Happy Monday!

Does any one else feel like Mondays come the day after Friday? I feel like Saturday and Sunday go by WAY to fast. It makes me so sad when Sunday nights roll around, just knowing I have to set those alarms and wake  up at 6am. What a bummer!

That's okay though, because this weekend was fabulous!

Ryan and I had very specific plans of re-finishing our dresser, but once we got to Home Depot on Saturday morning, we could not agree on the color of the dresser. I really wanted to use Krylon spray paint, but did you know that neither Home Depot or Lowes had very much to choose from? It was such a let down. So we put that project on hold until we could agree and find the right color and spray paint. I am going for a robins egg blue, like super soft and appealing. Do you know where I can find a can of spray paint that's the brand KRYLON in this soft color blue? HELP! Please. :)

So, on Friday night when I got home from work, Ryan and I ventured out to the land of large people (Kelly's Home Cookin) and had breakfast for dinner. I felt so out of place there, even though I'm not a size two, It was just sad to see all the incredibly overweight/unhealthy families in there, chowing down on some monstrously large plates of food. It was kind of gross. 

While we were eating our not even good food, the little man sitting behind us, he was 3, came over to our table with his mom and mom said to me, "My son would like to say hello to you mam" and I said, "HI!" Then his mom looked at him and said, "Go ahead" and the little 3 year old boy in his Levi jeans and cowboy boots, leaned over and WINKED AT ME! It was hilarious! Ryan and I were dying with laughter! I told Ryan he better watch out, that little man was spittin some game. 

After the grossness that was dinner, we went to Home Depot to get the stuff for our project, which they did not have, and we wanted to price some lumber to make our headboard. Fun night, right?

Saturday morning came and Ryan and I had to run a few errands, to the alterations place to hem my new 4$ jeans from GAP, and then to LOWES to get our supplies. Since that didn't work out either, we headed into Marshall's to pick up a gift for Ryan's cousin, Haley. She turned the big 2-1 last week and we had a big family celebration Saturday afternoon. It was AWESOME! We got to her parents house at about 1:30 and it was such a beautiful day that we sat outside until almost 5pm. It was so great! :)

That night consisted of resting until about 8:30 and then we decided to go on our date. The plan was to go to dinner and then a movie at 9:30 or 10pm. We wound up eating at a really nice restaurant, called Cullin's, and didn't even get our food until 10pm! It was NUTS! So, movie was out, especially after our $130 dinner. (Seriously, no steak or crap is worth that amount of money!) 

Sunday we got to sleep in, and I actually slept in until 10am, which is a record for me since I am usually an early riser. We got up, had breakfast, I cleaned, did laundry and got ready for the day. We went a saw a movie, "Man on a Ledge", which was AMAZING! Seriously, go see it, like yesterday! :) Then we just enjoyed each other and went to try out a new church on Sunday evening, it was all older people, like a nursing home, so we quietly exited, then I made banana pudding for Ryan. It was quite the day. 

This week I am praying for patience, self control, discipline and for us to be able to find a new church home and peace in driving home in traffic every day. Please pray for my grandpa who is having surgery on his knee tomorrow, he fell last Thursday and broke something in his knee and will have to have some pins put in. 

Thanks for reading all this. I really appreciate each and every one of you. 

Much love!

Britt

It has been...

One of those weeks. 

I have been a crank all durn week and am so happy its Friday because that means that I can come out of my funk tonight. 

This week was full of junk. 

1.Monday, I woke up late and made the hour long trek into work and then it rained all stinkin day and made me wish for my bed. 

2. Tuesday, I had to wake up and spend my morning in the DPS office to change my name, since I got to marry the Mr.

3. In leaving the DPS office, I got pulled over by a "make me so mad I want to cuss" cop. He called me sweet heart several times, told me he wasn't trying to ruin my day and then preceded to write me a ticket for $260. 

4. I ate TERRIBLY this week. Seriously, self control out the window. 

5. My face decided to break out so bad that it actually is hurting. 

6. I had to start a new birth control. Which is making me VERY emotional, (and break out.)

7. I had the privilege of babysitting for my favorite family on Wednesday, which I love, and then drove home for an hour in bad traffic. Awesome. 

8. Thursday morning, I spent a little bit of my morning in the Social Security office, to change that name. 

9. Thursday afternoon, I left work at 5:30. I didn't get home until almost 7:30. Talk about peeved. I was ticked. 

10. Husband and I had an off week. I was super emotional and needy all week and expected way to much out of my awesome husband, and He could not fulfill all my needs, which is okay, I just didn't appreciate him this week. Sometimes I wonder why God gave me such a wonderful man. I do not deserve his goodness. 

Its Friday and I am praising Jesus for that. 

Ryan and I are going to start on refinishing our dresser tonight, I am super excited about that! Its going to be beautiful! I just know it is!

Tomorrow, we are going to sleep in and I am going to wake up and cook an amazing breakfast in bed for my man and we are going to frolic outside most of the day and celebrate Ryan's cousins birthday. Then guess what tomorrow night is??????

DATE NIGHT! 

