Nothing to say

I have been in such a writing funk lately, I feel like I just haven't had anything interesting to say.

So, I am doing a post of randoms today. Here ya go:

1. The dresser project did not happen as we said it would. The Mr. and I could not decided on what color to do. I really want to be able to accent with pillows and stuff, and so I'm afraid to do any color that will be to loud. I need a neutral that will go with our bedding as well, any suggestions?

2. I started Weight Watchers. Its going pretty well. Its a little difficult to figure out the points value in a homemade meal that I didn't make. Do you know how to do this? 

3. I miss my wedding rings. Did you know that when you go to get your rings sized and re-dipped in white gold that they have to send it away for 2 WEEKS!?!?!?!?! I miss my rings so much! I haven't taken those babies off since that day(s) I got them. I sleep and shower in them and NEVER take them off. Seriously. So, I am counting down the days until February 21st to get them back. 

4. I'm putting together a pretty awesome Valentines gift for my huney. :) I have gone back and forth for several weeks on what to do for him, and I think I may have found exactly what I want to do for him. YAY!

5. I'm longing for friends. Ryan and I have gone to a mega church in Houston for about 3 years. Now that we are in Pasadena, a good 30-45 minutes away from our mega church, we decided we would start trying out churches closer to home so that we could be more involved. This journey is a hard one. I miss the new friendships we were beginning to develop at First and am longing to go back. Ryan wants to be at a smaller church that is closer to home so that we will actually be able to be involved, but we aren't really finding what we want. We just really want to be around other couples who are around our age so that we can grow and learn and be in community with them. Its so tiring and frustrating. Please pray for us. 

6. Spring is a comin. I can not wait for spring/summer. I am not one for cold weather and I can not wait to put on my sandals and shorts all the time. Praise the Lord for winter being mostly 70 degree days. :)

7. Today I miss being a florist. I really miss using the creative side of my brain all the time. It was such rewarding thing to be able to do whatever I pleased design wise in my job. I truly loved the times I could spend on flower arrangements and gift baskets. I day dream consistently about opening my own shop. How much fun would it be to open a studio where I could create everything I've dreamed up for people!?!? Oh, the day. 

8. I love my husband more today than ever. Life is short and we take it for granted. I am a nag. Not all the time, but enough to get on my nerves so I know it gets on his. But guess what? He is so wonderful to not hold it against me. That man loves me and I know it. I am so grateful for him. 

9. Michale Kors. I'm currently obsessed with most things MK. He is a genius.

10. THESE DARN BREAKOUTS ON MY FACE ARE KILLING ME!!! (Side note: Before I got on birth control, I never had breakouts except for 2 days during my monthly cycle.) I have been on 2 different kinds of BC in the past 9 months. The ENTIRE time, I have had some MAJOR breakouts on my chin. They hurt and I look crazy. I started using a different cleansing system on my face, every morning and night, like a good girl, and still, I look like a 12 year old girl going through the change for the first time. It blows. 

That's it. My randomness for the day. 

Maybe tomorrow I will have something more productive to say. 

Thanks for being here. Seriously, you are loved. 

<3

Britt

I did it and I feel good!

Today, I joined Weight Watchers!

I am super EXCITED/NERVOUS!

I can't wait to attend my first meeting, I can't wait to drop my first 5 pounds. 

I am so glad that I finally am to my breaking point. 

I deserve a better life than this, my husband deserves a better life than this. 

So, I officially weigh in on Monday. 

I will keep you all posted. 

Im dying for the accountability. My husband is great and all but his whole frame is 145lbs and he has 2% body fat and he eats ICE CREAM all the time! 

So, I need a different kind of accountability!

YAY! 

Sorry I have been MIA this week! We have been SUPER BUSY at work this week!

Love!

B

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!