I Wanna Wednesday's

I LOVE to shop!  This fun fact is no surprise to anyone who knows me :)  Shopping of me is like, well therapy, really it is.  I can be in a funk, ill, or just blah and I can walk into one of favorite stores and it all disappears.  As, any good great professional shopper knows…you always have a "I Wanna List"!

What's on mine?  Well, here is just a few…

This is a beauty to me!  I love me some animal print!!

I am hoping to have this as my new Spring, side kick….

It can be found here:

Tory Burch Website 

Come on what girl doesn't like Instagram….

I can do some major shopping, just off Instagram.  I highly suggest, if you are a iPhone user that you download this app now and start following.  I can't even tell you how excited I get when I check the mail…It's like Christmas year around. 

The Red Dress Boutique

I adore this young ladies website!  The fact that it is Athens, well that makes it even better!

Now, if I could only, shop, tailgate and cheer on my Dawgs - all in one day!!

Ladies you need to check it out….she has amazing items!

The Red Dress Boutique

Close to the Heart

Mom & I - Relay 2013

Reid & I - Great Strides 2013

These two.  Yes, these two in the pictures here.  These two.  Yes, these two hold pieces of my heart.

These two.  Yes, these two battle a disease everyday.  These two.  Yes, these two, one with Cancer, one with Cystic Fibrosis.  These two.  Yes, these two are both survivors, one in remission, one making strides everyday.  

These two.  Yes, these two hold pieces of my one heart.

These two are why I relay, both for Cancer and Cystic Fibrosis.

Please take a moment out of your day and look at both the links below.  Your donation helps!

Relay for Life - 

       I relay for my mom!

                                     http://main.acsevents.org/goto/Hartsfield

Great Strides, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation -

      I stride for my little boyfriend, Reid!

                                     http://fightcf.cff.org/site/TR/GreatStrides/40_Georgia_Atlanta?team_id=16919&pg=team&fr_id=2047

You will never know how much your donation, big or small will make your one heart feel…..

Please look for updates and more information coming to the Community & Charity Events Link on my homepage.

I'm Back!

Well, hey y'all!  How have y'all been?  I'm back and with lots of fun facts about 2013…since I took a year off from blogging to sail around the world, I mean be lazy and not blog.
Honestly, I can't believe I only posted one, yes one blog last year because soooo many amazing things happened last year!!
First!  To answer to burning question in all of your minds…Yes, I'm still single and childless.  Come on a miracle didn't happen last year.

Ok, what happen in 2013…so we can move onto what a WONDERFUL year 2014 is starting out to be!!

January - I lost an organ.  My gallbladder.  Was SOOO HAPPY to get that thing out…it was a pain in my side.  HA, HA!
March - Threw an amazing baby-shower for my niece, Allison, in honor of baby Tansley that would make her appearance in April :)

April - Oh, come on April was slap full of fun…I mean like, slap yo mama so much fun!  It's yo birthday - Yep I turned 25 + 10 with my bestie next to me!!  Baby Tansley came into world in full force! I saw Jason Alden, Jake Owen, Thomas Rhett and the man LUKE BRYAN in God's Country of Sanford Stadium!!  Took Alivia Grace to see, Taylor Swift and ended the month at Relay for Life!

May - Another part of my heart….the CF walk for my favorite little boy aka "my boyfriend" and two graduations!  My nephew graduated from high school and my oldest "great" niece from preschool :)

Summer VACA of course!!

Fall brought FOOTBALL ---- GO DAWGS! A little one heading to "BIG GIRL" school and a class reunion….

Ended the year with a Merry Christmas!

And a Happy New Year :)

2103 wasn't a bad year.  Things could have been better in some areas, but I am SO looking forward to 2014…..

Welcome 2013

Happy New Year Y'all :)

What does a new year to you bring?
New chances? New opportunities? New ways to live and learn? New friends? A new love? A new job?

Do you set New Year's Resolutions?  I have in the past, but have learned not to.  Why?  Why should I?  If, I don't achieve them I feel as though I have let myself down & seem to compare myself to others.  I have learned I am not perfect - that's a little over-rated.  I like myself the way I am.  If, I don't expect more from myself, I don't disappoint myself.  I set goals as the year goes on.  Things I want to achieve.  Pay off a credit card, put more money in my savings, do things for others, be a better person.  Things that are reachable and things I NEED to do to better myself and my future.

How did you bring in the new year?  I LOVE the way I spend new year's eve.  I don't go out and party.  I don't get all dressed up.  I ALWAYS go to my best friends house and spend the evening there.  It's a tradition that I love and enjoy.  This year UGA was in the Capital One bowl game so, Jennifer's husband was in Orlando for the game so, instead of everyone hanging out at their house it was just Jennifer, me and girls....we had a blast!

Yes, we were in our PJ's by 8:30, comfy on the sofa...

Who needs kisses from a hot guy at midnight.  I had "I love you's", hugs, snuggles, and lots of giggles all night long :) 
A long with all those giggles we had salon time.  Yes, I was pampered from head to toe from the girls.  I got a new hairstyle and a very nice pedicure!!

