High five for friday.

This week has been rough, so happy for Friday to be here!!

1. I'm SO looking forward to Easter this Sunday! It's such a wonderful time to thank our heavenly Father for the sacrifice He made! Plus, my family is coming to eat Easter lunch at our house! This will be my first time cook a "holiday meal" for my family- nervous, but excited!!

2. Finding out that a sweet baby girl is going to be joining our Sunday school class in August! We are beyond thrilled for Bobby & Ashley... and don't worry, I already put my 2 cents in about her taking ballet!!

3. Getting to wear my coral skinnies! I'm all in to this color jean thing! I want every color!!

4. Seeing one of my BFF's Paige and meeting the Pioneer Woman

5. Secret Church is tonighttttt!!! I'm so excited, and I hope we can all stay awake! It's going to be a longggg night!! Looking forward to hearing David Platt bring the Word!

Happy, happy Friday, enjoy this holiday weekend! Remember to thank the King for the ultimate sacrifice He made for each one of us!

It's a girl & PW.

So we've had quite the week around here. Busy, busy! Monday we had the end of the Answers to Genesis conference at our church! It was wonderful!! Me and hubby are so excited to get ready to eventually teach these truths to our future children! They talked a lot about students/children that grow up in the church but end up not believing the Bible- talk about motivation.
On Tuesday I went to my girls Bible study, but I was sad to miss hubby's first basketball game (they won!)! But, our sweet friend Ashley & her hubby Bobby are expecting a little one in August! We knew they were finding out the sex on the day of our bible study so we decided to all guess what they were having with the color of our shirts! And Ashley would wear the correct color! Well most of us guessed wrong, but we are still SO excited!! :)

Our little buddy, Parker (pictured above) is the most excited because now he will have a girlfriend :) We love babiesss!!

Soooo, I was looking forward to Wednesday coming ALL week! One of my close friends, Paige (whom I'm convincing to start a blog as she is about to get married!!), came up from Auburn to go to The Pioneer Woman's (Ree Drummond) book signing! Paige lovesss her cookbooks and I read her blog so it was the perfect outing! Wellll, it was SO crowded. We could hardly see the presentation she put together- we just listened, but still great!!

Hubby was wonderfullll and went and got us our line ticket on Tuesday night! Well, we were # 97. That sounds like a long wait (and it was) but they probably had over 300 numbers! We had lots of time to catch up and chit chat... and I was so thankful for that! 

So about 2 hours later we finally got up to meet the wonderful Pioneer Woman. She's great and so funny, a country girl and can literally do it all.

Have a happy happy Thursday!!

High five for Friday.

1. My love/hate relationship... Insanity. I hate that sore feeling, but then through the day it grows on me. I think, I'm getting fit... I'm getting healthy. Here's to day 5! Eck!

2. All of the wonderful mail we have been getting lately! So many Save The Dates, Shower Invites, & Wedding Invites! This wonderful season is upon us!!

3. Auburn basketball player Kenny Gabriel competed in the dunk contest last night! I was so proud of him! He got second place!

4. Finally finishing up my passport application! I need to get it done and out of the way!! Excited for Israel this summer!!

5. Everyday and every week I'm learning to love my hubby more & more! This week it continued to show me that he is the bestttt! 

{this is not our dog! If you know me, this picture in itself is a big deal!!} 

Happy happy Friday!! I'm so glad it's here :) Aren't you?!

Impromptu date night.

Tuesday I ended up having to work late... this was unfortunate since our apartment was a complete disaster and we were without any bread. I was being a horrible wife- dirty house and nothing for hubby's lunch. Thankfully he is a forgiving man :) Anyways, I knew I wouldn't be able to get anything done after work because we were going to the AU vs. Samford baseball game conveniently located just right down the road at Samford! Hubby's high school friend plays for Samford so it was a perfect time to go watch him! {Hubby and I went to watch him on our first Valentine's Day! So, it's a happy memory for us!}

So I figured this is business as usual, just going to a game. To my surprise... it felt like a date! It was fun! Just sitting around chatting and watching the game. Baseball games are so different then other sports- it's very very chill! 

I was so happy to just get to chitchat with my hubby for 3 hours. It was beautiful weather and lots of AU people were there! Unfortunately Samford's stadium is ity bity {but really pretty!} so we had to sit on the grass! Side note- we just started doing Insanity, the workout, so sitting on the ground was slightly painful for our overly sore bodies!

Andddd in other big news, I smelled a hot dog while at the game and kind of craved one. This is odd because I have never liked hot dogs! Hubby loves them so we split one. I insisted that we put ketchup on it- get this... I don't like ketchup either! It was a strange taste buds night! Well I tried it, and it was okay. Just okay. Won't be buying another one of those for me any time soon.

