Rest of the night randomness...

I cannot believe that tomorrow is the first day of MARCH!!  And we are expecting snow.  Tennessee weather has to be the most random weather ever.  One day we can be wearing flip flops and the next day it is snowing!!  Never a dull moment! 

My new job, well I started in December, is going great!!!  I love working with my kiddos and have met some really amazing people!  Also, I am working at my home church's Mother's Day Out, and I absolutely love it!! 

My schedule is different, but I don't mind it at all.  I feel like I am doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing now. 

I started wearing foundation again.  I had stopped for maybe over a year, I can't even remember, but I have rosacea (sp?) and it flares up every once in a while, and I just need better coverage.  Also, my powder was not looking good, so I decided to start taking the extra time in the morning to put on foundation.  I have been much happier with my makeup lately :)

I started painting my bedroom so I can get some things done.  I really could not find something I truly loved for the bedroom that would not be too girly and not to manly for when Lou moves in.  Well, I was looking on pinterest and saw a color palette and I knew that was what I wanted.  I went to the Home Depot to pick out paint and got a few samples, and then Saturday just decided to go for it and bought the paint and started the process.  Half the room is done, and I plan on finishing the rest this weekend, because if it snows I won't be getting out, unless it is to Sonic. 

I am obsessed with scarves.  I have bought a few new ones and just love to wear them!!

I stopped at a new little store in the town I grew up in, and where I work at MDO, and they had these really cool non-slip headbands.  I bought a navy and white swiss dot one and LOVE IT so much I went back this afternoon and bought a black one!!  I have never liked wearing the hard headbands because I wear my reading glasses all the time and they start to hurt my head, but these are great!!  I have tried to squeeze my eyes and move my head in every which way to get it to come off and it hasn't!!  I can wear it all day!!  Also, these headbands benefit an amazing charity called AMAZIMA.  For each headband sold it provides three meals to a child in Africa.  The young lady who started this charity is from Middle Tennessee, but has done amazing work in Africa. 

I am soooo ready for Spring.  Ready to wear my flip flops.  Ready to wear capris.  Ready to sleep with my windows open.  Ready. 

I am also excited about finding a wedding photographer and finally picking an accent color for my wedding.  I just get excited thinking about it!! 

I have been tracking my calories and working out a lot more since I have got to get this weight off to fit into my wedding dress and I am proud of myself for really thinking about what and how much I am eating.  I want to do it right. 

I think that is all for the night. 

Valentine's Day 2013

Lou and I are not huge celebrators of Valentine's Day, but for Christmas I had bought him tickets to a concert in Nashville that happened to be on V Day.  I had not really heard any of the songs of this band, but was going to go to spend time with Lou.  

Well, the day before Lou called me and said he had free tickets to the Preds game.  I asked him what he wanted to do since they were his tickets, and he said he would rather go to the hockey game!  WOOHOO!!!  Not that I didn't want to go to the concert, but I was so excited we were going to the game instead!!  

(Even before we met I had gone to Preds games, but it had been years since I had gone, 

so once we started dating, I was excited to start going again!!) 

I met Lou at work that afternoon and we went to one of his favorite stores, and then went to eat at one of my favorite restaurants in downtown Nashville.  

We went to park the car and had about 45 minutes to kill, so I took a quick nap in the parking lot - Haha!!

Our seats were way up in the nosebleeds, and I am excited to have free tickets, but being up that high makes me so nervous.  I don't feel good about standing up and cheering when they score, so I usually just sit there and watch.  I know I am a chicken.  

Well, we went in and thought we would try to get our seats upgraded and to check about getting some engagement pictures done in the arena with the ice down.  Well folks, they put us 6 ROWS FROM THE ICE!!!!!!!!!  OH MY WORD!!!  Lou kept laughing at me because I was just staring at the players during warm-ups.  There are some good looking hockey players!!  It was just so cool to be that close!!  I will admit it was a little harder to see the whole game and my neck got a workout, but we were so thankful for the opportunity to sit so close!!

Mike Fisher - Carrie Underwood's Husband

Pekka Rinne at the goal!!

The Face-Off

Lou and me :)

We had a great time and excited to go again soon!!

Also, I told Lou that I wanted to buy him a new hockey sweater and get his name and favorite number on the back.  He told me not to, but he does so much for me and I wanted to do this for him, so I told him he could pick out which one he wanted and what he wanted on it, or I would have to guess and that would probably not be good - haha!!  

Here is what he picked out and I love it and he loves it too!!  He even bought a new shirt to go under the sweater.  It looks so good on him, and I am just happy to be able to do something for him!!

It was a great day all around and I could not have asked for a better Valentine's Day - even though we don't really celebrate the day - haha!!

My 33rd Birthday!!

Yes, I am well over a month late on posting about my birthday, but better late than never...
My 33rd birthday was on a Wednesday, and I get to work at 6:15 am on Wednesdays!  I made sure to get up and curl my hair so I would attempt to look cute, and I think I did - haha!!

On Wednesdays, I get off work around 11 so I headed to the restaurant I have been going to on my birthday for years!  Mom and Lou met me at the Franklin Chop House!!  Nothing fancy, but I love going there and it has become a tradition for me :) 

I went over to Lou's after lunch and took a good nap - another birthday tradition for me :)

Lou gave me my birthday present and I am SOOOOOO excited because he gave me tickets to see ELTON JOHN!!!!!!!!!  He is coming to Nashville in April and I am pumped!!  He is on my bucket list. 

The day after my birthday I went to dinner with Ashley and Miss Lyla and we tried a new Mexican restaurant and we ended up going on Trivia night!  We almost won!!!!  It was fun and we plan on going again soon!

All in all I had a great low key birthday.  Just the kind I like :)