The girls crashed a little after midnight.  Jennifer and I sat up to almost 3:00 just talking.  We covered about EVERY subject you can think of.  We had a lot of giggles too.  I love my best friend of almost 35 years.  Yes, 35 :)

The way I welcomed in the new year might not be fun or perfect for you, but for me it is.  It will always be perfect to me because I welcome a new year with the ones I love.

After, we rolled out of bed this morning.  We found our way to the sofa.  Watched the Rose Parade.  That parade still amazes me.  How do they get all those flowers to not die before the parade.  I don't have a green thumb at all so, that should never be on the list of dream jobs for me...just sayin.

At, 1:00 we were glued to the t.v and ready to watch our dawgs play!

Geez, this game kept us on the edge of our seats sofa!  What a game it was!!  All in all at the end we pulled it out and got the "W"...

WAY TO GO DAWGS!!!!

While watching the game I was bouncing back and forth between twitter and facebook.  I follow on twitter and little couple by the name of Trista and Ryan...yes, the 1st couple to meet and get married from the bachelorette.  I love this couple and would love to meet them.  They have two stinkin' cute kids!!  While on twitter I noticed they were at the game.  Their little girl even had her picture made with the GA cheerleaders :)  Not, a huge deal to most, but I did think it was pretty cool that they were at the game and cheering on our dawgs.

I hope you all had a wonderful start to the new year!  I am looking forward to a great year.  I have my goals in mind and things I am ready to change to make this year great.

Happy New Year!! Let's make 2013 even more amazing. Let's learn from our mistakes and prosper from our successes!!

Christmas 2012

Merry Christmas y'all :)

Well, actually Christmas has come and gone.  One part of me is sad, I love Christmas.  The other half of me is ready to get all these decorations down and put away.  I had a wonderful Christmas!  I love the holidays SO much! I love that people get in the spirit of giving, although I wish that spirit would stay around all year. However, as sad as it is that time passes so quickly, it will be Christmas again before we know it!


I enjoyed the time I got to spend with my loved ones and my friends.  I received some great gifts too!  Every Christmas I enjoy sitting or standing back at one time or another at all the gathering and just looking around the room.  Taking in the memories that are being made.  Listening to the all the conversations and laughter.  It's like the moments freeze in time for a moment or two.  There are always moments I don't ever want to forget.  Yes, I am one of the sappy, emotional girls -  my heart feels so full, I'm SO thankful!!

Christmas 2012

Hartsfield Christmas Party

Fantasy In Lights with family & friends

Christmas Eve

Christmas Day 2012

    From my family to yours I hope you had a Very Merry Christmas - filled with many memories!!. 

Day of Silence

Rotten Lemons....

Am I the only one that sometimes feels like every way I turn, something or someone is coming at you?  Me, yes, yes I do. For the last few months I have felt like I can't get a break.

A few weeks back I uploaded this picture to Instagram & Twitter:

Yes, this is my life at the moment!  High blood pressure, migraines that are about the make me lose my mind, & a face that is reacting to all these things. Oh, wait it gets better because that couldn't be enough.

Back, during the Summer I noticed I had a place right above my right eye that wouldn't tan. At, first I didn't think anything about it. I figured that the last time I got my eyebrows waxed that the wax was to hot and burnt me. As, time went on it never got better & still wouldn't tan. Over, Labor Day weekend I noticed the area had spread and at this point start getting really concerned. I called, made an appointment & headed to the dermatologist.  At, first the doctor thought it could be sun damage, but after another visit the doctor realized it wasn't sun damage it is actually a skin disease called Vitiligo.

Vitiligo, is a pigmentation disorder in which melanocytes (the cells that make pigment) in the skin are destroyed. As a result, white patches appear on the skin in different parts of the body. Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease -- a disease in which a person's immune system reacts against the body's own organs or tissues.  It has been found that emotional distress triggered vitiligo.  My doctor has traced it back to this past Spring.  In, April of this year my blood pressure went extremely high.  I was as close to having a stroke as I ever want to be.

As, the pigmentation of my skin changes so, will my hair color.  My eyebrows have already started turning white and eventually my eyelashes will too. For you that REALLY know me and know I go NO WHERE without my make up on...yea, you can bet you will never see me without it now :)
 I am lucky that I am two things: 1) A girl!  I color my hair every 6 weeks so, my wonderful hairdresser has talked to me and informed me we can color my eyebrows too! 2) I am of the white race so, the only time most people will see anything is when I am tanning.  Again, glad to be a girl....makeup will SO come in handy :) 

I am not going to lie I have had a couple of pitty parties, but things will be fine.  I am researching all about Vitiligo and trying my best to learn more about it.
I AM BLESSED at the end of the day and I don't forget that.  I have a friend with a child that lives with CF everyday.  In the last week I have learned of three friends who are losing their parents to Cancer.  I read blogs everyday of couples who have lost children to awful diseases.  If, the color of my skin wants to change - then you know what I will put my big girl pants on a deal with it :)

LIFE GOES ON ~ It's what you do with those lemons that are being thrown at you!!