Entryway

I have been looking for something for our entryway for a while. It has been bare ever since we moved into our house. I wanted to get an antique and I just hadn't found the right piece. A few weekends ago I went home for a good friends bridal shower and my mom and I decided we would head up to the antique store in my hometown. We started looking around and we found the perfect piece of furniture to go in our entryway. I wanted something with some drawers and cabinets so I could store things in it, I always need more storage space. I am so excited about this piece. Here are some pictures of what the entryway looked like before and after.

BEFORE

Looking at the entryway from our den:

Looking at the entryway from our front door:

AFTER

Entryway from the den: Entryway from the front door:

Our beautiful new piece of furniture:
Now all I need is a pretty mirror to put above it and I hope to find one this weekend!

Also this past weekend my husband went with one of his good friends down to New Orleans to the Saints vs. Cowboys game. He has never been to an NFL game before and he said he had a blast and it was such a great experience. He ate some good food and hung out with some good friends. I was a little jealous at first but I am glad he got to go and experience that and that he had a good time.

I hope that everyone has a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!! We are off to Auburn Thursday and Birmingham Friday! I hope everyone has a very safe Hoilday!!

Our Christmas Decorations!

This post is long overdue. I have had my Christmas decorations up since the weekend after Thanksgiving and I am just now getting around to posting them. Ever since the week before Thanksgiving, we have had something to do every weekend! Rob and I set out to get our Christmas tree and I think we got a very pretty one. We brought it home and started decorating it, Rob actually helped out this year with the decorating...haha. I love this time of year, Christmas music and decorations, the only thing I don't like about it is the busyness of the season. I am going post a few pictures of our Christmas decorations this year.

Getting the tree.

Our beautiful Tree!

Rob and I putting the lights on the tree!

This box is just some of our ornaments

Rob and I putting ornaments on the tree and Allie checking everything out.



These are two of my favorite ornaments. The first one is our Auburn ornament(WAR EAGLE) and then the other one is the ornament we brought back from our honeymoon in St. Lucia.

Our front door, I love our wreath that my mom got for us and then the two lighted trees by the door I got at Costco last year.

A few of the decorations around our house.

And the stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nick would soon be there.

Thankful

It is the day before Thanksgiving and I just wanted to post a few things that I am always thankful for. I am THANKFUL for mine and Rob's health. I am THANKFUL that we have a roof over our heads and food on the table. I am THANKFUL that Rob and I both have good jobs. I am THANKFUL for our little Allie girl, who brings joy to our life everyday. I am THANKFUL for my wonderful loving husband, I love him more and more everyday. I am also THANKFUL for my amazing family, without them I don't know where I would be. They are loving and supportive, I am very lucky to have such a great family.

I think in everyday life we forget what all we are thankful for. When something isn't going the way we would like it to, we have to remember all the things that we do have in our life to be THANKFUL for. So this Thanksgiving be sure to remember all things and people in your life that you are THANKFUL for.

I hope that everyone has a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving!!!!

A Special Day

Two years ago today I got engaged! Here is the story.

First of all my mom was very sneaky and had sent the ring back to troy with my sister in a box with a shirt for Rob. My sister didn't know what was in the box except for a shirt. Mom had said it was an early Christmas present, I had no clue the ring was in the box with the shirt until later.

It all started with a call to my dad, roses and a note

On November 7,2007 I was sitting at work when I received a dozen red roses with a note that read "Dinner tonight? Love Rob." Well of course I thought this was it, he is going to propose at dinner tonight. I was so giddy the rest of the day. I get home and we head to dinner. Rob had to work that night at 11:00 so we couldn't go out of town to dinner so we just went to The Pines restaurant here in Troy. The whole dinner I am sitting there just waiting for him to pop the question. I was looking in my salad, my drink everywhere for a ring. Dinner was over and I still had no ring :(. We walked out of the restaurant and I didn't talk to Rob the whole way home. I was just thinking, how in the world could he trick me like this. We get home and he tells me that he is taking Allie(our minature dachshund) out to use the bathroom, I just said ok and headed back to the bedroom to change clothes. As I am changing clothes I hear Rob yell telling me to come in the den because Allie had something on her and he didn't know what it was. As I am walking down the hall I yell, "what in the world did you do to her." When I get in the den I look down at Allie and there is a bright shiny ring on her collar. At that point I felt bad for being mad at him. I start yelling, are you serious, are you serious. Rob gets the ring off Allie's collar and gets on one knee and proceeds to stay a bunch of sweet things that i just can't remember b/c I was too excited. He asked me to marry him and of course I said YES! After he put the ring on my finger, I am crying and running in place I was so excited. Then I proceed to call my sister to come take pictures and then I call mom my to tell her I am engaged. She knew is was coming soon but she wasn't sure when, she was thrilled. I then stayed on the phone just about all night calling all my family and friends to tell them the good news.

