Fill in the Blank Friday

It's FRIDAY (finally!!) and time for Lauren's Fill in the Blank Friday. Make sure to check out her blog to join in :)

1. The most adventurous thing I've ever done is ... well, I guess I am kind of boring because I can't think of too many things for this.. but one time my freshman year (after one too many drinks..) at Virginia Tech, Vince and I jumped the fence at the football stadium in middle of the night. I know, it doesn't sound that crazy, but I could have been suspended from school if I had been caught.. haha (see... seriously boringggg)

2. If I were a pair of shoes I would be a pair of really cute high heeled boots... I know kind of weird.. but I love the fall and I looove boots! And now that the summer is ending I am starting to get excited about being able to wear them again soon :) .

3. My preferred mode of digital communication is.. well texting is obviously one of the easiest and most convenient ways for quick communication, but honestly.. I think I still prefer actually talking on the phone to someone best.

4. I feel happiest when I am with Vince and Ty doing nothing but lounging around the house ;)

5. A little dream I have for my life is to start a family... preferably sooner rather than later <3

6. The one modern convenience I could NOT do without is my GPS. I haven't even had it for 2 years yet and I already depend on it all of the time. I used to read maps or print out directions, but now I just look up an adress, put it in the Garmin and head on my way.. I have NO idea what I would do if I had to go back to real maps again lol.

7. Music, movies, TV or books: if I could only choose one to enjoy I would pick books. TV was definitely a close second choice, but books you can take anywhere and I really do enjoy curling up with a good book.

Happy Friday everyone.. hope you all have a great weekend! :o)

Thankful Thursday

I am thankful for Thursday night TV. Big Brother and Project Runway are two of my current favs ;)

I am very thankful that I got to spend the past weekend in Virginia with my grandparents. I miss not seeing them as much, so it was nice getting to have some quality time with them. 

I am thankful that I am friends with my hairdresser on Facebook, it makes it very easy for me to make random late night decisions to change my hair... haha.. last Thursday night I messaged her a picture of dark hair I was considering, and she messaged me back and said she could do it the next day. If I hadn't gone then and waited a couple of weeks I probably would have chickened out, but I am glad I did it :) Want to see??

So what do you think? (it's the only picture I have of it so far that wasn't a blurry pic from my phone) I am naturally dark blonde, but sometimes it's fun to change it up a bit haha.

I am thankful for a weekend that I can sleep in on both Saturday and Sunday. I have been very sleepy this week and am looking forward to catching up on some rest. 

Speaking of catching up, I am also thankful and looking forward to catching up with some friends this weekend as well! Friday night a friend is having a party for her boyfriend and then Saturday night we are going out with some other friends I haven't seen in awhile.

I am thankful for an unbelievably loving and caring husband.. we have had a crazy couple of weeks and he has been nothing but sweet the whole time. Love you <3

Happy Thursday! :o)

Fill In the Blank Friday

I know, I know.. I have been MIA recently. Honestly, there is no real excuse, I normally blog in the evenings after work and I just haven't been on the computer much at night lately. So I apologize and I am going to try to be much much better this week!

Besides.. nothing too exciting has happened in the past couple of week, so you didn't miss much haha. This weekend I am heading down to Virginia to see my grandparents for the weekend. Just me, Vince has to work until about 10:30 tonight and since it's 6 hours away if I waited for him it would just be too late to drive that far... but I am actually looking forward to a weekend with just them. They have been like second parents to me, and when I was at Virigina Tech I used to go down to see them all of the time and I really miss that. So anyways, those are my plans for this weekend.. what about you guys? Anything fun or exciting going on?

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OK.. now on to Lauren's Fill in the Blank Friday. You all know how much I love my TV shows, so this weeks topic is perfect for me ;o)

1. My favorite current TV show is One Tree Hill. I am seriously obsessed. I have never watched it as it has aired on tv, but around Christmas time last year I randomly bought season 1 on dvd and ever since then have been hooked. This past week season 7 got released on dvd and I pre-ordered it so I could have it delivered on the release date (see? I told you I was obsessed).