People, if you are married, please make sure you go on a date with your man at least once a week. Weather that is to Which Which or The Cheesecake Factory, make it a night just the two of you and get out of the house. Heck, you could even do a picnic. It doesn't have to be fancy. You need intentional time alone together. 

I am so ready for 5:30 I can hardly contain myself. 

Praise the Lord for Fridays. 

Sorry I spent 90% of this post complaining about my "H" of a week, but sometimes, a girls just gotta vent. 

Thanks for "listening".

Much <3

B

What "WE" are gonna do this weekend...

Hey Friends!

I am SO excited to call all 29  of you "friends". What an exciting number! I have been so adament lately about blogging, and let me tell you, I love it! Hopefull we can get to the big 3-0 by the end of February. Fangers Crossed! ;)

On with what I set out to write about today...

Ryan and I are a little different on the decorating side. Well, frankly, we are different on just about every single side. So, in planning for our "May 1st Move Out of the In-Laws", I have begun 'pinning' away lots of ideas on pinterest for our new humble abode. Let me tell ya, I am SO EXCITED!!!! I can barely contain myself when I think of all the little projects I am going to do. 

With that said, Ryans idea of style is basic and brown. Mine is, well, NOT. 

My sweet sister, Julie and her husband, Simeon, gifted us with this not so pretty awesome 6 drawer long dresser when they moved up to Portland last fall. We were thrilled to be given such an awesome piece of furntiture but I must say that I have wanted to paint that sucker since the second we got our hands on it. Its screaming at me every morning for a little TLC, and so this weekend our not so beautiful dresser will get a complete makeover. Here is what I am going for:

Our dresser is shorter and longer...but you get the idea. 

Isn't she a beauty? 

Our bed room is currently in a state of finding her/his identity, since we are in my husbands childhood bedroom, clad with all his hand painted surfer dude labels. (He is still a surfer, but out of that "I gotta let everyone know Im a surfer" stage-PTL!) SO, we are slowly but surely going to find our identity. 

I told Ryan that since He gets to make all the decisions in our life, Im making all the decorating/cooking decisions in our life. He can and will let me have this one. :) This is why I love him.

This is the comforter that we ended up buying after the wedding. We love it, but we haven't completed the look yet. I am struggling with what color to do the accent with and what color to do our curtains. I am doing the robbins egg blue for the dresser, what do you think for the accent on the bed and curtains? I dont want to go TOO crazy here, since it is a room that should be relaxing, so any help at all would be awesome! 

Ryan is going to make me a cool headboard one of these days, but for now we have a giant clock that was a gift from a wedding shower. 

AHHHH.....Im rambling. Sorry guys. 

Please feel free to give me any imformation/help you can in the color area. 

Much love people!

B

Wedding Whoops!

Jenna over at Recently Roached is doing a link up today on wedding blunders and let me tell you, I laughed so hard when I read hers, that I just knew I had to tell the world about what went "wrong" on our big day.

First off: My Dad was so sweet and such a mess when we walked down the aisle. His crying made me cry so hard right before I walked down, I felt like all my make up was crazy! Then, as we walked down the aisle, the beautiful song that we played, (Beautiful by Rescue), completely messed up because our pastor turned on his mic. Awesome. 

2nd: We decided early on that instead of doing the traditional unity candle we wanted to take communion as our first act as a married couple. I put Ryan in charge of the simple task of getting the bread and wine for us to partake in. So, as Natalie and Seth got up to say the prayer and read scripture, I looked at Ryan and he had no idea where the stuff was that he bought. So we just stood there, as the song played, staring at each other and quietly laughed. It was awesome.

Three: Our AWESOME pastor, David, is a wonderful speaker. We love Him. With that said, He likes to take looooooooonnnnnnnnnnnggggggg pauses in between sentences. So, of course, when it was my turn to say "I do", I said it midway through His talk. Wrong time, Britt. Everyone laughed at me. So, I just looked at him and said, "Well, Im ready!" :)

And LAST but certainly NOT LEAST: Ryan's best friend, Zach, who was the Best Man, was so sweet to take care of us that day. He was such a sweetheart and dumped an entire bucket of birdseed on our heades, just as we are about to leave for our trip. Isn't he sweet?

This is Zach, and the said bucket of birdseed. 

This is right after it was all dumped on us. 

And this is me, giving Zach the look of death love, and pulling the birdseed out of my dress. 

Awesome right?
They were all blunders but they all made the day fun and carefree. Sometimes, we brides tend to get a little to stressed out and need to get the stick pulled out from our behinds.
Do you have any fun/ traumatic memories from your wedding day?

Much love peeps!
B

Feeling like a pro

On Friday, I decided that my blog needed a little TLC.
She was looking a little crazy and amateur, so I looked up some different ways to be able to spice her up a bit and boy am I glad I did. Doesn't she look great?!?!? I am so proud!

Ryan and I took advantage of the weekend and got away for a night. We came out to the Camp, where we got married, and stayed at the Lake House. Its awesome to be here and get away for a night.
So, with that said, I am going to take a nap with my already napping husband!
Love yall!

A girl can dream!

If you don't personally know me, you should know one thing about me.

