpuppies. Basically the best part..can I get an AMEN? Chad and I then parted ways. Chad went to get a china cabinet from his grandmother's house that we were bringing back home with us. It is a very pretty piece and perfect for what we needed! I am going to strip it, repaint it, and make it a little more our style...pictures to come in a few weeks of my project! We finally met back at my house to get ready to go to Amy and Tyler's wedding. Amy and Tyler are friends of ours who grew up in Thomasville and went to UGA with us. Their wedding was great and wish them all the very best as they embark on their journey of marriage together! Lastly, Sunday was full of hugs, kisses, and Happy Father's Day...and Barbs! It was so great getting to hang out with my family all morning and then Chad's family that afternoon. Of course, saying good bye is always the worst to me. I cannot stand leaving the places and people I love most. While in the car this afternoon after a couple of hours of driving...my mind started to wander about the amazing things in my life that God has given me. It occurred to me while watching the sun stream through a dark rain cloud that I had not even wished the Father of all Fathers a very Happy Father's Day. I love those humbling moments of reflecting on the earthly pleasures that I have and being reminded by my Heavenly Father that He made all that possible for me! Hope everyone had as great of a weekend as I did and that you wished your Heavenly Father and earthly father a very Happy Fathers Day!

My 1st Influenster VoxBox!!!

Hello All! Hope everyone has had a great day! I am off of babysitting this week, so I have the whole week to sleep in, run errands, go to appointments, cook, shop, pin, workout, and blog of course! Wow!! That was quite a list! I did not do half of the things that I wanted to do today because I was being lazy and a mishap at the dentist office landed me at home having a low key day! My day quickly got very exciting when I realized that the BIG mailbox key was in my mailbox! That could only mean ONE thing!!!!! My VoxBox was finally here! Let me explain what a VoxBox is. I am a member of a website called Influenster. This website allows for people to create a profile and review different items that they use daily or have used. You can get "badges" to unlock based on your interests! It is a really cool website that Ginger Collins got me addicted to! Anyway....when creating your profile you list your interest! Then Influenster sends you VoxBox complimentary from other companies to test. My 1st box had Victoria Secret's new sports bra, socks, a measuring tape, and coupons #VSSportTester! It was absolutely amazing! I cannot wait to wear my new items tomorrow to my personal assessment at my gym tomorrow morning! :) Hope everyone had a nice relaxing Monday!!

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Back at it!

So after 3 years...I decided to dust off the blog, revamp it, and start to post again! There have been so many things in my life that has changed! It is time to start blogging to remember what all I am doing and the excitement that is coming along with it! With that being said....I need a new blog title for this new life I am living. I am no longer in college! I am now on to new adventures like my first year of marriage, a new job, and a new city! Comment below with new clever titles for my blog! :) It is good to be back!

almost christmas......

Well, I'm glad that I could wait another full month and however many days to blog again. It feels so good to be done with school. I got home on Tuesday and got my wisdom teeth out Wednesday morning. I have been sitting in a lounge chair in the middle of my living room for the past 5 days. I am starving and tired of my mouth hurting. haha....That is about the story of my life thus far. Chad went to New York with his family to see Megan in one of her shows. They are on the way back today. I believe they had an awesome time. Better time then i've had i'm sure! :) Our grades are good so far. We have not gotten all of them back...I have two A's right now. That is all the grades i've gotten back so far. I am very pleased with that so far! Anyway, Christmas is right around the corner. I cannot believe it. This semester has flown by. I have been so blessed as I look back over this semester. I have gotten to do so much and been rewarded by so much. I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!

New York!

