Garage Sale Season

Ya'll, I love GARAGE SALE SEASON! It's my favorite! I like to be thrifty & find it to be so much fun looking for something so adorable, yet inexpensive! It is sad how much we actually throw away & believe it or not, people buy things & wear them once! Seriously! My mother in law bought a BRAND NEW Hobo purse last weekend at a garage sale. How cool is that? It was $25.00 & they retail from $200-$300.00!

Today me & Avery went with our friend Alyssa shopping for garage sales! We started off early this morning with a coffee & then headed on our way! We found some great deals & didn't even spend $20.00! Alyssa found all kinds of goodies too under $20.00 & one of those included a nice crystal punch bowl! We love doing this kind of stuff. I can't wait for my next garage sale outting, next Friday! I plan to start doing "Garage Sale Friday's" & will share with you everything that I purchase!

So, what all did I get?

Love these bracelets- $1.00 & will go perfect with my new Orange Dress!

This yellow platter was $2.00! Perfect for all the showers & parties I love to have!

My favorite purchase, get ready... for $.50!!! It's Vintage & the sweet older lady had it for at least 40 years! It's in great shape & I plan to use it as an extra diaper bag!

Perfect stand for parties! Only $2.00!

H & M Dress- $5.00!



...TOTAL SPENT TODAY- $10.50!

My friend Dina took these pictures on her phone so they aren't too clear, but here are some pictures of me teaching class today! We always have so much fun yelling & screaming our way through the tough parts of class!

Lauren teaching the lunge track, ouch! I had certification with her & Vanessa who is in the orange! Im so proud of Alyssa, she is in the black on the far right, hehe!

Here I am teaching back, booty, & hamstrings!

Obviously avoiding the camera...

I just had to share these pictures today of my sweet babes! We are planning a nice evening together just the 3 of us!


Can't wait for tomorrow night! GIRLS NIGHT FOR MY BIRTHDAY!!!

Movie Night & Orange Dress

Tonight I enjoyed movie night with the girls! We all got together to see, "Date Night" & it was hilarious! I laughed through the entire movie!


I got alot of e-mails & comments on the Orange dress I wore yesterday for my Birthday. You can find it HERE at New York & Company. This is one of my new favorite places to shop! I love how it's professional & classy, yet edgy too! The awesome thing about this dress is it was JUST $16.00! I even had a $10.00 off coupon since I shop in their so much which made it $6.00! Can't beat that! Check out their website!

I love these too & want to go back & get these soon!

Birthday fun & surprises!

Today couldn't have been any better. I woke up to several texts & phone calls wishing me a Happy Birthday! I also got several phone calls stating that they heard my name was on the radio & that I won a gift card to a local restraunt! My mother in law entered my name in a drawing for Birthday's & I won! What a great start to the day!

Avery & I got up & around & headed out for the day. We started off the day with lunch. Aunt Sassy & Alyssa treated us to lunch at Las Palmas, one of my favorite lunch spots! I love Mexican food! We all split fajitas! YUMM!!!!

Tiff surprised me with these beautiful tulips but told me I couldn't get my gift until this weekend! I love tulips & these were just beautiful! Alyssa surprised me with a nice gift card so I could shop! Super sweet! The best part about it was the sweet card that put tears into my eyes!






We took some pictures outside because there was this great brick wall & it was just too pretty to not take pictures in front of! Alyssa is GREAT with the camera so I asked her to snap several pics of us in front of this wall & I just loved them! I wanted to capture every second of Avery's first time with Mommy on her Birthday! I thought they turned out so great! After lunch we headed to the mall for some shopping! We enjoyed purchasing a few accersories & hanging out all afternoon giggling, what we seem to do best...








After a fun afternoon I went home to freshen up & get Avery settled since my mom was watching her all evening. Chad kept telling me to hurry because he wanted to get somewhere before they closed. I couldn't figure out what it was or where we were going. So we just drove around town & finally ended up at the camera store. YES, CAMERA!!! I got a new camera for my BDAY! It comes in on Monday- I can't wait to pick it up! I am so excited. I have been wanting a new good camera for a year now. I love capturing all of life's precious moments & to get this was seriously a dream come true! Chad, you are AMAZING!