That was one of the best days of my life other than my wedding day. I am now married to my best friend and an amazing man. I love him with all my heart!

A repost of Lady Antebellum photos and videos

I am going to repost the Lady Antebellum photos because the collage I made of them you can't really see them and it won't let you click on them to make them bigger. I am also going to try to post the videos.




This might be the last time I post videos, they took way too long to upload!

Peanut Festival & Lady Antebellum

This past Sunday we went to Dothan to the Peanut Festival with some of our good friends Matt & Jennifer. We have never been to the Peanut Festival before, so this was a first. I felt like I was little again. We just walked around enjoying the atmosphere. Of course there were vendors everywhere selling corndogs, funnel cakes, fried snickers, cotton candy, etc...

We ended up getting a corndog and a funnel cake. I couldn't go to the fair and not get a funnel cake, I haven't had one in years and it was as good as I remembered.

Then you have the games that you can play to win prizes such as stuff animals, you know as a kid you loved those games but now you know they just rip you off.

Look what ride they still have, the Sizzler. I used to love that ride, it was one of my favorites.
We thought about going on the Ferris Wheel, didn't you all love the Ferris Wheel when you were younger? We didn't go on it though because we had to get to the show.

Lady Antebellum, one of my FAVORITE groups was performing at the Peanut Festival so we went over to the Ampitheater to watch them. It was such an amazing show and they performed a lot of good songs. If you have never heard them you really should, especailly if you like country music. Here a few pictures from the show, i took some video with my camera too and i will try to post them.

Ok so I tried to post some video that i took of the concert, but it is taking FOREVER to upload and my husband is wanting to get on the computer. I will put the videos up on another post so that you can hear just how good they are.

A Nice Visit

I had a nice visit Saturday from these wonderful people
my mom and grandmother. My mom had gone to Birmingham Friday to spend some time with my grandmother and Saturday they decided to drive down to Troy so Mimi could see my house and we could all go out to lunch. They got here around noon and I gave Mimi a tour of our house and then we went out to eat to Santa Fe for lunch. After lunch we came back to the house and watched the Auburn game.....WAR DAMN EAGLE!! That was a good game. Then they headed back to B'ham. It was a very nice visit, it just wasn't long enough. It was a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon.

Seaside and thats about it!

I have been told I needed to update my blog, sorry it has been awhile.

The weekend of October 17 we had another girls trip to Seaside, FL. We went back in March and I blogged about it. It was me, my sister Anna, sister Sara, my aunt and my cousins, the only person we were missing this time was my cousin-in-law Katie. It was a weekend full of relaxation, games and good family time! I always enjoy getting to spend time with my family. Most of us didn't get down there till late Friday night so we didn't do very much Friday. Saturday we got up and of course headed to the outlet mall to look around and we all ended up buying something. Saturday night we went to dinner and then came back to the house and watched part of the Alabama game and the Auburn game. After the football games we played Mad Gab. I don't know if any of you have ever played this game before but it is absolutely hilarious and so fun to play with a group of people. We had such a wonderful weekend!

Other than the Seaside weekend nothing too exciting has been going on, at least nothing exciting to blog about. Last Monday October 19 our good friends, The Grenon's gave birth to a beautiful boy, and last Friday when they got back home we went over to visit and I have to tell you, there is nothing more perfect than a newborn! I really cherish our friendship with them.

I am sorry there is not much news to share. Hope everyone who reads my blog is doing well! Until next time.....

P.S. I have a question for you bloggers out there. Let's see if I can write this out to make sense. If I want to post a link, I know that I click on the little world looking icon at the top but how do you change the name of the link? Example: In the first part of this post I wrote how back in March we visited seaside and I blogged about it, well I wanted to post the link to that post to just read here or somthing like that. Does that make sense? If not tell me and I will try to come up with a better way to explain it...haha.

An old favorite..

Look what Montgomery has now





I am SUPER excited!!! I haven't eaten at Momma G's since I lived in Auburn. It was one of my favorite places to eat when i lived there and I didn't live far from it. When Sara and I were in Montgomery not too long ago we noticed that there was one so we said that next time we had to go to Montgomery we would eat there. Well it just so happened that we had to go Monday to get Sara a few things so we ended up eating there. It was as good as I remembered. I just wanted to let you all know that they have one now if any of you love it as much as I do.

Good Friends!

I LOVE football season, it's a great time for good friends, good food and good football. This past weekend we had some of our good friends, Amanda & Leon and Matt & Jennifer come in town for football. Needless to say the Auburn game was horrible, but we had some good food and good fellowship. Matt ended up bringing us some raw oysters from Dothan and we ended up shucking a few and grilling them, they were delicious, I love raw oysters!

Here I am enjoying an oyster...haha

Here are Amanda and I sitting on the back deck with our wiener dog babies
And lastly here are a picture of the guys


We had a great weekend!! This coming up weekend I am heading to Seaside with the girls in my family. A post and pictures to come later.