Pest Control Anyone?

I have talked before about us living in the country. We are having a time with fruit flies, which are no bigger than gnats, but annoying. We have had some migrate to our master bathroom due to some of the moisture. There are not many, but just enough to drive me crazy! :)

My hubby had his own idea of how to get rid of them:

It seems to be working!

I have officially . .

experienced an earthquake! Honestly, I never thought I would be able to say that! Yesterday, while sitting in line at the bank drive through, the car I was in began to move as if someone from behind was shaking it. I thought it was just the car doing funky things until the teller comes across the intercom and asks if we were moving out there because they were in the bank. I thought, ok, at what point is the earth below me going to crack open and swallow us up?! I got out of the car to see if I could feel anything standing outside, and I couldn't. Felt alittle better. Shortly after I got back in the car the movement stopped. Not really sure what had just happened, I called around to family to see if they had felt what I just had. Some of them had, but most of them had not. Shortly after I got back to work, I read about the earthquake in Virginia and knew I wasn't crazy. Definitely a weird feeling that I hope I don't experience again!!!!

We live in the country. On my way to work this morning, this was in the middle of the road:

Go Gamecocks?!

Happy Hump Day!

Reading Spot

Our summer is slowly coming to an end :(

I said this winter that I would NOT complain about the heat that we have had this summer, and I really haven't. Although, it has been hot. I have enjoyed all of the pretty greens everywhere, the beautiful blue of the sky and the yellows and oranges of the sun.

I have been meaning to capture a picture this week to look back on in the dead of winter for some encouragement. Here is my evening reading spot:

I know it may seem like just a backyard photo. But for my little family, it is our haven. Jason chips around, Gracie watches all things in all directions from my lap and I read. We enjoy this little nightly ritual so much.

I will miss this November-February!

Almost Wordless Wednesday

Gracie in April

in August

I can't believe we let her get that shaggy.

The L Party and A First for Me!

This weekend, some of my brother's friends gave him and Clary a Liquor, Linen and Lace party. I have heard of these type party's before, but never been to one. It was fun and entertaining to say the least!

The party was at this neat little barn in the middle of the country! Actually, it was only about 5 minutes from our house.

My mom and dad surprised them with one of their engagement pictures framed beautifully. They LOVED this- I think best! ;)

The next several pictures are of a few games that some of the guests played.

In the first game, the boys are on one side of the room with a plunger between their legs.

The girls are on the other side of the room with a roll of toilet paper between their legs. I didn't include a photo of the end game, but basically the boys hop over to the girls and try to insert the plunger stick through the roll of toilet paper using nothing but their knees/legs. You get the picture :)

This game involved popping balloons in some compromising positions!

Good, clean fun! ;) I promise it wasn't as bad as it sounds, and actually was really funny. Again, never having gone to one of these parties, I didn't know what to expect. But, it was light hearted and fun!

Husband best friends!

Wife best friends! My sweet friend Lindsey is 3 months pregnant tomorrow! We are SO excited. We have prayed for this baby for awhile, and the Lord has been so gracious. Lindsey is just now coming out of the sickness phase. She had a really rough time, but thankfully is feeling ALMOST back to normal. Do you ever really feel normal pregnant?! . .

Successful Weekend

This weekend my mom and I set out to accomplish one thing- find and purchase her mother of the groom dress. We had an appointment at one place and one place only. I had not been to this particular place in about 9 years when I got my deb dress, but we had a really good feeling. We found it! I did take a picture but have sworn not to post. You would know the one we loved was in a size that was about 3-4 sizes to small. She was able to get in it, but that is basically it. Definitely no zipping up! We were laughing HYSTERICALLY. It was so funny. I had to peel her out of the thing several times. But, we came away successful!! Couldn't be happier!

While we were out and about we ran by Hobby Lobby. You know, it's just one of those stores that at one point I had an arm load of things that I could have used all over my house. I wasen't really thinking about where specifically in each room I was going to put everything. I ended up putting everything back a couple of different times. I need a game plan when I go back :) I did come out with this -

Ever since I have seen these, I wanted one to go above our mantle. I found our letters and the nice guy in the frame department hooked me up while we grabbed a quick bite to eat. I am so pleased with it. Jason liked it alot too. Once I get my game plan together for the whole mantle, I plan on going back and picking up all the goodies I put back!

Also, Jase and I have been engaging in a really unhealthy habit after supper recently, involving this-

Now, it is low fat ice cream. It is not low fat chocolate syrup.

Hello??!! I have a wedding in 9 weeks!

Back From Hiatus

I don't really know that you would call this last month a hiatus in real life, but most definitely a hiatus from blogging! It's not that I haven't had anything to blog about, just very little time to get it all down. This is my fresh attempt at blogging . . again ;)

What's new?


I finally graduated from my counseling classes. It has been a fulfilling 2 years to say the least. Though my riding partner and I got really burned out this last semester, and came up against so much spiritual warfare, we successfully completed the course. This was not through any effort of myself, I should add. I was so ready to throw in the towel more than once. As the fire got hotter, the more all I wanted to do was retreat to my safe haven. But, God showed me really quickly that I wasn't even safe there. It was a hard season, but a growing one and He never left my side. I am so thankful. So anyway, we are finished!! Yay! The next step is to go through the year long certification process which includes answering and submitting questions as well as actual counseling time. My goal is to complete this within the next year. I have not started to amount to much, but I am hoping that very soon, I will be off to a solid start. My mom has some great pictures from the Sunday we graduated which I will post as soon as I retrieve them from her camera.


My Aunt and I threw a shower for my soon to be sis-in-law at the end of June. We had a great time. I have a few pics, but Mom has more. I plan on doing a separate post on that as well, including photos!

We went to the beach at the end of July with our whole family! We had an amazing time, and just enjoyed each others company, the sand, the waves and the sunshine (when it decided to come out)! We had a few rainy days, but I still got my tan on. Here is what Gracie and I did one rainy morning -

Would you believe I didn't get any beach photos?! I am telling you, I know to be a successful blogger, you must have supporting photos with every post . . I must do better!

This is my first week back at work and it has been super busy. Again, we are thankful being that the real estate market has not been the most lucrative or kind market the past 2 years. My first day back at work was met with this pretty little something special -

I don't know whether to say ouch or gross first! Lesson learned. . after more than a week in flops, ease back into the work heels!

I guess that's about it for this first post back from blog vacation. We have a lot going on that I can't wait to post on!

Happy Thursday!