Easter Weekend Recap

Happy Monday y'all!

I hope everyone had a great Easter weekend!

I know I did :)

{Thursday}

On Thursday night Chris and I dyed Easter eggs!

We had so much fun.

I love having the eggs around this time of year because I love to make egg salad.

I will admit that I normally soak a few that are cracked in the blue or green dye for a long time so that I can have egg salad that has colors in it ;)

I don't know why I like doing that, but I do!

Chris always has to take one egg and make sure it goes through all 12 of the dye colors.

He calls it the speckled egg!!

{Friday}

On Friday Chris and I drove down to Charleston.

My home church puts on a play every year at Easter called the Passion Play.
This year was the 25th annual Passion Play and the last year they will be doing the play.
I really wanted to see it for the last year so Friday night Chris, my sister, and I went to see it.

(That soldier to the right there is my dad!)

We had a really good time!
The performance is always really good.

{Saturday}


On Saturday my sister and I woke up and dyed more Easter eggs.

Then my dad sent my mom, my sister, and I out shopping for Easter dresses!
Since Chris lost his job I didn't really expect to get a dress this year so I was really excited!
I ended up getting the very first dress I tried on at Dress Barn.
Have you ever shopped there?
They have a huge selection for a really great price.
My dress was a third of the price I would have paid for it somewhere else.

This is the dress I ended up getting:

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We ate at Moe's for lunch, and Saturday night we had pizza for dinner and watched The Ten Commandments on television.
The Ten Commandments is an Easter tradition for my family!

{Sunday}


On Sunday we went to Easter service, and then came home to a big lunch prepared by my mom.
My neighbors who I consider my grandparents came, and my aunt and uncle were also there.
It was a great day with family!

We took lots of pictures with everyone dressed up.
Allie was in her Easter dress and Pinto Bean, D'Artagnan, and Thomas were all in their bow ties :)

It just so happened that D'Artagnan's bow tie matched Chris, and Pinto Bean's bow tie matched me!

The cupcakes and cake my mom made!

I hope everyone had a great Easter weekend as well and that everyone's week is off to a great start!

Miscellany Monday -- Weekend Recap

Happy Monday y'all!

I haven't participated in Miscellany Monday in a while, so I thought I would today :)

{a weekend with mom}


This weekend I had a lovely visit from my mom, my sister, and my sister's boyfriend Dylan!
On Friday, my mom and I went to lunch at Amelie's which is a cute French bakery in Charlotte.
They have a whole case of wonderful desserts, and they looked so good we ate our desserts before our sandwiches :)

After that we took a trip to The Container Store!

Have you guys ever been there?

They have the coolest stuff to get you more organized.

I really want this space for crafting!

My mom and I got some awesome finds.

I got these new bins for recycling.

Then on Saturday we went to my sister's band competition with her boyfriend.

It was a really good weekend with my family!

{pamper}

I decided to give myself a mani/pedi this weekend.

I bout a Revlon Pedi-Expret, and it is a-maz-ing!

I got it from Walmart for just under $10, and it definitely did the job.

I let my feet soak in warm water with dissolved bath salts, then used the Revlon Pedi-Expert.

I finished off with peppermint Burt's Bee's foot lotion.

My feel look and feel amazing!

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I chose Essie's Fiji to paint my nails!

It's such a perfect light pink :)

I really like it because it makes my hands and feet look tan... I haven't been out in the sun much yet this Spring!

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{new hobby}

I've always wanted a sewing machine, but I never got around to getting one.

I've been wanting to do different crafts but didn't have a sewing machine to do them.

Well my sweet daddy found me one on Craigslist that was only a few months old!

I'm so excited to have my first sewing machine :)

{tiffany blue}

I ordered a Macbook protective case and keyboard cover from Amazon last week that finally came in the mail!

I'm getting used to typing with the cover on, and I'm loving the color!

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I hope everyone has a great start to their week! 

Miscellany Monday

Happy Monday y'all!

Write random and link up HERE.

{MIA}

It feels so good to be back! I haven't written a blog post since last Monday. I would love to tell you that it's all because I had company, and I was busy having a fabulous time spending time with them. That's only partly true. The other half is that while I had company I was very, very sick! I was so sick that by the end of the day, all I wanted to do was for my NyQuil to kick in and pass out. It definitely wasn't ideal to be sick while having seven guests. Nevertheless, I had a great week spending time with family and friends. And after spending Thursday and Friday in bed, I finally recovered :) You know it was bad if I didn't even feel like blogging!

{the verdict is in}

Well, my little kitten finally has a name! Names had been narrowed down to Sushi and D'Artagnan, and after spending lots of time with his little personality we decided that he was definitely a D'Artagnan. Besides that, Chris really didn't like the name Sushi.

So where did I get the name D'Artagnan from?

Why The Ugly Truth of course!

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In this movie Katherine Heigl plays Abby Richter who has a cat named D'Artagnan which I thought was a.w.e.s.o.m.e.

{winner, winner!}

I seriously won the greatest giveaway over the weekend! Ashley from The Shine Project was giving away a $50 shop credit to the online boutique Shop Kempt, and I won! I couldn't believe it :)

I hope everyone has a marvelous Monday!