weekend/bday recap

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Birthday Giveaway here! 

Thanks so much for all of the birthday wishes on my last post!

I had a spectacular birthday. 

I do not like a big fuss made about my bday, low-key is my motto.

So, my awesome friends took me to Cracker Barrel for supper and then we had cake and presents at the house!

Saturday night one of my friends, Britt, was in a
Miss Georgia preliminary pageant. 

This was only the second pageant I have ever been to and apparently it was the longest one in the history of the world. 

{not that I would exaggerate or anything} ;) 

Instead of crowning just 1 queen, they crowned
4 queens in one night. 

Yeah, that took 4 hours.

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Despite the competition being so long, it was actually
kind of fun to watch. 

Not that I really understand the whole appeal of
competing in pageants.
It seems like far too much work for me. ;)

Afterwards we went to eat at Huddle House {the only place open} and Britt tried to eat everything
she could not have the past few weeks. 

She did a respectable job at eating all that food
but she was so sick later.
Unfortunately, she did not win this one but she still has several opportunities to win one! 

What did you do last weekend? 

day of birth . . . GIVEAWAY!

Today is my birthday

and YOU could win a prize. 

Makes perfect sense, right?!

In honor of my birthday, 

I am having a birthday giveaway of one of my favorite products. 

In this post, I shared my love of OPI. 
So, I thought it fitting to give away some OPI!

THREE lucky people will win one of the following items:

6pc OPI Brights Collection

OPI Femme De Cirque Softshades 2011 Mini Set

OPI Texas Collection Lil Shooters

Giveaway Rules: 

1. Become a follower or be a current follower {1 entry}

2. Leave a comment on this post {1 entry}

Extra Entries:

3. Refer your friends {5 extra entries for every referral}

Giveaway will close 8/11/11 @ 11:59 pm.

Winners will be announced 8/12/11.

Good Luck!

Disclosure: I am not being

compensated for this post.

I just love OPI!

swings♥

One of my favorite things to do is curl up in a swing/hammock and read a book or just relax. 

I was blessed to grow up in a classic southern house with a wrap-around porch. 

We had swings and rocking chairs a-plenty!

My granddaddy even built me a swing on the dock overlooking the pond and it was one of my favorite places to spend time outside.
For Oh, How Pinteresting Wednesday, I decided to share some of the fabulous swings I have found on Pinterest. 

Don't you just want to curl up in one of those and take a long afternoon nap?!

weekend recap

This weekend was a fairly busy one. 

I went to the farm & visited with the family.

I caught up on my snuggle quota with this handsome little man!

I cannot believe he will be 9 months old tomorrow. 

Time is going by way too fast.

And spent some quality time with his older sisters.

{who were not cooperating on the picture front}

I also worked on wedding stuff with Isa.

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It was nice to spend the day with Isa & her future sister-in-law.  

We finished almost all of her invitations. 

Let me tell you if I do not see one more purple ribbon in my lifetime, I will be perfectly fine with that. ;) 

We also got a lot of small stuff finished & nailed down. 

Overall, it was a very successful weekend!

lincoln park after dark

I am getting a desperately needed manicure this weekend. 

So I thought I would share my love for OPI nail polish!

I just love all of their colors, but my favorite 

thing is the names of their polishes.

I like browsing their website & just reading the names. 

Lately, I have been getting the OPI gel manicure

and I am loving it!

My manicure last for at least two weeks, usually longer, 

& I am not easy on my nails. 

My favorite colors are Russian Navy & Lincoln Park After Dark. 

But I like getting a different color every time.

And I am not afraid of getting something "funky" 
as my nieces call it.

Here are a few of my favs right now:

Do you have a favorite OPI color?

images via: pinterest

c25k update

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This week I started

week 6 of C25K.

I am continually amazing myself 

with this program. 

As y'all might remember

from my last update post, 

I was struggling a LITTLE bit

with running 90 seconds straight. 

Well, last Friday I ran (jogged)

20 minutes

IN. A. ROW!

I think this is some kind of

invasion of the body snatchers thing.

I have found that running

really is a mental thing for me. 

I know it may sound 

a tiny bit crazy

but I actually play mind games

with myself to just

keep my feet moving ;)

 My end goal is to complete a 5k

so I am trying not to 

focus on weight loss;

because I do not want to get discouraged.

So I have not weighed myself

since I started the program.

But I am measuring myself once a month.

And in the 1st month

I lost 

11 inches overall!

I was super excited about that. 

I will say that I still

loathe exercise

and I still struggle every

single time I run

but I am doing it and 

I am not giving up

even though I want to really 

bad sometimes.

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the end

This is my 1st link up

with The Vintage Apple's

Oh, How Pinteresting Wednesdays

and I decided to dedicate it 

to the final Harry Potter movie.

Mel & I have

already purchased our

tickets for the midnight showing. 

We are even watching Part 1 in theaters

again Thursday night. 

It is going to be a full night 

of Harry Potter awesomeness!

I have seen all of the HP movies in theaters

and while I still think

they do not hold a candle to the books

{what movie really does?!}

it has become a tradition.

Who else is seeing the final movie

opening night?

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