Wordless Wednesday

Weekend Recap

Not that anyone cares about what happened to me moment by moment but nevertheless I am going to post a few details from my weekend...

Friday morning I got up at early (6:30--this might be considered normal for some people but I don't work Fridays, so I should sleep in). I wanted to have breakfast ready for Dave when he got home from the FD. I made flat pancakes (this is his mom's recipe and we love them), turkey bacon and fruit salad. It was yummy.

Flat Pancakes

6 eggs
1/4 cup canola oil
1 cup low fat cottage cheese
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup 2% milk
1/2 Cup flour
1/4 tsp. Salt
1-1/2 TBS sugar

Combine in blender. Pour out on Hot griddle that has been generously sprayed
with PAM. Enjoy!

After breakfast I went to have my hair trimmed and highlighted (which was very overdue). I went home to see Dave off on his Weekend Boy Adventure at Durhamtown Plantation. I went to my favorite little place for a pedi/mani...I know I am bad...I was due a little pampering.

Friday night was Jose and Lindy's rehearsal dinner.

It was at Brookwood Church and Jose's mom and aunts had prepared a wonderful Costa Rican dinner. I had a lot of fun catching up with friends and reminiscing about our old theme parties...

Friday night Mellissa and Tina (our friend from Ireland) spent the night with me. We had so much fun! Saturday morning we woke up late and went to Waffle House for breakfast- then back to the house to get ready for the wedding festivities. Jose and Lindy could not have asked for better weather. It was absolutely wonderful outside and the Brookwood Church amphitheater is the perfect place for an outdoor wedding. After the ceremony (which was conducted in English and Spanish) we all headed to Soby's for the most amazing wedding reception ever.

(notice the ring bearer-i think he needed to potty)

After another sleep over that included soaking our very tired feet...Sunday we went to Sky Top Apple Orchard. We took Diesel along for the fun.

After a very eventful weekend I came home to a sleeping husband who was exhausted from his weekend. We went to the grocery store and got a stuff for grilled cheese and soup and rent a movie. I cooked dinner and we were on the couch watching the movie...of course I was asleep half through the movie.

Pumpkins!

Wednesday night Dave and I carved pumpkins. It was so much fun- I hadn't done that in years. We had a contest to see who made the best pumpkin- why don't you vote? Dave is at the FD tonight and leaves in the morning for a "guy trip." I will be busy all weekend with Jose and Lindy's wedding. It's going to be an exciting time!

Fall = Hunting Season

For a fall surprise I got Dave a tree climber deer stand. It is pretty neat how it works- but I am not good at! Dave took me to the hunting club he joined this past weekend. It was pretty neat...I saw one deer. We are planning on going camping there in the next few weeks.

Wordless Wednesday

Mondays...

The most dreaded day of the week for most! Though it always seems the world has fallen apart at work over the weekend I am just thankful I only have 3 days left in the week! WoooWhoo!

This is going to be a super busy week so I will go ahead an apologize in advance if I don't post again until next Monday. Dave will be at the FD Tuesday and Thursday of this week and then he leaves Friday morning on a weekend trip with some of his guy friends. My friend Lindy gets married this weekend so there are all sort of wedding festivities to be had! Weddings are great but this year I have had my fill so I will be glad when they are over for the year. Next year we already have two weddings going on...one of those being Dave's younger brother Ben's wedding.



Tonight we have Bible study...then I have got to fold laundry when I get home. Clean laundry is exploding out of my laundry room! If I don't get to it tonight the clean and the dirty will get all jumbled together.