Avery playing before Granny arrived!

Before our date!

My new camera!!!

At dinner with my Bday cake & candle!


After dinner we enjoyed shopping at the mall! It was nice walking around holding hands & enjoying the fresh air.


Following dinner ws COLDSTONE BABY!!!! My favorite treat of the night! Don't hate, you know you want it...

Thank you friends & family for all the well wishes. This BDAY was just perfect! More BDAY fun with friends to come this weekend!

Sassy shoes for my Birthday!

My Birthday is tomorrow & I am so excited! I love any reason to get dressed up cute & celebrate! All of my wonderful girlfriends are taking me out to dinner & out for a fun night on Saturday night. We are going to one of my favorite places to eat, Wasabi! It's going to be some wonderful Sushi & I can't wait to splurge that night! I have been trying to eat good all week to prepare for that & my cake! There are so far 16 of us getting together so I can hardly wait! I bought an adorable black dress today & found some fun shoes to go with it.

Tomorrow is going to be great! My sweet sister in law & adorable friend Alyssa are treating me & Ave to lunch, our choice! Then Chad is taking me out to a nice romantic dinner for the evening, just the 2 of us while Granny watches Avery. I can't wait to spend my Birthday dinner with him & enjoy a nice glass of wine.

We had a great time celebrating with Chad's family on Saturday night & his mom cooked a wonderful meal! They gave me some BDAY money so I am anxious to buy some summer clothes for this new body! They are so sweet to me. My parents are celebrating with us on Sunday evening so it's going to be a full week!

Speaking of Birthday, I wanted to show you these sassy shoes I got! I am totally in love. These shoes are just so much fun. I have already worn them with a jean skirt & they were just too cute! I think I may need the black one's too!

Avery's purple photoshoot

So over the weekend my friend Melissa's twin sister was in town for the shower & asked if she could take some pictures of Avery for her website! She took these amazing pictures! She took tons but here are a few for now. I should have the rest in a few weeks. She is just so talented & so great to work with. If you didn't see the one's she took from the shower, visit my post before this one. They are awesome!

Check out her website HERE!

Baby Grayson's BABY SHOWER

Today was a very special baby shower for our friends Chad & Melissa Stafford! We celebrated with tons of their friends & family & baby Grayson who is scheduled to arrive in just 5 weeks! We are beyond excited to see this little guy!

I was stoked when Melissa asked me to help with the baby shower. There were 6 of us girls total that put this adorable shower together. We were each in charge of something different & I was so nervous because they wanted me to do the decor. It is totally something that I LOVE to do, but wanted to make sure that it was more than pefect for Melissa. I am a woman of detail so I wanted all of those special touches that made every single thing pop! Laying candles & little flower arrangements throughout the space that everyone will be mingling in really makes it feel warm so I tried to capture that throughout.

She loved everything, to say the least. All of us girls did so great chipping in helping... the food was divine & a beautiful presentation at that, the cake was to die for & matched everything perfectly, & the fellowship was amazing! Enjoy the pics of this fun baby boy shower for the Stafford's that we all had a ball throwing for them!

This is Grayson's nursery so I wanted to do a lot of color & theme based on his adorably cute room. The drapes in his nursery match the main table decor at the shower, but aren't seen in the room pictures below because they weren't finished yet.


Melissa's "Candy/Craving" table! We put together her favorites all over this table along with the treats she craved the past 9 months!




The scoops for the candy along with the bags we had made to match the invites:

The chocolate fountain display:

We all enjoyed taking some pictures & mingling...









The main table was just perfect, classy, & delish!









This cake was PERFECT, & to die for!



I loved this arrangement! I made it to match for the front door, I got everything that I needed to make it at my favorite- Hobby Lobby!

Melissa's twin, Amie, had this made- adorable!

On the table in the living room:

At the entry way. Everyone signed the frame!



Everyone had such a nice time celebrating...








Also, check out the awesome pictures that her sister took of the shower today, HERE! She took tons of Avery's pictures while she was in town & I can't wait for you to see her work, she is amazing! Once she has them completely finished I will post all of her wonderful shower pictures!