Hey Yall! Its been awhile since I have blogged. I have been putting more into my work then blogging this semester I guess! ;) Anyway, most of you know that Chad and I went to New York for our fall break weekend. A lot of people wanted to know how it was and so forth so here is the run down of the trip for you. We left on Thursday after we got out of class. We flew stand by on a college program called AirtranU. We got on the very first flight that went out as soon as we got there and we got FIRST CLASS. I never want to have to sit in the regular class again! We left the airport about 8:00. The flight was originally delayed because of weather. That worked out in our favor I guess. We got to New York about 11:30ish. We took a taxi to our friend Mason's apartment who lives in the city. We went immediately to his apartment and watched the end of the World Series, which lasted until about 12:30 might I add. So Chad and I went to bed about 1ish and then we got up at 3 that same morning. Yeah, it was crazy and we were tired. But we left Mason's apartment about 3;]:30 and headed to Regis and Kelly. We were the first people in the stand by line. We waited from about 4 a.m to 8:30 when they finally allowed us to go into the studio. We got to watch Regis walk across the street to the studio, and then watch the show. Highlight of my trip I might add. After the show was over we walked through central park, Time Square, and down Broadway. We then ate at this Hamburger shake place that was pretty good. Then we met up with Chad's sister for a few hours. That consisted of sitting in Starbucks out of the freezing cold weather. After we left Megan, Chad and I went to the 9-11 memorial. We did not actually get to see it because we did not have tickets, but it was cool just to be in the area and see it through the fence they had up. Since we were in that part of town, we went to Mason's work to get his apartment keys. Now it is about 8 p.m. Chad and I are about to fall over on the street and go to sleep. We got the keys and got a mini tour of Goldman Sacs. We went back to Mason's apartment and rested until he got home. Then we went to eat at this little hole in the wall Italian place. It was pretty good. Then we went home and slept! woo! Day 2: We slept in late and woke up to snow, rain, and wind. We decided to brave the weather and go out to a pretty famous bakery called Amy's Bread. It was SO GOOD! We walked about the city for as long as we could stand it and then eventually ended up at a Georgia bar to watch the UGA game. It was a cool experience because everyone in the bar was an UGA alum, so the place was packed and all cheering for the same team we were. After the game was over, Chad and I went back to Mason's apartment to change out of our wet clothes. Me more then him because I forgot my rain jacket. We then ate dinner at this restaurant called Becco. It was amazing! We ordered this special that they had. You got a salad and then 3 of their pastas of the day which was penne shrimp in a vodka sauce, pumpkin ravioli, and a pesto green bean pasta. They were so AMAZING! Best meal we ate! Then we got the dessert sampler with all kinds of cheesecakes and cakes. It was so great! Then we went home and slept after that! Day 3: We got up and went down to Kliendfields (the Say Yes to the Dress Wedding show). Second best thing that happened to me on the trip. Chad was not really thrilled about this part but i love it! Then we went and ate brunch/lunch at a place called the Dish. It was really good too. We had like a breakfast platter thing. Then we went back to the airport where the drama began. We couldn't get a flight back to Atlanta flying standby because so many flights had gotten cancelled the day before. After throwing a complete crying fit, we settled on buying plane tickets home. Its still a touchy subject for me to talk about because Chad is stubborn. What else is new? Anyway, that was the extent of our trip. It was amazing! I want to go back to badly already! So if you want to contribute to the Megan going back to New York Fund just e-mail me. We can work something out! :) Here are some pictures! Love you guys!

First Class BABY!

Freezing and waiting on Regis and kelly! Woo Hoo 4 a.m!

Regis and Kelly!!!

Central Park!

WOW!

I cannot even believe it has been a month since I last blogged. This is terrible yall. Hahaha....This semester has been unbelievably busy. I told myself coming into this semester that I was not going to stress over school. I was just going to enjoy every minute of it and do whatever I wanted anytime I wanted to so that I didn't miss out on anything in my college years. So far, I have held true to those standards. That is why I have not been blogging because I have been so busy! Ok, so let me recap literally a month for you. We had big/little reveal in my sorrity. I got the best little ever and I'm so happy to have her in my "family," since there were only two of us. Here are some pictures from that.....

It was a lot of fun. We made them go on a scavenger hunt. At every clue there was a clue and a piece of their costume. Nicolle and I were Oreos and milk. It was a fun time.


Then we had Scarlett Ball. Its basically like a homecoming in high school. All of the new girls get to walk down the steps of the house with their date and get their named called out in front of everyone. This happened the day they got initiated into the sorority. Here are some fantastic pictures from that night!

Ok...next was the craziest weekend of my life, which was two weekends ago. Chad and I crammed in babysitting,UGA football game, sky diving, taylor swift, and studying for mid terms all in one weekend. We were exhausted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this was Chad's small plane. They were leaving to go to the sky!!!

These two pictures are of Chad actually in the sky. As if you couldn't tell that by looking at the picture.

You should ask Chad about his sky diving experience. They actually crashed when they hit the ground. I didn't post pictures of that, but you should ask him about it. This is him walking towards where I was all scraped up. He walked with hobble all night.

We were 15 rows back in a packed out crowd. The concert was amazing! Chad and I were super surprised. She put on a great show and sounded pretty good as well!

Now we are on to this past week. I found out monday morning of last week that I GOT INTO MY PROGRAM!!!!! I am officially an Early Childhood Education major and will graduate in 4 semesters. I was so excited and so proud. I have worked so hard for great grades. I basically worked all summer on getting all that mess together! I was super excited about it though. Chad and I have had midterms for the past two week. I had 3 last week and 3 this week. Chad had a couple last week and 3 this week. We have been super busy with school stuff and trying to keep up. We went home this past weekend because one of my friends got married! It was such a beautiful wedding. I enjoyed seeing some of my friends that I have not seen in a while. This week is my birthday week. My friends are so awesome. They decorated my room! Here are some pictures.

My wonderful roommate Janette is doing a clue a day attached to a gift. I have to find the clues that are super tough :) and then wait the next day for the next one! She is so great! As are all of my friends!!!!

I hope everyone enjoys this SUPER LONG post. Sorry it has been so long. Hopefully I can do better! Love you guys!!!!