Thursday, October 25, 2012

It's OK Thursdays....


Its Ok Thursdays

Happy Friday eve Everyone!!  This afternoon I am going to be linking up with Amber and Neely with "Its OK Thursdays"  Its going to be short and sweet, but lets get down to the okaying....

It’s ok ....
  • to dream especially in certain colors
  • to be excited for Halloween even though you are not a child anymore
  • to have a little bit of stress everyday, it makes life exciting
  • that I made my own Halloween costume this year (yes I will post a blog after our party)
  • be excited that ex’s are out of your life
  • to be a little dramatic
  • to be thankful for everything that has happen in a year's time
  • to want and think you deserve expensive/nice things every once in a while
  •  to refer to your Hollywood Crush as your future ex husband due to you know that you would not like the life style of being famous forever
  • that I was a little late to work due to Pintresting this morning 
  • to dream about having a dog when deep down you know its not the right move
  • to think people who take "Instagram" photos of any meal are dumb.  (I sure hope that it taste better then it looked with that filter) 
  • to stop, take a deep breath and enjoy the sunshine 
What are you "Ok" with this Thursday?!?
 - Laura

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Wofford Weekend @ Georgia Southern


The weekend of October 13th was so far the best football weekend yet!!

Kelly came down on Friday night and her and I had a “sleepover”.  We went to Mexican, drank margaritas and talked about boys.  It was nice to talk to a non-married/child bearing women.  We ended up cooking all night also.  We baked meatballs, blended together her “famous” salsa, made a caramel apple dessert and the best item yet... CHOCOLATE CHIP and BACON cookies.  It was a great “girls night” and exactly what we both needed!!

 On Saturday we went down to the game.  Tailgated with the GSU group.  The cookies were the biggest hit.  I think it was more shocking then anything else that there was bacon in them.  I was a little disappointed that  I was not able to taste as much bacon as I wanted, but it was cool.  It was a good treat and something new to try.

It was Military Appreciation weekend at the GSU game.  Georgia Southern used a Nike pro-combat" uniform which was blue and white camo.  The University also had the Army parachute team "jump" with the game ball.  It was one of the coolest thing's I have seen.  I have never seen the jumpers that close.  I absolutely love what GSU does for military appreciation. 

One of the Army jumpers parachuting in with the GSU flag
The Army parachuter on their way down to the prettiest little stadium!


GSU getting ready to run onto the field with their "camo" uniforms


The actually game ended up watched one of the best football games I have seen in a while.  The weather was perfect, not to hot but not to chilly for a long-sleeved shirt.  It was a little to close for my liking but I guess a win is a win.  With this win Georgia Southern is now #1 in our conference and as you can see Ms. Ava is very happy about that and is great for us and play-offs.  We have two more big games the next 2 weekends against Furman and App State.  Then our fate will be decided November 3rd when we play app state in Statesboro.  

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Wednesday!
-Laura


Friday, October 12, 2012

Birthday Weekend ... 25+4 = 29 (yikes)

Happy Friday Ladies and Gentlemen!!  Sorry I haven't updated in the past week or so but its been a crazy week and I've picked up my first cold of the year.  Hope that the first week of October is treating everyone well.  The temperate is kind of dropping (finally) and we are in the middle of football season.

So last Thursday was my birthday (i am almost not a 20-something anymore) and we celebrated all weekend long. Bryan planned a weekend trip for me in Atlanta. We went out to dinner in Athens on Thursday night just the two of us.  We went to the little Italian restaurant and then hung out at the house for the rest of the night.  On Friday we went to  my parents house and had lunch with them and my brother.  (yes we totally ate our way around Atlanta this weekend).  After lunch we made our way down to Atlantic Station.
Which if your not from the Atlanta area it is Atlanta's attempt to build a city within a city.  There is a Publix, Dillards, Ikea, all different types of retail stores, dinning, and a hotel (which is where we stayed).  For living around the Atlantic Station area there are condos single family homes, town homes and apartments.  All from the price range from first time home-buyers to OMG really!

We stayed at twelve the hotel on the Atlantic Station property in a two room suite with my best friend Ellen and her husband John.  The hotel room was beautiful, the boys did good as Ellen and I told our mom's.  We were in perfect walking distance to everything that we wanted to do and planned on eating.  On Friday night after Ellen and John made their way to the hotel we ate at Chow Baby in Atlanta.  I had never been there but it was a Mongolian BBQ where you pick your vegetables, meat and sauce and the chef cook's on a huge wok looking thing and then they bring it to you.  It is all you can eat, which one plate was more then enough for us all.  I would love to go back there and go when it is not so busy.

On Saturday we all went to lunch.  Ellen and I dropped off the boys off at "adult daycare" aka the bar and went shopping for new dresses and shoes for my "birthday dinner" on Saturday.  The boys met a great bartender and he made Ellen and I our favorite drinks that we had in Costa Rica.  It was like drinking Costa Rica in a glass!  It was perfect!


For dinner on Saturday we went to Strip which is also in Atlantic Station. The four of us met up with Kelly and my GSU friends for dinner.  We had so much fun and the food was really good.  Ellen and I shared a seafood platter and oysters on the 1/2 shell.  But the best part was the "Birthday Pie!"  Birthday Pie your saying, yes I received a birthday pie from the restaurant.  Poor Bryan had ordered a cake with white chocolate and strawberries for me and the restaurant accidentally brought out an apple pie!  They put candles on it and sung happy birthday also!  And Bryan bless his heart was turning bright red when he realized that it was not a birthday cake.  Well the story was, that Strip is thinking of bring pastries to the menu and the apple pie was for the owners to try later that night.  The GM told us that the chef made sure everyone knew the pie was a special pie and no one was to touch it.  Well after the blood simmered over Strip brought out the cake that Bryan had ordered.  So in other words I had my cake and eat it too!  I think that Bryan was more embarrassed then anything that it did not come out first.  Oh well the "pie" jokes were pretty funny also.  

Next year I'm turning the "Dirty Thirty" and we will be celebrating on my last before 30 bucket-list place I need to go New Orleans.  It will be a joint celebration with Jen and I who will be turning 30 exactly 2 months after me.  We plan on blowing our twenty's away and welcoming our 30's with open arms and hurricanes on the streets of the french quarter!  

This weekend is #woffordweek and Kelly is on her way down to the house and we will be having a girls weekend cooking and baking and going to the Georgia Southern game.  Hopefully we come back on Sunday with a Victory a belly full of good tailgating food and a Statesboro sun tan!  

Have a great weekend y'all!
Laura






Monday, October 1, 2012

Weekend Update - UGA vs UT 9.29.12

 Happy Monday Y'all!  Actually I am going to brag and today is my Tuesday.  I have Friday off for my birthday.  And I can not believe that today is October 1st.  Where the heck has the year gone!


view from our season tickets

This weekend Bryan and I finally used our UGA season tickets.  This is my first game of the season and this is his second game of the season.  I had a hard time not being at the GSU game but we went with my co-workers (6/8 of us were at the game) and we celebrated a life event for one of them.  It was a weekend of go go go! 
The game was by no means a blow-out which I thought it may of been.  Bryan and I had such a good time.  I secretly can not wait until we go to the GSU vs UGA and GT vs UGA in November.  Other then the football game we went and looked at Jeeps (since it was on a Sunday and I hate car dealers) and watched the Falcons and Braves.  I have to say all in all it was a nice but busy weekend.  


Touchdown UGA
Bryan and I in the 4th quarter

I hope that everyone had a great weekend and Happy 1st day of October!!
- Laura