Friday, November 4, 2016

FRIDAY NO. 37

My mums are in full bloom, but I'm afraid the heat wave we had this past week was almost too much for them, I can see some of the buds turning brown towards the back :( I've been watering the and putting ice cubes in regularly, but with the temperature almost to 90 degrees and the sun it has about done them in. Hoping they at least make it until Thanksgiving, but that might be pushing it.

- We had a pretty good week! We handed out candy to the cutest trick or treaters, we voted, we flipped back and forth between the CMA awards and the World Series, we took Reagan to her next vet visit, we played outside with her, Reagan got her first bath, and tonight is date night...yay!

Obligatory voting picture! I am so glad we early voted, I remember voting in the last election and waiting in line forever to finally cast my vote. This year we only had to wait about 5 minutes- not bad at all!

We didn't get a chance to make it up to the mountains this year, but this article is making me want to take a PTO day and spend a long weekend up there with my man!!!! I've been to Gatlinburg plenty of times and during different seasons and I have to admit that the fall and Christmas is the best time to be there! If you have been on the fence about taking a trip to Gatlinburg, just do it! You won't regret it. There is so much to do and to see there. We were there last Halloween and it was so fun. You can read about some of our past trips to Gatlinburg HERE, HERE, and HERE!

Reagan has recently started doing this thing where she'll go stand in front of the couch and then start whining until we put her up there. She usually only does this when she's tired and once she's up there she'll make herself right at home and go to sleep. It's the cutest thing and cracks us up because we never really put her on the couch before she started doing this so we didn't even realize she liked the couch, but she does! This picture is of her after she got up on the couch and went to sleep, so sweet!

- Have any of y'all heard of ThredUP? I recently received some dresses from them and love them! They are the perfect addition to my fall wardrobe and all of them were name brand but definitely not at name brand prices! You can use to code: COCKTAIL50 for 50% off first-time orders, discount up to $50.

Reagan had her next vet visit yesterday afternoon and she had to get her next shot. The vet told us she would probably be sleepier the rest of the night, but we didn't see a big difference...until the middle of the night. She woke us up 4 times, we think it was sore where she got the shot and every time she moved to get comfortable she would bump it and let out a little whimper, it was pitiful and we felt so bad for her. The vet said yesterday that she would only be sore for a little bit, so we're hoping our girl feels better. She has been playing/running around like normal, it just hurts when she bumps her little shot area. :( She actually did really well during her shot though, we were proud lol

The weather is finally starting to cool down, and I think (really hope) it's going to stay that way! Yay for finally feeling like fall again!

Thursday, November 3, 2016

WEEKENDING : REAGAN'S FIRST ROAD TRIP

I'm just a little behind on my weekend recap, but that's okay! Friday as soon as I got home I started finishing up all of our packing. I had most of mine and Matthew's stuff packed, but I needed to finish up packing Reagan's stuff. Not only was it hot but we were running and trying to hurry...y'all...I felt like we were packing for a child or something!! Puppy playpen, toys, food, food and water bowls, treats, poop bags, crate, bed, etc. Seriously, I was out of breath by time we pulled out of our driveway.

We decided to hold off on getting anything to eat so that she would fall asleep. I held her bed in my lap and she laid in it and slept for the most part. She did fall asleep pretty quickly though, so we grabbed dinner on the go. :)

We got to Chattanooga around 9:00 eastern and chatted with my BIL, Andrew, and his girlfriend, Christina, for a little bit before Christina left for the night and we went to bed. Reagan slept through the night, thankfully! We were afraid that since we were in a new place that she might wake up a few times, but she didn't. Matthew had to go to work (the reason behind our trip to Chattanooga) for a couple of hours Saturday morning and by time he left Reagan was getting tired and went back to sleep, so I took advantage of that and fell back asleep for a little bit as well. Before we knew it Matthew was back from work for the day. We let Reagan and Darcy play for a little bit...they were too cute together, and when Reagan gets a little bigger I know they will be the best of friends!

Darcy has gotten so big and handsome!

We decided to do Chinese for lunch and then stopped at a few stores while we were out. We headed back to Andrew's house and hung out around the house for a few hours before we packed back up and headed to Murfreesboro for the rest of the weekend.

We got to Matthew's parent's house and had dinner with his whole family for his uncle's birthday. It was good to see everyone and it's hard to believe that we'll all be back together in just a couple of weeks for Thanksgiving! We had a delicious dinner and incredible desserts.


Sunday we all went to church and then back to my in-law's house for lunch and we spent the afternoon relaxing and talking before we headed back home. We took this picture right after we church, it was the prettiest fall scenery and all that was missing was my BIL & SIL, Nathan and Jenny!! We can't wait to see them in a few weeks for Thanksgiving.

It was a great weekend and it got me even more excited for the holidays coming up and being with all of our family!!


Now one last picture of our girl for today...
MELT.MY.HEART.

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

HALLOWEEN | 2016

Yesterday people dressed up and decorated at work, but sadly my team was just too busy this year to participate. It was fun seeing all the other teams decorations and costumes though! Fair warning, all pictures in this post are from my iPhone. Maybe one day I will remember to break out my nice camera!

One team did a tiki island theme and all wore Hawaiian florals.
 And another team did a pirate theme and they all dressed as pirates! 

After work I rushed to Wal-Mart because I had completely forgotten to pick up Halloween candy to hand out...complete fail. Well I get to where the Halloween candy used to be and it had been replaced by Christmas candy...insert melt down in the middle of Wal-Mart right here. Thankfully they had a small section of Halloween candy left..on the other side of the store. I also realized we didn't have a bowl or anything to hand the candy out in so I picked up the only Halloween pumpkin bucket that I saw.

A beautiful Halloween sunset

When I got home I realized it lit up and was a little too excited about that lol. Matthew had to work late, so I was running around like a mad woman, trying to get Reagan out and fed while setting up our chairs and candy outside. On top of all that it was burning up, which didn't help since I had changed into my Predator's long sleeve pullover to be a "Pred's super fan", literally broke out into a sweat trying to get everything ready before trick or treaters started coming around. My neighbor, who has lived in our neighborhood since it was first built and has done this for over 10 years was already sitting outside in his driveway with everything ready for trick or treaters when I got home...he got a good laugh at me running around like I was crazy, I'm sure. ;) Thankfully Matthew got home around the time we started getting a lot of visitors!!
Here is our little setup!
Nothing fancy, just some candy and two of our picnic table chairs from our back deck area lol

We had probably around 50 trick or treaters before we ran out of candy and called it a night, but it was a lot of fun and we enjoyed seeing all of the cutest little trick or treaters! My favorites: the little girl dressed as cat in the hat, super woman, a little fireman, and a little ballerina. 

We held Reagan for the most part, but she kept whining because she wanted to get down and run around the yard, so when we had a break between trick or treaters we would let her down to play. All of or trick or treaters loved her and all wanted to pet her, it was adorable.

She was guarding the candy!


After about an hour and a half we were done and went inside for dinner. I got some meat from the deli while at Walmart for a quick dinner of sandwich wraps and chips. We settled in for the night and watched The Profit until it was time for bed. Reagan was out as soon as we sat down for dinner lol

It was a fun (and very hot!) Halloween, and I know next year to be 100% prepared because trick or treaters like to start early!

Monday, October 31, 2016

HAPPY HALLOWEEN...

...from our cute little pumpkin!

We are staying in tonight and handing out candy. It's our first Halloween in our new home/neighborhood, and we have been told that we have quite a few trick or treaters, so I am very excited!

I hope you all have a great and safe Halloween!