So we lost the game in the bottom of the 9th on a grand slam. Sad! But it was still a fun date night!!

Weekend bliss.

It was wonderful to be in town this weekend. It is super fun to travel and see family, but there's nothing like a nice relaxing weekend at home! Well, that is exactly what we did this weekend: chilled. Friday we ate some Chinese food and went to movie night at Sierra's house. We watched The Green Lantern... not really my type of thing but I did enjoy referencing Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory quite often! Saturday we slept in! I made a yummy treat for breakfast, Biscuit Cinnamon Buns! I found the recipe on Pinterest and we actually had all the ingredients so we just threw it together! YUM & easy!

Later we cleaned house and got a lot of errands done! I made a yummy "cheese, bacon, honey drizzle" dip for our game night! I forgot to take a picture but it was delicious!! I'm going to make it for an appetizer for Easter too so maybe I can upload the recipe then! So Saturday night we headed to our friends Ashley and Bobby's house! We were having game night and celebrating Bobby's 30th birthday!! Here's the group:

We thought about all wearing black for his big 3-0 but figured that may be a little too harsh! So, instead we all wore green, his favorite color!! It was sooo funny. He didn't notice for the longest time! Ahh, it was a fun night! Here's me and hubby sportin' our green:

Hope you continue to have a relaxing Sunday!

The Last Thing Thursdays.

Yesterday I stumbled upon The Life of the Wife blog through another one that I follow. Thursday's she has a linkup called The Last Thing Thursdays. I like the concept, so here we are :)

THE LAST THING I...

*Took a picture of: 

We got our study guides in for Secret Church in a few weeks. For those of you that aren't familiar its a 6+ hour teaching session that is put on at Church of Brookhills by David Platt (the author of Radical)! Our sunday school class is going to do it simulcast! Hubby and I did it last fall and enjoyed it so much! We are really looking forward to it!

*Bought:

Yesterday I found myself in Homegoods drooling on this, that and everything. I was deteremined to only buy one thing for less than $20... and I accomplished that goal, thank ya very much! I bought a piece to old my make up on our bathroom counter. I want to do a before and after post on it so I'm not doing a picture yet! 

*Made from Pinterest:

Wellllll, this isn't complete yet but I'm in the progress of making it! All the printables from this tutorial on Pinterest cost money so I'm in the process of making my own! Can't wait to write a post on it!

*Cried at:

How about I get emotional any time anything is a teeny tiny bit sad or happy. Haven't had legit tears for a while... maybe at The Vow last month. Yeah that lovey dovey heart break stuff gets me everytime!

And last but not least:

*Drooled over:

Mmhmm, colorful spring time. Can I please have for my kitchen table?!

Sooo, go link up... this is a great one and it's not that big yet! Do it!

Raleigh, North Carolina.

This past weekend hubby and I ventured up to North Carolina with my in-laws to visit  my brother-in-law Michael and his wife Stacy. Actually hubby and his dad had the luxury of taking a short flight up there while me, Cathy, and Mere had to endure the 9 hour drive! The boys enjoyed watching some of the NCAA March Madness games. They got to watch Alabama lose to Creighton and UNC beat whoever they were playing! Hubby loves some basketball so I was happy for him to get to experience a big time game. 

Obviously, they got there quite early... but he said it was fun fun fun! Well anyways we joined up with them later that night around 1am Eastern time. We caught up and then settled in for the night. Saturday we made our way around Raleigh... ate some yummy CookOut and did some shopping at H&M. Finally got me some coral pants, maybe a post to come about those soon {love them}.

We had a picnic for lunch out at a park. The weather was wonderful and I was soaking up that wonderful sunshine!

Saturday night we cooked up some delicious lasagna and had some fun playing MadGab. Yes, the girls team won again. This is going to become the official game of the Watford family. Sunday we went to their church Open Door- we really enjoyed seeing where they go and their preacher was great! After lunch we went back to the church for the Congolese service. They spoke in French, but had a translator and I really enjoyed it. I love experiencing different cultures and seeing how they worship. It reminded me of being in Venezuela or Mexico and listening to the preachers speak Spanish.. and not having an idea of what they are saying, but completely feeling the Holy Spirit move around you! Those are times you don't forget!

{The bulletin for the Congolese service... French, French, French!}

Big shout out to my sweet hubby this weekend. He definitely went out of his way to make sure I had fun and was taken care of. I appreciate his wisdom in our marriage. Love him!