Girl Time & Cinderella

I had the best weekend. My two best friends, Anna and Jana, live hours from me, so we only get together every couple of months. We love musicals, so when we are together we frequently are going to plays. And this time it was to see Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella in Nashville.

The girls got in Friday evening, and one of our old, college buddies, Lark (who just happened to be in town, joined us to hang out and watch the live-action Cinderella movie (are you sensing a weekend theme)?

My friend Jana just went through a hard break-up, so as a joke we bought her a voodoo doll! But when were going through the spells included with the doll, they only had good spells. Leave it me to find the one friendly voodoo doll on the internet.  They teased me so hard about that!

Saturday morning, we drove up to Nashville. We stopped over at the Cool Springs Galleria first for shopping and lunch at the Cheesecake Factory! What a wonderful meal! I had the refreshing, falafel salad and a white chocolate caramel macadamia nut cheesecake. So amazing.

We took a nap after shopping at our hotel before getting ready for the show. We enjoyed the show so much! It was beautiful, charming, and funny. It is NOT the Disney version, so it definitely had its differences, but the basics are there!

We sipped on "glass slipper" cocktails, and we bought "Glass Slipper" knee socks (because glass slippers are so in right now). 

After the show, we hit up Jack in the Box for some late night grub. I was so excited because we have no Jack in the Boxes in my hometown, but it was a big haunt of Adam and mine's when we lived in California. Like many of things I have tried again post weight-loss surgery, it wasn't as good as I remembered. But I think all fast food is like that for me now!

This weekend was totally wonderful and much needed girl time for me. I spend way too much time with the boys of the house. I just can't wait to see my girls again!

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ThrowBack Thursday: February 2011

I count 2011 as the year I really got into Green Bay Packer's football. We were watching a game pre-super bowl where the Packer's played the Atlanta Falcons. The Falcons were a hot team that year, and I just assumed we would lose, but the Packer's blew them away! After that, I was pro-Packer's all the way. So when we went to the Superbowl that year, we threw a little party. Isn't Sarah adorable in her Packer's bows? We miss her so much. We won that year, and we celebrated forever!

Early that February I got to mark off a long awaited item on my bucket list, learn how to make Sushi. I enjoyed taking that class so much, and learning a little more about my favorite food.  Mine didn't turn out too pretty, and I would need a refresher course to do this again, but I was super proud of myself.

That Valentine's Day I put together a little scavenger hunt around the duplex to guide Adam to his gift. I got that little idea from a game that I used to play with my cousins when I was younger. We had so much fun doing it, we ought to do that again!

I was totally obsessed with that show D.C. Cupcakes! And I just had to try them! I couldn't fly to Washington D.C., so I flew Georgetown Cupcakes to me. It was a little pricey, but I have no complaints, they were so delicious! Although I am wondering 3 and a half years later, is the cupcake craze dead?

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Throwback: November 2010-January 2011

I didn't start posting regularly on this blog until 2011, so my posts from 2010 are pretty sporadic. But these cover the holiday season of late 2010 and some of early 2011!

This was the first Thanksgiving meal I ever prepared. I'm still impressed that I pulled that off, with only a few hiccups (and  a few tears). That kitchen was so small! I literally had only one small counter to work on, but somehow I was able to pull off pretty decent meals in our little duplex! I can't wait to see what I pull off in the new house! 

Christmas 2010 was our first and only Christmas that we did not see one of our families over the holidays. It was nice because we were really able to join both of the traditions we had growing up, while also making our own. I thought it was so fun that we both got each other slippers, and my mother gave me a kitchen aid mixer (which I promptly made this cake with to christen my lovely new machine). And isn't Sarah the cutest? I miss that little furbaby so much still. 

This was the first post where I shared a little bit about our love of the Green Bay Packers. I'm pretty sure this post was done on the same day we learned we were going to the Super Bowl! So I just had to do a post and share all the superstitions Adam participates in to keep our team wining! And yes, he still does all these things and has added new ones to the list! Maybe this year, I'll have to do an updated post with his new superstitions. 

Throwback Thrusday: September 2010

Now that I have amassed nearly four years of content on this little blog of mine, I thought it would be fun to do a little throwback and take a second look at the past.  I have to give all the credit to Steph from The Loudmouth Lifestyle for this idea!

Back when I was still living in California, my mom would occasionally fly me home to visit with her or to see my friends. Now that I'm living back in Alabama and only miles from her, she no longer funds my vacations. Which is somewhat depressing! Being a grown up is hard....and expensive. But back in September 2010, she bought me a plane ticket when one of my best friends from college, Monique, married her best friend, Clark, in Atlanta. I was so happy to celebrate her and it was the most beautiful wedding (This also happens to be my first blog post)!

In September 2010, the now common wedding photo booth phenomenon was just coming in to vogue. This was my first time seeing a wedding with a dress up section. We took some of my favorite pictures I have ever taken with these girls at Monique's wedding. I have always been obsessed with my little old lady look in the first picture. 

I did a little post on how much we wanted to go back to Washington D.C., which is where we went for our Honey Moon (First Anniversary Trip) in April 2010. I still remember that trip so fondly. Paddle Boating on the Tidal Basin! The Walking Lincoln Assassination Tour! The Smithsonian! What a wonderful city.

I still love a good board game night. And I took these pictures on one of our epic Monopoly nights. Monopoly just happens to be my favorite game ever! By the way, if you can secure the red properties as a Monopoly, you are just about guaranteed to win. Always works for me.

This post is epic, only because this is the first post where I talked about our beloved Green Bay Packers. Plus, it has Sarah, our old Golden Retriever, sharing her Packer Pride. This is also the year we won the Superbowl. I would like to think blogging about the Packers that year is what gave us the good juju for the ultimate win!

That month we celebrated our Four Year Dateiversary (I love to celebrate everything)! This is the first picture we ever took together. I love it because we look so young, so naive, and so had no clue about what we were getting into.

But isn't that what being young and in love is all about?