Weekend Update

This weekend:

Friday:

Watching this movie with Jesse. 

Let me know if you've seen it and what you thought!

Saturday:

Sleeping in. Going to the Farmers Market with Jill. 

Cheering on the Iowa Hawkeyes as they defete the Iowa State Cyclones, while drinking margaritas and bloody marys with Amber & Katie!

Relaxing at home, doing some cleaning and catching up on some must needed housework.

Sunday:

Heading to my hometown (about 90 miles away) to go on the river with Tim & Hillary

It should be a great weekend with amazing weather and great company! 

Happy 50th Birthday Mom!!!

So, yesterday this was suppose to post, but apparently didn't!  So, without further adue! 

Happy 50th Birthday to my lovely mother

She is an amazing person and I do not know what I would do without her.  We are so much alike it's great.  She has a great sense of style, AND I can fit into her clothes, so that's a + :-)  

She goes out of her way to make other people happier, even if it means doing something other than what she wants sometimes.

People love her for her kindness and for how genuine she is.  

I could not have asked for a better mother.  I think I am the luckiest person in the world :-) 

Thanks Mom, for everything you have done for Brandon and I. 

Have a wonderful day and I can't wait to be celebrating you're 60th, 70th, 80th, 90th, and even 100th birthdays with you :-)

Thankful Thursdays

Today I am thankful for:

• Winning an awesome giveaway!
• My fall shows returning!  To include:  Grey's, Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters, Private Practice, One Tree Hill, House, Medium, and I'm sure there's a few more! haha
• The thought of moving back to my hometown in a year, hopefully
• My Mother, today is her 50th birthday!  I'll post on that later
• My husband, as usual.  I just don't know what I'd do without him, he's great, wonderful, goofy, fun, loving and hardworking!
• My new followers!  Thanks for joining me, I hope you don't leave anytime soon because I'm not as interesting as you once thought! :-) 
• A 4 day workweek this week!  I'm loving that it's already Thursday and it's only our 3rd day of work
• A relaxing weekend at home coming up this weekend.  

What are you thankful for?

Head on over to Miss Honey Dew's page to get the new Thankful Thursdays button!!

Fall Swap!

Rachel over at History of the Harveys is hosting a Fall Swap!  Get in on the fun!  Who doesn't love fall, Halloween, and everything that comes with it??  The rules:

- Spend no more than $25, does not include shipping
- Send your partner a minimum of two items...it can be anything you want from decorations to stationary to something monogrammed since I know many of us out there love monogrammed items!
- Also, one more thing...since there are SO many great dishes out there for the Fall, you must include your favorite Fall recipe. I know you guys have some, so help your Blog Friends out by sending them a new idea for a Fall treat!

Head on over to History of the Harveys to join in on the fun!  You must e-mail Rachel at historyoftheharveys@yahoo.com by  September 18th, 2009.  Rachel requestes:   

Please indicate "Fall Swap" in the subject line to help me stay organized. Your email should include your name, email address, mailing information and blog address. It's OK if you don't have a blog, but make sure you email your buddy to give her a little insight on your likes and dislikes. I will list swap pals by Monday, September 21st. Packages must be sent out by Monday, October 5th.

I won I won I won!!!

The lovely Brittany over at Living in the Moment hosted a Workout Wednesday giveaway.  AND GUESS WHAT?!?!  I actually won it!  I could not be more excited because what is the prize you may ask?? Well, a gym bag of course!  It is so cute and will come in so handy! 

(and since I cannot upload a picture of the awesome bag, you'll have to go here to take a look at it!)

