Spring

On Wednesday,  my husband and I got to spend a lovely day outside together.. soaking up the sun and enjoying the warm weather. It was such a beautiful day.. I'm so glad that Spring has finally arrived! Here's a little video of our day.. pics to follow :)

Good Earth Date

I'm slowly trying to turn my "black thumb" into a "green thumb" so I'm constantly looking for cute & affordable plants to put in our home. And recently, a friend of mine told me about this adorable place called Good Earth in Little Rock, AR. This place was absolutely perfect! It's huge, so they have tons of flowers, plants, succulents, pottery, etc. And not only do they have that, they also sell home decor, grills, and outdoor furniture.. I could spend hours there! But my favorite thing about the place, by far.. is the people that work there. I've only been there twice (as of now) but the employees are so helpful! They showed me exactly what plants were where and I learned everything I needed to know about how to take care of the plants I was purchasing. I was very impressed with the place and the employees!  

So yesterday I took my sweet friend Sara to this place. We walked around and picked out new plants for our homes. And we dreamed about gardens we want to one day plant. Oh and we found an orange tree... had one of us owned a house, that orange tree would've gone home with us! We had so much fun and I can't wait to go back soon.. I think my next purchase will be a snake plant! 

The Prettiest Snow Day

If you're from the south (like me) when the weather says it's supposed to "snow", you usually only expect a dusting of snow or just laugh it off because.. let's be real.. it never snows. I grew up in southeast Alabama and we only got "snow" about once every four years and it was never nice, fluffy, dry snow. Instead it was more of a wet and gross slush. I can count all the times I've ever seen snow on one hand. So when the weather said it was supposed to snow yesterday, I brushed it off like it was nothing. About 5 hours into my shift at work, it starts lightly snowing. Again, I didn't think much until I looked out the door about an hour later. I don't think I had ever seen that much snow in my entire life! And it was only getting worse. I had to leave work a little early so I wouldn't be stranded. It took me 2 HOURS to get home and it normally only takes me 15-20 minutes. Traffic was awful. There were so many wrecks! And I don't think I ever reached over 15 mph on the drive, it was bumper to bumper traffic the entire way home. 

This morning when I woke up, there were still a few inches of snow on the ground, but I was scheduled to work. I was a little nervous to drive, but I decided to at least give it a try. I left an hour early because I figured it would take me at least that long. So I started my trek to work. It wasn't too bad at first but as soon as I started going up a little hill, my car was not having it. Note: they put dirt on the roads to make it easier to drive, but since we had freezing rain just a few hours before, it became more of a snow/mud mixture. I was getting stuck on hills, swerving in the snow/mud mixture.. I was freaking out to say the least. But I kept driving. It wasn't until I got completely stuck on another hill (where I could hardly move) that I gave up trying to go to work. It took me what seemed like forever to get over that hill. I had to back up, then drive, and then repeat that process quite a few times. I was almost in tears. When I finally got over that hill, I decided to turn around and head home. I learned that I am not equipped to ever drive in such weather.. it gives me mini panic attacks. 

When I finally got back home, I got back in bed with my hubby (he is already off for our vacation that starts in 2 days for me). Later, we got up and decided to explore a little bit. We headed down to a nearby park where we took pictures, played in the snow, and made snowballs. When we were too cold to be outside, we went to Starbucks for some hot chocolate to warm us up! But we weren't done exploring yet. We headed to another park across the street for some more exploring and snow day activities. After about 3 hours, we decided to come home. We ate pizza, watched Dexter & played Call of Duty (these things make us happy). I'll probably bake some cookies in a bit, but so far, it's been the best snow day! Thank you Arkansas for giving me my first pretty & fluffy dry snow!!

Date Day!

Date days are my favorite. Date days are where Joe and I plan a day long date. Sometimes it includes doing one thing that takes up the entire day, other times it's trying to pack as many activities as we can into one day! Despite being married, date days don't happen a lot. Our schedules are never the same each week, and some weeks we don't even have one day off together! So we cherish date days whenever we can have them. This past Thursday, I was relaxing on my day off and Joe was going into work, only to find out a little bit later he had the day off. So we decided to have a date day! We left the house with no set plans, just to have fun spending the day together. 

What our date day consisted of:

- Taco eating at Local Lime

- Shopping at Nike, Charming Charlie & my (always favorite) Anthropologie

-Thrifting but finding nothing good

- Home Depot run where Joe looked at wood and I drooled over all the succulents

- Froyo eating at Yogurt Mountain 

- Jumping & flipping on trampolines at the new trampoline park, Altitude

(the next 2 days we were in so much pain)

- Target run where we bought 4 new dining chairs (they're so perfect)

- Movie night at our house where we watched Footloose, ate popcorn & chocolate and drank Coke

BEST DAY EVER.

Happy Birthday Joe!

This past week my husband turned 25! It seems like just yesterday we were celebrating his 24th birthday. He (unfortunately) had to work on his birthday this year, so he opened presents that morning and then I took him to one of our favorite places for a birthday lunch! We ate delicious burgers, laughed (a lot), drank bday milkshakes, and celebrated the life of my favorite person! 

But of course, that's not all I had planned. I couldn't simply get by by taking him to just a birthday lunch, so I waited. I waited until Saturday to give him a surprise birthday day! I had planned for a picnic Saturday afternoon, but it was far too cold for an outdoor picnic. Instead, I made homemade pizza and cheese fries and we dined on a blanket in the middle of our home. It was perfect! We then got ready and I made him wear a blindfold for our car ride to Playtime Pizza where we met up with some friends. We ate even more pizza, played laser tag, black light mini golf, pool and arcade games. We were having so much fun! We headed to Samurai next for dinner and stuffed ourselves with sushi, fried rice, chicken and lots of yum yum sauce! Fun fact about Joe, he is obsessed with anything Japanese! From Tokyo, to japanese food, to anime (and it has to be in Japanese.. he will not watch English dubbed anime), to whatever! He even taught me how to count to 10 in Japanese! When we finished, we said goodbye to our friends and Joe and I headed on a quick thrifting trip. Feeling discouraged because we found absolutely nothing while thrifting, we headed to Target. Because Target cures broken hearts. We were in Target for almost 2 hours & it was starting to get late. We made some purchases and headed home! Sang all the way home and cuddled up in our comfy bed as soon as we got home. A successful birthday celebration? I think so!

(I didn't bring my camera along on the birthday adventure, so these are the only three decent ones I had to document the day).

Thanks to all of our friends who helped celebrate the life of Joe!