2. The TV character I can relate to most is hmmm this is a hard question... even though there are a few characters whose lives I would LOVE to have.. I'm not sure I can honestly say that I can relate to them all that well (but sometimes I wish I could haha).

3. My life is like (fill in with TV show and why).... I am going to go with Friends for this one. Not that I live in the city or anything like that.. but because I have a core group of really close friends who are all completely different, but also completely inseperable. I think partly because Vince and I have been together for so long we have all of the same friends and over the past 10 years have all just gotten really close.

4. My all time favorite TV show is Beverly Hills 90210. (the original version!)

5. A TV show that is ridiculously stupid, but I continue to watch is Big Brother! This is season 12 and I think that it just continues to get more and more ridiculous every season, but I really can't help but watch (and that show is on 3 times a week, so at times it's a lot of stupidity to deal with. lol).

6. My favorite TV couple is.. this is by far the easiest question on the list (and I know Vince would agree with me on this one..).. Chuck and Blair from Gossip Girl. I. LOVE. THEM.  

7. One TV episode I could watch over and over again is the final 2 hour episode of Dawson's Creek. I know, it was soooo sad... but it was also SO good! 

and just a little side note... even though I listed a number of different shows I watch on  here, it no where comes near to the list of all of the shows I love to watch ;o) just to name a few more tv addictions for me: Grey's, 24, Lost (so sad those last two are both done!), Brothers & Sisters, The Hills, The Bachelor/Bachelorette... and really the list goes on and on.. (I watch way too much tv, and I know it!)

Happy FRIDAY! :o)

Thankful Thursday

I am thankful that I have been SO busy this week, because it has made the days just fly by!

 I am VERY thankful and excited that they started digging for our house this week! We went in on Monday for a pre-construction walk through and as soon as the meeting was over, the guys were out there working... I am also thankful that the builder is going to be emailing us weekly with updates and pictures of the progress (not that I won't be driving by constantly too haha)... here are a couple of the pictures I got today:

I am thankful that on Tuesday next week One Tree Hill season 7 comes out on dvd.. I have recently bought every season and watched every single episode and can't wait to see the next season (I am hooked, can you tell?)

I am also really happy and thankful that on Monday I was able to have a meeting with my boss to go over my 1 year review and it went SO well! Even better than I could have hoped for :) (not that I thought it would be bad or anything, but getting reviews always make me a little nervous haha)

I am thankful that at yesterdays golf outing (I was sponsoring a contest for work) I remembered to bring a big tent, so even though it was extremely HOT outside I was able to stay in the shade most of the day.

I am NOT thankful that the groomers SHAVED Ty on Sunday. I specifically asked for them to just TRIM him.. but Vince picked Ty up and when he came into the house I almost cried! (yes I know realize that is pathetic.. but I did say almost.. I didn't actually cry or anything haha) Now don't get me wrong I still think my little man is adorable, but he just looks so different to me and I miss his long shaggy hair.. I am praying for it to grow quickly! You have to see before and after pics to truely appreciate the difference:

BEFORE:

AFTER:

  

I am thankful for random lunch dates with my hubby <3 We don't get to do it all of the time, but every week or two we are able to meet up for a quick lunch together and it's just a really nice little break in the day ;)

I will be thankful tonight if Rachel gets voted off of Big Brother. She is such a drama queen and I really can't stand her crying anymore.. ughh. Plus it will be interesting to see Brendon on the show without her around..

Well hope you all have had a good week so far.. THANKFULLY it is Thursday and almost time for another weekend :o)

Truthful Thursday

So occasionally on Thursdays I do a "Thankful Thursday" post about all of the things that I am thankful about that week.. but today I thought I would switch it up a little bit and write a "Truthful Thursday" post. Not that I am not always honest on this blog, because I promise I am.. but I think once in awhile it would be good to also comment on some of the less than perfect things going on because the truth is no one's life is perfect and we should learn to appreciate that every now and then..