Brittany has an awesome blog that you must check out!  I can't wait, I'll probably be checking my mail daily to look for my new bag.  I cannot wait to use it, I know people are going to be very jealous when they see me walking in with it!  They may even think I'm a hardcore worker-outer :-) I sure fooled them with Brittany's help! haha

Thanks Brittany!!! :-)

Weekend Recap

This weekend was a busy one!  Friday night was spent running errands and doing a bit of shopping.  We grilled out and had delicious chicken & pork kabobs and twice baked potatoes.  It was sooooo good.  We then settled in to watch a movie.  To tell you the truth, I can't even remember the names of the two movies we watched... haha We headed to bed quite early only to wake up at 7:00am the crack of dawn!  We drove the 3 hours to Mankato, Minnesota to go look at a car that Jesse has been eyeing for a week now.  We arrived after a stop to eat some delicious artery clogging breakfast.  We test drove the vehicle and decided that it was indeed in excellent shape and drove quite nice.  It was just what we were looking for and had all the options.  They wouldn't move more than $100 on price, but it was already a good deal.  So, we offered something different, they said no can do so we left.... Eventually they knew that they called our bluff and we arrived back after just 1.5 hours of thinking it through over lunch.  We bought the vehicle and I allowed hubby to drive the almost the whole way back until we stitched for an hour. 

This, my friends, is the new to us new car we purchased. It's a 2005 Dodge Magnum RT.  Yes, it is a wagon, but it has a hemi! haha It has soooooo much room, probably enough to fit a dead body whole lot of grocery's in it! 

Anyway, so we were exhausted because we didn't get home until about 7:00 pm.  We went to Panera for some dinner (LOVE their soup) and then headed home to plop fall asleep in front of the TV for an hour.  

Sunday we got to sleep in, make some delicious breakfast, do some house cleaning, and head to my hometown.  Our friends Nick & Katie had a beautiful, healthy Baby Girl named Neenah Noelle. We visited them for about an hour or so, went to lunch with my mom and did some shopping.

Sunday night we headed out for dinner and bowling with my family for my mom's 50th Birthday!!! (It's not actually until Thursday, so I'll post a b-day post then!)

We headed home on Monday and didn't do much of anything :-) It was great.  Actually I did work on some homework and hubby finished the trim in the hallway, but after that it was time to relax and cook some dinner.  

Weekends go far too fast no matter the number of days we have!  I hope you all had a great weekend as well!  Enjoy your week! (Starting on a Tuesday!)

Stupid me forgot my camera!!! UGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Bring on the weekend!

So, you all know that I love to post about my upcoming weekends!  I'm very excited about this one, why you might ask??  Well because it's a 3 day weekend! AND my boss decided to close our office at 1:00 instead of the usual 4:30!  So that's an extra plus side to an already amazing 3 day weekend!

Here it is my friends, the weekly Friday post of the weekend plans!  Come on, you know you're excited!

Friday:  

Off work at 1:00! (sorry, I had to rub it in just once more)

Doing a bit of shopping & a few errands

Cooking on the grill with Hubby

Saturday:

Waking up early in the am to drive 3 hours to look at a car

My husband is a car guy and if you're married to a car guy, you know what I mean when I say that it's never easy for us to find a car.  He does so much research before we can even go look at it!  (Honey, if you're reading this, I love you! even if you are a bit crazy)

Then we'll head back home, 3 hours, with or without a car.

We get to spend yet another night home which is amazing! 

Sunday:

Sleeping in, FINALLY!  

Leaving around noon to head back home to my parents house to help my mom celebrate her 50th birthday! 

I don't know about you, but I think she looks much younger than 50!

We will be going out for dinner and then bowling.  She requested NO huge party whatsoever, she only wants the 6 of us there.

Monday: 

Oh, how I love when Monday's are considered part of the weekend!

We will be sleeping in and probably going to breakfast with my family.

Then we'll head back home and gear up for another work week.

I dont' know about all of you, but I started my grad class last week and it drains the life out of me!  Please help me and pray that I make it through the semester.  It's going to be a long one with this dreaded research class.....

What do you have planned?  I will be MIA from blogging until Monday, but I can't wait to catch up on my google reader!  Have a wonderful LONG weekend!! :-)