The last two weeks began with a box at my doorstep from my favorite entrepreneur! Kristin Schmucker is a fellow believer and has an adorable online shop where she makes and sells: devotionals, candles, notebooks, prayer journals, and so much more! You can checkout her shop here.
I bought quite a bit of things from the shop (and I don't regret it at all!) Out of all the items I purchased this "Give Thanks" mug is by far my favorite for the Thanksgiving season! But I also received Kristin's Psalm 119 Devotional Study. It is AMAZING! It's so full of God's grace and love for us. I am writing my daily thoughts from the devotional on the blog under the Bible Study tab. If you haven't had a chance to read it, I highly recommend you do! Oh! and purchase one for yourself! It's worth the $15!
Last Friday Joel officially finished training by passing his review boards for the Highway Patrol. It's been almost 2 years since we started this long journey and I am so glad training is OVER! To celebrate, Joel and I got to go on our first date in over 4 months..... Crazy! He has had some crazy 2nd and 3rd shift schedules for so long and I have been training for my marathon everyday and we just haven't had much time for "us." But thanks to a sweet friend who "treated" us with a dinner date to Outback we had some much needed sweet time together!
The following Saturday we attended a beautiful wedding at Carrigan Farms in Mooresville, NC. An old co-worker and a sweet friend of mine married the love of her life. Isn't this venue absolutely gorgeous? It's an old rock quarry that flooded when they hit a spring. The water is so clear you can see hundreds of feet down to the bottom. We had the opportunity to attend with our sweet friends from Thursday night "small group." and of course I had the most handsome date there! Even the rain couldn't ruin this flirty, whimsical wedding.
We followed the wedding up with a trip to my favorite farmer's market to pick out pumpkins. While I picked out pumpkins my sweet husband also let me pick out these gorgeous flowers. Locally grown, fresh cut flower arrangements are one of my favorite things in the world! and the colors brightened up my kitchen all week!
Wednesday night I had the RARE opportunity to go to Target with my HUSBAND! He hates shopping so this was a huge thing for him! Not only that, but he let me pick out lots of fall and Christmas decor for the house. In the middle of all the addictive things found in Target's aisles, I picked up these beautiful "thankful" place mats for our fall table! They were $3.99 on sale. You can shop them here.
On Thursday, we celebrated my dad's 60th birthday. Isn't he just the most handsome man?! It's hard living 600 miles away, but phone calls and random trips to Florida seem to help. haha!
This week has been full of puppy snuggles and family adventures while Joel is at work. I have a strange addiction for dogs. If I could collect anything, it would be puppies haha! And my dogs are like humans to me. I like them more than most humans. Maybe I'm just anti-social. But enough babbling! Hope everyone has a great rest of the week since we are official over the "hump!"
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