I really am happy that my family is doing well and loving living in St Louis.. but truthfully I still get sad and lonely a lot. I know I have Vince's family here, but it's just not the same.. there are days when I would do anything to have my family move back to Pa.

 

As you know I am living at my in-laws house while our new house is being built and it is going better than I expected.. but to be honest there are times I want to pull my hair out. It's nothing specifically that anyone has done wrong, it's just we need our own place.. sooner rather than later. haha

 

I eat pretty healthy most of the times.. but that doesn't mean I always want to eat healthy. Truthfully, I LOVE fast food. Gross, I KNOW... but there are days I just crave chick-fil-a... mmm, just typing it makes me want it now haha

 

Vince and I talk a lot about moving one day out of state, maybe North Carolina.. but truthfully, I think if we actually started the process of moving I might chicken out. I do want to move, and I do love NC.. but there is something nice about having grown up here and knowing so many people, it may just be too hard to leave. (but then again, there are downsides to knowing so many people here for so long too.. sometimes you just feel like you are still stuck in high school)

 

I talk a lot about how much I like my job, and I DO. I promise... but would I give it up to start my own business if I could?? Heck to the yes!! Yes, I like my job, but truthfully it's not my dream job. I probably will never have my ideal dream job (which is why it's a dream haha) so I have no intentions of leaving this one.. no job is perfect, but I really shouldn't complain because I do really like it.

 

and lastly... I truthfully really want a baby... like badly. We talk about it a lot and are ready to start our family, but it hasn't been as easy to do as we would have hoped. I just keep telling myself god knows more than I do when the right time is so I need to just stop stressing and let it happen.

 

 

 OOOK... so that's enough honesty for one night haha jk. I will probably go back and forth between Thankful Thursdays and Truthful Thursdays... it's nice to change it up every once in awhile ;)

Happy Thursday!

 

Not Me Monday

There were not 30 of us all from high school who went together to our friends wedding in West Virginia (some of the 30 were significant others of those from high school). I did not have an AWESOME time hanging out with some of our close friends and catching up with some of the other friends I hadn’t seen in awhile! :)

The ride down was not a really fun early morning trip. We did not start off with bloody mary’s and mimosas at 8am. (everyone BUT Vince who was being the responsible driver for the rest of us.. thank you Vince! )

We did not all end up deciding about an hour before the rehearsal dinner to rent a coach bus to take us to and from the dinner. (it ended up being a very smart choice considering the dinner was about 40mins from the hotel and no one was in the proper state of mind to be driving back haha) The bus ride back was not one of the highlights of the night. (it was like open mic night the whole way back haha)

We did not wake up Saturday and all kind of stumble down to breakfast in our pj’s trying to wake up and figure out what to do all day since the wedding wasn’t until 5pm.

Those of us who were not in the wedding party did not decide to go bowling that morning. We did not end up having a ton of fun.

The wedding was not GORGEOUS with tons of beautiful flowers EVERYWHERE. The reception was not SO. MUCH. FUN. And did not sort of feel like a mini high school reunion (you the kind that is only filled with the people from high school you actually want to see instead of the awkard conversations with people you never liked anyways.. haha)

We did not all end up at the hotel bar until the wee hours of the morning (taking wayyy too many shots).. some of the pictures prove that we all got a little sloppy towards the end… lol

The following morning did not consist of lots of bottles of water and advil for everyone and people passing cameras around looking at all of the pictures that are way too embarrassing to ever been seen online.. hahaha

There were not a lot “only in West Virginia” comments throughout the whole weekend.

The ride home Sunday did not seem a LOT longer than the ride there. (all our severe hangovers may have had something to do with that..)

I am not excited that I will see most of the same people again this coming weekend for another friends wedding!

I also am not SUPER excited that the season finale of the Bachelorette is on tonight! I do not REALLY want her to pick Chris… and am not praying that reality steve is completely wrong in saying she ends up single..

( MckMama normally hosts the Not Me Monday every week.. but she is currently at the hospital getting ready to have her baby! Congrats to MckMama and the rest of her family!!)

Hope you all had a great weekend and happy Monday! :o)