I am a dreamer. 

I think it is one of my greatest and worst qualities all at once. 

With that said, you should know that I am a woman who has ALWAYS struggled with her weight. I can't say I am fat, but I can say that I am overweight. I know how to carry myself pretty well, but I have gotten to a breaking point. 

I got married a month or so ago to an extremely good looking man. Yall, He's HOT! He is tall, lean and has a friggin 8 pack. I mean, husband is not hard to look at. He's perfect with His 2% body fat. (jerk!)

So, after being naked married with Him for said month, I am finally at a point where I have got to get going on the work out/eat right train or our physical relationship is going to suffer. So, I am gettin back on the band wagon. 

This is NOT a New Years Resolution. This is a life resolution. This is the breaking point. My goodness! Im so uncomfortable and sick of being the big girl. My tummy has gotta go. 

Im not going to be all brave and post a half naked picture of myself on here like some other bloggers, but I will post the most unflattering picture of myself and tell yall I am at my too high weight of 185.

Im this girl, closest to ya, with the belly. Shudder. 

 I've been this heavy for a few years now and it just cant be any more. Ryan loves me regardless, but yall He deserves a wife who cares about her body and wants to honor the Lord with it. I have dreams to have a flat tummy, a thiner face, fit arms. This can happen, right? 

Here is my inspiration:

We are going to the beach this summer and I am DETERMINED to put on an itty bitty bikini for the first time in my life. I know I will never be a tiny size 0 or 2 even, but I know that if I work hard, I can have the best body possible. 

"All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful but sorrowful, but for those who are trained by it, yeild the peaceful fruit of righteousness." Hebrews 12:11

Please pray for me, for my discipline and determination. I get down really easily on myself and give up really fast. Sometimes I just dont know how to keep going. 

If you have any suggestions, or words of wisdom, please share. 

Thanks for letting me be open and honest. 

B

Weekend Recap

This past weekend was one of those spectacular weekends that go by way to stinkin fast!
I guess its because we were so busy, but I hate that the 2 days where you are so happy and have fun and time to relax, you are bombarded with time flying by your head.
This past Sunday, the 15th, was my 24th birthday. It was one of those birthdays where you know that you are older but it doesn't feel like you are older or that its your birthday. It was just another day, which is so sad because I love birthdays, but this one was just an ordinary day. I should go ahead and stop myself and let you know that my amazing husband did a great job helping me celebrate on Saturday night though.
I'll start with Friday.
Friday night Ryan met me at work, since we live an hour away from anyone else in my family and I work on the side of town where they all live, and we headed to Katy to The Red Oak Grill to meet up with all the familia.
My grandparents, aunt, uncle, cousins, and 2nd cousins all gathered at the grill and laughed and oodled over some cute kids while enjoying a rather yummy spread of burgers, potatoes and salads. It was great to have the family together and enjoy a good meal.
We got home around 9:30 and of course I was pooped, because I am a grandma and I went to bed at about 10pm. Yes, I am lame.
Saturday was a great day!
I woke up around 9am and watched some Greys Anatomy, had some breakfast and waited on my man to wake up. He is always a late sleeper, and I am always NOT. He finally woke up around 10am and we hung up with the parentals for a little bit, then headed to Channelview.
Ryan had a job interview last week that we were praying to go our way, so we decided to go and look for an apartment in that area.
We looked at 2 different units and fell in love with one of them, but wanted to wait to see what happened with Ryans job. I guess the Lord has a different plan for us, because Ryan did not get the job. We are praying for the Lord to provide him with a great job so that He can provide for our family. (Side note, Ryan is amazing and is working so hard to find a job, Im so proud of Him.)
After apartment hunting, we stopped by the Marshall over in Channelview, since its a newer one, and found a TON of baby stuff. (No! I am NOT pregnant! One of my good friends is having a baby shower this weekend.)
Then we headed home and I took a little nap and Ryan started to scheme.
About an hour later, I woke up and was instructed that I was not allowed to come down stairs. I had to stay upstairs until He was ready for me. So, I cleaned the bathroom and bedroom really well and then took a nice long shower so that I would be somewhat presentable for our date night.
Ryan came upstairs and got me around 6pm.
I walked down the stairs to a very dark room and some beautiful music playing in the back. I walked into the kitchen and this is what I saw. :)

The lovely dinner Ryan prepared for me.

Isn't my man amazing?!?!?

His parents were so sweet to leave us alone for the evening, they had made plans to hang out with some old friends. 

We ate dinner, had amazing conversation, great dessert and watched the Miss America pageant. (Yes, my man is awesome enough that He put up with Miss America for the evening with me.) 

Around 11pm we were so tired so we headed to bed. The days of staying out until 3am are long gone. 

Sunday, we got up and tried out a new church, that we didn't love so much, headed home and watched the Texans game, took a nap, and went out to dinner with all of Ryan's extended family for His grandmas birthday. It was a sweet evening with people we love. 

Thats it for my weekend recap. Hope you enjoyed it!

Im fixing to take my lunch break and go take a nap in my car. Im EXHAUSTED! 

Much love to you peeps!

B