WEEKEND RECAP

We both worked from home on Friday, which obviously meant that we had to go to Chick-fil-A for lunch. I had a call soon after lunch so we just got it to go, so Reagan came along for the ride. 

The weekend started promptly as soon as I shut down my computer on Friday and I booked it to Murfreesboro to watch my sister's soccer game. It was a good game, but they ended up losing. We still cheered her on the only way we know how to, loud and proud.

Saturday we woke up and worked on things around the house. I ended up putting this cube organizer together for our hall closet downstairs. I am loving having it in our hall closet so far, now if only this area could stay this organized for longer than 2 days. ;)

I also replanted all of my succulents over the weekend. I love the morning light that comes through our kitchen windows each day!

I also noticed some new baby blooms on the plant that Matthew's grandmother gave me a few months ago! 

Saturday afternoon we met my family for mine and my dad's birthday dinner. It was good to see the whole family! My youngest sister and I showed up practically wearing the same outfit lol.

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WEEKEND RECAP

BIRTHDAY FESTIVITIES

Happy Friday!

This past Tuesday marked another trip around the sun for me and it was such a sweet day. Matthew, my family and friends made it the best! Matthew made me a delicious breakfast before we both headed off to work. He had flowers and the sweetest card waiting for me as well. 

So thankful for him!!

My sweet friends at the office had cupcakes and a fun card waiting on me when I walked in.

 So thankful for them, work would not be the same without them!

I met Matthew for lunch at one of our favorite Mexican restaurants close to my office. We practically sat in the same spot as we did last year at my birthday lunch here, ha! I love when Matthew is in the office and we can meet for lunch. It doesn't happen often, so when we realized he would be in the area on my birthday we quickly planned on meeting for lunch!

Matthew surprised me with dinner reservations at one of my favorites, Maggiano's. 

Their chicken parm is to die for!

It was the best birthday and I loved that I got to eat every meal with Matthew that day hahaha! I am so thankful for my health, my family and friends, and of course, my sweet sweet husband! I am excited to celebrate with family this weekend. My dad's birthday is four days before mine so we always have a big birthday dinner with family for the two of us. I LOVE sharing that with my sweet daddy!

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BIRTHDAY FESTIVITIES

FRIDAY NO. 9

Happy 24th birthday to my love, my heart, my better half and my best friend, Matthew. What a privilege it is to walk alongside you for another year of your life! I know you better than anyone, and yet I am still discovering new depths to the goodness in your heart. You are a great man, a great friend, and a great husband, worthy of every ounce of my honor, admiration, respect and celebration, today and every day. I am so proud of who you already are and the man you are becoming. Keeping this covenant with you is my life's greatest adventure, and I see The Lord's faithfulness through you every single day. You are an absolute treasure, and I love you more than anything in the whole world. I hope to celebrate YOU all the days of our life. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

23rd Birthday

22nd Birthday

21st Birthday

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FRIDAY NO. 9

23 years

23 years ago today, The Lord created a really incredible person. And out of the fullness of His grace He then crossed our paths about 6 years later, and then again about 12 years later.

 There simply aren't enough words in the universe to express how much I adore you, Matthew. I know for a fact that I am a better woman because I am tethered to a man of such high character, strength, diligence and selflessness. You are talented and smart, personable and gentle and you have a humble and quiet strength that garners respect from all those who know you. Your love for me is so selfless and so bold that it has changed me in every single way, for the better. I'm thankful for the ways you sharpen me while still loving me where I am now, and I'm so proud to be yours. Happy birthday to THE best lookin' fiancé in the world! You have my heart, my respect, my support, my trust, and all my love forever. I love you Matthew!

and a big happy birthday to my future brother-in-law, as well!

My favorite twins :)

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23 years

Test scores & birthday celebrations!!!!

I'm back! I decided to take last week off from blogging, and it actually felt good. Some pretty big things happened last week though, so I will catch you up!   The main thing that happened last week...   MATTHEW PASSED HIS LAST CPA EXAM!!!!! We knew the scores were supposed to be out Tuesday morning. I called him on my way to work to see if they had posted them yet and they hadn't so I knew they would more than likely be out by 8. Sure enough they were. I was watching Twitter like a mad woman very patient person ;) and people started tweeting around 8 that they were out. I waited about two minutes seconds and then text Matthew asking if he saw his score yet and of course the website was taking FOREVER to load because everyone and their momma was trying to check their scores too. And then he text me and told me he is going to be a CPA. I took my break a little early at work and called him (insert happy dance in the hallway at work here) and got all choked up as soon as I heard him on the other end telling me he passed. Y'all I am so incredibly happy/proud/excited/relieved for him!!!!! I knew he could do it. He sacrificed SO many events this past summer to study and worried so much. He ended up studying over 800 hours but it was ALL worth it. He is the first person ever to take the fast pass (take all four parts and pass during the summer) from Tennessee Tech and I am just so stinkin' proud of him!! God is SO good and we know this is nothing short of His plan! I guess you could say Tuesday was a pretty great day!!!!   Thursday I turned 22 and was overwhelmed with all the sweet birthday wishes! Last weekend we celebrated my birthday at home. It was a lot of fun and I loved seeing all my family! Matthew and his whole family surprised me with a Samsung Galaxy Tablet!!! :)

 

I have been wanting one for awhile! Matthew and I actually had a conversation about me getting one that Friday afternoon on the way home. I told him I was going to try and find a good deal on one on Black Friday this year LOL.

Matthew took me to Chili's, one of my favorites, for dinner on Thursday and then we had Refuel with the SOC and intramural games.

