Showing posts with label Memorial Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Memorial Day. Show all posts

Monday, June 5, 2017

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND | 2017


Our Memorial Day Weekend looked a little like this...clean, organize, purge, nap, eat, clean, organize, purge, spend time with family, eat, nap, watch hockey, clean organize, and purge. Before the holiday weekend started Matthew and I made out a list that ended up being a full two pages of house projects we wanted to accomplish over the long weekend, and as you can guess most of them involved cleaning, organizing and purging. We printed it out, taped it to the refrigerator and both got to work early Saturday morning and checked off each task as we accomplished it. I don't know what it is about having an actual list hanging up where we can check off things as we do them, but it definitely kept us motivated all weekend long. 

Friday night my family came over over and my dad helped us hang the wallpaper in our half bathroom downstairs. Here is a picture during the process- I plan on sharing a full bathroom reveal when we finish a couple of more things in there this summer. That wallpaper...I'm obsessed.

It was a fun night with my family, we picked up a couple of pizza's to keep it simple and while my dad was working my mom and I made a chocolate lasagna dessert dish for all of us that night! Ethan and Rachel came over for a little bit that night too, before they headed to the lake the rest of the weekend.

Saturday morning we were up bright and early and got started on cleaning out out garage. It was our biggest project so we started on it first. We took a little break and Matthew made a delicious breakfast and then we got back to work. Reagan had some eggs too lol.

It rained off and on all day Saturday and so we kept having to move stuff to one side of the garage while we worked on the other side and vice versa, our neighbors probably thought we were crazy lol. We made a few Goodwill trips and quite a few trips to the dump. We also got rid of our old appliances that we have been keeping in our garage since right after we moved in. We had plans to clean them up really well and sell them but never got around to it and by then we were just ready to have them out of the garage so we listed them on Craigslist and said they were free if they could come pick them up and had someone scheduled to pick them up within 30 minutes of posting them! 

We took a break and ate lunch and then decided to finish a movie we had started earlier that week since we were waiting on a storm to pass through and Reagan soaked up all the cuddles and napped so hard.

We organized every single drawer and cabinet in our kitchen and cleaned out and organized every single closet in out house. Here are some before and after's that I remembered to snap as we were cleaning.

Reagan hung out under our new dining room chairs while I worked in the kitchen.

linen closet upstairs
This is our entryway closet. I forgot to take a 'before' picture but here is the 'after'....it was real bad before lol. Eventually we want to take down that wire shelf and had hooks on the back wall and then a shelf at the bottom to store shoes in. We are hoping to get to that this summer at some point!


Sunday we went to church and then met Matthew's parents after for lunch! Sunday afternoon we went to my cousin's house for a cookout with my family. The weather was perfect and the food was delicious. My sister made this blueberry lemon cake and it was INCREDIBLE!!

Monday we slept in a little later than the past two days before we got to work checking off the rest of the tasks on our list, and it was great! Monday afternoon Reagan and I made a trip into town to run a couple of errands and she was loving the weather and ride lol
 The weather was great on Monday afternoon and we soaked it up before the Pred's game started.
We ended our holiday weekend cheering on our Pred's! 
Reagan's favorite spot to cheer on the Pred's...and sleep.

We were worn out from getting so much stuff done, but we checked everything off our list and it was so worth it!


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Wednesday, June 1, 2016

WEEKEND RECAP: MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND 2016

I can't thank you all enough for the support and prayers in response to my post on Friday regarding my cousin. We are all still very much in shock and truthfully, reality just hasn't set in yet. His funeral was on Sunday, and we are all still grieving in our own ways. Please continue to pray for his parents and siblings. One of the hardest parts of all of this was watching them.


We had planned on making a trip to Johnson City over Memorial Day weekend to visit my BIL & SIL. Back in January we took a trip to Johnson City to see them and got to catch a glimpse of where they live and go to school, and then they came home over spring break back in March, so a trip to see them was overdue! With everything that had happened we questioned whether we should go or not. I was very hesitant to leave our family, but my parents encouraged us to go. It was good to get away and to get our minds off of everything, and to be with family. My office lets us leave early the day before a holiday (Friday in this case) so the holiday weekend started a bit early for me. I met Matthew at LensCrafters and we picked him out some reading glasses...
I mean seriously. I'm ALL heart eyes over here.

