February

  I absolutely have to admit that February is one of my FAVORITE months! When the calendar turns to February, I get very excited! :) Not only is my birthday in February, but it is also the birthday month for many of my dear friends!! When I was little, my best friend and I had birthdays 10 days a part! We always enjoyed getting to celebrate together twice! When I was in college, I had three dear friends whose birthdays were also in February! We would take our turns going to Lambert's to get our FREE birthday meal!  By the end of February, we were all SO TIRED of Lambert's, but it was a fun tradition that took place for 4 years with sweet friends! MANY memories were made!! Still today, several of my favorite friends share my birthday month and I am so excited to celebrate them!! This weekend starts our celebrations with a FUN girls day planned for Saturday! Wednesday is my actual birthday, and I get to have the day OFF with my husband!! :) Next weekend Wyatt is whisking me away to Chateau on the Lake! :) YAY!!

  We are hosting a BIG family Valentine's party this year and I am SO looking forward to that!! Time with our family is SO precious, we can't WAIT! Maddie, Zack and I have been planning and decorating and making crafts!! IT is SO much FUN! At the end of this month one of my sweetest friends will turn 30, so her and her cute little crew is coming to spend the weekend with us!! We have some really fun things planned!! :)  Whoo-hoo!!

   FEBRUARY, we are READY for you!!!! :):):)

Cooking

IF you know me at all, you know that I don't love to cook!! My mom is an AHHHmzing cook, so is my sister, so I have always let them do the cooking!! I love to bake, and be crafty and make ALL things beautiful!! :) But this year, one of the my biggest goals is to be more intentional about cooking and planning all of my meals out!! One of my sweet friends, Katie challenged me to think up 30 recipes that I can make/like to make, etc! I wrote them on little slips of paper and added them to a fabulous MENU board that I made super simply!! :) (It is now hanging in my laundry room!) I no longer have the excuse of not knowing what I am going to make for dinner because every Sunday, as a family we discuss what we are going to fix all throughout the week!! It is very fun, and has taken the scary-ness out of cooking for me!! We have cut our eating budget in HALF and it feels SO good to be cooking for my family each evening!! :) THANKS Katie for holding me accountable!! I love my new menu board!! (And if I was smart enough, I would post a picture of it on here!! Alas, I am not!! :))

10 YEARS! :)

This year, Wyatt and I will celebrate 10 years of marriage! :) I am SO EXCITED!! I have a bunch of little plans of celebration from now, leading up to our actual anniversary in June!! I have dates planned every month...some of them are we-get-to-go-out-dates, and some of them are late-date-night-in dates! I am SO excited about each of them, I love spending time with my husband SO much! Then in June, HE is surprising ME with a trip!! :) Whoo-hoo! Several people have asked if we are going to some where BIG for our anniversary, and I honestly don't know! My honest answer...I HOPE NOT!! :) (Crazy right?) We don't need anything fancy, we just need each other!! We have such a good time together! We don't run out of things to talk about, and we love being together! We went on a big, fun fabulous honeymoon, and it was fantastic! We didn't have any kiddos, we had two really nice incomes, and we lived in a townhouse! We had all the money in the world! Now, we are just content to be together! We love to even read books beside one another...we just like BEING together! That is what 10 years of marriage will do for you!! :) Needless to say though, I am excited that he has taken on this special task!!