Coffee Date

First of all, I want to tell you how blessed I am to be sharing my heart over @ Simply Helping Him today.  I am explaining how my priorities are different now and what a blessing that TRULY is!

AND...I finally make a Coffee Vlog!!  

Super excited to be linking up with Alissa from Rags to Stitches today!  

Happy Friday ya'll!

Copy Cat Closet – Oversized Shirt

Sniff, sniff…this will be my last Copy Cat Closet post for awhile.  I really LOVE linking up with Ma Nouvelle Mode & The Grant Life every week!

I’m taking the month of October off to move and regroup.  No fear though!  I have a TON of AMAZING woman telling their stories and sharing themselves in my absence! 

That being said, check out this week’s Copy Cat Closet – Oversized Shirt!!!

Natalia is ADORABLE in her inspiration per usual!

What do you think of what I did?  I wore this on Saturday night for a girls night out for my friend's birthday dinner.

 Earrings:  Lia Sophia

Necklace:  Lia Sophia

Bracelet:  Lia Sophia

Shirt: hand be down from my aunt

Jeans:  Gap

Belt:  ???

Shoes: DSW

Me, Myself & I

I’m linking up for the Me, Myself & I linky with Breanna @ My Beautiful Crazy Life.  When I saw the linkup advertised on twitter I thought it sounded like a fun way to get to know some of our fellow bloggers a bit better.

So here we go!

1. What is your biggest phobia?  I am scared to death of clowns and when I was in elementary school I read this easy reader book about vampires (yeah that’s WEIRD!) and I think I’ve probably been scarred for life since!!!  But in all honestly, I’m probably terrified most of something happening to my husband.  I run all these ridiculous scenarios through my head somedays about how I would handle things if something happened to him!  It’s really quite awful! 

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2. If you could relive any day of your life, what would it be and why?   I would relive the day our 4^th child, our little girl Julia, was born.  I knew that she would be our last baby and I would relive those precious moments over and over knowing I won’t ever experience that part of life again.

3. If you could choose to stay a certain age forever, what age would it be?   Can I put my 31 year old self back into my 21 year old body???

4. Which celebrity do you get mistaken for?   People used to tell me they thought they knew me when I’d never met them before.  That used to happen a lot maybe 10 years ago ish?  But as far as celebrities?  Nada.

5. What songs are included on the soundtrack to your life?

1)  Motorcycle Drive By – Third Eye Blind

2)  Total Eclipse of the Heart – Bonnie Tyler

3)  Boston – Augustana

4)  Anything But Mine – Kenny Chesney

5)  Grow Old With You – The Wedding Singer

6)  I Will Follow – Chris Tomlin

7)  California Love – 2Pac featuring Dr Dre

8)  This Is How We Do It – Montel Jordan

9)  Unchained Melody – The Righteous Brothers

10) How He Loves – David Crowder

The Girl Behind The Blog - And I ramble...kinda like my voicemails

I'm WAY excited to do another installment of The Girl Behind The Blog with Ashley from 5ohwifey and Nicole from Our Crazy Beautiful little story.  

They posed some questions and here I go with my answers:


Ooops:  Need to learn to be more concise.

Quest, the LOVE rock & Doritos

3 little girls, a love of Doritos & plaid Christmas choir dresses with lots of crinoline.  Oh and don’t forget the mountain dew or the .25C dues….

God Bless the USA was the presumptive BIG HIT and Quest was the name of the band.

TRUE STORY people!  TRUE STORY!!!

2 of my besties growing up were Al & Ceece.  Loved them then AND I STILL do!!!  Seriously, FANTABULOUS ladies!  Back then …gosh how old were we guys?  8-10ish?  How old are you when you are in the 5^th grade?  Am I even right on the ages here?????

Me and Al

 

Ceece

Anyway, doesn’t matter.

What DOES matter are the memories we made.  

You see we had a band.  The name of the band was Quest.  (Not to be confused with A Tribe Called Quest.)  We met…gosh was it once a month… the details on some of these things are hazy but what ISN’T is how IMPORTANT it was to us and how much FUN our meetings were.  I mean we honestly never actually landed a gig.  What we DID do was a lot of planning.

The meetings I remember the most were at Ceece’s house.  She lived right by a creek and we used to spend hours walking up and down that creek exploring and laughing and talking and imagining countless things.  Down the creek from her house was this HUGE flat rock in the middle surrounded by the shallow water.  For some reason we called it the “Love Rock”.  I have no idea why!!  Do you guys remember?  Our band photo shoots were going to take place on the “Love Rock”. 

Our moms were going to do our hair and makeup . 

Our outfits were going to be these INSANE (and by INSANE I don’t mean a good INSANE…but back then we thought they were AWESOME!!!) red plaid dresses with lots of crinoline that twirled when you danced…those we were going to “borrow” from the 5^th and 6^th grade choir Christmas program closet at our elementary school.  WHO would actually let us borrow them?  Well we didn’t get that far…nor did we think that part through.  

You know to kids the sky is the limit!!!  Anything is possible. 

Snacks were of the utmost importance at our meetings.  On the menu?  Doritos & Mountain Dew!!!!!!!!!  AMAZING!!!!! 

We also collected dues to support our band….I am pretty sure the dues were 25cents a person per meeting?  Perhaps THAT’S why we never really made it…..

Our songs for Quest were good!  Inspirational one might say although a little too close to the originals…God Bless the USA was a favorite…perhaps THAT is why we never really made it…..

Regardless of WHY our band didn’t exactly get off the ground what did was our friendship and our life there in the country.   We were innocent and loved our little lives.  

And now as an adult I look back to those days and am SO thankful for those memories.  SO THANKFUL for this story to record.  So THANKFUL that I can still very much call those women friends.

Perhaps we should have a “reunion” over Skype with Doritos and Mountain Dew.  BUT, since we are all SAHMs perhaps the dues will have to be nixed all together!!!

Girl Behind the Blog - patience & a link up!

Well, this was an interesting challenge…I wonder do I REALLY look and sound like this in REAL life?  Hm…well anyway…

Ashley @ 5ohwifey & Andi @ the hollie rogue are hosting a pretty cool Girl Behind the Blog link up party!  I think it’s going to be SOOOOO FUN to see what everyone looks and sounds like in “real life”!!

The topic of their choosing:  What you've been learning...

So this is what I’ve been learning…

Here’s the link to the Mom Heart as promised.  I hope it will be an encouragement to you!!

Can’t wait to see what everyone else is learning!