After that we loaded up and all met up in Cookeville for dinner at one of our favorites, El Tap. We made it to Johnson City pretty late Friday night and crashed as soon as we got settled. However, before we went to bed my BIL, Nathan, did inform us of a list he has made out of everything he wanted to do with us while we were there.

Saturday morning we made a stop at Chick-fil-A before diving into our list of things to do. We got another tour of ETSU, where he and his wife, Jenny, are PT students at. This time we were able to see inside the buildings and see where they spend most of their days learning away. ETSU's campus is GORGEOUS and I am beyond excited to see it in the fall. 




 The mountain views were pretty incredible. They live about 45 minutes from Asheville, North Carolina. When we go back up there to visit in the fall we are thinking about driving over to Asheville for the day. 

We got a grand tour of downtown Jonesborough, Tennessee, which is Tennessee's oldest town. Saw some REALLY nice houses mansions, stopped by a Bargin Hunt store, did an Escape game, and ate some really good food. We ate lunch at The Label, and it was absolutely delicious. 

Their menu is handed out on a wooden clipboard. Neat little touch!


After lunch we had plans for an Escape game. This was mine and Matthew's first time to do one. Sadly we did not "escape" before the time was up, but we were close!


We went back to their apartment and rested for a bit while the boys played Xbox and then headed out to a late dinner at their favorite mexican restaurant. After dinner we all watched an episode of HIMYM and then called it a night. 

Sunday, Matthew and I headed home that morning to make it to the funeral. As expected, Sunday was a rough day.

Monday, we woke early and got started on our to-do list. We made a trip to Home Depot to pick up some tools and then came back home and I started painting our kitchen. 
Sadly, this trip to HD we used the rest of our wedding/birthday/Christmas Home Depot gift cards. 

After some painting we made a trip to Lowe's to pick up some wood....for our farmhouse table Matthew is going to build for our dining room! I am so excited about this.

We went back home and I did more painting and then we got ready and headed out to my parents house for a Memorial Day cookout. A really dark picture, but I loved the Snap chat filter.

This past weekend also marked 6 years of being with Matthew. We started dating May 29, 2010. I can't believe it has been SIX years, but they have been an absolute dream. On our four year anniversary I recapped our dating years. You can read about year one, year two, year three, and year four. I recapped our 5th year anniversary here


Friday, May 23, 2014

5 on a Friday

 //ONE//
Although I am excited to have Monday off I do realize this isn't just any holiday, it is a day fully designated to remembering those that have died for our freedom. With that being said I do also realize we should not only be thankful on Monday but every single day.
So thank you to those in the U.S. Armed Forces for all that you do, have done and will do.
And a shout out to the spouses/families/girlfriends/friends that are back home supporting them. You also have my utmost respect.
 
 
//TWO//
Next week is our 4 year anniversary!
I obviously love celebrating things so I have been planning a few things out and I am very excited!
I also have a couple of fun posts planned for next week (if I can remember to post them, ha!)
until then here is a picture from our 1 year anniversary!
 
//THREE//
Matthew sits for the first part of the CPA exam in exactly FIVE days!! He has been studying and studying these past 2 weeks. Last night I was in my room unpacking and I could hear him walking around in the living room pretty fast. I walked in there and he was pacing back and forth. I know he only does that if he's really stressed or mad and there was nothing he could be mad about so I knew he was stressed. He was fed up with studying and tired. He started rambling some nonsense about changing his degree, honestly it sounded like it was in Spanish. We had a little come to Jesus meeting and he snapped back into reality. I sent him on his merry way back to his apartment so he could get some sleep lol. I talked to him this morning and he sounded just fine, that boy just needed his sleep!
So if you could, please keep him in your prayers over this next week. We would both appreciate it :)
 
//FOUR//
Tan. This girl needs a tan. I am used to spending my summers laying out half the day before I would have to go into work so this whole working full time is getting in the way of that. I know, welcome to the rest of my life but I do get a little really jealous when I see all of my friends posting pictures of them laying by the pool or on the stinkin beach! So this weekend I am hoping to get in some tanning time, with sunscreen of course!
 
//FIVE//
My apartment is coming along! I am still not finished unpacking. After working all day the last thing I want to do is unpack and make multiple trips to the store but I am closer than where I started. Just a few more boxes left! For the back deck I am wanting to add some bistro lights
I am OBSESSED with them, and I have already told Matthew they will be at our wedding reception.
My deck isn't anywhere near this size but it does look like the person living there before me had some type of light system up. Plus I have already found a great deal on them! 
 
Have a fun/safe weekend!!