What I'm Loving Wednesday!

 

 

I cant believe it is already Wednesday!  

I'm Loving...that I get to see my little Girl Scouts this afternoon.  Every Wednesday I get to work with my outreach troop (I usually only get to work with the adults...so this is a rare treat!) at a local Elementary School.  This week I have the K5-2nd graders and there are 28 of them! We are going to work on teamwork games and they will be learning what their personal skills are. :)

 

I'm loving... that my Tigers finally won their first tournament game since 1997 (really didn't know it has been that long...glad that streak is over).  We were one of the "lucky" teams that had to play in the first four games of the NCAA tournament to be able to play in the bracket.  We won big last night and now we will play tomorrow against West Virgina!

Grant after making a basket and getting fouled last night!

I heart Stitt!!

This wasn't from last nights game...but I am liking our new coach! :)

 I'm Loving.... Ok sorry but it is another basketball post.  I am just excited it is time for 

I love filling out my bracket and waiting to see how I actually did with my guesses.  I know a lot about sports, but my knowledge is limited to the ACC and SEC conferences.  So it is really guesses when I fill out my bracket!! I would show you mine but it is on a website and haven't figured out how to share :)

I'm Loving...that Wes is working at my parents Mountain House this weekend.  We haven't been there in so long and I am looking forward to spending some time there!!

Far away and this picture doesn't do this place justice!

My Dad admiring the view!!

I'm Loving...That Wes's sister is having another baby this summer and she found out last week that it will be another boy!! So excited to have two nephews.  As Emily (my sister-in-law) said, there will be one for me to hold and one for Wes to play with.  Look how cute her first son, Wyatt, is...cant wait to meet our new nephew!!

Weekend Update

Well, the weekend didn't start out that great.  I had a long meeting at work Friday that was a bit stressful...I hate to end a work week that way!!  Friday night, Wes and I stayed home and was just lazy instead of going out with our friends.  He was getting up early Saturday morning to head to North Carolina so that he could remodel his sister's kitchen so that was another reason to stay in Friday night!  Since I went to sleep so early on Friday, I was up at like 6:30 on Saturday!  Why do I struggle weekdays to be at work at 8:30 but on weekends I am up ready to go so early?? I had a busy agenda for Saturday because I was hosting a bridal shower for my friend Sarah on Sunday....so that meant my house needed a major cleaning!!  I started working on that and then Heather called me around 8:30 to chat.  After a few minutes she decided that she would come visit me in Greenwood and help me run errands for the shower. She made my day!!!  So that meant I had to hurry and clean everything before she got there because who wants to clean when one of your bffs come to visit??
She made the hour drive and got to my house around 10:30...how time has changed from a few years ago when we were just waking up at 10:30!!
We went to pick up Sarah's flowers and man was that interesting.  I ordered flowers for a centerpiece (that she could take home afterwards) and it was very pretty but wasnt displayed how I wanted it to be.  It was in a green tuberware type container and I wanted them in a vase!!  We doctored them up and look how pretty they are!!

 After the flower delimma we went to Old Navy and then lunch at one of my favorite places in Greenwood...

After lunch we headed over to some cute boutiques in Uptown Greenwood.  If anyone is familiar with my small town....you would be shocked to see these great stores here.  Heather sure was...you will have to read her post to see the great coat she found!!


Then it was time for some relaxing at my house while Heather was looking at my recipes I was watching my Tigers play basketball!  It was a close game to the Tar Heels if only we could have finished out the game!  Ugh I really dislike the Tar Heels!


Back to getting ready for the shower...Heather and then went grocery shopping and starting getting some of the food ready....

My sister was coming into town for the shower and stayed the night with me!  So we went out to eat at Mig's and then headed over to her friend Jeff's house and look what he has!!!!!!!

5 week old puppies!! They were so cute!!!


Now on to Sunday...the shower went great and about 25ish people came!  The theme of the shower (my favorite one) is to bring a recipe, the dry ingredients to make it and the dish to put it in.  Sarah lucked up with all those recipes!  The other hostesses (Kristina and Alison) and I got her a recipe book and we added more of our favorites along with the ones she got at the shower and gave that to her at the end.  All in all...it was a great shower!  Here are some pic  (I know this post is picture overload...oh well! :))

Enough food pictures...now more of Sarah, her guests and ALL of her presents!!

Her new recipe book with everyone's recipe from the shower!!

The Bride with all but one of her bridesmaids! (Lindsey, Alison, Sarah, Me, and Kristina)

Once everyone left, Wes pulled in from North Carolina!  What a great weekend with some of my favorite people! :)

Top 2 Tuesday

I'm back!!  I haven't blogged in a really long time and I dont really have a reason.  I just wasn't feeling "bloggy"!  I will hopefully have another post today  about my wonderful weekend but for now, here is my Top 2 Tuesday!!

Top 2 Random Facts About Me:

1)  I grew up on a farm.  We started out with all kinds of chickens, ducks, geese, peacocks, really any waterfowl you can think of, we even had a donkey, sheep/lambs and of course my dogs.  I actually thought it was fun growing up having this in my backyard but then my Dad went crazy and bought these things....

 So yes, my Dad went overboard and bought lots of Ostriches and Emus!! We had a huge operation with the incubation rooms and all the different areas for the babies and young birds.  I do have to admit that I did like the baby ostriches...they were kind of cute..

My Dad only has a few Emus left....thank goodness he got out of that business...of course it was AFTER my sister and I left home!

2) I complain about my hubby's hobby some because it can be very expensive, but I do enjoy it.  He used to have an old Suburban that he fixed up for rock-crawling and mud bogging.  Yes I married a country guy!  I cant participate in those activities that much because I get bored, but every once in a while, I really enjoy it.  Here is his old Suburban, it is now at the scrap yard but there are lots of good memories of that vehicle.

This is what it sorta looked like when he bought it.  I think all he changed at this time was tires and a lift.

Pretty beat up by now...

This was one of its last outings....no doors!  (I told Wes that I had to have doors!!)

Seen better days for sure....dont think a vehicle is supposed to be that bent!

This is just an example of the things he would do.  (I always watched outside of the vehicle on obstacles like these!!)

 Since Wes loved his Burban so much....look at his groom's cake :)

I love my country boy :)