Happy Monday!

you gotta love a clean house!

i hate cleaning the house...but love it when its done! since dave is at the FD today i spent the day cleaning...well that is after i got out of bed at 11. lazy i know! thursday night dave and i went to my parents to spend the night and we hung out there most of friday. friday night we went to a wedding shower for friends of ours. this has definitely been the year of weddings for our group of friends. oh and we got the copyright release on our wedding pictures...that was exciting and so much fun to go through. here are a couple of my favorites...

i made it

i made it!!! through the night that is at our house. no waking up at 1am to drive to someone else's house because i heard scary noisies. i did it and i am proud! i fell asleep just fine- a matter of fact Dave called me at about 11 to check on me because he had heard from me to say i was going to bed...and he woke me up. i did wake up around 2:30 and had a little trouble falling back asleep but i just reminded my self the Great Protector was watching over me.

i am excited because after i get off work today and Dave finishes up this job he is working on we are going to my parents to spend the night. we haven't spent a lot of time at my parent's house since we got married. we are going to pick up bellacino's (my dad's favorite) on the way there and tomorrow dad and Dave are are going golfing and me and my mom are going to hang out. fun times!

Struggles...

I love being married-everything about it I love...well except one thing that I had thought would be easy to adjust too but it hasn't been. With Dave being a fireman every 3rd day he is at the fire department for 24 hours. Some wives might count it a blessing to have 24 hours all to themselves, but my issue is I hate being alone at night. Being a scardy-cat is something I have dealt with since I was a small child. Since we've been married I am been making the 45 minute drive to my old roommate's house to stay with her...but that has got to stop. When I am at home alone at night I just don't sleep well at all. I am a light sleeper with Dave there...I practically don't sleep when he is gone. I know that fear is not from the Lord and I need to give it up. Please pray with me that I can overcome this fear! Tonight I am going to try and stay at the house by myself!

crazy busy weekend.

aaaaaaaaaah. i love the weekends. we got a lot done around the house. we took the shutters off the front of the house and painted them black. i took pics but i don't have my camera with me today at work. it looks awesome...much better than the washed-out hunter green color. i totally missed my friend amanda's baby shower...i thought the invitation said it started at 12...as i grabed if off the fridge on my way out the door at 11 i realized it said it was from 10-noon. i need to pay better attention! i bought dave a tree climber stand for hunting. we put it together friday afternoon and then he did a little demo so i could see how it works. he then wanted me to try it...not a good idea...i ended up about 10 feet in the air and then fell. tree climber stands aren't made for girls. oh and my favorite part of the weekend...saturday morning we sleep in a little bit...till 8:30- and then we went to waffle house. hmmm good. i love that place!

ready for weekend

I am so glad today is Thursday. I love weekends! (who doesn't?) I've got a lot going on this weekend tomorrow I am helping Dave clean a newly built house in the Cliffs, Saturday I have a baby shower for my sweet friend Amanda, Saturday night Dave and I have a birthday party to go to, Sunday I am going to my parent's church for pastor appreciation Sunday and then I am racing back to GVL for a lingerie shower for my dear friend Lindy who is getting married in 2 weeks! So far this month as already been packed with a fun weekend and the rest of the month is jam-packed with things to do! Below are a couple of pics (sorry they are so blurry I forgot my camera and these are from my phone) from the Michael Buble concert I went to last Saturday with my friend Sarah. We ate at an awesome new restaurant in downtown GVL called Stellar. They have awesome cheese fondue!

(Oh and just for the record the reason we look like we are so close is because we were...Sarah won 3rd row seats!!)

I (heart) Wednesdays!

I love Wednesdays!!! Mostly because Wednesdays are like Thursdays in my work week since I don't work Fridays! One more day! Yahoo! I am blessed to have a great job were I was able to set my own hours (I work from 7-4) and I don't work Fridays! I am the office manager at Dillard-Jones Builders, LLC. Lots of people have asked what do you do Jessica? Well alot- everything from collecting the money to paying it out to punchlist and walk-throughs to handling complaints or praises. There is rarely a dull moment. We build some awesome homes. Check out our website at http://www.dillardjones.com/.

Happy October

I can't believe it is already October. Its seems like I just got married last month...which would have been June. It is amazing how fast time flies! A couple of weekends ago Dave and I woke up at 5 in the morning to go meet some friends to drive to Columbia, SC so Dave and Mike could run in the US Marine Corp Mud Run.