 

Tech did this on the quad on campus.

 I thought it was a great was to remember all the lives lost. There was a flag for every life lost on 9/11

 

I also bought some watercolor paint last week and I've been playing around with it. It's so fun using things that I used when I was in preschool in a whole new way.

 

I also had a pretty big package waiting for me on my doorstep on Thursday afternoon when I got off work, I'll share that with you tomorrow! :)

           

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Test scores & birthday celebrations!!!!

updates + announcement!!

These past couple of weeks have been hectic but I am loving every minute of it! All last week we were preparing for the semester to start back up and with the fall semester starting up comes welcome week. Thursday was Tech's great move in day. All the freshmen move into their dorm and there are a TON of activities going on. Last year I was able to be there and it was my first time to experience great move in day and I loved it!! Literally so much excitement all in one day. This year I had to work but thankfully we were slow enough and I was able to get off for the day at 10:00! I was SO excited and headed straight to the SOC house to help.   -We had our first event of the semester, Refuel, on the president's lawn.

Then headed back to the SOC house for singing and a short devo

 The SOC house on great move in day!

    -There were activities over the weekend but we went home for my sisters birthday! Can we just talk about how grown up she looks?!?!? She is 11 going on 18!

 

-Monday the SOC had a scavenger hunt across campus. I love scavenger hunts but it was SO hot.

Here is one of our tasks, take a picture in Sherlock park, there was a hashtag written in the sand, you just can't really see it lol. #struggling

Then we went back to the SOC house that night and had a huge game of volleyball

 

-I run the SOC Instagram and Twitter and love it. I think it's a great way for new students to see what we are all about through pictures and it helps keep them updates on upcoming events!

 

-Matthew hasn't been able to attend as many events as he would like to due to the fact that he has been studying non-stop. You know it's crunch time when he can't even leave the library for dinner. We had a lil 30 min date in a study room of the Tech's library :)

 

 

**I am also THRILLED to say that Matthew and I have been asked to be student coordinators for the SOC. We were asked back in May and have been working to get everything ready for this year and will continue working for the SOC. The SOC holds a special place in my heart, and I am beyond excited for this opportunity to help grow the SOC and bring people to Christ, along with Scott, our campus minister and the other student coordinators.

 SOC fall retreat- 2012

SOC fall retreat- 2013

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updates + announcement!!

Saturday tea time

Saturday morning we had our Walk4Water bright and early. We had perfect weather for it and overall had a great time! Our goal was $4,800 and we raised $5,005!! We had 80+ people come out and walk with us, such a great group!!

We grabbed lunch right after and then headed home for the spring tea with Matthew's grandmother. This is my third year to go and it is always a good time! Love seeing all the residents light up with their family for this event. Nathan's (Matthew's twin brother) girlfriend, Jenny, got to come this year as well!

 



 

We also celebrated Mady's birthday Saturday afternoon

 

 

We also made a few stops at Sonic this weekend while I was home...

blue raspberry slush with nerds...my new favorite drink!!

 

HAPPY MONDAY!!

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Saturday tea time

Happy Birthday

My forever best friend turns 17 today! I am blown away by her beauty, both inside and out. She is strong and smart and works hard at everything she does. She fills up my whole world with laughter and light, and my heart feels full whenever I get to be with her. Mady is good and kind and funny. She's a genuine friend and a selfless encourager, loves well and cares deep for all. She's one of a kind and I can't imagine life without her by my side as we are growing up.

 Mady, I love that you're my sister. Love you & HAPPY 17TH BIRTHDAY!

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Happy Birthday

Matthew's birthday

Matthew's birthday always falls on spring break and we love that! I wanted to take a couple days off over spring break but I was only able to take one day so of course I chose his birthday! After I got off on Monday we both loaded up the car and headed home!! I had dinner with my family Monday night and he had dinner with his family.   Tuesday I woke up at regular time because my internal alarm clock doesn't stop working just because I have a day off but that was good because I went and picked Matthew up and we headed to Cracker Barrel for breakfast. There aren't many things as good as Cracker Barrel's breakfast! We stuffed our faces and had a good time. I LOVE a good conversation over breakfast.

    We went back to his house and since it was 70 degrees we decided to get the enos out and put them up in his backyard. The weather was PERFECT and we had the perfect amount of shade and cool breeze :)  

 Matthew and his cat, Macy in the eno!!

  We met his mom and brothers for lunch at Pizza Hut and again, stuffed our faces! After lunch Matthew, Nathan and I stopped by to see their grandmother, she so enjoyed seeing her boys!!

 

I had a surprise for Matthew that afternoon but didn't tell him until we were on the way. If you remember last year for his birthday I had it all planned out with clues I had given him throughout the day but mother nature stepped in and it rained ALL DAY LONG so we ended up seeing a movie.   Well this year I didn't have all the fun clues but we went to play miniature golf and we rode the go karts there. Matthew LOVES go karts and has a certain face we like to call his go kart or running face and he had it on the whole time we were riding them. The weather was perfect for mini golf and we hadn't been in forever so it was good to go!!

 

so handsome ;)

 

  Matthew's dad grilled "daddy burgers" for dinner and they were SO GOOD and his mom made cheesecake!! Not just any cheesecake either...

That is 1 whole cheesecake but half of it is plain and the other half is chocolate chip with chocolate ganache!!!! It was SO GOOD!! Best birthday cake EVER.

 

The birthday boys were feelin 22...they sang that song all day lol





 

I love celebrating birthdays but I LOVE celebrating my man more!!

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Matthew's birthday