It is hard to believe that spring break has come and gone. I used the time to pick up a couple extra shifts at work and to mostly work on wedding stuff. Here are some highlights from last week:
I may have mentioned this before but when I go home, I eagerly await flipping the pages of the Saluda Standard Sentinel. My favorite part to read is the little trivia pieces that are used to fill in the blank spots. You can imagine my excitement when I saw that one was right under our engagement announcement.
My old church had a shower for me. It was very nice. I got a lot of good gifts and got to eat (and take home!) a seven layer chocolate cake and a coconut cake. My favorite.
It is always a blessing to get to see this girl. This is my best friend all throughout school. People used to call us "Crums and Ham" (Cromley and Hammond). Crums lives near Columbia and works at a dermatologist office in Lexington so I don't get to see her that much. It feels a little surreal that I saw her at my wedding shower. This is one of the things I'm most excited about for the wedding event, getting to be around a big group of good people that I don't get to see enough.
I crossed the South Carolina, Georgia line to spend a shopping day with Mama. What a long day. Six or seven hours passed looking for wedding stuff and I was about done for. I can shop with the best of them but after about the third antique store, my back hurt and I could no longer form words. We went back to her house and spent five minutes ordering about a dozen things online. That's more like it. I don't even have to put on real clothes to do that.
Because of the shower I didn't get to go to service that week. Stigall kept telling me I needed to listen to it on the podcast (which they don't usually put up until Wednesday). I noticed on instagram that some church people I follow were putting up pictures of "their flowers, #holyeverafter" so I figured it must have been a lesson geared toward the men. When I questioned Stigall about all these Newspringer's with flowers and where were mine, he was quick to say that he was already getting them and that I'd ruined the surprise. I have a tendency to that that kind of thing (you know, be an ass sometimes). I did end up getting my flowers, along with a sweet note and a couple of my other favorite things, a big blue gatorade and a fun pack of fudge striped cookies (with another surprise note inside).
We took the bonehead to the dog park nearby. That's Stigall feeding him popcorn, one of his favorite snacks.
Cedar loves stirring up two things: mud and trouble. Every time we go to the park, there is a continuous creek formed from rain water left over from last summer. I'm not kidding, it never dries up. Here he is lying in the small pond of water. He tries to be the ring leader and lead the dogs into the water (or in to temptation as we like to say) so the owners can get mad at him. And us. It's pretty funny.
These went out.
Had a chance to catch up with McAbee. We discussed art stuff and gossiped a little (okay, maybe a lot). He was running late so I was forced to buy this big piece of cake to busy myself while I waited.
Cedar and Stigall spent an afternoon napping and lying around while I drudged through art theory, trying to get back in to the swing of things. That bonehead is breaking the rules by being on the couch. Stigall, not Cedar.
I've got six weeks left in the semester. At the end of it, I've made a vow to myself that I will get in shape. Whether that is running or going to the gym, or not eating a bowl of popcorn and m&m's every other night.
