THE SCARF SWAP!

In November, I participated in a scarf swap on Crystal Faye's blog. I was linked up with Bailey @ Life of Bailey.  Here is a few pictures of my loot. I LOVE what Bailey sent!

Happy Thursday! :) 

Our Life

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Thanksgiving 2012

We had a great Thanksgiving this year! We had Matt's grandparents over for a late lunch. Then we took a walk at a local garden and played Phase 10. It was a good and relaxing time.

It was such a pretty day but it made it a little difficult to get a picture since we were having to use our tripod and remote control BUT it helps with the memories nonetheless!

P.S. This makes goal number 45 crossed off of our 101 in 1001 list..."Host a Holiday in our home"

Giving Thanks...for the little things

To anyone who knows me, you know how thankful I am for the "big" things in life. My faith, my family, my friends, my job, my home, etc etc etc. 

Today, I thought it would be fun to share a few of the miscellaneous "small" and "big" things that I'm thankful for!

(in no particular order)

...salted caramel hot chocolates 

...our tea kettle

...ice cream

...my electric toothbrush

...this blog

...new clients for matt's photography business

...living in a city with a publix

...vitamin d milk

...the ability to travel and see family

...five guys burgers and fries

...an oven that works so we can prepare thanksgiving dinner

...a husband who is like a sauna when he sleeps because i know he will keep me warm

...the "quotes" section of pinterest; it's always good for a laugh

...new $7 shirts from Maurice's just because my husband loves me

...a growing scentsy, photography AND etsy business

...what 2013 will hold and all of the years after it

...being done with christmas shopping way before christmas 

...the means to christmas shop

...my sweet and not so sweet patients (;-))

Hooray for Winning!

I recently won a giveaway on Bailey's blog. The giveaway was for a Tervis Tumbler from Shop Crystal Faye. I was so pleased with the prompt delivery from Crystal. I love the cup and knew I would because I once worked at a store that sold Tervis items and I know they are good quality. Thanks Bailey and Crystal!

Check out their blogs and Crystal's shop :)

The Color Run

Months ago, Matt and I decided we wanted to do The Color Run in Charlotte. We signed up the day it opened and we have looked forward to it since! It was this weekend and honestly, it was a blast. Matt and I feel like we have been non-stop for the last few months so it was nice to get away for the weekend and do something extremely fun together! I love doing fun things with that guy. Here are our pictures. 

Here we are before the race, pumped and ready to go! 

 

Just before the race and all of the color!!

During the race, approaching the first color zone! 

After!!! 

  

I would say we cleaned up well! 

Cool thing...Our friends in Louisiana were also doing the race this day so here are a few of their pics too! 

This was such a blast! If you ever get the chance to run in the Color run---DO IT!! :)

Way to Go, Hampton Inn & Suites

This weekend was the Color Run and a post about that will come this week!

But for now I wanted to share a pretty cool story.

Matt and I decided to stay both Friday and Saturday night in Charlotte, so after the race on Saturday, we went shopping/walking for a while and then we grabbed lunch. We shared an appetizer of cheesy fries and then we each got a sandwich. Neither of us were able to take more than 2 bites of our sandwiches because we were stuffed so we brought them back to the hotel.

I put them in the refrigerator and we just chilled for a while. About 5 hours later, I went back to get our sandwiches and they were spoiled. Turns out the refrigerator was not on!!! We were so upset because it was about $20 worth of food.

Matt went downstairs to the desk and told them what happened and said we needed them to do something about it. The clerk said she would check with a manager and get back to us.

About 30 minutes later, she called the room and said they were giving us one of our nights FREE!! We had already paid but they gave us a credit on our card.

It was such a blessing and MUCH more than we deserved!

Thank you Hampton Inn and Suites, Concord, NC for taking care of your customers. We will not forget it!

The Best Fish that Ever lived

On February 8th, 2011, just a few weeks after we returned from our honeymoon, we purchased our first pet. 

We chose to get a betta fish and we named him Splenden. 

It was actually a treat from me to Matt on a hard day. He took excellent care of him. 

Last week, he began to act funny and we determined, through research, that he was likely constipated. We followed all of the guidelines to help him get better and we were so glad he was starting to look like he was getting better. 

Tonight, after a weekend out of town, (we took him with us because he had been sick), Matt was trying to move him into clean water and something happened and he went limp. 

Sadly, Splenden passed away. Matt and I both just cried and cried. We were both surprised at how much we cried but we just loved him so much and he was a part of our family! 

Splenden, Thanks for being an awesome fish and teaching us both about how to care for something else! We will miss you!

P.S. When I texted Mom to tell her, she said "So Sad. Need to replace him with a real baby boy!" Crazy lady!